José Fernández Died in Boating Accident

The Miami Marlins star pitcher – José Fernández – has died in a boating incident on Sunday morning. The star player defected from Cuba at a young age to become one of the best baseball players in the game.

According to the spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fernández was with two other men, who were all found dead after their boat was found at the Miami Harbor entrance. He was 24 years old.

The Coast Guard noticed the boat capsized on the north end of the rocky jetty around 3:15am. Two bodies had to be recovered by divers as they were stuck under the boat, while the other was discovered on the rocks.

His death is a tragedy and will be felt by Miami, baseball fans and anyone who ever came into contact with him. Fernández was a pillar in the community and was involved with giving back.

The masculine name José is a Portuguese and Spanish version of Joseph, which is ultimately derived from the Hebrew name Yosef that means “he will add”. Depending on where the name originates from, it is pronounced differently in each language. However, the spelling of the name remains the same in the different languages, as it uses interlingual homographs.

There are many people with the given name José, from José Feliciano the Puerto Rican singer to José Manuel Soria the Spanish academic and politician, even José Echegaray the Spanish statesman, dramatist and winner of a Nobel prize in literature.