Oscar Taveras dies in auto accident

[FidoMcCokefiend]

LigaDom.com @LigaDomcom

 

Confirmed by his family, Cardinals' Oscar Taveras has died in car accident he was driving from Sosua to Puerto Plata (DR)

[FidoMcCokefiend]

Deadspin has it as well. His girlfriend killed as well.

http://deadspin.com/reports-cardinals-prospect-oscar-taveras-killed-in-car-1651077218

[Jenkins5]

Extremely sad, so young and talented :/

[MDBrew]

Sad to hear.

[lcbj68c]

Wowzers

[502 to Right]

I prefer legitmate websites over the TMZ of sports (deadspin):

 

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/99707820/st-louis-cardinals-rookie-outfielder-oscar-taveras-killed-in-car-accident-in-dominican-republic

 

Very sad.

[FidoMcCokefiend]

Should have added "blog" "basement" and "cheetos" to the post to really drive home your point.

[vegasbrewcrew1993]

wow horrible news. only 22, just a year older than I am.

[502 to Right]

Should have added "blog" "basement" and "cheetos" to the post to really drive home your point.

 

I didn't mean it as a criticism of your post. Please accept my apologies. I just detest websites like deadspin because they adhere to no journalistic sense of integrity.

[fondybrewfan]

Just horrible horrible news. Way to young; little details available yet but it doesn't really matter. Just devastating for the family.

 

And purely from a baseball standpoint this is the equivalent of losing Braun or Fielder right after they came up. You don't wish this kind of tragedy on anyone.

[jerichoholicninja]

Third death in fifteen years or so for the Cardinals. Boy do I hate them, but that's got to be tough for an organization to take.

[Funketown]

Brutal.

[Patrick425]

If there is any reason to wish that the Cards would have made the WS, I guess this would be it (as this sad news would have been avoided).

[folly412]

Shocking, and just horrible news.

[bucks2281]

And for some reason, Carlos Martinez tweeted a photo of Taveras's body after the crash. It was just deleted a little while ago.

[TGOTJ]

22. Just absolutely horrible - I've got a kid a couple of years younger. I can't imagine what his parents (and his passenger's parents) are going through.

[The stache]

And for some reason, Carlos Martinez tweeted a photo of Taveras's body after the crash. It was just deleted a little while ago.

 

I extended my condolences on behalf of the Brewer family to the guys over on Gateway Redbirds. According to one of their members, Taveras, Kolten Wong and Carlos Martinez are best of friends, and Martinez was just completely distraught. I don't think he was thinking too straight, and I certainly don't think he meant to offend anybody. I'm sure that somebody asked him to take it down.

 

I feel terrible for these guys. I've been watching Taveras come up through the minors. He was a real star in the making. I thought he was going to be a thorn in our sides for the next decade and a half. This is just tragic. He was on the cusp of stardom, and for his life to be snuffed out this way is just so wrong. His girlfriend was killed in the accident, too.

 

It's been a real tough couple of months for the Brewers and Cardinals. One of their posters was at Miller Park when it was announced Jean Segura's son had passed away. And then there was the sudden death of Bruce Seid.

 

We need to remember that when it comes to playing each other, we can hate the Cardinals because they are our rivals. But when the game is done, they're just like us, passionate baseball fans.

[The stache]

Just saw a picture of his car. It was completely trashed. Though the final report hasn't come out, it sounds like it was a single car accident. The car flipped. I don't want to speculate.

[Invader3K]

Pretty eerie that it was just over seven years ago that Josh Hancock died in a car accident as well. Tough for the Cardinals organization. How sad for the families involved.

[DocLuna7]

Probably one of the last things that I expected to read when I woke up this AM.

[BrewBalls]

Terrible news. Losing someone so young must be hard on everyone close to both families and the Cardinals organization. Personally, I was hoping to watch him play against the Brewers over the next decade and develop into a perennial All-Star. My condolences go out to his and his girlfriend's families along with the entire Cardinals organization.

[JohnBriggs12]

It's been a long time since a young player with such promise met an untimely demise. Old timers will remember Cub 2B Ken Hubbs who perished at age 22 in 1964. Hubbs was a 20 year old NL Rookie of the year in 1962, and also won a Gold Glove that season.

 

The only active Brewer to perish was relief pitcher Danny Frisella on New Years Day, 1977. He died when his dune buggy overturned in the Arizona desert outside of Phoenix. Frisella, who spent several fine years with the Mets, but was in the minors for most of the famed 69 season, was quite effective coming out of the pen for the 76 Brewers. He was 30 years old at the time of his death.

 

Tragic when such young lives are cut short.

[wildcat83]

And for some reason, Carlos Martinez tweeted a photo of Taveras's body after the crash. It was just deleted a little while ago.

 

 

I think this is a cultural difference. There are many cultures that openly show death and the dead as closure. Just not as accepted in our culture.

 

Terrible news.

[JimH5]

Intoxicated. 5 times the legal limit.

 

We just can't seem to learn the lessons of previous generations.

[TURBO]

whoa. That is more than intoxicated... Isn't that close to an alcohol overdose?

 

What a waste.