Yu Darvish earned a win in game two for the Padres in the National League Division Series against the Dodgers last night, and is hoping to have similar success unloading his Evanston home two years after being traded by the Cubs.
His 5,900-square-foot home at 90 Kedzie Street, which is listed by Jackie Mack of Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, hit the market with an asking price of $5.75 million, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Darvish signed a six-year, $126 million deal with the Cubs when he entered the scene as a free agent from Japan in 2018. In May of that year, he and his wife Seiko paid $4.55 million for the home and adjacent empty 0.2-acre parcel in the college town suburb. The full 0.55-acre property has 150 feet of frontage on Lake Michigan.
Built in 1904, the Kedzie Street home has six bathrooms, two fireplaces and walls of large picture windows on the first floor. The kitchen, which is equipped with Sub-Zero, Wolf and Miele appliances, has an oversized counter island with quartzite waterfall countertops and opens into the family and dining rooms. The primary bedroom suite has a dressing area and a bathroom with 280-degree views surrounding a free-standing tub.
The home also has a recently finished basement that has recreation and workout rooms.
The exterior features a wraparound deck and the only deep-water dock in all of Evanston, which also features an adjoining patio.
The house’s lot had a $52,721 property tax bill in 2020, while the adjoining parcel’s tax bill was $3.653 for the same year.
While Darvish and the Padres look to topple the heavily-favored Dodgers, his agent will look to score him a profit on the sale.
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