“David knows who he is,” Zobrist said. “When you’re young, it’s hard to know yourself as well as he does. That plays very well in here because you have a lot of alpha males, you have a lot of people who like to give each other a hard time. He's able to take anything anybody sends his way and enjoy it. It’s super important to have an identity outside the game. With his family, his background and his faith, he doesn’t have to carry the title ‘baseball player’ with him everywhere he goes.”