Casey Sadler, Pro Baseball Pitcher
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Episode 330
Casey Sadler is living the life of a professional baseball pitcher right now. He is currently with the Los Angeles Dodgers organization at AAA Oklahoma City.
He played his college baseball at Western Oklahoma State University before being drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 25th round of the 2010 MLB Draft.
After going through the grind of the minor leagues, Sadler made his MLB debut on May 2, 2014 with Pittsburgh. After pitching in 7 games total over two seasons with Pittsburgh in 2014 and 2015, Casey would miss the 2016 season after having Tommy John surgery.
After spending all of 2017 in the minor leagues, Casey made it back to the majors in 2018 with Pittsburgh and again in 2019 with Tampa before being traded on July 3 to the Los Angeles Dodgers and optioned to AAA Oklahoma City.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Casey about the crazy life of a yoyo pitcher going up and down from the minors to the majors, the crazy story of driving 15 hours in an RV to arrive and pitch for the Rays, coming back to Christ after falling away, and how having Tommy John surgery tested his faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with |
| 0:22.8 | Casey Sadler, pro baseball player, is brought to you by Compassion International. It's $38 a month, |
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| 1:03.6 | Go to the website, check it out, pray about it, and consider releasing a child from poverty today. |
| 1:10.7 | Today on the podcast, we welcome pro baseball pitcher Casey Sadler. |
| 1:15.6 | This is a crazy story of an up and down life as a professional baseball player. |
| 1:22.9 | And that is the journey that is Casey Sadler. |
| 1:25.3 | He was selected in the 25th round of the 2010 MLB draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. |
| 1:31.6 | He went to college at Western Oklahoma State University and then made his Major League debut |
| 1:38.1 | May 2nd, 2014 with Pittsburgh. |
| 1:41.4 | He was also a 2014 international league AAA All A, All-Star, and after missing the 2016 |
| 1:48.6 | season with Tommy John surgery, was able to return. |
| 1:52.8 | And in 2017, he pitched in the minor leagues with AA and AAA affiliates for the Pirates. |
| 1:59.3 | In 2018, pitched in AAA and then returned to the major leagues for two games with the Pirates. |
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