In 2023, it's looking like none of these contenders have what it takes to become our next strikeout king. Upton is already gone, Trout and Harper are constantly battling injuries, Stanton is in a steep decline (and also frequently injured), Judge has cut down on strikeouts, and Gallo's excessive strikeouts are so extreme that I'll be surprised if he spends this whole season in the majors. Thankfully, we have some new emerging contenders to carry the dream forward. I personally lean towards Austin Riley, though he didn't start especially young he's been adding ~170 strikeouts every year and I'm feeling good about his prospects going forward. Kyle Schwarber and Christian Yelich also seem promising.
Been going to the coliseum since birth…1988. I watched all the early 2000s teams but the 2012 team was probably my most favorite squad. The A’s trading Cespedes in 2014 literally ruined my year. John Fisher blows, sell the team.
It's horrific what the MLB did the Davis by taking his Ritalin exemption away years after he had been having it prescribed in the MLB have been granting a waiver. No doubt that would have messed with anyone's mind and batting is in the mind. And the guy was always so sad about signing that contract and then flaming out that Baltimore even felt bad for him. To make it worse the Ritalin didn't even give him an advantage as for years he was on it in Texas and put up mediocre to below mediocre numbers
Chad Ogea told me, he only pitched to him over a spring training game, bonds had the best eyes he had ever seen. Said unless it was a pitch he wanted he showed no intention of swinging.
I think it’s hilarious that baseball has all these ridiculous numbers to tell us if someone is bad, good, or great when imo it’s very easy to just watch a guy play and say ok he’s not good, is good, or great lol
That's so funny, I was just yesterday looking at fielding stats on baseball reference on this season's Mariners and then got sucked down the Adam Dunn hole. The numbers are just such huge outliers lol.
good video, as always, but really disappointed put off by the AI image of Manfred watching tv. given the rest of the channel's aesthetic of old school video game pixel art, the use of hyper uncanny valley graphics felt ...off. hiring an artist to make a better photoshop wouldn't have produced the same visual dissonance and doing a bad photoshop yourself would have made the joke funnier.