Nick Ahmed, Arizona Diamondbacks Shortstop
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Episode 305
Nick Ahmed is a shortstop with the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2011, he was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the second round of the 2011 MLB Amateur Draft, and he was traded after the 2012 season to Arizona in a seven-player deal. He made his MLB debut on June 29, 2014.
The University of Connecticut alum became the regular shortstop for the Diamondbacks in 2015, and in 2018 he won his first Gold Glove Award.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Ahmed about life on the road during a long 2019 MLB season, winning a Gold Glove last year, being a believer in the big leagues, and how he remains grounded in his walk with the Lord. We also hear the powerful story of how he came to Christ on a baseball field in Mobile, Ala., in 2013.
You can help Ahmed raise money to serve the homeless and hungry, and provide life-saving and life-transforming resources, with his HITS campaign by clicking on his website - https://pledgeit.org/ahmed2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast. I am Jason Romano. Thanks for joining us on the program today. We're excited for our interview with Nick Ahmed, the Arizona Diamondbacks Gold Glove Shortstop. But before we get to our interview, I want to tell you about our website, Sportspectrum.com. It's brand new revamped. And I want you to check it out and let us know what you think of it. We have a new design. Our guys John and Aaron have redesigned the website and I think it looks really, really good. And it's really easy to navigate. You can check out our daily devotionals that come out every morning at 6 a.m. Eastern. You can check out the articles on all the different sports that you might be a fan of throughout the website. And then |
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| 2:05.5 | Nick is a 2018 gold glove winning shortstop with the Arizona Diamondback |
| 2:11.2 | selected in the second round of the 2011 MLB amateur draft by the Braves back then and then after the 2012 season was traded to |
| 2:21.1 | Arizona in a seven player deal. You'll hear in this interview how 2013 was a really |
| 2:27.9 | poignant year for him both on the field where he was struggling quite a bit and then off the field |
| 2:33.6 | where his faith really became |
| 2:35.3 | the central part of his life the following year june 29th 2014 nick made his major league baseball |
| 2:43.1 | debut with the arizona diamond backs and has been up there ever since and is now the starting |
| 2:48.9 | shortstop for the debacks. |
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