When Anfernee Grier wakes up every morning in Beaverton, Ore., he doesn’t inch his way through a maze of luggage to go use baby-sized shampoo bottles in a hotel shower. He doesn’t go downstairs to eat a stale continental breakfast before heading to the ballpark.
Instead, the Diamondbacks’ No. 1 pick this year wakes up in his own room, showers in his own shower. He walks down the stairs of a four-bedroom colonial with a yard overlooking the Bronson Creek wetlands. He strolls outside with some bread to feed the birds and picks vegetables from the dew-laden garden for his morning omelet.