Day 3,282

The Fishermen, the Gymnasts, and the Outright

While the boys fished, 

the girls gymnastic-ed. 

Molly likes hanging on the high bar. 

Ella Mae almost has her bridge. 

Amelia can do a non-jumping, straight leg pullover. 

Molly lost to the combination of the chalk bucket and the fan. 

Ella Mae has zero fear. 

And Amelia—after not even being able to do a car wheel when she started team a little over six months ago, can now do one on the beam. 

But nothing beats the fact that Old Mama can still do a swinging backflip off the high bar. Gotta prove I belong in this quickly growing gymnastics family. 

Afterwards, the boys met us at Happy Depot for some home improvement items. This might be a familiar place all offseason. 



Yep, offseason. 

We’re at least pretty sure. 

There’s a small chance Adam could get picked up by a team to play out the remainder of September, but it’s unlikely. 

So, we finally received word that Adam cleared waivers, which means that when the Marlins essentially cut him from the MLB roster, any team could’ve selected him off waivers and placed him directly onto their 25 man MLB roster, transferring his contract to that new team. Under the normal circumstances of a regular season, this is likely what would’ve happened. However, since Adam has yet to throw a pitch in 2020–after having landed on the Injured List with the Coronavirus only 3 games into the season—the likelihood that a team would pick him up without seeing any performance this year was extremely low, especially after having COVID. And to that end, for the Marlins to reinstate him to the roster after not having thrown for an entire month while their “bullpen reinforcements” were throwing great, also proved to be greatly risky on their end. So, now, the Marlins have “outrighted” Adam, which means that—again, under normal circumstances—he’d finish out the rest of this year’s contract in the minor leagues, being able to play his way back to Miami. However, since there is no minor league season this year, Adam’s season is finished. Following the close of the 2020 season (the last game of the World Series), Adam will become a Free Agent, which means he will no longer be “owned” by the Marlins and will be available to sign a contract with the team of our choice, given that that team has made an offer to him. 

I think that’s basically it?

We’re new at this whole “DFA/waivers/outright” stuff, so sorry if it’s confusing. It’s a very typical event that happens in baseball, but because of the virus, it’s all a bit more confusing and a lot less forgiving. Either way, we’re still doing well, content, and trusting the Lord. And if Adam has to be home for an extended period of time this year, well, he does love being home and we love having him. So, it’s not “officially” bye bye Marlins, but basically maybe almost. Who knows, maybe they’d resign us next season and we’ll still be Fish for Life. Hey, a girl can hope.