Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy was released from a hospital Tuesday after mild arrhythmia caused him to collapse shortly after midnight at the baseball winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Tracy and his family headed back to their home near Bradenton in the afternoon. Rockies vice president of communications Jay Alves said it was not known whether Tracy had previously been diagnosed with arrhythmia — an irregular heartbeat. Tracy, who turns 55 on Dec. 31, was with Alves and a couple of Colorado coaches when the episode occurred.
Tracy was ready to get onto an elevator at the meetings hotel when he collapsed around 1 a.m. on Tuesday He was carried out on a stretcher and taken to a hospital. Alves said Tracy didn’t lose consciousness.