This 10,178-square-foot home, designed by legendary Boston Red Sox player “Big Papi,” was built from the ground up in just four years by the former Red Sox player.
Rich Report would like to inform you with a lot of regret that the retired baseball player David Ortiz, also known as Big Papi to his fans, is in the process of downsizing his home and business. It has taken him 10 years to build the 10,178-square-foot Miami mansion he has now asked for $12.5 million. 
He has unfortunately failed to find a buyer for the contemporary space that he custom-designed from the ground up for the former Boston Red Sox player that he had been playing for the past few years. As a result of Ortiz’s induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame last year, he spent about $1.5 million over the next three years to purchase the one-acre plot of land he had decided the retirement home he wanted to build would be located on (and it was built according to his specifications over the next three years). A few years before Ortiz retired, he bought a piece of property on which to build a house and spent over a million dollars on it.
There is a gated entry that welcomes guests to the glass-walled building that has an attached garage with three parking spaces and a large reflecting pool that seems to flow into a moat and features fountain jets. Through the marble walkway that crosses the center of the swimming pool, you can access the front door of the home via a firepit-flanked walkway. As a part of the open-plan great room, you’ll find panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows and soaring ceilings with integrated lighting that create an atmosphere of grandeur.
The great room is dominated by a large white marble kitchen with a breakfast bar and a large metal island. There are also several seating and dining areas in the room.
Uniquely, most of the bedrooms in the home are situated on two floors at the same time. The master suite consists of a spacious downstairs sitting area as well as a large marble bathroom with outdoor access and a marble shower. There is a private set of stairs in the room leading up to a private sleeping area with an en suite bathroom that has a soaking tub and a 16-foot-long glass-walled shower in addition to a TV that folds into the ceiling. Additionally, there are many indoor amenities available. They include a sports bar, a media room with tiered seating, and a ceiling that is lit up like a starry sky.
