JUPITER, Fla. -- Dee Gordon pulled his left arm out of his hooded sweatshirt here Friday afternoon to show the tattoo he had made during the offseason to honor late teammate Jose Fernandez.
It's an image of Gordon hitting the emotional home run in the first game after Fernandez's death: Gordon is in the follow-through of his swing, with the pitcher's No. 16 and initials inked to the side. The first round of work in the tattoo took place right after last season, and the finishing touches were completed a few weeks ago.
In the interim, in late October, the results of a toxicology report on Fernandez were released: At the time the pitcher died in the boating accident that took the lives of friends Emilio Jesus Macias and Eduardo Rivero, Fernandez had a blood alcohol content of .