She had multiple open-heart surgeries days after being born and has made slow but steady progress since then, Shaw said. Now, he will have to monitor that progress from afar. The Brewers departed Thursday evening for a weeklong road trip to Atlanta and Cincinnati.
"Going on the road, especially now, is hard," said Shaw as the Brewers packed their bags. "But you've got to do what you've got to do."
Pitcher Chase Anderson, a new dad himself in the past year, teared up as he marveled at Shaw's focus of late. It was in January, about a month after the Brewers acquired Shaw in a trade with the Red Sox, that the Shaws learned baby Ryann would require surgery soon after she was born.