Denard Span, Seattle Mariners Outfielder
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 130
Denard Span is a centerfielder with the Seattle Mariners. He was traded to Seattle on May 25 from the Tampa Bay Rays as part of a 4-player deal.
He was selected in the first round of the 2002 MLB Amateur Draft by the Minnesota Twins out of high school at the age of 18. After 6 years in the minor leagues, Span would make his debut in April of 2008 at the age of 24. He would play 5 seasons with the Twins from 2008-2012 before being traded to the Washington Nationals where he would play 3 more seasons in D.C.
In January of 2016, he signed as a free agent with the San Francisco Giants where he’d play two more seasons until being traded in December of last year to Tampa.
Span is red-hot right now, hitting .351 in the month of July as the Mariners look to stay in the hunt for a playoff berth.
Near and dear to Span is his foundation, the Denard Span Foundation, whose mission is to serve and empower single parent homes. The foundation is dedicated to creating strong sustainable home environments where both parents and children can thrive physically, emotionally, financially, and spiritually.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Span about his desire to give back and help those in single parent homes, being traded in the middle of the season, the biggest difference between playing baseball at 24 compared to 34, and where how he continues to trust in the Lord during a long MLB season.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.1 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Seattle |
| 0:23.3 | Mariners outfielder, DeNard Span, is brought to you in part by Compassion International. Go to |
| 0:29.5 | compassion.com slash sports spectrum, $38 a month, sponsor a child, release a child from poverty. |
| 0:41.6 | It's a wonderful way to minister, to serve, to teach your own kids about how to help someone in need. And compassion does such a wonderful |
| 0:47.9 | job at offering up these children from across the world and allowing you to pick and choose and pray about which child |
| 0:56.3 | that you want to sponsor. |
| 0:58.2 | And listen, my wife, my daughter, myself, we sponsor a 13-year-old boy from Haiti. |
| 1:02.9 | It's the best $38 we spend every single month. |
| 1:06.8 | And you can make that same difference by sponsoring a child through Compassion International. |
| 1:13.1 | Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum, sponsor a child today. |
| 1:18.2 | Today's guest on the podcast, Seattle Mariners outfielder, Denard Span. |
| 1:23.7 | Now, DeNard was selected in the first round of the 2002 MLB draft by the Minnesota Twins, |
| 1:30.1 | came out as an 18-year-old high schooler. |
| 1:32.7 | Six years later, in 2008, he made his Major League debut in Minnesota against Kansas City, |
| 1:38.6 | and we'll talk about that on this podcast. |
| 1:41.6 | He played for Minnesota for five seasons, 2008 to 2012, and then went on to |
| 1:46.7 | Washington, then to San Francisco, then this year was traded to Tampa Bay, and then traded |
| 1:52.8 | again in the middle of the season in May to Seattle. In 2014, DeNard led the National League |
| 1:59.4 | in hits. He led the American League in Triples in 2009 and the National League in Triples in 2013. |
| 2:06.3 | He's a steady veteran. |
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