This is a day Phillies equipment manager Dan O'Rourke marks on his calendar: The day the tractor trailer is loaded up and heads down I-95, bound for Clearwater.
"I'm heading to warmer weather. Two, new faces. And it's a new season and we get to see some of the guys we haven't seen in three or four months. It's a fresh start. It's a fresh start for everyone and we all here are looking forward to it," he said.
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On board are all of the things you need to run a baseball team for six weeks: 2,400 baseballs, 1,200 bats, and 2,000 short and long sleeve shorts, for example.
Not to mention 12 sets of golf clubs, a half dozen bicycles and the assorted personal effects of Phils staff.
Also heading down are baseballs that weren't used in 2018.
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"We take the ones that we have left over from last season and use them in the cage. MLB doesn't permit us to use them, even in spring training games. So we will use them for pregame work and things like that," he said.
O'Rourke says he'll be unloading the truck at Spectrum Field this weekend.
"We go down Saturday night, and then we'll unload this Sunday morning. And before we go to lunch on Sunday, everything will have a place," he said.
And should the Phils sign a free agent, O'Rourke says he's ready to customize a jersey as soon as the Phils brass says so.
"They'll dictate to us, if we get a new player. We have plenty of jerseys, plenty of numbers, if it happens," he added.