CLOSE Iowa Cubs pitcher Trevor Clifton built a tiny house to live in during the baseball season. Zachary Boyden-Holmes, DesMoines
“We built it from the ground up,” Clifton said. “We always saw the tiny homes on Pinterest and all that ‘dang, that would be cool to build.’ We had a chance to do it from the ground up. So, we went ahead and did.” Clifton lived with teammates Jen-Ho Tseng and Duane Underwood Jr. last season when he was promoted, but said he wanted to live on his own this season. There was just one problem: Clifton was already shelling out money to rent a house in Tennessee that he lived in during the offseason and the cheapest apartment he could find in downtown Des Moines was for $1,200 a month.He bought a camper online for around $200. His plan was to renovate the inside and turn it into a little home for the season.
“Sometimes it would be going down the road with a couple of walls up,” his mom Betsey Clifton said. “It was kind of comical, really, because it would go back and forth and he probably lives four or five miles into town. We live more out of town." 'I just like to be on my own'The plan was always to bring the house to Iowa. But Clifton, who started the season in extended spring training, was added to Iowa’s roster when the team was in Nashville. That forced Clifton to fly flew to Nashville and meet his parents. It took three and a half hours to make it there thanks to a flat tire on the trailer along the way.
"I just like to be on my own, just relax whenever I get home," Clifton said. "That's one way to do it. You're by yourself. You get to do what you want. If you want to go fishing out by the lake, you can go do that."