“Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this very hard time”.
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Reaction quickly poured in from around the game.
I would like to personally send my condolences to Jose Fernandez’s family, friends, teammates, and the Miami Marlins organization.
The Marlins cancelled Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Braves.
A distraught and emotional Marlins team tried to put into words the loss of one of their own.
“Hands down one of my favorite guys to watch pitch!”
If he was still pitching Sunday, he never would have been on that boat, already preparing for his next start.
Photos from the scene of the accident show an overturned boat on top of a jetty.
Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez and two others were killed in a boat crash early Sunday morning in Florida. A Coast Guard crew was dispatched from Miami station. Two bodies were found under the vessel and one was found in the water by divers.
The names of the other two individuals, who were also in their twenties, were being withheld until notification of family, he said.
Power has said before that he easily could have been on that boat.
He said there was no indication of alcohol or illegal drugs. None of the three were wearing life jackets when they were found.
Officials said the boat did not belong to Fernandez but the driver of the boat had been stopped before for safety inspections.
Fernandez made his Major League debut in 2013 and won the NL Rookie of the Year with a 12-6, 2.19 ERA.
Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, Fernandez defected to America in 2008 and became one of the most prominent faces among a wave of Cuban stars breaking into professional baseball at that time.
The Braves-Marlins came was postponed on Sunday.
It is said that nothing good ever happens after midnight. “(Adeiny) Hechavarria, Jose and me were very close; all the Latins over there were very close. I can’t imagine how they feel. Their home game Monday night against the New York Mets will be played as scheduled, the team said.
Major League Baseball pitcher Jose Fernandez has been killed in a boating accident at the age of 24. There was a “joy” with Fernandez when he played the game.
“You recognize how precious life is and how taking things for granted is a fool man’s game.” said team president David Samson. “Somehow we’ve got to overcome that”.
“All he wanted to do was have fun and be on that mound and play the game – not work the game, but play the game”. “There’s such a great tradition of baseball in Cuba and he embodied it better than anyone”.
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Fernandez was 24 years old.
