Fernandez was scheduled to pitch on Monday and today’s Marlins game against the Atlanta Braves has been cancelled. The Braves, along with several other teams, quickly offered condolences. You can’t ever watch a Marlins game where you’re not looking over on the bench watching this guy have fun even though he’s not having fun that night. “He brought nothing but intensity and passion”, Boston Red Sox pitcher David Price tweeted.
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Fernandez’s 1.49 ERA at Marlins Park is the second-lowest ERA at a single ballpark by a pitcher since 1913 (minimum 25 starts).
“I’d get to the field and it wasn’t like, ‘Hey Jose, do you mind keeping an eye on him while I hit?’ It was, Jose coming to grab him and they were together from the time I got to the field to the time my wife came to pick him up”.
Major League Baseball analyst Eduardo Perez gave a very emotional remembrance of Jose Fernandez Sunday morning. Manager Don Mattingly and president of baseball operations Michael Hill flanked Samson and fought back tears. Authorities found a 30-foot boat overturned that had crashed into the rocks off Miami Beach. When one of the people in the boat fell overboard, Fernandez says he immediately jumped into the sea in an attempted rescue. The divers went into the water and found two people inside the boat and one in the water on the south side of the jetty, officials said. He was still stunned, offering his prayers to the Marlins and the families of Fernandez and the two other men killed in the accident. It is suspected that speed is a factor, but that drugs and alcohol were not involved. He said none of the three victims wore a life jacket. Veloza said the boat belongs to someone who is a friend of the Marlins organization, but did not identify the owner. It had previously been stopped for safety inspections and knew the area well, he said. “We were just talking about the off-season and, ironically enough, going fishing and stuff like that”.
Detroit Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias, who is from Havana, Cuba, was removed from the lineup Sunday after learning of Fernandez’s death.
“That is the ultimate honor that you could pay to Jose Fernandez”.
Fernandez eventually reached the USA and went to high school in Tampa, Florida. He came to the United States in 2007 with his mother.
Fernandez, 24, was considered one of the Marlins biggest stars and one of the best pitchers in baseball.
The Miami Marlins have announced the death of ace right-hander Jose Fernandez. “You think about all the people’s lives that this effects and how hard it must be down there right now”. When he wasn’t pitching, he would hang over the dugout railing as the team’s lead cheerleader. “‘When I think about Jose, it’s going to be thinking about a little kid”.
“I’ve been around him”.
Authorities found the boat upside down after reportedly crashing into rocks, and the Marlins confirmed the awful news of Fernandez’s tragic demise with a brief statement on Sunday.
Former teammate Donovan Solano played with Fernandez for parts of four seasons before joining the Yankees.
He became a two-time All-Star and the 2013 National League rookie of the year.
“We’re not robots. We’re humans and we feel”, third baseman Martin Prado said. We get to play a game.
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Power was a member of the Cleveland Indians in 1993 when a spring training boating accident killed pitcher Tim Crews and Steve Olin. Fernandez was a spark plug for the Marlins and was one of the faces of that franchise.
