The video of Yordano Ventura’s grieving mother is readily available on Facebook, and I pray that every major league team shows it to its players this spring. Marisol Ventura’s plea must be heard from the big league roster all the way down through the farm system.
She delivered a powerful and important message to his friends and Royals teammates a day before the hard-throwing righthander was laid to rest in the Dominican Republic.
It’s way too early to know what led to the car accident that claimed Ventura’s life this weekend in his native Dominican Republic, so it’s unfair to speculate.