Ethan Chapman, Minor League Baseball Player - Episode 24
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ethan Chapman was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the 30th round of the 2012 MLB Amateur Draft.
He played his college baseball at Cal State San Bernadino, a Division 2 school, and set the school's single-season record with 60 runs scored as a freshman in 2010. He earned second-team All-West Region honors as well as the ABCA West Region Gold Glove Award in his final season.
Over the past 5 years, Ethan’s minor league travels have taken him all over the United States. Places like Idaho to Northwest Arkansas to Reading, Pennsylvania. Small towns, with big dreams.
Ethan’s dream to make it to the Big League level hasn’t happened yet.
This past Winter, Ethan signed to play 2017 in the Mexican League (AAA level) with the Vaqueros Union Laguna club.
Ethan has also contributed a weekly entry to SportsSpectrum.com for the 2017 season, documenting his time playing minor league baseball in the Mexican League with the Vaqueros Union Laguna club.
On this episode of the podcast, Ethan talks about the unglamorous life that is minor league baseball, his dream to reach the big leagues, where his faith in Jesus began and what the day was like for him being drafted by the Kansas City Royals.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports |
| 0:09.3 | collide. |
| 0:10.4 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:13.2 | This is episode number 24 of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:17.3 | My name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:18.7 | Thank you so much for being here and being a part of our program today. |
| 0:22.7 | You can subscribe and download this podcast everywhere. Podcasts are found on Google Play, |
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| 0:38.6 | and we do put a post out for each podcast that comes out. Every single podcast that we put out |
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| 1:21.7 | iTunes. All right. Our guest today, Ethan Chapman. You may recognize that name. |
| 1:33.2 | Now, Ethan has been a minor league baseball player now this past season in the Mexican league for the Vacquitos Union Laguna, and he is also a sports spectrum contributor. |
| 1:39.6 | So if you read Sportspectrum.com on a daily basis or so, you will see Ethan Chapman and his contribution |
| 1:47.6 | each week. He does what we call a diary of a minor leaguer, and Ethan has this sort of journal |
| 1:53.6 | entry that he puts in there every single week with kind of an update on things that are kind of going |
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