Michael Schlact - Milwaukee Brewers Minor League Pitching Coach

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🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Michael Schlact had dreams of making it to the big leagues as a pitcher. He was selected in the third round of the 2004 MLB Amateur Draft by the Texas Rangers after a stellar high school pitching career in Marietta, Georgia.

His professional pitching journey would last 9 seasons and he would reach as high as the double-A level but injuries and other circumstances caused him to retire after the 2014 season.

A few years later, he found himself in coaching and soon would be managing professional baseball with the Fargo-Moorhead Red Hawks in the Independent League. He would remain there for the 2017 and 2018 season before getting a call that would change his life.

In 2019, he was named as a minor league pitching coach with the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2020, he'll continue in the same role and look to develop young players hoping to make their way to Milwaukee someday.

On this episode of the podcast, we go deep with Michael Schlact on that minor league life and the decision to follow God's call from Independent League baseball to the Milwaukee Brewers. We also hear how Michael leaned on God as his major league pitching dream began to die and his new coaching journey began to take shape.

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0:00.0	Today's Sports Spectrum interview was pre-recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak.
0:10.8	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason
0:22.6	Romano. So glad that you're joining us here today on the show. Our guest is Michael Schlacht.
0:27.9	He is a minor league pitching coach with the Milwaukee Brewers. And this conversation took place
0:34.1	a couple months back before the season started in person at a conference in Florida.
0:39.3	But it was a conversation about the minor league life, the minor league coaching life.
0:45.5	So this guy had dreams of making it to the major leagues as a pitcher, Michael Schlacht.
0:50.4	He was selected in the third round of the 2004 MLB amateur draft by the Texas Rangers, made it
0:57.1	as high as AA, and then retired in 2014, after the 2014 season at the age of 28. And so he goes into
1:06.1	coaching, and at 31, 32, he's now a manager in Independent League ball in 2017 with the Fargo
1:15.0	Moorhead Red Hawks. And then he gets a call. And he tells that story of getting that call
1:21.0	and how an opportunity presented itself in 2019 to become part of the Milwaukee Brewers organization. Michael's a great guy,
1:30.9	but he really takes you inside the dynamic of family and decisions and making this leap and
1:36.9	following God's call, seeking the Lord for answers on where he wanted Michael and his family
1:42.5	to end up. You'll like this conversation with Michael Schlack,
1:46.5	Milwaukee Brewer's minor league pitching coach,
1:48.6	and he joins us here on Sports Spectrum.
1:57.9	Michael Schlack, welcome to Sports Spectrum.
2:00.1	Thank you.
2:00.6	I've heard so many of these. Now to be behind the microphone is a lot of fun.
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