Jul 3, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 17 segments
On the latest ‘From Phenom to the Farm,’ Evan Gattis discusses his career path from drug rehab and the 23rd round of the draft to becoming an major league star and World Series champion. Advertising…
Evan GattisGuestKyle BandujoHostI wanted to kick it off with a question that I've always had, but I've never asked you.
I've never, I've never seen, I obviously, when we play together, I never saw you.
I always, I never wore gloves for any amount of time, but I wanted to, like they came out with like, we had buddies growing up that had like cool stuff or, I think like Chipper Jones, like maybe gave them some, they somehow had like some Mizuno stuff and it was like way back in the Chipper Mizuno era stuff, I think.
I definitely missed that game when you were playing in St. Louis, because I don't think I've ever seen you wear gloves.
But I want to get into your upbringing and baseball, because you were playing high-level baseball.
Really early, which is a common thing now that like, obviously like I have a, I have a kid who's 12 and I'm seeing kids playing like a hundred baseball games a year and going to all these crazy places.
But yeah, you were, you were on this uber talented Dallas Tigers team from, I found an article from like 1999 of you guys playing in Puerto Rico and, and the Sandy Kovacs world series and playing like, walk me through playing high level baseball.
how you how you viewed baseball because you're playing with you're also playing with all these guys who are maybe you know knew then maybe we obviously know now we're like destined for big things in baseball like austin jackson paramore and roger kieschnick and things like that
yeah there's a guy drew clifton i remember he was i think that was the first time it ever dawned on me he was like yeah if i don't make it to the big leagues i'll know a lot of people that will and i was like That's insane to think about.
I wanted to kick it off with a question that I've always had, but I've never asked you.
I've never, I've never seen, I obviously, when we play together, I never saw you.
I always, I never wore gloves for any amount of time, but I wanted to, like they came out with like, we had buddies growing up that had like cool stuff or, I think like Chipper Jones, like maybe gave them some, they somehow had like some Mizuno stuff and it was like way back in the Chipper Mizuno era stuff, I think.
I definitely missed that game when you were playing in St. Louis, because I don't think I've ever seen you wear gloves.
But I want to get into your upbringing and baseball, because you were playing high-level baseball.
Really early, which is a common thing now that like, obviously like I have a, I have a kid who's 12 and I'm seeing kids playing like a hundred baseball games a year and going to all these crazy places.
But yeah, you were, you were on this uber talented Dallas Tigers team from, I found an article from like 1999 of you guys playing in Puerto Rico and, and the Sandy Kovacs world series and playing like, walk me through playing high level baseball.
how you how you viewed baseball because you're playing with you're also playing with all these guys who are maybe you know knew then maybe we obviously know now we're like destined for big things in baseball like austin jackson paramore and roger kieschnick and things like that
yeah there's a guy drew clifton i remember he was i think that was the first time it ever dawned on me he was like yeah if i don't make it to the big leagues i'll know a lot of people that will and i was like That's insane to think about.
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