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New York Mets: Yoenis Cespedes took his brother under his wing as he tries to enter MLB

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The road taken to this point by Yoenis Cespedes can surely help his younger half-brother Yoelkis as he tries to make his way to the big leagues. The New York Mets‘ slugger defected in 2011 and had to go through a lot to be where he currently is. Among the sacrifices he had to make was not talk to his family for years.

“It was really difficult,” Yoenis Céspedes said to MLB.com. “It wasn’t just not being able to talk to him (Yoelkis,) but I wasn’t able to talk to my father, and also another sister that I have, and also other family members that I still had in Cuba.