MINNEAPOLIS -- Taylor Rogers compares this time to the chaos of a particularly frenzied scene from "The Office." There's no shortage of those in the nine-season run of the acclaimed sitcom. He didn't specify the episode, but you know the gist: a crowd of people running around, indistinguishable yelling, maybe a cat or two flying through the air.

Anyway, that's how Rogers, the Twins' representative in the MLB Players Association, said he feels about this week, when members of Minnesota's 40-man roster and taxi squad will mobilize from their quarantine bunkers around the region and descend upon the Twin Cities area as the Minnesota Twins baseball machine slowly whirrs to life ahead of the opening of summer camp July 1.

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Those who don't own homes in the area will need to find short-term leases. Team travel director Mike Herman will need to find responsible travel and lodging arrangements that will also stagger everyone's arrivals to Target Field to facilitate testing for COVID-19. Some, like Tyler Duffey and Cody Stashak, will need to figure out how life will work with newborn children in the mix.

Life is turning upside-down. But hopefully, with baseball back, it will be a good upside-down.

"I think the excitement for everybody, the excitement level is off the charts to finally have something going," Rogers said. "I think this process, trying to take positives out of it, was it did give us a chance to get closer as a group. ... I think we were able to come closer as a team during this because everybody was kind of talking to everybody. We were all in the same situation, and I really do think we got closer as a group."

That chaos won't be over when the players get to town and receive their medical testing. They'll only have three weeks as a ramp-up period in summer camp leading into the abbreviated 60-game season. While players have been working with the Twins' coaching staff to stay moderately loose to facilitate an abbreviated transition to the season, it will mark a rather unprecedented operation for starters, hitters and relievers to find their timing and fitness together in that amount of time.

Rogers has been in communication with much of the team throughout the process, and he said he feels that the Twins' players are comfortable for now with the safety protocols outlined by MLB and the MLB Players Association. A source told MLB.com that there are not yet any Twins players that are expected to opt out of the season.

On top of those protocols, Rogers said there have been talks of guidelines for players off the field to prevent the entry of the virus into the clubhouse.

"I do know that a lot of it’s going to be on you, on the honor system," Rogers said. "Don’t be the one person that’s going to mess it up for everybody else. When you want to go do something, or something like that, you need to remember it’s about your team, not just yourself. I truly do believe for our club as an example, we’ll be just fine in that arena."

Rogers and the Twins know they're the odds-on favorites to win the American League Central, with Josh Donaldson, Rich Hill, Kenta Maeda, Tyler Clippard, Homer Bailey and Alex Avila added to the core of the 2019 team that won 101 games and set the all-time home run record. At the end of all of the chaos, there should be good baseball as a reward.

They don't expect it to be an easy road back, but excitement still reigns in Twins Territory.

"I think that was the hardest part for all of us postponing the season: We had a heck of a club -- well, we have a heck of a club -- and the excitement of watching Nelson Cruz and Josh Donaldson in the same lineup," Rogers said. "How excited were all of us in Spring Training to see that? And I think that was the toughest part during this time was waiting to see that, and finally, we can have that happen.

"It'll be so much fun."