A ballplayer dies; the amount of attention his passing gets is proportional to his career statistics, and he is defined by milestones such as All-Star selections and championships. It is a wholly inadequate way to reflect upon a life and never more so than in the case of Jeff Innis.
A former pitcher for the Mets, Innis died on Sunday, five years after a cancer diagnosis. He was just 59 years old. He spent his final days in a Georgia hospice surrounded by family after a GoFundMe campaign helped bring him home from a Houston hospital, where doctors had done all they could for him.