FORT MYERS, Fla. — The memorial stretches nearly from the wrist to the elbow on the right forearm of the major leagues’ next slugging star. Miguel Sano, the Minnesota Twins’ 22-year-old power hitter, is never far from his daughter.

Her name was Angelica, and she was born in the Dominican Republic on Nov. 28, 2014. She died about a week later, he said, because of a heart defect. Whenever Sano unleashes his ferocious — but controlled — swing, a tattoo of her name, with “R.I.P.” above and a dove trailing the last letter, is close to the impact.

“Last year in Double-A, I cried a lot,” Sano said the other day near his locker at Hammond Stadium. “I was really sad. I don’t concentrate too much on playing because I think a lot about my baby. But now I understand that God takes her. I don’t know if she would have problems in life.”

Sano arrived in the majors in July and played 80 games, hitting 18 home runs, with 52 runs batted in. Although he plays his home games at spacious Target Field, he should become the first Twins player to hit more than 35 homers in a season since Harmon Killebrew in 1970.