Alex Call - LA Dodgers OF on being traded in July, winning the World Series and seeing God work in his life
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Alex Call is an outfielder with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was traded from Washington to Los Angeles on July 31, 2025 and went on to help the Dodgers win the 2025 World Series in seven games over the Toronto Blue Jays.
Topics:
(01:29) - Alex being traded at the deadline
(04:02) - Being grateful that God brought him to LA
(06:53) - Playing in the 2025 World Series
(09:57) - Taking a parade lap after winning
(14:33) - Becoming a father
(16:17) - Alex being a Green Bay Packers fan
(18:40) - Who is Jesus to Alex Call right now
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.0 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.0 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.0 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.0 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.6 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back Matt Forte. |
| 0:30.6 | What's up y'all? It's Matt Forte here again with Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm here at the MLB PAO conference, but I got my guy who has been |
| 0:38.3 | on with me before, but I get to talk to him in person, Alex Call of the Los Angeles Dodgers, |
| 0:44.0 | and he is in a much different capacity than when we first talked. And dude, it's been a whirlwind, |
| 0:50.1 | right? Yeah. So how is it, like, let's walk through that first of all because when we first |
| 0:54.4 | talk uh you were in was it minor league i mean yeah the first i mean going back to last year |
| 1:01.6 | yeah i was in triple a for the majority of the season before getting called up and having |
| 1:06.4 | you know an amazing stretch um but yeah then you know starting off with washington this year and you know having high amazing stretch. But yeah, then, you know, starting off with Washington this year and, you know, |
| 1:13.9 | having high hopes for our season and, you know, kind of didn't go the way we wanted it right |
| 1:18.5 | away and then finding yourself traded at the deadline to the World Series favorites and just, |
| 1:24.5 | you know, what a whirlwind. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.3 | Talk, I want to ask you about the transition aspect of of that because you start out with the nationals and like being, you know, when you play for a team, you're like, I'm on this team. Yeah. And then being traded at the trade deadline, you can kind of either have a multitude of different, like, thoughts. Yeah know, like, man, these dudes traded me. |
| 1:45.2 | You could be bitter about that. |
| 1:46.7 | But then also you could kind of be like, well, I'm going to the Dodgers. |
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