Liam Hendriks - Oakland A's Pitcher

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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BONUS EPISODE

Liam Hendriks is a pitcher with the Oakland Athletics. In 2019, Hendriks had a career season that saw him selected to his first MLB All-Star Game. He finished the season with 124 strikeouts in 85 innings, 25 saves and an ERA of 1.80 in 75 games.

He holds the distinction of being the first Australian-born player to ever start an MLB postseason game. He made his MLB debut on Sept. 6, 2011, with the Twins, and then pitched in Toronto and Kansas City before arriving in Oakland in 2016.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Hendriks about the pandemic, his preparation during this quarantine time, his All-Star Game experience, handling success during the 2019 season, and how God and his wife helped keep him humble.

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1:13.4	Liam Hendricks is our guest today here on Sports Spectrum.
1:16.4	Liam is a relief pitcher with the Oakland Athletics in the American League.
1:21.0	He was born in Perth, Australia, and came to the States and has now been a staple in the major leagues. He just
1:29.2	finished up his ninth season in 2019, and it happened to be his best season in 2019. He was an
1:36.3	American League All-Star. He went four and four with a 1.80 ERA, 25 saves, 124 strikeouts in just 85 innings. He was dealing in 2019. And it's interesting,
1:51.7	his journey, even last year, he started out as a guy in the bullpen, and suddenly he was
1:56.6	pitching so well, and he got thrust it into the closer situation and became the closer for the
2:02.6	Oakland A's, and he was awesome. An ERA under two for an entire year is so hard to come by, and
2:09.9	Liam did it. 1.80 ERA, 25 saves, and he's helped lead Oakland to two straight postseason
2:16.6	births in 2018 and 2019.
2:20.0	The sporting news actually named Liam the 2019 AL pitcher of the year as a reliever.
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