Food-related injuries are nothing new in baseball. Just last year, Rays pitcher Joel Peralta tweaked his neck buying sandwiches. Over the summer, a college player needed surgery after trying to eat too many hot dogs. And retired former NL MVP Kevin Mitchell once went to the disabled list after hurting a tooth eating a donut.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the food-related injury bug finally bit Pirates outfielder Travis Snider. Snider is perhaps baseball’s foremost gourmet, a man with distinguishing taste in pig parts. And he had to skip throwing in Pirates camp on Tuesday due to an incident in the kitchen:

Travis Snider's toe is better, but a kitchen knife-sweet potato incident has a bandage on finger on left hand. No throwing for a bit. — Bill Brink (@BrinkPG) February 18, 2014

It’s a bit odd because sweet potatoes, when cooked, get pretty soft — not the type of thing that typically require arduous slicing with sharp knives.

But then Snider’s the guy who produced this incredible-looking Kona-crusted lamb, among many other dishes, so maybe’s he’s on to some next-level sweet potato stuff.

Either way, it sounds like Snider should be back in action both on the field and in the kitchen pretty soon.