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Dave Ammenheuser, dammenheus@tennessean.com Published 5:39 p.m. CT Jan. 9, 2015 | Updated 7:35 p.m. CT Jan. 9, 2015
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David Price has becoming tens of millions of dollars in his able baseball career, and that doesn't calculation the $19 million-plus the Detroit Tigers will pay him this advancing season.
So aback the 29-year-old bullpen absitively to body his dream home recently, did he accept to backpack to brilliant Arizona or Southern California like abounding added above leaguers?
Nope.
Did he adjudge to body in Florida, area the Tigers authority bounce training and area he spent the aboriginal seven years of his major-league career in Tampa?
Nah.
Price absitively to break abutting to his Murfreesboro roots, afresh finishing architecture on a new abode in Nashville.
"It's simple," he said. "This is home."
But that's abandoned allotment of the reason. The added draw is the abandon to acknowledgment to his alma mater, Vanderbilt, and use its all-embracing able-bodied facilities. With bounce training aloof a ages away, he can be begin there several canicule per week, accepting his casting arm attainable for addition continued season.
And he's not alone. Added than two dozen able baseball players, mostly above Commodores, are abutting Price in the winter workouts.
Price said baseball drillmaster Tim Corbin, basketball drillmaster Kevin Stallings and football drillmaster Derek Mason accomplish the school's accessories "open to all of the guys ... attainable to all of us."
Price advised architecture a gym in his new home, but again it clicked in his head: "If I did that, I would not appear actuality to assignment out and I absolutely like advancing here."
Corbin recalled a chat he had with above Vanderbilt adjudicator E. Gordon Gee in 2004. Gee asked Corbin what improvements he would like to accomplish with the baseball facilities.
"I said a locker allowance for the (college) kids, a abode to advance for the (college) kids, and a able locker room," Corbin said. "I bethink him attractive at me, and he asked, 'why ... why a pro locker room?'
"I looked at him and said, 'You accept an earlier babe — aback she larboard the abode you didn't abutting her bedchamber down.' "
Gee understood.
The Commodores now accept a locker allowance for above Vanderbilt players. It's a baby addition off to the ancillary of the capital locker allowance the accepted players use.
"It's a abode that they can artlessly appear aback to," Corbin said. "Working out is one thing, but accepting a abode area they can appear aback ... a abode area their home has never larboard them. That is their bedroom. It's still there and drillmaster larboard it there for us. We've consistently had an accessible door."
The players acknowledge it.
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mike Baxter remembers a chat with Corbin afterwards abrogation Vanderbilt in 2005.
"He said whatever you charge in the offseason, I appetite you to appear back," Baxter said. "He created amplitude for us. It wasn't aloof a affected invite. He said the amplitude was congenital for you guys to use. You attending up and it's 11 years later. It acclimated to be aloof bristles or six of us."
Not any more. There are acclimatized major-league veterans like Pittsburgh Pirates aboriginal baseman Pedro Alvarez, as able-bodied as guys acquisitive to braid their way through the accessory leagues and get to the major.
Mike Yastrzemski, who played for Vanderbilt from 2010-13, afresh alternate from Massachusetts to accompany the added above Commodores. The outfielder begins his third division with the Baltimore Orioles alignment abutting month.
"One of the capital things that brings me aback is the facilities," Yastrzemski said. "There are amaranthine resources. There are 4-5 places to bandy inside, the best batting cages you can acquisition in the apple ... and there are the guys. Guys you played with, guys you ambition you had played with. The guys accompany out the aggressive ancillary you can't accompany out in yourself."
(Photo: Shelley Mays / The Tennessean)
There's additionally Corbin.
"He's a mentor. He's added than a coach," Yastrzemski said. "He's like ancestors to me. He's as abutting as claret gets. He's the acumen we all appear aback here."
Pitcher Sonny Gray, a Commodore from 2009-11 and now a affiliate of the Oakland A's, said he enjoys the accessories as abundant as the camaraderie. It was aloof eight years ago that Gray was a aerial academy standout at Smyrna watching Price from the grandstands.
Little did Gray apperceive "that I'd be alive out with David eight years later" and accepting attainable for bounce training.
Tony Kemp, an infielder-outfielder with the Houston Astros organization, echoee Gray's feelings. Kemp larboard Vanderbilt in 2013.
"When we were arena here, we'd see the earlier guys appear back," Kemp said. "David Price, Pedro Alvarez, Mike Baxter ... you'd see them about the batting cages .. and you'd anticipate that already you got out of the program, that you would appetite to appear aback and be about it, be a allotment of it."
Corbin does not analysis in the with the above players daily. His capital antecedence is to get the abutting class, the abutting aggregation attainable for the season. Yet he's beholden that they've consistently capital to appear back.
"I want, for them, for this to be a lifetime decision," Corbin said. "Whether it's them or their kids. I appetite them to apperceive this is their home and they can consistently appear back."
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Dave Ammenheuser can be accomplished at 615-259-8352 and on Twitter @NashSportsEd.
WORKING OUT AT VANDY
Player
Position
Vanderbilt
Pro organization
Pedro Alvarez
1B
2006-08
Pirates
Mike Baxter
OF
2004-05
Dodgers
Tyler Beede
P
2012-14
Giants
Matt Buschmann
P
2003-06
A's
Curt Casali
C
2008-11
Rays
Ryan Flaherty
IF
2006-08
Orioles
Grayson Garvin
P
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Rays
Sonny Gray
P
2009-11
A's
Conrad Gregor
1B
2011-13
Astros
Connor Harrell
OF
2010-13
Tigers
Taylor Hill
P
2008-11
Nationals
Tony Kemp
IF/OF
2011-13
Astros
Mark Lamm
P
2008-11
Braves
Brian Miller
P
2012-14
Rays
Jared Miller
P
2012-14
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Mike Minor
P
2007-09
Braves
Navery Moore
P
2009-11
Braves
David Price
P
2005-07
Tigers
Adam Ravenelle
P
2012-14
Tigers
Drew VerHagen
P
2012
Tigers
Aaron Westlake
1B
2008-11
Tigers
Mike Yastrzemski
OF
2010-13
Orioles
Kevin Ziomek
P
2011-13
Tigers
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