Last year his mother spent the entire summer in the hospital with Stage 4 melanoma. Reports from February 2018 suggested she was doing well and starting to recover; however, Tellez left spring training on March 1st to be with her again, as she was in poor health. I just searched, but that's the last real update I could find.
He needs to suck that up because everyone deals with s*** equivalent to that? C'mon man.