Michael Taylor has already missed a week of camp with the Athletics because he cut the pinkie finger on his right hand in two spots trying to throw away a wad of gum.

"He's 6-foot-5, and his hand hit the light on the ceiling of the dugout as he made the toss. So he's missed a week, he told me, and he cannot play until the cut has totally closed, which it has not," writes Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle.

He was the No. 29 rated prospect by Baseball America in 2010.