TORONTO — Jose Fernandez never faced the Yankees in his brief career, but his death was felt in their clubhouse at Rogers Centre before they played the Blue Jays, as both ex-teammates and opponents expressed their stunned disbelief that the Marlins All-Star pitcher had been killed in a boating accident in Miami.
“I woke up this morning saw the news and was just sick,” Brian McCann said of Fernandez’s death at 24. “He was one of those competitors that you like competing against, because you know he’s gonna bring his best. He’s one of the best pitchers in the game.