The news broke early Sunday morning. Many of us weren’t even awake yet and only heard about it through friends after the fact.
No matter how you heard it though, it devastated you. Jose Fernandez, Miami Marlins pitching extraordinaire, had been involved in a high-speed boat crash just off the coast of Miami.
The impact between the boat and thejetty had taken the lives of him and two of his friends. One of baseball’s brightest youngstarsis no longer with us.
It is a jarring and numbing experiencefor me whenever a ballplayer, active or retired, tragically passes away.