Detroit – When Tigers shortstop Niko Goodrum first scouted what would become his home outside of Atlanta, one of the first things that caught his eye was a spacious garage and, a few yards behind it and down a hill, a large pole barn.
Immediately, he started envisioning a gym and a baseball workout space. Never could he imagine, though, how valuable that space would be a couple of years later as the coronavirus pandemic has put the country in veritable lockdown.
“I wasn’t planning for something like this,” Goodrum said in a phone conversation from his home on Thursday.