D-backs remember Fernandez for charisma, devotion to game

BALTIMORE — D-backs pitcher Archie Bradley was riding in a taxi with teammate Jake Lamb to Camden Yards on Sunday morning when they first learned about the tragic death of Marlins ace Jose Fernandez.

At the end of his high school career, Bradley played in the 2010 Aflac All-American Game with Fernandez, who died in a boating accident early Sunday morning in Miami at the age of 24. It didn’t take Bradley long to realize not only how special of a pitcher Fernandez was, but the type of person he was.

“When you see a person with so much life like that, so much charisma and just the personality he had, how can you not like a guy like that?” Bradley said. “Obviously what he brought to the game, but who he was off the field, the type of guy he was, it’s tragic.”

Sunday was a tough day around baseball as the news broke early in the morning of the death of one of the game’s top rising stars. Players in the D-backs’ clubhouse gathered around the TV watching the news. Some shook their head in disbelief with most of the room silent.

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