Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl
Tampa Bay Rays starters Evan Longoria, David Price and Reid Brignac were all victims of a home invasion of their shared house in Port Charlotte, Fla.
Among the items stolen were a 60-inch flat-screen TV, three iPads and two Xbox video game systems, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
Price, who was the first to discover the break-in, said he lost around $50,000 worth of items including several high-priced watches.
None of the players was in the house at the time of the robbery, a stroke of luck the players were happy to address.
“That was one of the biggest things,” Longoria said, “that everybody was OK and safe, and nobody had to fight their way out of a home invasion robbery. … A multitude of different things could have happened, and there could have been people injured.”
This was the second time Longoria had been robbed this spring as a 1967 Camaro he owns was stolen from a lot in Arizona.
“It’s unfortunate,” Longoria said of the break-in. “You just hope that karma catches up with whoever did it.”
The players said they were told the police have several good leads.
“They promised us they’ll do their best to find whoever did it,” Longoria said. “Hopefully, they can do some good police work and figure it out and try to recover some of the stuff.”
-ESPN