Reds’ Jose Trevino makes special Mother’s Day trip
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Lorenzo Delgado, Contributor
- May 11, 2025
Jose Trevino treats son's Texas Halos to special batting practice
HOUSTON – As Reds catcher Jose Trevino stepped into the batter’s box for batting practice, the Texas Halos chanted “Trevi! Trevi! Trevi!” The youth baseball team would cheer when the ball traveled to the Crawford Boxes in left field at Daikin Park.
Trevino would walk out of the cage with a huge smile on his face. His son, Josiah Cruz, and the Texas Halos are playing in a baseball tournament in the greater Houston area this weekend. Josiah is playing on the same fields where his dad use to play when he played travel ball as a kid.
“It’s crazy,” Jose Trevino, a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, said before the Reds beat the Astros on Saturday night. “It’s kind of a full circle moment for me.”
Jose Trevino reminisced about the times his mother, Patsy, would gather his belongings and get him ready for his games. It’s the same way Jose and his wife, Markie, do with Josiah.
Childhood memories
“She would wake me up in the mornings like, ‘Hey, it’s time to get ready for your games,’” Trevino says of his mother. “Breakfast was always made. My clothes and uniform were always clean. She was always out there trying to get me the best stuff I needed for my game.”
Trevino has plenty of friends and family coming in to Houston this weekend to watch him play at Daikin Park. He had a custom pink Pioneer belt made for Mother’s Day weekend. The front belt loop displayed a white cross. There were four names on the front of his belt: Markie, Jose’s mother-in-law Marla, his two sisters Sarah and Joann, and, of course, his mother Patsy.
The back of the pink belt has a quote from Jose’s mom: “I’m so proud of you son.”
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Jose Trevino made his debut with the Texas Rangers on June 15, 2018. Five years later, he was traded to the New York Yankees. Trevino found a lot of success with the Bronx Bombers. The 5-foot-9 catcher earned his first All-Star bid in 2022. Trevino also won the Rawlings Gold Glove and Platinum Glove the same year.
Trevino played a combined 128 games in 2023 and 2024 for the Yankees, including a trip to the 2024 World Series. Two months after the Dodgers defeated the Yanks in the Fall Classic, Trevino was traded to the Reds.
Veteran leader
Reds manager Terry Francona came out of retirement in October and signed a three-year contract to become the club’s 65th manager in franchise history. With a youthful group, Francona wanted a veteran who could lead by example.
“He’s been awesome,” Francona said of Trevino. “He’s come as advertised. The reason we went and got him was because in case anybody got hurt we wanted somebody to run the club every day. He has exceeded expectations, and that’s hard to do because they were high. He’s a pro.”
Trevino will now have the opportunity to play in front of his family and friends on Mother’s Day, a day he thanks his mom and never takes for granted.
“That’s all I want from my mom,” Trevino said while looking at his mother’s quote on his belt. “Playing in front of her for Mother’s Day is special because you know how much they give to us.”
Lorenzo Delgado
Contributor
Lorenzo Delgado graduated with his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and is currently attending the University of Houston to earn his master’s degree. Lorenzo was formerly a contributing baseball writer for Call to the Pen on the Fansided Network. He is the host of an Astros baseball podcast called Full Seam Ahead, which is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and wherever podcasts are found.
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