Baseball season is finally beginning!! Opening day 2020 is in July……we could have never predicted this season. Life has been a whirlwind since the cancelation of Spring Training back in March. Thankfully, Trey was able to make the 60 man team this year and is on the Taxi Squad in Appleton, Wisconsin.
We are SO thankful to have baseball back in our lives!!! I know so many of our baseball friends are taking the year off, or joining independent league teams all over the nation. We are the lucky ones that get to play with the Brewers this Summer.
Flashback to April, Trey decided to take the 18 hour drive home by himself since there were so many unanswered questions about the season. I usually drive to Arizona and to where he goes for the season after Spring Training, but with air flights being so scarce in April and Covid-19 being new we decided it was best for me to stay home. On his journey back to Texas, he would call and tell me how spooky it was driving because there were hardly any cars on the road. Yes, far West Texas is so scarce and widespread, but you do usually see cars every now and again. It was very fortunate that Trey made it home safe and got to take a few hours off the road trip since my family has property out in the Texas Hill Country, making Treys first trip about 12 hours. After a couple of relaxing days in the Hill Country, we made the 4 hour drive back home where more questions left unanswered for months were found.
For the months of April, May, and June Trey worked out and threw everyday to stay in shape not knowing when he would get the call baseball would be starting. Boy did we LOVE those extra 3 months of time spent together!! It was such unprecedented territory for us since we had never been together this much during these months. We celebrated our first Easter, Anniversary, and 4th of July together! So much downtime was spent on the golf course or fishing in a tank. Trey definitely got his fix of fishing and golf!
Finally at the end of June the start of baseball was announced! What joy that brought us! They announced that the Minor League season would be officially cancelled and that left us with more questions in how baseball would be for us. Trey was on the AAA team on the 40 man roster…..who was going to play this year?? Trey received a call in early July saying he would be report to Milwaukee on July 15th to undergo testing, quarantine, then move to Appleton for the rest of the season. He made the Taxi Squad!! We were both so excited that some sort of baseball would be happening for him this year. If any of you don’t know what the Taxi Squad is, it’s extra players ready to go for the big league team when needed.
Goodbyes are never easy and I feel like they get harder with every goodbye. But this goodbye was not for very long and it was an exciting one. 11 weeks that’s about how long Trey and I will go without seeing each other. We have done it many times before but haven’t done it in about 2 years now, so the distance will be hard. It’s always worth it though because we both know it will not be a forever thing.
Trey will not be in competitive games this year, unless he gets the call to the Big League team and we are praying for that! He will be playing intrasquad scrimmages and just practicing.
The baseball season looks a lot different this year, but y’all at least there’s BASEBALL!!!!