Episode 8: Eddy and Gaby Alvarez of the Los Angeles Dodgers

SAX IN THE MORNING

English - March 31, 2022 08:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
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My guests today are Eddy and Gaby Alvarez. Eddy is a Major League Baseball player who recently signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He made his major league debut with the Miami Marlins in 2020 but what he is best known for is being one of just six athletes ever to win Olympic medals in both the summer and winter games.

Eddy won a silver medal with the US baseball team in 2020 but his first Olympic sport was actually short track speed skating, where he won a silver medal in the 5000 meter relay at the Sochi games in 2014.

Gaby and Eddy talk about growing up a few blocks from each other, how Gaby has supported Eddy chasing his dream of making it to the big leagues and how a kid from Florida ended up medaling in the Winter Olympics and managing to later become a professional baseball player.

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