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Pirates' Oneil Cruz Cooperating with Authorities After Involvement in Car Crash

Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz is cooperating with authorities in connection to a crash in his native Dominican Republic.

According to Dominican paper Diario Libre (via Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Cruz was driving a Jeep in the opposite direction of a motorcycle carrying three people. The vehicles collided, and the three passengers are reportedly dead as a result of the crash.

Cruz's agent, Rafa Nieves, told Rob Biertempfel of The Athletic the 21-year-old shortstop is "fine" and "good" but declined to go into any specifics about the accident.