Baseball fans received some truly unfortunate news regarding former MLB relief pitcher Reyes Moronta, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 31.
MLB insider Mike Rodriguez first reported on the news on Sunday night, detailing that Moronta had gotten into a traffic accident and later passed away from his injuries.
Moronta’s most recent team, the Bravos de León of the Mexican League, later confirmed the news.
Moronta, a six-year MLB veteran for numerous teams including the San Francisco Giants, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Los Angeles Angels, had just recently been playing for Bravos de León, as he was just released by the organization on Thursday.
Throughout the first four years of his MLB career with the Giants, Moronta had looked like a star in the making out of the bullpen, with a sub-3.00 ERA for each of those seasons from 2017-2021.
While he didn’t have the longevity in the MLB as he may have hoped, he did have a very respectable 3.05 career ERA in the MLB.
Naturally, many fans took to social media to share their condolences with his family, sharing many of their favorite MLB moments of Moronta’s in the process.