Yoenis Cespedes is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played for the Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers in MLB.
Yoenis Cespedes was born on October 18, 1985, Campechuela, in Granma Province, Cuba. His real name is Yoenis Céspedés. He holds Cuban nationality. His Zodiac sign is Libra. Yoenis was born to a father named Cresencio Céspedes, and a mother named Estela Milanés. His parents were both sports people as his mother played softball as a pitcher and made an appearance in the Summer Olympics of 2000 representing Cuba, his father, on the other hand, was a former Cuban League catcher. He, however, Yoenis became fatherless when he was just about a year old. He has a brother known as Yelqui Céspedes.when at the age of 10 his mother sent him to a state-run school where he made good of his time learning baseball and growing in the team and he soon played in the Cuban Winter League thereafter.
To trace back from his early career, during his hot performance in his first year with the Mets, he was offered a 3-year contract worth $75 million which he, resigned on November 3rd, 2016 but as an invaluable asset to the team, the New York Mets offered him an improved 4-year contract worth $110 million with a no-trade clause which he agreed to on November 30, 2016. The professional baseball player has his own exotic and luxurious collection of cars that stores a custom 2016 Ford F-250, 2 custom Polaris Slingshots, a custom Lamborghini Aventador, an Alfa Romeo 8 Competizione and a custom Jeep Wrangler. Yoenis earns an annual salary of $23 million and has a net worth of $60 million according to Celebrity Networth.
His first professional baseball game was for Granma in the Cuban National Series during the 2003-2004 season and was awarded rookie of the year award for the Cuban national series. In 2009, He started Baseball World Cup as Cuba's center fielder. Cespedes entered into the MLB on a four-year contract with the Oakland Athletics in 2012. He demonstrated outstanding performance in 2012, 13 and 2014 seasons playing for the Oaklands, In 2014, he was named to his first MLB All-Star However, Later he suffered a wrist, knee, and hamstring injuries and wasn’t able to give his best in latter days. Thereafter, Cespedes played briefly for the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers before landing a contract with the New York Mets in 2015. So far he is maintaining his good career.
Yoenis is a married man and has a son, Yoenis Jr. in Cuba who he has not been able to see ever since he left his home country. He only speaks with him on the phone and has repeatedly tried to bring him over to the U.S. only to fail every time. He has a girlfriend whose name is Sandra Quesada. His has not revealed much of his personal details throughout the media or social networking sites. Only a few information about his wife and girlfriend is known to people.
He stands 5 feet 10 inches (1.78m) tall and body weight 99 kg. He has Black hair and black eyes.