Nick Ahmed - Arizona Diamondbacks Shortstop
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Nick Ahmed is a shortstop for 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 is a two-time Gold Glove winner in 2018 and 2019.
Today on the podcast, we travel to Nick's home in Massachusetts to talk with him about his offseason training, playing the 2020 season during a pandemic, the picture he drew as a young boy that sits in his workout gym, what it means to tame the tongue as a Christian in professional baseball and why he's a part of Compassion International's Fill the Stadium Initiative.
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| 0:50.5 | We've got a great conversation for you today. |
| 0:55.5 | We really do with Nick Ahmed, the Arizona Diamondbacks Gold Glove shortstop. |
| 1:01.7 | Now going into his eighth season in the majors with Arizona. He was selected in the second round of the 2011 MLB amateur draft by the Atlanta Braves, played his college ball at Yukon, and then was traded |
| 1:08.1 | to Arizona in January of 2013. |
| 1:12.6 | And a year later, made his Major League Baseball debut June 29, 2014 against San Diego. |
| 1:18.8 | And Nick actually has a really great story about what that Major League Baseball |
| 1:23.0 | debut experience was like for him and for his family. |
| 1:27.4 | Like I said, two-time Gold Glover in 2018 and 2019. |
| 1:32.8 | And Nick lives in the off-season in East Long Meadow, Massachusetts, which is about an |
| 1:38.4 | hour from where I reside here in Connecticut. |
| 1:41.8 | So Nick and I were talking, and I said, you know, maybe instead of a Zoom interview, we could try and record in Connecticut. So Nick and I were talking and I said, you know, maybe instead of a |
| 1:44.6 | Zoom interview, we could try and record in person. And so Nick was gracious and invited me up to his |
| 1:50.5 | house. I got to see his wife and his kids and just a beautiful area up there in Long Meadow, |
| 1:55.5 | Massachusetts. And I wasn't sure where we were going to be recording this interview. |
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