When Matt Adams went home for the holidays, his parents had not seen him since the final series of this past season. He took a car from the airport and when they greeted him at the front door of their Pennsylvania home they saw in person what they did all winter, less of him.
Big City was more of a suburb.
“They were speechless, at first,” Adams said.
The Cardinals’ burly first baseman relocated this offseason to St. Louis so that he could throw himself into a three-phase workout orchestrated around Pilates, nutrition, and conditioning. The results stood there in his parents’ front door, and had anyone who saw him at the Winter Classic this past week talking about it.