The start date for the 2020 MLB season is still unknown and baseball players around the nation and around the world remain in limbo. Like so many players, New York Mets catcher Wilson Ramos misses his time away from the diamond, but is keeping busy at home with his family.
“I know we are not going to play soon, so we have got plenty of time to start training no matter where we are training,” Ramos said in a phone interview with Mike Puma of The New York Post. “We have to stay training at home. As soon as we get the call, I am 100 percent sure we will give it two or three weeks before we start playing. That time is going to be [a] good time to get ready for the season.”
The 32-year-old Venezuelan native is currently at his home in South Florida. He has been enjoying his free time by playing with his three kids and fishing in his backyard lake. He has also been utilizing his workout time by playing catch with his cousin Efren Ramos; a right-handed pitcher whom the Mets signed to a minor league contract in July of 2019.
Ramos also ordered a portable batting cage which arrived on Monday. The cage will allow him to continue working on his hitting now that all parks and baseball facilities near him are closed.
Ramos, whose offseason mission was to improve defensively, will now get more time to work on that aspect of his game. At the beginning of spring training, Ramos shared that he changed his stance behind the plate. The change involved dropping his knee to the ground, which helped him with catching pitches down in the zone.
As the days come and go during this coronavirus pandemic, the veteran catcher is staying busy while looking forward to the day he can return to the game he loves.
“The best medicine right now is to stay at home, so that is what I am doing,” Ramos said via The Post. “Stay at home, chilling here, enjoying my family, enjoying my kids, play with them, do a little bit of my job and just waiting for the call everybody is waiting for.”
