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🗓️ 8 March 2019
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Episode 261
Selected in the 29th round of the 2002 MLB Amateur Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays, Erik Kratz has lived the pro baseball life for the past 17 years.
He would wait eight years until finally making his MLB debut in July 2010 at the age of 30 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. His MLB journey has taken him from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, Toronto, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Houston, Pittsburgh and the Yankees in 2017.
In 2018, he was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers and was part of a team that came within one game of the World Series. In the 2018 NLDS against Colorado, Kratz went 5-for-7 with 2 RBI, including a 3-hit game in the clinching game 3, and was the oldest player to make his postseason debut since Lave Cross of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1905.
On this episode of the podcast, we hear about Erik's first experience in the postseason, how his faith has helped him stay grounded in his career, how much longer he wants to play and the story of him making his Major League debut in 2010 at age 30.
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1:20.4 | Today we welcome Eric Kratz from the Milwaukee Brewers as our guest here on the podcast, |
1:26.3 | selected in the 29th round of the 2002 MLB amateur draft by the |
1:30.9 | Blue Jays 17 years ago after playing his college ball Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. |
1:38.7 | It was until eight years later on July 17, 2010, when Eric made his Major League Baseball debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates. |
1:47.0 | And there's been a lot of stops on this pro baseball journey in between, from the minors to the majors, |
1:53.1 | stops in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Toronto, Kansas City, Houston, New York with the Yankees, |
1:59.1 | and Milwaukee last year with the Brewers. |
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