Xavier Scruggs, Baseball in Korea
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 256
Xavier Scruggs played professional baseball in 2017 and 2018 in Korea. He was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 19th round of the 2008 MLB Draft.
He made his MLB debut with St. Louis on September 4, 2014 and played 2 seasons with the Cardinals before moving to the Marlins in 2016.
In December 2016, he made the decision to sign with the NC Dinos in in Korea where he hit .300 with 35 home runs in 2017.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Xavier about baseball in Korea, the decision to go play overseas after 3 seasons of Major League Baseball, what God taught him in Korea and how he stayed grounded in his faith playing baseball with the Dinos.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to this edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | My name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:24.6 | Always appreciate it when you guys join and tune in and listen to this podcast. |
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| 0:52.4 | jason at sportspectrum.com. Just want to truly say that we are grateful for know that you're listening and emailing me, Jason at sportspectrum.com. |
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| 1:00.1 | what it is and God willing what it's going to continue to be. |
| 1:04.3 | So thank you for joining us here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | All right, let's get to our guest today. |
| 1:09.6 | And his name is Xavier Scrugs. |
| 1:11.4 | And I talked to Xavier at a conference recently in Florida at the end of November of 2018. |
| 1:19.4 | And Xavier is a pro baseball player. And right now, he's a pro baseball player without a job. |
| 1:24.4 | He's waiting to see if he can get an offer to play for a major league baseball team |
| 1:28.8 | in 2019. Last year and the year before, in 2017 and 2018, Xavier played in Korea. And that's the |
| 1:38.6 | gist of what I wanted to talk about on the podcast with him today. What does baseball look like |
| 1:43.3 | playing professional baseball as a |
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