Somehow, it has already been one year since Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what to say here, even as a person whose job it is to say things. I will turn instead to another writer for her wisdom. Stacey May Fowles wrote this in her book “Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game That Saved Me,” about the death of Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez:
“There is no real roadmap for dealing with the kind of inexplicable grief that comes with the death of someone we didn’t know.