Eulogio Frankie De La Cruz, who signed for Detroit Tigers at the age of 17 from the Dominican Republic and pitched for a short time for them in the majors and Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers, sadly passed away on Sunday due to heart attack at the age of 37.

The news was made public by Toros del Este, Del la Cruz Dominican winter league team, who took to their Twitter page to announce his passing, they wrote: "Peace to your Soul!" Many outlets expressed their condolences for the player, including crazyvegas.

According to Woodberry, media outlets in the Dominican Republic claimed that Del La Cruz had a heart attack on Sunday night.

The 37-year-old broke entered the majors with the Detroit Tigers back in 2007, he was also able to mark six relief appearances before he was registered as one of the six-player packages of prospects that were sent off by the Tigers to Florida Marlins for the 2007 winter meetings for Cabrera. Players sent off alongside Del La Cruz includes; Burke Badenhop, Cameron Maybin, Andrew Miller, Dallas Trahern and Mike Rabelo.

The Detroit Tigers regarded Del La Cruz as a huge prospect before the trade has played six games for them and finished with a 6.75 ERA. He was tried as both a starter and a reliever.

Matt Walbeck, who was Del La Cruz's manager at Single-A West Michigan in 2004 and Double-A Erie in 2007, said to the media: "Dave Dombrowski thought highly of him. We all did, just because you can't teach 100 miles per hour.

"He was very raw, at the same time, in learning how to pitch and compete, and adjust to the culture, but he did everything great. He was able to make all those adjustments necessary to play in the major leagues, and it was wonderful to see him get there."

In Florida, he appeared six times for the Marlins registering 18.00 ERA in nine innings pitched before moving to San Diego Padres and registering three more appearances there for the 2009 season.

He moved to Japan for the 2010 season before returning to MLB in 2011, where he registered 11 appearances for Milwaukee Brewers posting 2.77 ERA, which is his best in MLB and best usa online casino sites provided odds for the fans at the time.

He has also played in minor league systems along with foreign leagues in Mexico, Taiwan, Dominican, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Italy.

He has appeared in 622 games, pitching 1,819.1 innings in his 19 seasons of professional baseball, according to Baseball-Reference. He made 15 innings for the Toros this winter posting 2.35 ERA.