{"id":12023,"date":"2020-02-15T22:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=12023"},"modified":"2020-02-15T22:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:13:47","slug":"tony-fernandez-passes-away-following-stroke-and-kidney-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2020\/02\/15\/tony-fernandez-passes-away-following-stroke-and-kidney-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Fernandez passes away following stroke and kidney complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12025\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/tonyfernandez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/tonyfernandez.jpg 720w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/tonyfernandez-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/tonyfernandez-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former major leaguer Tony Fernandez passed away on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A member of five All Star teams and a winner of four Gold Gloves, Fernandez was a member of the 1993 World Series winning Blue Jays. He was 57.<\/p>\n<p>Hector Gomez was among the first to break the news of Fernandez&#8217;s passing which is a result of a brain stroke and kidney complications.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former MLB player Tony Fernandez has died. He suffered a brain stroke and Kidney complications.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez was selected to 5 All Star Games, won 4 Gold Glove and a World Series with Toronto Blue Jays (1993).<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace. &#x1f64f;&#x1f64f;&#x1f64f;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/z101digital?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@z101digital<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZDeportes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ZDeportes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JtpVSLiOAv\">pic.twitter.com\/JtpVSLiOAv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 H\u00e9ctor G\u00f3mez (@hgomez27) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hgomez27\/status\/1228875294758653953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nA veteran of 17 years, Fernandez spent 12 seasons with the Blue Jays but also saw stops with the Padres, Mets, Indians, Reds, Yankees and Brewers. He owned a career line of .288\/.347\/.399 with 94 home runs and 844 RBI. He had 2,276 career hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former major leaguer Tony Fernandez passed away on Saturday. A member of five All Star teams and a winner of four Gold Gloves, Fernandez was a member of the 1993 World Series winning Blue Jays. He was 57. Hector Gomez was among the first to break the news of Fernandez&#8217;s passing which is a result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,1182,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-tony-fernandez","11":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12027,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023\/revisions\/12027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12023"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}