One of the top pitching prospects in the Seattle Mariners' system, Victor Sanchez, suffered a head injury in a boating accident in his home country of Venezuela on Friday.

Sanchez, 20, was reportedly struck by a watercraft while swimming on a beach in Carupano.

He was reportedly unconscious for some period of time after the accident and is now in intensive care in critical, but stable, condition at a Carupano hospital following surgery on a fractured skull.