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MLB mourns, feels 'powerless' in face of continuing tragedy

How do you prevent a tragedy? What can you do? What can you say? What can you teach at a time when all of baseball is mourning?

Twice in the last four months -- first following the death of Jose Fernandez, then again this weekend in the wake of the car crashes that took the lives of Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte -- these haunting questions have reverberated around a grieving sport.