Perhaps not surprisingly, Royals pitcher Edinson Volquez returns every offseason to his hometown: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
But he doesn’t retreat just to the posh place he lives in now with his wife and twin daughters.
He almost immediately returns, too, to the humble home in which he grew up, the one that’s unoccupied and unfurnished but that he proudly owns now.
When you visit, he’ll tell you, let him know, because this is where he’ll most want to take you.
“Nobody lives there,” he said, with his perpetual grin, “but I keep it.”
Sometimes, he’ll just drive back and forth a few times.