210 | LA Angels Prospect Michael Stefanic Shares His Incredible Journey Through Baseball

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4.9 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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One of the hottest hitters in the minor leagues and a prospect who is on the cusp of a big league promotion, infielder Michael Stefanic joins the show to tell the story of his unbelievable journey to professional baseball and how he went from NAIA walk-on, to potentially the next man up for the LA Angels.
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0:00.0	Barnes, hit him high, hits it deep, it is out of here!
0:10.0	Here comes the hook.
0:12.0	Down there! 20 strikeouts!
0:15.0	He ties the Major League record.
0:18.0	Breeze hits it in the air to center.
0:24.6	We will see you tomorrow and I.
0:27.8	The impossible has happened.
0:29.3	Go!
0:32.5	Big Fly O'Coddy's on.
0:33.9	Towards the corner.
0:34.8	It's back.
0:35.6	It's gone.
0:40.4	Welcome to Slambe Diego. All right, today is Tuesday,
0:45.9	April 26th, and we're going to do something new. We are going to take an interview that Aram Layton, who is joining me here today, we're going to take an interview that he did with
0:51.0	Angels Farmhand Michael Stefanik, who by all accounts is on the cusp of his
0:56.1	first major league call up. It's an interview he did on the call up, and we are going to
1:02.2	repackage it and play it for you because this is no ordinary interview with a minor league
1:07.4	baseball player. This is an interview with a guy, and you'll hear it a little bit later on in the episode
1:12.2	that had zero Division I offers, went to an NAA school as a walk-on, started all four years,
1:19.4	hit like 400 over his NIA career, and then sent a tape, sent a baseball resume tape to all 30
1:26.8	major league teams because nobody wanted him out of his
1:29.5	NAIA, you know, all American credible career. Which by the way, is unheard of. Nobody's done that.
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