Josh Lindblom - Milwaukee Brewers Pitcher
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
BONUS EPISODE
Josh Lindblom is a pitcher with the Milwaukee Brewers. He was selected in the 2nd round of the 2008 MLB Drafty by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He made his Major League debut on June 1, 2011 against Colorado.
After stints in Philadelphia, Texas and Oakland, he would take his professional baseball talents to Korea and the KBO (Korean Baseball Organization). In 2018, he went 15-4 with a 2.88 ERA and in 2019, he went 20-3 with a 2.50 ERA and would be named the KBO Most Valuable Player for 2019.
On today's episode, we talk to Josh about staying prepared during a pandemic, how his faith has remained constant during the quarantine, questioning God's plan when his daughter was born and how his perspective on baseball has changed and evolved over the past three years.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.4 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:22.6 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.7 | My email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:26.8 | Jason at Sports Spectrum.com. |
| 0:30.3 | We are presented today by IJM, the International Justice Mission, |
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| 0:41.1 | from violence across the world. Check them out at IJM.org slash TF, IJM.org slash TF. Learn how you can |
| 0:49.3 | become a freedom partner today. Very excited to welcome to our show, Josh Lindblum. He is the Milwaukee |
| 0:56.3 | Brewer's pitcher. Just signed a three-year deal this past offseason with Milwaukee. |
| 1:02.2 | And prior to that, he had spent a good part of the last four or five years with the Korean |
| 1:07.5 | baseball organization, KBO playing professional baseball in Korea. |
| 1:13.2 | Now, Josh's journey started when he was selected in the second round of the 2008 MLB draft |
| 1:19.1 | by the LA Dodgers and played his college ball at Tennessee and then Purdue made his |
| 1:25.5 | Major League Baseball debut June 1st, 2011 with the Dodgers against Colorado, and then Purdue made his Major League Baseball debut June 1st, 2011 with the Dodgers against Colorado, |
| 1:31.3 | and then bounced around a little bit, traded to Philadelphia, Texas, Oakland, |
| 1:35.8 | claimed by the Pittsburgh Pirates, goes to Korea, and then just this past off season, |
| 1:40.8 | signs a three-year deal with Milwaukee. |
| 1:42.6 | And the reason why Milwaukee signed him to this three-year deal was because of the past |
| 1:46.6 | two seasons that he pitched in Korea. |
| 1:49.2 | It was pretty dominant. |
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