Metro Phoenix is home to spring training games in March and a hub year-round for baseball players buying homes.And not just Arizona Diamondbacks players. Some MLB buyers play in the Valley during the spring, and some just want to have a home here to maybe go watch their former teams play.Here’s some of the MLB players who bought Phoenix-area houses during the past year.In July, Chicago White Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks purchased a Paradise Valley mansion for $8.7 million. He can spend time at the Santa Barbara-style home with a steam room, big gym and swim-up bar when not playing a spring training game at Glendale’s Camelback Ranch field.MLB pitcher Taijuan Walker paid $8 million for a 7,940-square-foot Paradise Valley home last September. His current team, the Philadelphia Phillies, plays during the spring in Florida, but the former Arizona Diamondback has a house with seven bedrooms and 7½ bathrooms to hang out at when he’s in the Valley.Last December, Phillies outfielder David Dahl paid $3.6 million for a 4,153-square-foot house in east Phoenix’s “Arcadia-lite” neighborhood. He previously played for the Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers and San Diego Padres. The house with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms has a game room and a guest house.Also in December, David Walling, a former New York Yankees pitcher who was a first-round draft pick for the team in 1999, paid $12.65 million for an 8,274-square-foot mansion in north Scottdale’s Silverleaf community.Big name players, big Valley homesFormer Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher and hall of famer Randy Johnson’s 25,000-square-foot Paradise Valley mansion, which had a private poker room with a firefighter pole that dropped into a movie theater decked out with big leather chairs, sold for $7.3 million in 2019.Former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andre Eth …
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