Will Startup, Former Pro Baseball Pitcher (Part 1)
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 169
Will Startup was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the 5th round of the 2005 MLB Amateur Draft. He played his college ball at the University of Georgia where he pitched in the 2004 College World Series.
He was a minor league pitcher for 10 season from 2005-2014 with the Braves, Padres, Orioles and Tigers organizations. In 2006, Startup quickly moved through the minor league system and made it all the way to Triple A in Richmond. He did pitch in a Major League spring training, but never made it to the big leagues and finished his pro career in 2014, pitching in one game for Triple-A Toledo (Detroit Tigers organization).
But the trials Startup faced on the field paled in comparison to the adversity he and his wife, Lauren, went through off the field with their son, Copeland.
In part 1 of this two-part episode of the podcast, Will shares his roller coaster baseball journey, being selected by the Braves, why being traded devastated him, how he lived out his faith as a pro pitcher, and the day that his world changed forever while he was walking around a Houston mall in 2012.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
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| 1:13.0 | Sponsor a child today, I promise you, you won't regret it. Today's guest on the podcast is Will Startup. Now Will was selected by the |
| 1:20.3 | Atlanta Braves in the fifth round of the 2005 MLB amateur draft. Played his college ball at the |
| 1:26.9 | University of Georgia, pitching in the |
| 1:29.1 | College World Series in 2004, and then made the trek through the minor leagues in his journey |
| 1:34.9 | from 2005 to 2014, took him through the Braves, the Padres, the Orioles, and the Tigers, |
| 1:42.1 | minor league systems. The highest level he reached was AAA. But Will's |
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