Former Major League Baseball pitcher Anthony Barbaro, who retired in 2016 to become a New York City area police officer, died Sunday morning in a car accident while en route to a 9/11 memorial service in Manhattan. A police officer and his former team.
Varvaro, 37, was an employee of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He played baseball at St. John’s College in New York City before pursuing a career as a relief pitcher in the majors. Mariners, braves When Red Sox From 2010 to ’15.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues,” the Braves said in a statement.
The crash happened Sunday morning in New Jersey. A message was left with New Jersey State Police asking for more information about the crash.
St. John’s baseball head coach Mike Hampton said he was “speechless” about Barbaro’s death.
“He was everything you could ask of a ball player, but also everything you could ask of a person,” said Hampton, who has been assistant coach at St. John’s for all three Barbaro seasons. . “My heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, teammates and fellow officers.”
A Port Authority official said in a statement that Barbaro “is the highest representative of this institution and will be remembered for his courage and dedication to service.”
“On this solemn occasion to mourn the loss of 84 employees of the Port Authority in the attack on the World Trade Center, including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Force, our grief today is with the passing of Officer Barbaro. It’s only getting deeper,” the statement said. By Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole and Executive Director Rick Cotton.
Raised in New York City’s Staten Island, Barbaro was drafted by Seattle in the 12th round in 2005. He played for the Mariners in 2010 and from 2011 he played for Atlanta until 2014.
Varvaro was traded to the Red Sox in late 2014 and pitched 11 innings for Boston at the start of his 15th season. In May 2015, the Chicago Cubs claimed him from a waiver from Boston, but after testing he had an elbow injury to his right-handed arm, he was returned to the Red Sox for season-ending surgery. rice field.
In his major league career, he pitched 183 innings in 166 games, posting a 3.23 ERA, 150 strikeouts, and one save.
In 2016, he appeared in 18 games for Boston’s top minor league affiliate before retiring in June to begin police training.
Varvaro, who studied criminal justice at St. John’s and graduated in 2005, told the student newspaper: TorchDecember 2016, asking about police work at the Port Authority while pitching in the majors.
“I had a pretty successful baseball career, played for many seasons, and thought I was on to the next step in my life.
Varvaro became a police officer in December 2016 and spent nearly five years on patrols before transferring to the Port Authority Police Academy to become an instructor, according to Port Authority officials.
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