Jason Adam - Tampa Bay Rays pitcher on standing firm in his faith and being bold for Jesus

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jason Adam is a pitcher with the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2022, he helped the Rays to a postseason berth, pitching in 67 games with an ERA of 1.56. In 2023, he pitched in 56 games and helped the Rays to another postseason appearance.

Originally drafted by the Royals in the fifth round of the 2010 MLB Amateur Draft, he made his MLB debut May 5, 2018, with Kansas City. In 2019, he pitched with the Blue Jays in Toronto and then signed with Chicago, splitting time with the big-league club and their Triple-A affiliate in Iowa in 2020 and 2021.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Adam about standing firm in his faith, claiming Jesus for his family, being bold and the gratitude and appreciation he has for his baseball career.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys, today on the show, Jason Adam, Tampa Bay Rays pitcher. It's going to be joining
0:05.1	us here on the show. He's been a guest previously a few times, so it's going to be great to
0:08.7	welcome him back after a couple years of having him here on sports spectrum. The man loves Jesus.
0:14.7	The man is married to Kelsey. He's got four little girls, and he's in the thick of it as a professional baseball player in his
0:22.7	early 30s. Really, his career is just starting to hit its stride. In 2022, Jason had a career year,
0:29.9	1.56 ERA and 67 games as a relief pitcher, 75 strikeouts and 63 innings pitched. And then last year in
0:38.3	2003, another really good year. 2.98 ERA and 56 games, 69 strikeouts and 54 innings
0:46.5	pitch. So he's a staple in that Tampa Bay raise bullpen. It's going to be a lot of fun
0:51.1	watching the raise. I mean, they just seem like they have it figured out every single year.
0:57.0	They figure it out and they're always in the mix and it's going to be fun in 2024 to see what the raise can do.
1:02.9	So funny story here, Jason Adam, I'll say this at the top of the podcast too.
1:07.7	Him and I both put on the same t-shirts today, very randomly, had nothing planned
1:13.3	about it at all, and then we're both wearing a Compassion International t-shirt that we got at the same
1:19.0	conference that we were at back in November of 2023, which leads me to our partners today, Compassion
1:25.3	International. We just want to thank them for being such great partners
1:28.7	here on Sports Spectrum. You can go to Compassion.com slash Sports Spectrum and learn more about how
1:36.1	they do great work releasing kids from poverty in Jesus name. Food, education, medical care,
1:46.9	vocational training, like I said, all done in the name of Jesus. You can sponsor children that are waiting, some for multiple years, waiting to
1:53.2	be released from poverty through the compassion program. I'm telling you, it'll be the best
1:57.8	decision you make with your family. That was beautiful for us with
2:01.8	the Romano's. We got to sponsor two children through Compassion International's program and they were
2:07.8	both kind of handpicked by my daughter and we did it as a family, which is really great. We got to
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