Padres honored with Murcer Award for Baseball Assistance Team contributions

SAN DIEGO — Longtime Padres reliever Craig Stammen spent a part of his Monday at Rady Youngsters’s Hospital-San Diego. Stammen was there to see a baby who has proven loads of battle in his younger life.

Jackson Lane, 8, had his second open coronary heart surgical procedure on Thursday, a six-hour-plus process to interchange the pulmonary conduit and valve, to restore the fracture on his sternum, to elongate arteries and to make sure his respiration tube just isn’t obstructed.

Jackson is the son of Andy Lane, the Cubs’ bullpen catcher from 2010-13 and a Minor League utility participant from 2005-07. Stammen, at present on the Triple-A injured checklist after tearing a proper shoulder capsule throughout Spring Coaching, and Lane have been teammates within the Nationals’ system.

Jackson’s battle has been aided by the Baseball Assistance Teamwhich offered grants to cowl his surgical procedures in 2015 and final week. Numerous ballplayers and their households have been helped by BAT, which is “devoted to aiding members of the baseball household who’re in want” by way of charitable contributions, together with monetary grants, health-care assets and rehabilitative counseling.

The Padres’ assist for BAT extends past Stammen’s hospital go to. Earlier than their sequence opener in opposition to the Pirates on Monday evening at Petco Park, the Padres have been offered with the Bobby Murcer Award — given to the groups that lead every league in donations to BAT throughout its annual Spring Coaching tour. (The White Sox are the AL honoree in 2023.)

The BAT tour this previous spring raised $3.8 million from 1,700 gamers, coaches and workforce workers members.

“This group’s generosity permits BAT to assist these in a few of their most attempting instances yr after yr,” BAT president Buck Martinez mentioned in a information launch. “Baseball actually is a household. And while you’re a household, you care for those that want it most.

“I wish to lengthen an additional show of appreciation to the Padres and White Sox for his or her continued assist. Each of those organizations have lived as much as the spirit of our late good friend Bobby Murcer. It’s our ambition to make him proud and proceed his legacy day by day.”

The Padres noticed firsthand how the donations can assist. Jackson was launched from the hospital following Stammen’s go to — a number of days sooner than medical doctors anticipated.