Eddie Taubensee, Former MLB catcher

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4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Episode 147

Eddie Taubensee played 11 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Indians, Astros and Reds from 1991-2001. He made his MLB debut on May 18, 1991 with Cleveland and was then traded to the Astros the following season. He would play for 3 years until 1994 when he was again traded, this time to the Reds.

Taubensee would play 7 seasons in Cincinnati, where he would hit a career-high .311 with 21 home runs and 87 RBI for a Reds team in 1999 that fell one game short of the playoffs.

After retiring from baseball in 2001, Eddie decided to make God and his family the priority. Along with his wife Renee, he would help raise their 3 boys and go into baseball ministry with Pro Athletes Outreach.

In 2017, he returned to pro ball as the hitting coach of the San Francisco Giants Class A affiliate Augusta Greenjackets in the South Atlantic League.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Eddie Taubensee about baseball ministry, trying his hand at coaching, why Barry Larkin was the best leader he ever played with, how baseball helped led him to Christ, and how he navigated through temptations and trials as a believer.

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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.
0:19.8	This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with former Major League Baseball pitcher Eddie Taubensy is brought to you and sponsored by Compassion International.
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1:08.9	You will not regret it.
1:16.7	Today's guest on the podcast is Eddie Taubenzy. Eddie is a former Major League Baseball Catcher, selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth round of the 1986 amateur draft.
1:23.1	He made his Major League Baseball debut with the Cleveland Indians on May 18, 1991.
1:29.6	He went on to play with the Houston Astros for three seasons, also with the Cincinnati Reds for seven seasons,
1:35.0	and then finished out his career where it started with the Cleveland Indians.
1:39.7	In 1999, Eddie hit 311.
1:42.3	He clubbed 21 homers and drove in 87 runs for a 96-win-Cinthinsinity Red Squad that finished just one game shy of the postseason.
1:52.4	Eddie is the husband to Renee. He's got three boys. He's also the director of baseball ministry for pro athletes outreach, which is part of the sports spectrum family, PAO. And Eddie has a heart for ministry. And on this episode of the podcast, we talked to Eddie about that heart for ministry, about becoming a Christian, which occurred during his playing days as a major leaguer.
2:19.5	It's a really great story.
2:20.9	We also talked to Eddie about coaching.
2:22.9	He entered into the coaching world last year for his season and tried that out and then decided not to go into coaching this year.
2:30.2	So he shares why he decided to do that.
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