Retired MLB redoubt Jorge Posada listed his South Florida mansion this month. The professional catcher, who spent his entire career with the Yankees, is asking $19.9 million for the 11,800 sq. ft. waterfront home in Coral Gables.
A 2010 build situated on a .51-acre lot, the house’s exterior architecture voices Caribbean plantation design elements, with a huge amount of covered outdoor space in front and back, and a summer kitchen along the way. The lot is filled out lawns, a putting green, and a backyard outdoor living area with a pool and spa.
Interiors feature high-gloss limestone tile floors, beamed ceilings, and jalousie windows; it appears that there’s a bit of shiplap at work here too, always a good choice for casualizing more overtly high-dollar living spaces. There’s an abundance of texture for ornament beyond the floors, with pebble-finish showers and, in the formal dining room, basket weave cabinet doors adding complexity to the whole.
Amenities inside this house include an office with backlit built-in bookshelves, a theater, and a basement entertainment room and gym.