{"id":64096,"date":"2021-10-29T03:57:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=64096"},"modified":"2021-10-31T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T13:14:27","slug":"tyler-herron-former-team-israel-pitcher-dies-at-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/tyler-herron-former-team-israel-pitcher-dies-at-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Herron, former Team Israel pitcher, dies at 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Tyler Herron, a former major league baseball prospect who pitched for Team Israel during their Cindarella run in the 2017 World Baseball Classic,&nbsp;died this week at 35.<\/p>\n<p>No cause or exact date of Herron\u2019s death have been reported. Several of the minor league teams he played for posted tributes to Herron on social media on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We mourn the loss of Tyler Herron. <\/p>\n<p>The West Palm Beach native and former Palm Beach Cardinals pitcher passed away at the young age of 35. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardinals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cardinals<\/a> 2005 first-round pick will surely be missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Herron family and those closest to Tyler <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0eCgkA45Ei\">pic.twitter.com\/0eCgkA45Ei<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Palm Beach Cardinals (@GoPBCardinals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoPBCardinals\/status\/1453802299852214273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Herron, who grew up in Florida, was of Puerto Rican descent, according to El Nuevo Dia, one of Puerto Rico\u2019s largest circulation newspapers. But a YouTube video from Team Israel explains that his aunt also discovered in 2014 that he had a Jewish grandmother, which made him eligible to earn Israeli citizenship and play for the team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64097\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64097\" class=\"wp-image-64097 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64097\" class=\"wp-image-64097 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-28-21-TylerHerron-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-64097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Herron, right, pitched for Team Israel in the 2017 World Baseball Classic (Chung Sung-Jun\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Herron appeared in three games during the 2017 World Baseball Classic and called it \u201cthe best experience I\u2019ve ever had in baseball.\u201d Team Israel finished sixth in the international tournament, despite being ranked outside of the top 40 countries in the world before entering.<\/p>\n<p>A native of West Palm Beach, Florida, Herron was a standout high school pitcher. During his senior year, the right-hander led the country with a 0.25 earned run average, striking out 81 batters in 57 innings.&nbsp;<br \/>\nHe was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the 2005 Major League Baseball draft, and in 2007 was ranked by Baseball America as the organization\u2019s 10th best prospect. But he never made it to the major leagues.<\/p>\n<p>During a 16-year career, Herron played for several minor league teams in multiple organizations, as well as in foreign and independent leagues \u2014 including in Puerto Rico. The head of the Puerto Rico Players Association told El Nuevo Dia that an investigation into Herron\u2019s death is underway.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Herron pitched for the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks of the independent American Association league, his fourth separate stint with the team.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tyler%20Herron%2C%20former%20Team%20Israel%20pitcher%2C%20dies%20at%2035\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[1112,8781,8790,8795,8788,4088,11782,11780,11781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64098,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64096\/revisions\/64098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}