Former MLB Pitcher Jason Standridge on Auburn Football, Adoption and serving with Water Mission

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jason Standridge was selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the first round of the 1997 MLB Draft (31st overall). Four years later, he made his MLB debut with Tampa against Texas and would go on to pitch in parts of seven seasons in the Big Leagues appearing in 80 games with Tampa, Texas, Cincinnati and Kansas City.

In 2008, Jason made the decision to pith overseas in Japan and was there for the next 10 seasons before retiring after 2017. A big part of Jason's journey has been serving and he's currently involved with Water Mission, a Christian engineering ministry that flights the global water crisis. He and his wife Joy have supported the ministry by taking trips to Haiti and Uganda in several refugee camps where Water Mission is serving.

Today on the podcast, Jason shares his story of choosing baseball over football, being recruited by Auburn to play quarterback, his MLB debut, why his faith in Jesus is the most important thing in his life and how playing Japan allowed he and his wife to pursue adoption.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, today's episode with Jason Standridge.
0:03.4	The former Major League Baseball pitcher is presented by our friends at Water Mission,
0:07.4	a Christian engineering ministry that fights the global water crisis with safe water and sanitation
0:12.9	in developing countries in disaster areas.
0:16.2	The organization has served more than 5 million people in 56 countries. They do amazing work. Think about it. Water.
0:24.9	We take that for granted. We want a glass of water. We go get it. Well, there are people all across the
0:29.5	world who don't know where the next thing of clean water is coming from. And so this is why
0:35.1	Water Mission is such a great ministry to get behind. Christian-based ministry. They want to share the gospel through the work that they do, bringing clean water, fighting the global water crisis. Check them out at watermission.org. Watermission.org. Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.
1:06.2	Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano.
1:10.7	And welcome everyone to the show.
1:12.4	I am Jason.
1:13.2	This is the Sports Spectrum podcast.
1:15.5	We're so glad you're tuning into the show today.
1:18.2	We got an outstanding conversation with Jason Standridge, the former Major League
1:22.3	Baseball pitcher.
1:23.6	He's got a really great story.
1:25.3	Once recruited out of high school by Auburn.
1:29.4	The Auburn Tiger is to play football.
1:31.3	He was a quarterback, but he chose baseball.
1:34.2	It seemed to work out pretty well for him.
1:35.9	He pitched seven seasons, part of seven seasons in the big leagues,
1:38.9	and then pitch for another decade overseas in Japan.
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