Orlando Hudson - Former MLB Gold Glove second baseman on giving his life to Christ and following God's path.

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Orlando Hudson is a former MLB infielder who played 11 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres and Chicago White Sox. He was a four-time Gold Glove winner (2005-07, ’09) and was named to two All-Star teams with Arizona (’07) and Los Angeles (’09). He was selected in the 43rd round of the 1997 MLB Draft by Toronto after playing his college ball at Spartanburg Methodist College in South Carolina. He made his MLB debut five years later with Toronto on July 24, 2002. Currently, he’s a player development assistant in baseball operations with the Diamondbacks. Today on the podcast, we talk to Orlando Hudson about his MLB career, handling success, being lukewarm in his faith, confidence versus cockiness, and living a life of obedience to Christ. Sign up for our Sports Spectrum Magazine and receive 15% off a 1-year subscription by using the code PODCAST15 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://SportsSpectrum.com/magazine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Do you know Christ personally? Click ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn how you can commit your life to Him.

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0:00.0	What's up guys? Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. I am so excited today for our conversation with Orlando Hudson.
0:07.6	Longtime Major League Baseball players, 11 years in the big leagues, two-time Major League Baseball All-Star, four-time Gold Glove Second Baseman.
0:17.9	Man, is he doing great things for God right now? He's also working with the Arizona
0:22.0	Diamondbacks currently in player development. He's down at spring training and he's pouring
0:27.2	into these young players and kind of showing them some things that he did wrong and now wants to
0:33.1	see them learn, hopefully, from the mistakes that he made in his life. This gets really deep.
0:38.2	This conversation goes to a pretty raw place. And I don't think we have any issues with kids
0:44.5	listening. Just giving you a heads up. Orlando's going to talk a lot about marriage, infidelity,
0:50.9	and some of the downfalls that success brought him during his major league career.
0:56.5	But among all people, Dion Sanders, Coach Prime, and others who came into his life,
1:02.9	his pastor as well, and said to him, listen, man, you got to stop.
1:07.4	You know of Jesus, but you got to surrender your life to Christ.
1:12.5	So Orlando Hudson tells it all, man.
1:14.4	This was a powerful story.
1:16.0	I love this guy's demeanor, his personality.
1:18.8	They call him O'Dog, Orlando Hudson, two-time All-Star, and he joins us here today on Sports Spectrum.
1:24.8	First, I want to tell you about our Sports Spectrum magazine.
1:27.4	You can go to sportspectrum. First, I want to tell you about our Sports Spectrum magazine.
1:34.7	You can go to Sportspectrum.com right now and subscribe. You can use the code Podcast 15 when you check out as well. Podcast 15 and we want to give you 15% off exclusively to podcast listeners
1:40.3	15% off a one year subscription to the Sports Spectrum magazine. And I'm telling you,
1:46.3	I think it's the best thing that we do. It's perfect for the kids. It's faith-filled,
1:50.4	family-friendly, clean sports content. Our spring 24 edition is going to be a hitting newsstands
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