Fraser Ellard - Chicago White Sox pitcher on grief, marriage and God's sufficient grace
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Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast:
- Chicago White Sox pitcher Fraser Ellard shares his journey of faith, navigating grief after losing his father at a young age, and how that shaped his understanding of God. He discusses the importance of finding purpose in adversity, the role of spiritual disciplines in his life, and the pressures he faced during his MLB debut.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.3 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.1 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.1 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.1 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:32.6 | As you know, it is Matt Forte and Jason Romano here. |
| 0:36.0 | As always, and Jason today, we got one of my South Side guys. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm excited about this because I'm in Chicago. My wife is, you know, when you come to Chicago, |
| 0:44.1 | you got to pick White Sox or Cubs and she picked the Cubs. So I was like, I'm not from here. I'm from |
| 0:48.6 | Louisiana. So I'm going to pick against you. I'm a white Sox dude. And I go to church on the south side. So we got Frazier Ellert, my |
| 0:55.7 | White Sox MLB pitcher on the podcast today. Excited to have you here, fellow PAO alumni, too. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome to the podcast, man. Yeah, thank you. Thanks so much for having me. Yeah. Yeah. And I want to |
| 1:10.1 | start off with you because I don't know your testimony. |
| 1:12.1 | I don't know your story either. |
| 1:13.7 | So just talk a little bit about that. |
| 1:15.5 | How did you come to faith and just your process of where you are now? |
| 1:22.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.9 | So kind of Cliffman is for me, background-wise. |
| 1:25.4 | I grew up in a family of 12 kids. |
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