Steve Merriman, Pro Baseball Pitching Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Episode 364
Steve Merriman spent the 2019 baseball season as the pitching coach for the Colorado Rockies AA affiliate, the Hartford Yard Goats.
Since 1995, Merriman has coaches baseball at both the college and professional levels. He began his coaching career with the University of Michigan Wolverines as their hitting coach. His pro baseball coaching career has seen him make stops with the Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago Cubs.
On this episode of the podcast, Merriman talks about his whirlwind baseball coaching journey, the challenges of being a pitching coach, his testimony of faith in Christ, and the broken relationship he's had with his father.
Steve's story is a powerful one.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to Sports Spectrum. I'm Jason Romano. Welcome, everyone, to sports spectrum. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:22.9 | Great to have you joining us today on the show. |
| 0:25.7 | Today's guest is Steve Merriman, Hartford Yard Goats Pitching Coach. |
| 0:32.7 | The Yard Goats are the AA minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. |
| 0:38.9 | So Steve's here in Hartford. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm in Bristol, Connecticut. |
| 0:41.8 | So we were able to connect in person, got an opportunity to meet him a couple months ago, |
| 0:46.8 | had breakfast, and hear his story. |
| 0:49.7 | And Steve has lived quite the baseball journey, having gone through different stops in college, |
| 0:56.8 | the minor leagues, and the major leagues since 1995. |
| 1:01.0 | Last year, he was the assistant minor league pitching coordinator with the Chicago Cubs. |
| 1:07.3 | He's also had stints with the Arizona Diamondbacks, the New York Mets, and the Colorado Rockies. |
| 1:12.7 | He's also been a coach with the University of Michigan and the Wolverines in college. |
| 1:18.4 | And as I got to know Steve, and certainly his baseball journey is crazy, to say the least, |
| 1:24.7 | going from different places year to year. |
| 1:26.8 | And we talk about that in the |
| 1:27.9 | beginning of the podcast but then he shared the story of his dad and the daddy wound that exists |
| 1:34.7 | with so many of us in our lives and his dad basically got up and left his family left his church |
| 1:42.5 | his dad was a minister and even came to the point |
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