Baseball Down Under. Chavez Young

Baseball Down Under. Chavez Young spent most of his 2020 baseball year in lockdowns whiles getting in some workouts here and there. Furthermore, the enforcement of Social distancing made it a little harder to get in some quality workouts. 

Traveling to Australia means that you must quarantine. As a result, Chavez had to isolate for 21 days (about 3 weeks) From his teammates, 3 weeks in quarantine. “I can’t even imagine doing 21 days (about 3 weeks)” or 3 weeks in quarantine. 

However, after all that traveling to get Down Under. And the time for climatizing. That time off may not have been too bad. 

I asked Chavez how was it there? For example, he said that it is now summertime here. And so far, we had only played one game in which I went 1 for 1. In this case, they won the game 8-4. 

Getting around down under: 

In the meantime, how do the teams travel around to other games in other cities? Right now, all travels are by airplane. 

To begin with, we have not played on the road yet. So then, we had played only one home game, and our next game is January 7th. 

Chavez Young 2020 

Like a scorching record, the 2020 minor league season was canceled in the middle of MLB spring training because of the pandemic. And all players had to leave spring training for their homes. However, the news got worse and baseball was put on hold. Hence, players were in waiting and see mode. 

Rule 5 draft year

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Above all. 2020 being his rule-5 draft year. Chavez was looking forward to his chances of making the Blue Jays 40-man roster. 

Chavez now plays baseball in the Australian Baseball League for the Canberra Cavalry. Furthermore, he is getting in some game time down there. Plus, he is looking forward to his next game down under, which is on January 7th, 2021.

A chance to watch him play: 

To watch his games, you must be mindful that he is one day ahead of us. 

To summarize, Chavez is playing baseball down under. Some 17 plus hours ahead of us in the Bahamas. We will be pulling for your success that will carry over into a good 2021 season. God Bless you! Enjoy your time, my friend. 

Jeff Francis

Jeffrey was born on April 29th, 1961, in Nassau, Bahamas to Rejoiner Ann Rolle and Jerome James Francis Etienne. Married to Andrea G. Rolle-Francis, they have two daughters; Janae Latoya Francis, a graduate of Allegany College of Maryland, and Jessica Lee Francis a graduate Potomac State College West Virginia University in Kyser West Virginia. Jeffrey was coaching the sport of baseball from 1980 at the age of 18 years old because he loved the sport as a kid. He started listening to the game over the radio out of Miami Florida in the late 60s and in the early 70s started playing the game locally in various local leagues right up to the premier senior league; a league where all of the current Bahamian minor leaguers played. In 1982, Jeffrey had an invite to a three day tryout with the New York Yankees in Hollywood Florida, which was an awesome experience that is lasting a life time memory for him. Jeffrey has been following the Bahamian baseball players in the minor leagues since 1999 with Angelo Burrows, but found greater interest with the signing of Antoan Richardson in 2005. He also writes a year end review on their play on his Facebook page, Baseball Bahamas, and he has a website with the same name. He has a great following and would love to expose the baseball players to a bigger worldwide audience. He has a good relationship with all the players because he personally coached most of them. His favorite MLB Team is the Detroit Tigers from 1969.