(CNN) Former Major League Baseball infielders Luis Valbuena and José Castillo have been killed in a car crash in Venezuela after playing in the country's winter league, their team said.

"We are living a horrible tragedy in Cardenales de Lara. We lost our players Luis Valbuena and José Castillo in a traffic accident," the Venezuelan club tweeted.

High speed led to the crash early Friday in Yaracuy state, a report by transit police says. The vehicle's driver lost control, and the car hit a rock, causing it to overturn, the report says.

Valbuena, 33, recently played for the Los Angeles Angels and had been a free agent since the end of the 2018 season. He also had played for the Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners from 2008 to 2016.

Castillo, 37, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants and the Houston Astros between 2004 and 2008.

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