Like most major leaguers, Manny Machado has had great support from his family long before he was the highest paid player in the San Diego Padres, earning a salary of $ 32 million per year.
Not only were his parents concerned about improving the Dominican’s development within baseball, his grandfather and his uncles worked with him to secure a signature for the best baseball in the world. The support of his family nucleus was key in the development of the infielder.
Here we are going to present some details about the Manny Machado family.
Machado practiced during his childhood under the strict advice of his grandfather Francisco and his uncle Gregorio. They both had long conversations about how to play and how to behave off the field.
In addition, his aunt Viviana was in charge with his mother Rosita of making him food and snacks before going to play a game, according to the MLB player in an interview with Listín Diario. “They would get up first to give me breakfast. When we were about to leave my mother had a container for my snack.”
Although Machado was born in Florida, the Padres player has Dominican roots, as his entire family hails from Villa Rosa in La Vega. On several occasions, his uncles and cousins accompanied Manny to train and his cousins were in charge of helping him with his homework.
“It was a strong routine,” Machado recalled. “But they always helped me a lot with my homework, especially with math and history texts. We had a lot of fun and I learned a lot with them.”
The player who debuted in the Major Leagues with the Baltimore Orioles has a sister named Yasmine Núñez, who for legal reasons does not bear the same last name. She currently works as an administrator of finances and of some businesses that Machado has started.
Manny Machado’s wife is Yainee Alonso, a woman of Cuban origin whom he met in his training as a player. In addition, she is the sister of former Major League Baseball player Yonder Alonso, who played for 10 years with 7 different teams.
Yainne shares her financial activities with her sister-in-law and is also in charge of scheduling the contributions in the different social tasks that her husband carries out with various educational and children’s aid organizations.