Baseball Loses Another Young Rising Star

22 Jan, 2017

Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. The tragic news was confirmed by his agency, ISE Baseball, and was first reported by ESPN. Ventura was 25 years old.

Ventura burst onto the baseball scene in 2014 with the Royals, going 14-10 with a 3.20 ERA and finishing sixth in the American League Rookie of the Year Award voting. An important part of the Royals’ rotation over the past few seasons, he went 13-8 in Kansas City’s World Series championship campaign in ’15.

Ventura, who went 11-12 with a 4.45 ERA in 2016, signed with the Royals as an amateur free agent in ’08.

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