News came Sunday that the 24-year-old Jose Fernandez died in a boating accident early in the AM on Sunday morning in Miami. The young Cuban star defected to the United States when he was a teenager, after three failed attempts. He succeeded on his fourth try, but had to rescue his mother from drowning after she fell off the boat on their way to Mexico.
Fernandez then went on to play high school baseball in Miami and the Marlins selected him no. 14 overall in the 2011 June draft (the same year the KC Royals took Bubba Starling no.