TORONTO — - One of the more remarkable aspects about the Roberto Osuna story is the fact that the 20-year-old closer extraordinaire and AL Rookie-of-the-Year candidate has managed to rise to the top of the baseball world despite the fact that he was born and raised in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
Dangerous, as in the young reliever has to be very careful when he visits family back home during the off-season or even when he talks about his home state. And that’s not paranoia.
Osuna was born and raised in Sinaloa, a state nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico’s northwest, a place notorious for the drug cartel that bears its name.