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Saunders: Rockies’ Ezequiel Tovar found his American family in Boise

In December 2020, at Christmastime, and with the pandemic still raging, Tracy Poff did what she knew she had to do.

She left her home in Boise, Idaho, rented a condo in Scottsdale, Ariz., and flew down to take care of “her kid.”

That kid was Rockies shortstop prospect Ezequiel Tovar, who had spent the summer of 2019 living with his American host family in Boise, made up of Poff and her two sons, Mas . . .