Miami Marlins 2016 (Jose Fernandez RIP 9/25/16)

Terrible. "I'm glad I saw him pitch" doesn't cover it.

today's game vs Atlanta is cancelled.

@pgammo
A third of the way through writing why Jose Fernandez is the best pitcher in the game in 2016, I got the news...God bless his grandmother...

@pgammo
and everyone in his intrepid, great family

Awful. This is tough to process.

Fernandez was killed Sunday morning after a boat crash in Miami Beach, the team announced.

The 24-year-old Fernandez was one of at least three people killed in the early morning collision. He announced on Instagram recently that he and his girlfriend were expecting a child, Local 10 reported.

Chief Petty Officer Nyxolyno Cangemi told The Associated Press that a Coast Guard patrol boat spotted an overturned boat at 3:30 a.m. on a jetty near Government Cut. The bodies were discovered a short time later.

Because the boat was on a jetty, the Coast Guard notified Miami-Dade police, which turned the investigation over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Fernandez was on a 32-foot vessel that had a "severe impact" with a jetty, said Lorenzo Veloz of the Fish Commission. A news conference was planned for later Sunday morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/09/25/marlins-pitcher-jose-fernandez-2-others-killed-in-miami-boat-crash.html

Ugh. RIP. :(

Can't think of anybody in any professional sport who was this dominant and died this young. Len Bias, the college basketball player, is the only name that comes to mind.

no no no no no no no

FUCK

This is terrible.

So awful

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtNd0wvWEAAITlf.jpg

I am unable to process this. RIP.

press conference with the whole team on ESPNnews now

girlfriend announced pregnancy last week :/

i'm so happy that i watched his last start. and he was dominant -- according to fangraphs' version of game score, it was the best start of his career. 8 IP, 12 Ks, 3H, 0 BB

http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=11530&position=P&type=0&gds=&gde=&season=all

http://images.ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tulojose.gif

After Kershaw, I'm not sure there was a better pitcher in baseball. Who knows what kind of career he could have gone on to have.

Very sad news. Rest in peace.

horrible, horrible. rip.

Really devastating. Reminds me of nick adenhart of the angels not so long ago

RIP -- terrible news.

this is just awful. what a talent, what a character. should have been one of the greats.

http://m.mlb.com/assets/images/8/6/4/184414864/cuts/DiazLittleLeague1280_0hzgnvt4_hsuzv7b2.jpg

Jose Fernandez, front row, third from the right in the yellow hat. (His good friend Aledmys Diaz also in the front row, wearing a red hat)

That infamous GIF above is so good because you can just tell how well liked and respected Fernandez was, even when he was trouncing people. He will be missed.

this is so fucking unfair

i can't remember ever being this upset about a celebrity death

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/jose-fernandezs-final-pitch-is-as-perfect-as-it-is-painful-092516

i've been unable to process this all day, i just can't comprehend it

Casey McGehee and Fernandez were teammates in Miami in 2014 and half of 2015. The news hit him every bit as hard as it hit Iglesias. Fernandez formed a special bond with McGehee’s son Mack, who has cerebral palsy.

“The toughest part for me is having to tell my son what happened,” McGehee said. “A lot of people, they don’t really know how to treat Mack. For some reason, Jose had a heart for him. You get to the field, and it wasn’t like ‘Hey, Jose, do you want to keep an eye on him?’ Jose would come and grab him, and they were together from the time they got on the field to the time my wife came to pick him up.

“I think that really says a lot about what was truly in his heart, and what kind of guy he was.”

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2016/09/25/iglesias-tigers-grief-stricken-over-death-jose-fernandez/91080104/

joe posnanski's obit of sorts
http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/jose-fernandez-remembrance/

jay jaffe
http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/09/25/jose-fernandez-miami-marlins-death

this is so very sad, RIP.

guess I'm going to be sobbing all day today too
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/i-cant-wait-to-tell-my-son-about-jose-fernandez/

good one from j0rd
http://deadspin.com/jose-fernandez-was-why-we-watch-sports-1787072922

this is the worst, really. he was imo on the cusp of becoming better than kershaw and reeling off some kind of ridiculous pedro level of dominance over the next 7-8 years.

yup. you ask what pitcher you would want on your team and after Kershaw it is (was) Fernandez without any hesitation, in my mind.

great piece from jordan

@clarkspencer
In honor of Jose Fernandez, all Marlins players will wear his No. 16 tonight against the Mets.

good one, J

that fireworks photo in the fangraphs piece is just perfect. it's beautiful.

thanks guys

gonna be a tough one to watch tonight

that fireworks photo on fangraphs is really wrenching

i can't stop thinking about dee gordon out by the mound by himself yesterday https://twitter.com/AFFerrer_/status/780077228285505536

http://m.mlb.com/images/3/5/6/188728356/070816_cinmia_jose_fernandez_LO_xh1eq1ih.gif

i didn't get around to this my piece but i always felt like... a certain urgency in watching jose. given his past TJ surgery and the sheer explosion of all his pitches i couldn't help but think about his elbow snapping again, even when he was in the midst of mowing some team down. watching him was like 98% exhilaration and 2% fear that it would all just be taken away again, maybe this time for good, but obviously his fucking death just does not feel real in any way shape or form.

i got to see him earlier this season vs the tigers from two rows behind home plate. he had one of those weird games where he was practically unhittable but when he did get touched the ball went a long way. he struck out 13 in 5.2 innings but also gave up 5 ER--i think it was the only time a loss went onto his record in a home start. needless to say, seeing him from that close, i literally have no idea how anyone ever got a hit off him, his breaking pitches seemed inconceivable

As soon as Waltz's voice started trembling, man...

Juan Pierre in the crowd with his son.

This game is going to make us tear up every other pitch, huh?

p much, the effect of seeing his jerz on every player is like a weird bittersweet being john malkovich reality

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/203512406/marlins-dee-gordon-honors-fernandez-homers/

i'm crying uncontrollably

unbelievable

yeah that was just unreal

Wow.