Every MLB Team's WORST Draft Mistake 

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Dawson Wright that’s wassup

I am heart broke for hearing that

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@Dawson Wright don’t think for a second that I haven’t noticed the fact that the quality of ur videos has significantly increased. can’t wait for more content my guy ⏰ 🔥

He still on the Phillies roster in the minor leagues, he made his MLB debut on June 29,2022, 0-0 record 1.74 ERA 5 strikeouts that’s his current stats

That _is_ a fun update.

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Damn, you beat me to it

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Nice pfp

He's also got a mental block against any batter wearing a Cardinals jersey. Idk what it is, but even the subpar teams we've had that last few years eat his lunch.

Lol

picked in the 63rd round and a hall of famer

Colby Hunter and just because Lasorda did it as a favor for Piazza’s dad. 😂😂

Piazza wouldn’t have even made it if it wasn’t for Lasorda, I bet that’s what mad Piazza so great, he wanted to strive to prove the whole MLB wrong. He took every chance he could to make it.

You could easily point to every team passing on Piazza, or Greg Maddux, or Albert Pujols numerous times, or any HOFer who was not a first round pick. But that's not the point of this exercise.

Different management at the time..

Thrice, now haha

I’m not even a braves fan but that would have been sickening to witness in the 90s

And Atlanta STILL would have blown the WS.. Most overrated team in the Majors....

I believe true yankee fans try to forget that lol

That’s 1... we’ve also got guys like Derek Jeter... but angels fans... so I guess I’ll forgive you

Anthony Baratta oh I’m not an Angels fan. That was my semi-pro team cap. I’m actually an Orioles fan. Which is worse... so much worse 😂

Tracy Hudson oh wow... yeah... I’m actually from Maryland... so I apologize for the misconception... my dad is from Jersey so my bedtime stories were all Yankees stuff... I did meet Cal Ripken Jr. once... nice guy

He might have turned into a good major leaguer but he got into a bar fight and hurt his shoulder.

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You’re 12 and you know this? Weird

Andrew Bees still got to see him play for a bit

Can you imagine a prime chase utley playing in St. Louis on those 2007-2011 teams Jesus Christ

Facts

Especially a team that can build such a great farm system too

you’re the gm?

Lmao what up Kolt

Dioner Navarro at the time was an All Star catcher for the Rays in ‘08 and they felt he was the catcher of the future. Taking a college catcher wasn’t the biggest priority of need.

Thank you!

I'm with you on that and who knows how the Orioles would have done if they had drafted Scherzer and kept Arrietta and he pitched to his potential

Well I’m a Met fan, the Mets fell from their throne in the 90’s, we were losing great players

@@davidward9733 Err, no. The Braves had one of the greatest pitching rotations in baseball history: Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz & Avery.

@@soupdragonuk Don't forget the braves had some great offensive players. Pendleton, Justice, Gant, Klesko, Lopez, both Jones, Mcgriff, Galaraga, Giles, ...

@@jmillshobbies6344 Indeed. Chipper's addition to the squad made one hell of a difference. When Andruw was patrolling CF he was like a god.

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Still a top 10 pitcher of all time

And now a champ

That aged poorly

You can officially delete this comment as Clayton Kershaw is no longer the postseason choke artist he is made out to be!

Rumor has it Jeter wanted 750 grand and Astros would only go 700 and a top Astros scout quit after passing him up. Even funnier would be Jeter going 3rd to Montreal.

HOFer and scout Hal Newhouser told them Jeter was the best player in the country and to draft him and after they took Nevin, Newhouser quit.

hall of Famer. queen city born and raised. one of the best to ever do it. in fact, in '92 when the reds passed on Jeter, Barry was coming off his 4th straight all star selection, and in the prime of his career. man, I miss reds baseball. this is the weirdest summer ever..

Matt Gibbs Could've played Jeter at 2nd base.

they were considering putting Jeter in the outfield if they drafted him

It usually takes years for even top prospects to make it. You don't draft for need.

