KC Royals Hunter Dozier on finding joy in the midst of struggle and playing for an audience of one
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Hunter Dozier is a Major League Baseball player with the Kansas City Royals. He was selected in the first round of the 2013 MLB Amateur Draft (8th overall) by Kansas City out of Stephen F. Austin. In 2016, Dozier made his MLB debut against the Oakland A's.
In 2019, Dozier hit 26 home runs, drove in 84 runs and led the American League with 10 triples. In February of 2021, Dozier signed a new four year deal to remain with the Royals.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Hunter Dozier about how he finds joy when he's struggling on the field, how his faith guides him each day, playing for an audience of one, and his MLB debut story.
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| 0:00.0 | growing in our faith when we face trials of many kind. That's Hunter Dozier's story with the Kansas |
| 0:07.0 | City Royals, and he joins us today. It's coming up right now on Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:19.1 | This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
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