AUSTIN: Former major league pitcher Brad Halsey died in a entertaining climbing accident. He was 33.
Police in Comal County said an investigation was still ongoing into Friday’s accident in the Texas Hill Country area. The Lux Funeral Home said services were pending.
He died from multiple blunt force injuries, but the manner of death is currently unknown, Judge Jennifer Saunders told a US newspaper. His body was found on a road in rural New Braunfels, Texas, at about 1 p.m. Friday.
“It appeared that he had climbed up about a 100-foot cliff on a private property and was discovered in a little road going up into that property,” Saunders said. “He had either jumped or fallen.”
Asked if Halsey appeared to have been trying to hurt himself, Saunders said the investigation is ongoing.
Halsey’s mother, Loretta, said he had been living in New Braunfels and was active in baseball, but declined to provide additional information.
“I really would like to keep this private right now,” she told the newspaper.
A memorial service will be held Friday.
The left-handed Houston native was drafted by the New York Yankees in the eighth round of the 2002 draft. He later made his major league debut with the Yankees in 2004. He went 14-19 in 88 games with the New York Yankees, Arizona and Oakland from 2004-06. Most recently, he pitched in the minors for the Yankees in 2011.
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