They were taken to the medical examiner’s office. 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.
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“It does appear that speed was involved due to the impact and the severity of it”, said Veloz, the FWC spokesman. “It does appear that they were coming at full speed when the encountered the jetty and the accident happened”.
Veloz said there was no immediate indication that alcohol or drugs were a cause in the crash.
“Today we were supposed to have an event on the field about my retirement”, he said in an MLB Network interview, “and I told them, ‘No, today is about Jose”. “We just can’t answer why this happened”.
He made his major league debut as a 20-year-old against the New York Mets on April 7, 2013, after not pitching above High-A in his minor league career. Fernandez, 24, defected nine years ago and became a USA citizen in 2015.
After several unsuccessful attempts, Fernandez managed to leave Cuba for Florida at the age of 15.
Fernandez, one of baseball’s most exciting young pitchers, was selected in the first round of the 2011 first-year player draft (14th overall) by the Florida Marlins. The Mets fly to Miami after Sunday’s game for a three-game series against the Marlins.
Girardi said he particularly feels for Marlins manager and longtime former Yankee Don Mattingly. “You don’t want to think it’s real”, said DeSclafani. “I know exactly what those guys and what those people on that team are going through from the owner of the team right down to the clubhouse guys”. “I can’t imagine what he’s going through”.
“When the first pitch left his hand, the first thought was “Oh, wow, this is something special”, Collins said. There was a “joy” with Fernandez when he played the game.
“But we’ll get through it, because we have to”, he said.
Who would ever have had the sickening thought it would be the last game of his life?
I asked Fernandez, as I had been asking many All-Stars that day before the Midsummer Classic, about the possibility of robot umpires calling balls and strikes in baseball’s future.
Major League Baseball released a statement saying it was “stunned and devastated” by news of Fernandez’s death.
Power was a member of the Cleveland Indians in 1993 when a spring training boating accident killed pitcher Tim Crews and Steve Olin. “The world has lost a remarkable person”.
Yanks manager Joe Girardi said he greatly admired Fernandez, although he never met the pitcher.
“All I can do is scream in disbelief”, said Hall of Famer Tony Perez, a Marlins executive and native of Cuba.
“Today’s game against the Atlanta Braves has been cancelled”.
Fernandez, who spent a year in jail for trying to escape Cuba as a youth and saved his mother’s life while sailing from Cuba across the Gulf of Mexico, published a picture of his pregnant girlfriend on Instagram five days ago that was fittingly captioned “family first”.
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“I’m so glad you came into my life”, Fernandez wrote in that post. “I’m ready for where this journey is gonna take us together”. They start to get into a groove, and he started to get his breaking ball working, and he’s got great stuff.
