José Delfín Fernández Gómez was a Cuban-American professional baseball pitcher who played four seasons in Major League Baseball. He was a member of the Miami Marlins from 2013 until he died in 2016. He stood 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 243 pounds during his playing career.
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On September 25, 2016, Fernández died in a pre-dawn boating crash when the 32-foot (9.8 m) boat he was piloting was speeding at 56.48 knots (65 mph) and struck the Government Cut north rock jetty off Miami Beach, Florida.
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The U.S. Coast Guard found the boat, Kaught Looking, at about 3:00 a.m., overturned on the jetty near South Pointe Park, and found Fernandez and two other men, Eduardo Rivero and Emilio Jesus Macias, dead at the scene.
A Florida Wildlife Commission (FWC) official confirmed that Fernández had died from the blunt impact of the crash.
The commission received a toxicology report from the medical examiner of Miami-Dade County, but opted not to release the results.
On October 28, 2016, ESPN obtained the autopsy and toxicology reports, which determined that Fernández had cocaine in his system and was legally drunk (DWI) at the time of the crash.
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