{"id":32307,"date":"2025-06-19T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=32307"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:01:33","slug":"how-music-brought-brett-young-back-to-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/how-music-brought-brett-young-back-to-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"How Music Brought Brett Young Back To Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Young went through high school and college with his heart set on becoming a Major League Baseball pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>But when an injury completely derailed his plans, he had no idea that country music would create a full circle moment for him back to baseball.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut for anybody who doesn\u2019t know, my baseball career ended before I got a chance to go on and play Major League Baseball. I had an elbow injury. And I always wished that that hadn\u2019t happened that way. But then moving forward, I had this awesome opportunity to pursue music and have success and create a living playing music. And I would have never thought that that would have been the avenue that took me back into Major League Baseball because I\u2019ve got a ton of pro baseball player friends because they\u2019re huge country music fans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brett Young will be at Caesars Windsor tonight with Buck Twenty opening the show at 7:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ql9bGNx5KMg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett Young went through high school and college with his heart set on becoming a Major League Baseball pitcher.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2815,127,3094,6401],"class_list":["post-32307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-baseball","tag-brett-young","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-pitcher"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 16:22:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/how-music-brought-brett-young-back-to-baseball\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32308,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32307\/revisions\/32308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}