Abraham Almonte (born June 27, 1989) is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Olmecas de Tabasco of the Mexican League.

He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and New York Mets.

When he was 16, his professional career began with the New York Yankees, as they signed him and brought him to the United States to play baseball.

The following season in 2007, Almonte was promoted to the Yankees' Gulf Coast League team, where he excelled with a .288 batting average in 49 games.

In 2010, shortly after being promoted to the Tampa Yankees of the High–A Florida State League, played only 15 games before undergoing surgery to repair a torn right labrum.

[5] On February 13, 2013, the Yankees traded Almonte to the Seattle Mariners for relief pitcher Shawn Kelley.

While there, he hit .255 with 18 RBIs and 4 home runs in 29 games before impressing the organization enough to be called up to Triple-A with the Tacoma Rainiers.

Almonte spent the majority of the 2013 campaign with the Tacoma Rainiers, playing in 94 games and batting .314 with 50 RBIs, 11 home runs, and a.

[7] On September 9, Almonte hit his first major league home run against Astros' relief pitcher Chia Jen Lo.

[8] Almonte began the 2014 regular season as the starting center fielder and leadoff hitter for the Mariners.

[9] Almonte played in 27 games early in the 2014 campaign, and struggled to produce at the major league level, only batting a mere .198 with eight RBIs, 40 strikeouts and a .248 OBP and .292 SLG.

[10][11] Overall in part of two seasons with Seattle, Almonte appeared in 52 MLB games, batting .225 with three home runs and 17 RBIs.

[12] On July 31, 2014, the Mariners traded Almonte and Stephen Kohlscheen to the San Diego Padres for Chris Denorfia.

[16][17][18] Almonte was injured through portions of the 2017 season with the Indians, finishing with a .233 batting average and 3 home runs.

[35] Almonte was added to Boston's active roster on September 7,[35] and he appeared as a pinch hitter for the team that evening.

[36] He appeared in 15 games with the Red Sox through the end of the season, batting .257 with one home run and two RBIs.

In 2007 after the death of his father, Almonte began drinking alcohol on a daily basis to cope with his grief.

[50] As a teenager living in New York, Almonte would regularly go out to clubs on weekdays and drink all night prior to his training the next day.

The addiction became something that Almonte was aware of and wanted to put an end to, but the cravings were too strong and he didn't know how to stop them.