Philadelphia Phillies minor league pitcher Matt Imhof, who sustained a traumatic injury to his right eye late last week during a freak training accident, has had his eye removed on the recommendation of doctors.

Imhof said a large piece of metal hit him in the eye and head, fracturing his nose and two orbital bones and causing the loss of vision in his right eye.

"That night, the doctors informed me that the damage to my eye was extreme and essentially that my eye had been crushed like a grape," Imhof wrote on Instagram.

The Phillies drafted Imhof in the second round of the 2014 draft. He will have a prosthetic eye placed in his right socket.

Imhof, a 6-foot-5 left-hander out of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, received a signing bonus of $1,187,900 from the Phillies as the 47th overall pick in 2014.