This interview was conducted in Spanish and has been translated. Read it in Spanish here.
Red Sox catcher Sandy Leon has been in the United States for more than a decade, but he still feels deeply connected to his home country of Venezuela. He spoke with Marly Rivera about what it means to represent his small town in MLB, and his distress at the current state of the country.
As a Venezuelan, what was the most difficult thing when you first moved to the U.S.?
First of all, to be far away from my family, from the people with whom you lived for so long, to make that sacrifice.