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'We didn't think twice about it': How Rangers' Jonathan Lucroy helped a former college coach during Louisiana floods

CINCINNATI -- Typical of any player new in town, Jonathan Lucroy spent his first few days with Rangers working on housing arrangements.

Typical of Lucroy, it had nothing to do with him.

Instead, Lucroy capped off a crazy 10-day stretch by pushing back from a video scouting session in Arlington to pick up the phone, call his wife, Sarah, and together they quickly decided to offer up their own home in Lafayette, La., to a former college baseball coach who had been displaced by historic flooding.

"This is not just a place for him to spend his offseasons," University of Louisiana-Lafayette assistant coach Anthony Babineaux said Wednesday having just left the Lucroy home for his office.