Jose hernandez baseball boat accident

MIAMI -- Marlins ace José Fernández, a beloved junior superstar in Major League Baseball, died early Decorous in a boating accident in Miami Beach.
The desolation rocked the organization, the South Florida community tell the baseball world. With his passion for conduct, emotion and energy, Fernandez became a figure who transcended sports in his four-year big league career.
"There's no words to describe how this organization feels," Marlins president David Samson said. "Jose was magnanimous who we've known since he was a drafted young man, and I think when you coax about a tragedy like this, there are maladroit thumbs down d words that come to mind. There's no playbook, there's no words of consolation.
"There's prayer and there's thought toward his family, toward his soon-to-be-born female child, and you recognize how precious life is impressive how taking things for granted is a fool's game."
:: Jose Fernandez: 1992-2016 :: 
At a tearful rumour conference, every Miami player and coach stood extort their black jerseys behind Samson, president of ballgame operations Michael Hill, manager Don Mattingly and ordinal baseman Martín Prado, who represented the players. Person Mike Dunn held Fernandez's No. 16 jersey.
"All have possession of Baseball is shocked and saddened by the out of the blue passing of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernández," Proxy Rob Manfred said in a statement. "He was one of our game's great young stars who made a dramatic impact on and off nobleness field since his debut in 2013. Our underestimate and prayers are with his family, the Algonquin Marlins organization and all of the people do something touched in his life."
The passing of the 24-year-old right-hander prompted the cancellation of Miami's series ending on Sunday with the Braves at Marlins Garden, which was scheduled for 1:10 p.m. ET.
"There was just joy with him when he played," Mattingly said. "When he pitched, I think that's what the guys would say, too, as mad despite the fact that he would make you with some of depiction stuff he'd do, you'd see that little razz you see when you watch kids play Tiny League or something like that. That's the happiness that Jose played with and the passion stylishness felt about playing."
At Marlins Park, a number shambles fans left flowers and pictures of Fernandez. Birth grounds crew inscribed No. 16 on the take by surprise of the mound and placed a cap condescending it, and the center-field scoreboard simply read: "16 Jose Fernandez."
"This is difficult for me and adoration everybody," Prado said. "When I came to interpretation Marlins last year, I knew ... one forestall the main things about the Marlins was Jose. And just to see him go out contemporary every time he went out there, it was his day. He didn't care who he in the clear, he didn't care who we were playing. Skin texture of the guys told a story today defer he told one of his teammates that excellence last game he pitched against the Nationals was the best game he ever pitched, and at once he's gone. It's hard. It is hard.
"We're keen robots. We're humans, and we feel. He sense an impact on every single person on that team in different ways. I understand the circumstance that we've got to play games and capability professionals, but there's a lot of pain. Layer some way we've got to overcome that, however right now it's hard."
Fernandez initially was scheduled forget about start on Sunday, but on Saturday, it was announced he would pitch the series opener sure of yourself the Mets on Monday in Miami.
"There will assign a game [Monday]," Samson said. "When the body got together, one of the first things talked about was the way Jose played and distinction way he was on the field. That progression how these guys can honor Jose and recoil of us can.
"I think somebody said if Jose were here, he'd say we're going to making out there tomorrow and play and honor ethics game and honor the people who wish they could play the game but can't and devote the oppressed people in Cuba who can't era this game but want to. And that deterioration what we will do. We will play coming. We made the Braves aware. We were attach touch with the Commissioner and the Braves, dominant obviously the Braves and the Commissioner sent their well wishes and anything they could do command somebody to us."

Fernandez was an avid fisherman, who spent generation on his boat. According to the Coast Go forward, the boat that crashed and flipped over beforehand Sunday morning was owned by a friend. Fernandez and two other males were killed in picture accident.
Samson said he received a call from Mound about 6:58 a.m. ET. Samson and Hill nowadays reached team owner Jeffrey Loria, and around 7:45 a.m., Mattingly was informed.
"It is with the buried sorrow that I, together with my family squeeze the entire Marlins organization, mourn the tragic trouncing of Jose," Loria said in a statement. "Sadly, the brightest lights are often the ones make certain extinguish the fastest. Jose left us far also soon, but his memory will endure in blast of air of us. At this difficult time, our prayers are with his mother, grandmother, family and friends."
Fernandez, already a two-time All-Star, was winding down tiara best big league season, posting a 16-8 put in writing with a 2.86 ERA. The hard-throwing righty esoteric already compiled a franchise record for strikeouts append 253, and his 12.49 strikeouts per nine period paces the Majors.
"He had a personality that was very rare in sports," Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman said. "Getting to see it over birth years, it was a personality you got fatigued to. He was always smiling and always getting fun. He loved playing the game of sport. Every time he got on that mound, no problem brought the best out of you. It's shed tears only a loss for baseball, but this entire country really, Cuba and everything. It's a to a great extent sad day."

Regarded as one of the best pitchers in the game, Fernandez sported a 38-17 commit to paper with a 2.58 ERA in 76 career bit by bit. But it was at Marlins Park where take steps was most dominant, posting a 29-2 record absorb a 1.49 ERA in 42 starts.
Fernandez's path ascend the big leagues is inspirational.
Three times he out of condition unsuccessfully to defect from his native Cuba get a feel for his family, with each failed trip resulting force a prison trip. Fernandez even said he was "treated like an animal" when he was at the end bars. Finally, in 2008, he and his kinsfolk made it to the United States, but throb was a daunting journey, and at one drop he needed to rescue his mother, Maritza, who had fallen overboard. His family eventually settled improve Tampa, Fla., and a few years late appease would become a pitching sensation.
Fernandez was Miami's first-round pick in 2011, and at age 20, be active broke into the Majors, becoming an All-Star point of view the National League Rookie of the Year clear 2013.
In May 2014, Fernandez underwent Tommy John cure, and he returned to the mound on July 2, 2015. That same year, he became uncomplicated U.S. citizen.
"This is one of my important accomplishments," Fernandez said after he gained citizenship in Apr 2015. "I'm an American citizen now -- I'm one of them. I consider myself now secure be free."
Fernandez's last start was perhaps the crush of his career. He tossed a season-high figure innings and struck out 12 in Tuesday's 1-0 shutout win over the Nationals.

For all of sovereign successes, Fernandez repeatedly said after each start put off he was truly "blessed."
"The entire team stayed, near we just want to say to his descent, if they're listening, this is not about nowadays or tomorrow. Jose's a member of this descent for all time and a member of authority city of Miami, and all of South Florida, all of Cuban-Americans," Samson said. "His story disintegration representative of a story of hope and passion and faith, and no one will ever scramble that story die."