Weird injury alert: Travis Snider hurt his finger cutting sweet potatoes

Beware the new household menace: sweet potatoes.

Seriously -- if you let your guard down around these spurious spuds for even a second, they'll cut you. Pirates outfielder Travis Snider was only the most recent victim of their dangerous ways:

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

Consider yourself warned.