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Adeiny Hechavarria keeping focus on baseball amid court appearances

Marlins shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria returned to spring training on Saturday.

A day earlier, while his teammates began full-squad workouts at Roger Dean Stadium, Hechavarria was testifying in a federal courtroom in Miami in a Cuban baseball players smuggling trial involving sports agent Bart Hernandez and trainer Julio Estrada.

Hernandez and Estrada are charged with smuggling Cuban players into the United States through Mexico and the Caribbean in order to profit from their multimillion-dollar contracts with Major League Baseball teams.

“I was requested to be there by the FBI, so I appeared and I said everything I knew,” Hechavarria said.