@@TheSpiderTre if that happened we wouldntve had the Jeter throw

FTC

Think trout was the only player to turn up to the actual live draft and was sat there watching team after team pass him up he sure showed them all up

Nailed it

Dawson Wright being a mets fan turns out to be good finally

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Arizona State standout Reggie Jackson was considered the best amateur ballplayer in the country heading into the 1966 Major League Baseball draft. The team picking first that year was the lowly, awful New York Mets. According to Jackson’s new tell-all, “Becoming Mr. October” (Doubleday), in which he details feuds and resentments toward his old Yankee teammates, the New York media and especially his old manager Billy Martin, the only reason he did not become a Met was because his girlfriend, Juanita Campos, was Hispanic. Jackson recalls how his coach at Arizona State, Bobby Winkles, broke the bad news. “A day or two before the draft, Bobby Winkles sat me down and told me, ‘You’re probably not gonna be the No. 1 pick. You’re dating a Mexican girl, and the Mets think you will be a problem,’ ” Jackson writes. “ ‘They think you’ll be a social problem because you are dating out of your race.’ ” Jackson was especially baffled because he’s part Hispanic - his grandmother is from Puerto Rico and his middle name is Martinez. But that didn’t matter, even to the perennial cellar-dwelling Mets. “No, you’re colored, and they don’t want that,” Winkles said.

@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes That's wild considering NYC is the most ethnically diverse city in the US if not the entire world.

Your boys need some wins - I agree. I want to see y'all win a World Series. Love, an A's fan.

You are a top ten team that has been no hit in the last 2 years

Y’all have like the best future in the league

You had it 2001 ichiro Griffey I can go on

You guys haven’t lost a game yet

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Plus Tatis Jr at short.

That would never even possible. I’m fairly certain that Trout would have done quite well and their record would have played out to get an even lower # pick with some other franchise staking their claim for Trout. So no.....I cannot image that scenario....at all. Thanks for playing though.

@@OlinKreutzRules It isn’t out of the realm of possibility, Luis Robert was picked up as international free agent, and Eloy was traded for Quintana (signed as a free agent after being cut from two teams). Yes it is, unrealistic and unlikely, but nowhere near out of the realm of possibility.

The Rangers might actually have become a real franchise. If there was a need to shrink the number of teams and you went solely on team performance the Rangers are gone. Outside of about 5-6 good years they historically are out of contention by April 15.

Definitely not a disaster. A high school legend done in by the Rangers rushing him.

Max C I work for the Somerset Patriots

He was a beast at LSU. It sucks injuries hampered his pro career, because he had the talent to play in the big leagues.

More proof of how shitty the Cheating Astros are: not listening to Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Hal Newhouser about a kid from Kalamazoo!

Kershaw's resume says otherwise, one of the best pitchers if not the best in the last decade, one of the best lefties in history, 3x cy young, MVP, low career era under 3, 3 times he had his era under 2, Future Hall of famer. I bet the pirates are dumb to pass on him.

​@@kevindodgersguerra2927still a chokenartist

@breadandcircuses8127 I'd hate to look it up..... got to be around 4-5 hundred.

The Cardinals passed on Yogi Berra, a native St. Louisan, and instead signed his best friend and neighbor Joe Garagiola.

I think DiMaggio got injured and the other teams passed on him. The Yankees realized he was the best minor leaguer injured or not.

@@df5295 you are right. They were too worried about his knee and passed on him. It certainly benefitted the Yankees.

Overrated Trout is overrated

Steve Carlton.

Lincoln cum Travis Snider, cum Steve Brault is better than a lot of picks. Neil Walker was 2004 1st rounder, Lincoln 2006

It would have been cool if they got C.C, but hey, I’d say that Sandoval was a good pick.

@@benwise6517 me too but i just don't see the giant's logic here

@@ej3981 Yeah, it kinda slips from time to time. Yet they turn torture into titles.

Pablo was not a draft pick dude, he was an international free agent signee when he was 16 yrs old and was a catcher in the minors and when he first came up.

@@philobeddoe8342 he was still fat and still not in shape so there is not much of a difference but your right

That's most Rangers drafts. They're one of the worst franchises in all of pro sports. 1996-99, 2010-11, and 2016-17 are aberrations from their normal trends (outside of those years the only other times they were really in contention were 1974, 1993, and 2004).

Nolan Ryan ....Hold my beer

You're welcome my guy, hopefully there will be baseball this year

Makes you want to bang a trash can, yes?

I would offer the 1971 draft as a bigger disappointment for Tigers fans. With the 11th pick that year, Detroit took light hitting shortstop Tom Veryzer. Four picks later, Boston got Jim Rice.

