died in a motorcycle accident at 35 years old<\/a>, the team announced on Sunday.<\/p>\nMontero was involved in the accident earlier this month in Venezuela and was put into an induced coma due to various major injuries, per a GoFundMe page that tried to raise money for his hospital bills.<\/p>\n
Upon the news, Gimenez posted a series of photos on her Instagram stories of Montero and their two children, Loren and Jesus.<\/p>\n
Taneth Gimenez posted a series of photos to Instagram to pay tribute to her children\u2019s father and ex-husband, Jes\u00fas\u00a0Montero. Instagram @taneth.fit<\/p>\n
Taneth Gimenez shares a photo with ex-husband Jes\u00fas\u00a0 Montero with both of their children. Instagram @taneth.fit<\/p>\n
Taneth Gimenez posts a photo of one of her children shared with ex-husband Jesus Montero, who died this month in a motorcycle accident. Instagram @taneth.fit<\/p>\n
She wrote, \u201cR.I.P. Jesus Montero\u201d with a cross emoji.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll keep the good memories tattooed on my soul,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Gimenez, who is from Barquisimeto, Venezuela, is a model and fitness instructor. There are some reports saying the former couple met during a trip at the beaches of Morrocoy in Venezuela.<\/p>\n
At 16, Montero signed as an international free agent for $1.6 million in 2006. He quickly became a hyped prospect, but never quite lived up to the noise.<\/p>\n
Yet, he notably debuted in 2011 as the Yankees\u2019 No. 1 prospect at 21 years old.<\/p>\n
Yankee catcher Jesus Montero in the dugout before the game on March 3, 2009. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n
He impressed against major league pitching, hitting .328 with a .996 OPS and four home runs across 18 games with the Yankees in 2011. Montero went on to make the postseason roster and went 2-for-2 in the only game he played in during the playoffs \u2014 an ALDS loss to the Tigers.<\/p>\n
Montero eventually was shipped to Seattle in a trade for Michael Pineda and played four seasons there before his final game in the league came in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe send our sincerest condolences to his family and loved ones,\u201d the Yankees wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The words of love are pouring in for Jes\u00fas Montero, including from his ex-wife, Taneth Gimenez. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":317157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,159192,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,2391],"class_list":{"0":"post-317156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jesus-montero","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-wags"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115403434587637679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}