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Adalberto Mondesi’s long, sad and inspiring journey to the brink of stardom

They gathered around a dark wood table in a high-end steakhouse in the Dominican Republic. The 23-year-old athletic phenom with sleeve tattoos ordered salmon. The 52-year-old executive with salt-and-pepper hair didn’t care much about the food. He didn’t want to talk baseball, either.

He wanted to talk life, though in this life it’s hard to know where baseball stops and life begins.

“What do you think of Patrick Mahomes?”

Adalberto Mondesi was born and raised in the D.R., which scouts in the States will tell you is the only reason he’s not a professional quarterback or point guard or receiver.