I mean, you could make the argument. I dont think that he is myself, but I could see why someone could.

One of the best, sure. The best, nah...

He got a thumbs down from me for that comment lol

@@Jacobthekid28 totally agree

@@bidenistrash6574 Personally, I think that Pedro Martinez is the best starting pitcher of all time. I get that he obviously doesn't have the career value that other guys in his era do like Clemens, Maddux, or Johnson but Pedro's peak is probably the best ever.

THANK GOD!!.. That never happened. From a redsox fan

I don't think it was going to happen, though. I believe I've read in years past that people from the Angels have said they would have drafted Trout if they'd only had their own pick that year.

Yea but David Wright is better

When it's time to die it's time to die.. stupid statement here

@@dwaynehoward240 Not really, Miami gave him easy access to boats, which he eventually lost his life on.

@@DaddyHackAthletics and cocaine

@@DaddyHackAthletics Milwaukee isn’t exactly very far from water either

Meh,...was kind of out of control himself, he though the world had to turn on his account...

@Dawson Wright Mike Trout with every team. Also as well, here are a few future stars that the rangers would’ve had and as a rangers fan I’m so sad: Edwin Encarnacion, ( Rob Bell trade 2001) Kyle Hendricks (2012 Ryan Dempster trade) Edison Volquez (Josh Hamilton trade) though currently playing with them now Jesse Chavez (Traded to Pirates in 2006 for Kipp Wells) though currently playing for them ROBINSON CANO (in that A-Rod trade) Mark Teixeira even though he played with us before his prime And many, many, MANY MORE....

In '09 the Angels had back-to-back picks - #24 and #25 - and they picked Trout #25 #24 was from the Mets for signing K-Rod. You could argue that the Angels might have picked Trout at #24 if they didn't have back-to-back picks, rendering the draft order of #24 and #25 kind of ambiguous. And while the Yankees won a World Series with Teixeira. K-Rod was on bad Mets teams. I was sick to my stomach when I found this out

Yes. I’d say the Mariners missing out on Greg Maddux in 1984 was pretty egregious.

Tracy Hudson WAIT WHAT, damn sorry baseball team of the Pacific Northwest.

failed to mention in 92 when the reds passed on Jeter, future hall of famer Barry larkin was coming off a 4th consecutive all star season and was in the prime of his career. they didn't miss out man, they had no need.

A one two punch of Peavy with JV or Weaver is a scary thought

He might have hit 73 home runs without being juiced.

In the 5th round of the 2011 draft, they picked a pitcher from UVA, Will Roberts, who never got AAA. Mookie Betts went 14 picks later.

@@mpc91 5th round is pretty hit or miss tbh. It sucks they missed out on Betts, but it’s not as though he was setting the world on fire as a prospect.

@@medguy12 The entire draft is hit or miss. And this is just one example, by Cleveland or anyone else. This is another "every team's worst mistake" which ignores the vast majority of baseball history. Betts was just the first name that came to my mind, but I could have gone for 1974, when the Indians took Tom Brennan with the 4th pick, and Dale Murphy went 5th. Or 1984 when the took Cory Snyer, with Greg Maddux, John Smoltz, Al Leiter and Mark McGwire still on the board. And this isn't to pick on Cleveland, you could do this with every team. Pick a random year, and they're just about always there.

Needed Mad Bum, Pirates lost too many playoff games

If Kershaw had played for the Pirates he wouldn't have been Kershaw, the Pirates were notoriously awful at developing pitchers back then and still aren't great.

@@TheShinyFeraligatr Pirates were good at fixing old guys like Burnett and Liriano, but were ass at young pitchers with electric stuff.

Remember the Angels had the 24th and 25th picks. They took Grichuck 24th cuz he would be cheaper to sign than Trout even tho the angels saw Trout as the better player. Who originally had that 24th pick? The Mets. They lost that to the Angels by signing K-Rod

Just cause the Yankees would’ve had the pick didn’t mean they’d take trout

@@valonadili7031 True, because their scouting system is ass.

Oriole's fan here, same goes for the O's. For a few decades now the O's haven't really churned out too many draft picks that go on to make it as stars the majors. Or even just as decent every day players for that matter. Our farm system, scouting/drafting, and overall player development have all been garbage for as long as I've been alive. Hope this "rebuild" brings some much needed changes on the field and behind the scenes.

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