Jaime García, 10-year MLB Pitcher

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Episode 226

Jaime García was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 22nd round of the 2005 MLB Amateur Draft. On July 11, 2008, he made his MLB debut with the Cardinals against the Pirates. He won a World Series in 2011 after going 13-7 with a 3.56 ERA for St. Louis and became just the second Mexican-born pitcher since Fernando Valenzuela in 1981 to ever start a World Series game.

In December 2016, García was traded to the Atlanta Braves in a four-player deal. In July 2017, he was traded from Atlanta to Minnesota. Six days later, he was again traded, this time from Minnesota to the New York Yankees. In February 2018, now a free agent, García signed a one-year deal with the Toronto Blue Jays and finished 2018 with the Chicago Cubs.

On January 9, 2019, Jaime announced his retirement from baseball after 10 MLB seasons.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jaime about retirement, why now was the time to say goodbye, the faith in Christ that became real to him during his MLB career, and why he wants to take seminary classes and deepen his walk with the Lord in his post-baseball journey.

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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.
0:19.9	Welcome, everyone, to the Sports Spectrum podcast. I am Jason Romano. Welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:22.6	I am Jason Romano.
0:23.8	Thank you so much for tuning in and checking out our podcast.
0:27.1	Available everywhere podcasts are found.
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0:35.2	Thanks for joining us here on the program.
0:39.0	Today on the show,
0:44.8	our guest is Jaime Garcia. We talked to the Mexican-born Major League Baseball pitcher,
0:52.0	who on Wednesday, January 9th, 2019, the news started trickling out that Jaime was planning to retire for Major League Baseball after making his debut in 2008 and last
0:57.0	pitching in the majors last season, 2018.
1:00.5	Jaime was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 22nd round of the 2005 amateur draft
1:06.1	and then made his Major League Baseball debut with St. Louis, July 11th, 2008. He missed the 2009 season
1:13.6	because of injury and then came back and played seven seasons with the Cardinals from 2010 to
1:18.3	2016, most notably 2011, when Jaime was a part of that great Cardinals team that won a World
1:26.4	Series championship.
1:27.9	Jaime actually started game two of that series, becoming just the second Mexican-born
1:32.6	pitcher ever to start a World Series game.
1:35.5	The first was Fernando Valenzuela in 1981.
1:40.0	In 2017, after his stint with the Cardinals ended,
1:49.6	Jaime actually started for three different teams over a 15-day span.
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