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Sports Editor | mvv002 @latech.edu

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When I woke up on Sunday morning, like most sports fan, I immediately looked at my phone and saw an ESPN update. It told me that 24-year-old Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez had died in a boating accident in Miami earlier that morning.

Fernandez, a native of Cuba until his defection in 2008, was one of the best young pitchers in the majors. He won the National League Rookie of the Year and was an All-Star selection in his first season back from Tommy John surgery. He’s even in consideration for a Cy Young award postmortem.