Roy Halladay, a two-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher who retired from baseball nearly four years ago, has died in a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida. He was 40.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Department confirmed that a small single-engine aircraft was reported down in the Gulf of Mexico earlier Tuesday afternoon.
Halladay recently received his pilot's license and tweeted photos last month of himself standing next to a new ICON A5 plane, which was the model of aircraft that was recovered Tuesday in the Gulf.
Halladay was an eight-time All-Star and went 203-105 with a 3.