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Fuentes vying for Opening Night roster spot

For Reymond Fuentes, it's all in the family.

The center fielder, who is vying for the chance to break camp with the Royals, certainly boasts baseball in his blood.

His father, Pedro Fuentes, played Double-A ball in Puerto Rico, and on his mother's side, Fuentes has a second cousin who knows a thing or two about the game.

That cousin's name? Carlos Beltran.

Fuentes, who has fond childhood memories of watching Beltran play at Kauffman Stadium in the early 2000s, hopes he'll get to pay his cousin a visit when the Royals visit Beltran's Yankees in early May.