Dansby Swanson, Atlanta Braves Shortstop
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Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Episode 215
Dansby Swanson was the first overall selection in the 2015 MLB Amateur Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. In December 2015, he was traded to the Atlanta Braves.
He played his college ball at Vanderbilt where he was named the 2014 College World Series Most Valuable Player after helping lead his club to the title.
He made his MLB debut on August 17,2016 and became the Braves every day shortstop in 2017. Last year, he hit a career-high 14 home runs and played great defense with a .981 fielding percentage in 133 games.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Dansby about the wrist injury he suffered at the end of 2018, get an update on how his recovery is going, learn about his faith journey, why prayer is essential to his spiritual life, and great stories on one of his heroes Derek Jeter, and the day he made his MLB debut.
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| 0:46.3 | all the content at sportspectrum.com. Today on the show, Dansby Swanson is our guest, the Atlanta |
| 0:53.5 | Braves shortstop. Now, Dan's be was is our guest, the Atlanta Braves shortstop. |
| 0:55.1 | Now, Danesby was selected first overall, the number one pick in the 2015 MLB draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks |
| 1:03.8 | and thinking that his career was going to be taking place in Arizona. |
| 1:07.3 | He was ready to go on that path. |
| 1:08.7 | And then six months later, the business of baseball gets in the way. And Dansby's traded by Arizona. He was ready to go on that path. And then six months later, the business of baseball gets |
| 1:12.1 | in the way. And Dansby's traded by Arizona to Atlanta, where he is now with the Braves on December |
| 1:18.6 | 9, 2015. Again, Dansby, a hometown boy in Georgia, born in Kennesaw, raised in Marietta, Georgia, |
| 1:26.3 | and all of a sudden finds himself as a member of the Atlanta Braves. |
| 1:30.1 | Dansby played his college ball at Vanderbilt in Nashville, and he was the College World Series most valuable player in 2014 as a sophomore. |
| 1:40.1 | And Dansby has been in the majors now two full seasons, 2017 being his first full season, |
| 1:46.2 | and last year being his second full season. |
| 1:48.4 | And it didn't end great. |
| 1:49.8 | The team did really well. |
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