RIP Oscar Taveras

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

Holy mackerel. Top five prospect.

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

Confirmed. What a loss.

http://deadspin.com/reports-cardinals-prospect-oscar-taveras-killed-in-car-1651077218?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

Wow Cards best hitting prospect since Pujols.
RIP

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

Third player on active Cardinals roster to die in the past 12 years. Seems like a lot. I know there was an Indians pitcher and maybe a few others.

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

The young Angels pitcher - Nick Adenhart, I think?

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

As a Cardinal fan, I'm just beyond words at this news. Wow. Only 22 years old.

Looked like he was finally showing signs of getting it at the plate. RIP.

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

Holy crap. Just sickening.

What a hitter that guy was.

And Adenhart was the last active MLB player to die. Before that, the last two were Cardinals (Josh Hancock in 2007 and Darryl Kile in 2000).

And fix the spelling, Gehrig. It's Taveras.

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

Adenhart died on a night he pitched.
Two Indians players in the 90s, in that boating accident.
Hancock was driving drunk and Kile was just a total freak thing.

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

I forgot about Greg Halman, the Mariners outfielder who was murdered by his brother in 2011. He was the most recent one before Taveras.

 

Re: RIP Oscar Tavaras

Steve Olin and Tim Crews were the Indians pitchers who died in the boating accident while Bob Ojeda barely survived. Olin and Crews were relievers. There was a tremendous SI story, I think by Gary Smith, on it afterward, with the widows encouraging Ojeda to come back.

RIP for Taveras. Very sad because we all will wonder what might have been. Maybe we all lost a Hall of Famer.

 

I can't ever recall a mega-prospect dying. Taveras was projected to be a five-tool star.