Luis Vázquez and the Santiago family

BALTIMORE -- Orocovis is a small town near the center of Puerto Rico with a population of a little more than 20,000. It has produced only two baseball players who have reached the Major Leagues -- Rafael Santo Domingo, who had a brief stint for the 1979 Reds, and Luis Vázquez , a rookie infielder with the Orioles this season.

Considering how few big leaguers have come out of Orocovis, the news of Vázquez getting selected by the Cubs out of Alberto Melendez Torres High School in the 14th round of the 2017 MLB Draft created quite a bit of buzz locally at the time.

It caught the attention of one fan in particular -- Tomas Santiago, an Orocovis native who now lives in Lafayette Hill, Pa., with his wife, Chanel, and their two sons, 16-year-old Jayden an

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