Castillo ready to get back to work

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PHOENIX — Baseball was the last thing on Welington Castillo’s mind for the past week. But with his wife and his newborn son home and healthy, the D-backs’ catcher was back to work on Monday for the team’s series opener against the Mets at Chase Field.

Castillo missed all six of the D-backs’ games in New York and Boston. He went on the paternity list last Tuesday for the birth of his second child, Jeremiah, and stayed in Phoenix longer when some complications arose.

After planning to meet the team in Boston, Castillo was transferred to the bereavement list and remained in Phoenix over the weekend.

“I was in the airport when I got a call from the hospital that [my wife] had postpartum depression or something like that,” Castillo said. “That’s …

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