While going through his pregame routine Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium, White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu wore a sleeveless shirt that revealed the tattoo of his son’s face on his left biceps.
His eyes welled up as he spoke of the moment Monday when he greeted that face in person in the United States for the first time.
“I couldn’t say anything,” Abreu said Tuesday through a Sox interpreter. “I just started crying.”
Abreu was separated from his son Dariel, now 5, when he defected from Cuba in 2013, a few months before signing a six-year contract with the Sox.