MLB Pitcher Luke Weaver on baseball, trades and trusting in Jesus
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Luke Weaver is a pitcher with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was selected in the first round of the 2014 MLB Amateur Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals after a stellar college career at Florida State University. In August of 2016, he made his MLB debut with the Cardinals and was named the Cardinals 2016 Minor League Pitcher of the Year.
After two more seasons in the Majors, Weaver was traded on December 5, 2018 to the Arizona Diamondbacks with Carson Kelly and Andy Young in exchange for Paul Goldschmidt.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Luke Weaver about preparing for the 2022 season, trusting in God amidst uncertainty, being discipled and mentored in St Louis by Adam Wainwright, the shock of being traded to Arizona and using his baseball glove as a way to share his faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is presented by our friends at Compassion International. |
| 0:06.5 | We've talked about compassion and we're so grateful for their partnership here on Sports |
| 0:11.0 | Spectrum. |
| 0:11.6 | They have been with us now for four years and the work that they do is second to none. |
| 0:16.1 | We're talking about releasing kids young children from poverty. No child should be stuck in poverty. |
| 0:24.0 | It's just not what should be happening. And Compassion says, you know what? We're going to do |
| 0:28.8 | something about it. We're going to stand in the gap with these children and help them and their |
| 0:33.5 | families be released from poverty-stricken situations. And when you go to the website, |
| 0:38.7 | Compassion.com slash sports spectrum, you'll see a list of children there waiting to be released |
| 0:44.8 | from poverty. Just simply the words, choose me, kids from Indonesia, kids from all around the world, |
| 0:51.3 | Mexico, Uganda, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ghana. I mean, just the Philippines, |
| 0:57.6 | Bangladesh, all over the world. These kids did nothing to deserve the poverty-stricken |
| 1:04.2 | situations that they're in. But here's the beautiful thing about compassion. They give you and I |
| 1:10.3 | an opportunity to stand in the |
| 1:12.4 | gap and help these kids and release them from poverty it's why myself and my wife and my daughter |
| 1:17.7 | feels so strongly about compassion and sponsor a child through their program and we want to |
| 1:23.2 | encourage you to do the same it's thirty eight dollars a month tax deductible and it connects a child living in |
| 1:29.1 | poverty with a loving, church-driven child sponsorship program like Compassion International. |
| 1:36.0 | Consider it today. Pray about it and think about where your money might go each and every day. |
| 1:41.3 | In this situation, your money is going for medical checkups, nutritional food, educational |
| 1:46.6 | assistance, mentoring, and most importantly, every sponsored child with compassion will hear |
| 1:53.0 | about Jesus Christ and be encouraged to develop a lifelong relationship with God. |
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