How Have MLB Wives and Girlfriends Handled the Pandemic and Now Short Season

When you think about the pandemic that has overtaken the country for the last few months, it's not just players in all the Major League sports teams that have been effected. One aspect that is not been talked about a lot is how MLB players wives and girlfriends have been tested through all this and how they are handling the situations.

The 2020 shortened Major League Baseball season is closing in, as a week from today the Cleveland Indians and all other teams in baseball will take the field for real for the first time this season.

Since it was announced that the season would be starting, there has been plenty of talk about how players and teams will be deal with the current pandemic.

How has the return to play, even in a shortened 60 game season, impacted those close to them, particularly wives and girlfriends.

Sports Illustrated host Robin Lundberg talked to SI baseball writer Emma Baccellieri and Chris Halicke of Inside the Rangers to get their perspective on how significant others in baseball have been affected.