Jeremy Affeldt, 3-time World Series Champion

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode 111

Jeremy Affeldt pitched for 14 MLB seasons with the Royals, Rockies, Reds and Giants. He was selected in the 3rd round of the 1997 MLB Amateur Draft by the Kansas City Royals. 5 years later, on April 6, 2012, he made his Major League debut for Kansas City against the Chicago White Sox.

In November 2008, after stints in KC, Colorado and Cincinnati, San Francisco signed Affeldt to a 2-year deal. That deal turned into 7 remarkable seasons with the Giants when Jeremy and his club won 3 World Series.

Known for his performances in the postseason, Jeremy holds a career postseason ERA of 0.86 in 33 games pitched. He finished his career in 2015 with 22 consecutive scoreless postseason innings, the second longest in MLB history. (Mariano Rivera – 1st)

Currently a broadcaster and community ambassador with the Giants, Affeldt is also a faithful follower of Jesus Christ, who blogs about issues of faith weekly. In 2013, he wrote his first book “To Stir a Movement: Life, Justice and Major League Baseball.”

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jeremy about his faith journey, how sports played such an important role in his life, living your faith out, spiritual battles, wanting to give back and what it was like pitching in a World Series Game 7 back in 2014.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
0:08.1	collide.
0:09.2	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:11.8	Episode number 111 of the Sports Spectrum podcast with three-time World Series champion
0:18.2	Jeremy Affeld is brought to you in part by Compassion International.
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0:57.8	You provide education, food, medical care, vocational training, all done in the name of Christ.
1:05.0	Go to compassion.com. Sponsor a child today. Give a child hope in Jesus name, Compassion.com, backslash sports spectrum.
1:13.6	Today's guest on the podcast, three-time World Series champion. Jeremy Affeld joins us,
1:19.3	and Jeremy came up in the major leagues in 2002 with the Kansas City Royals. Of course,
1:24.5	many people know him for his time with the San Francisco Giants,
1:28.5	three World Series championships, both in 2010, 2012, and of course, the most memorable one,
1:35.3	in my opinion, 2014, where Jeremy pitched in game seven against the Kansas City Royals,
1:41.6	the team that drafted him and won the game. He went two and a third
1:45.2	scoreless innings, won that game, was the bridge to get to Madison Baumgarner, who led the Giants
1:51.2	through, and the Giants won a dramatic game seven in Kansas City and the San Francisco
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