Greatest All Star Performance Ever? Pedro's 1999 All Star Game Breakdown 

He's probably the best pitcher I've ever seen and I've been watching since '77. Thanks for the video

I am *_SO_* grateful that I was a old enough to watch Pedro, and so, so lucky to have watched him pitch in person 4 or 5 times. Unless you experienced it you’ve never seen an entire city get as absolutely electric and buzzing the way Boston did before a Pedro start. Every Pedro game was like an all day, city-wide event. Everyone was Dominican that day and everyone had a blast. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen - and I’ve had season tickets to the Patriots since 1993 and watched 6 Super Bowls. There will never be another Pedro, and for 7-8 years there was nobody better… probably in history. And yes I understand how significant of a statement that is

Prime Pedro wasn’t human. He was some sort of pitching robot. Absolutely insane!

So many great pitchers in history but Pedro is my all time favorite. As a met fan it was a blessing to have him for a handful of years

The Immortal Jerry Remy said it best about Pedro and how good his change was. Pedro could come up to you at the plate and tell you that he was going to throw his change and where he was going to throw it. Then he would go back to the mound, throw his change exactly where he said he was going to throw it and you would still miss it. He had a change up the like of which we will probably never see again.

Pedro’s my favorite pitcher of all time! He was the most dominant pitcher ever from 1997-2004

great video. imo was one of the nastiest pitchers i have ever seen. his movement and control was next to none.

This All-Star Game was awesome! The pregame ceremonies with the all-time greats, followed by an absolute show by Pedro. This was one of those baseball memories I'll never forget. Pedro was my favorite pitcher in baseball - a joy to watch - and I was just giddy watching him slice through that lineup.

I considered this the most dominant display of pitching I had ever seen at the time. I love that this start has grown to reach legendary status in the years since. This was a jaw dropping performance.

I remember recording this game on VHS, probably still have it somewhere

That Larry Walker stat sheet is totally nuts. Dude was hitting north of .350 with an OPS of 1.100! With that murder’s row of bats back then, you’d think pitchers would be terrible, yet that era also saw some of the greatest ever with the likes of Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux, Roger Clemens, Mariano Rivera, and of course, Pedro Martinez!

That 5:09 pitch is probably the prettiest changeup ever thrown. The fact that he was that powerful despite being 5'11" and under 200 lbs. is mind-boggling.

4:44 that's definitely a strike nowadays. crazy how much the strike zone has changed over the years

well told story. i like how you put it all together

I was at the Ocean view pub on Martha's Vineyard when I watched this game. It was electric!

"The changeup from Hell."---Paul O'Neill

I know video tech wasn't as good back then, but Pedro's breaking ball would seemingly teleport across video frames

The Expos farm system and player development was crazy. Martinez, Johnson, Walker, Raines, Dawson, Carter, Guerrero, Grissom. Absolutely wild that they never had a championship

I was 8 years old when this took place, I remember the players flocking to Ted Williams. We all knew Pedro was dominant but this was next level

Great video. I used to throw BP to Sosa back in the day.

Lifelong, 50+ years, Dodgers fan and Maddux is my favorite P of all time. He and Martinez are the 2 best Ps I've ever seen. I can remember when my Dodgers traded him for Delino DeShields and I'm still disgusted and regretful.

Thanks for this. That changeup...

That has to be the nastiest change up in the history of the game.

The reason I love not just the Sox but Baseball. The 99 ASG

50+ year Red Sox fan so I am partial of course but without a doubt in my mind he is the best I have ever seen.

I do agree this should be displayed on a loop on cooperstown 24 hrs a day

It's so hard to compare pitcher's from different eras, but it's hard to believe that anybody was better than prime Pedro Martinez.

Not the Golden Age, but the Renaissance of Baseball. Definitely wanted to announce his presence with authority!

Yankee fan, 99 Pedro was the best single season from a pitcher.

That change up not only fooled Larkin but it fooled Rodriguez as well. You can see him shift his weight to his right before Pedro's change screwballs back over the plate.

He hits the nail on the head. Pedro did this in the steroid era. For that he gets my nod as best ever. His only knock was he had trouble going long. As a Yankee fan I just hoped we kept the game close to get to the bullpen.

He had the two most dominant years in MLB history.

El Pedro !!

Best arsenal of all time. So glad he got his ring

"intimidating when my pitch change up like Pedro" - Akrobatik

A 98 mph fastball after an 84 mph change up is wild! MLB the show type of stuff

My favorite starter pedro and favorite closer mariano rivera 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

what's amazing is that like The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, Pedro was constantly doubted for simply being undersized... many a sound baseball mind thought there was no way that frame was not going to implode with the power it possessed... and sure enough, eventually it did. However, the monster that was prime Pedro Martinez was like Maddux' smart ans skilled, except he also had the 100mph fastball when he needed it. But as he proved against the Indians in his classic no-hit relief appearance, he could get it done with cunning, finesse, an all-time change-up, and a massive ego/ chip on his shoulder... funniest props I heard given to Pedro was when he was a teammate of bigfoot-sized reliever Lee Smith... who said of Pedro something on the order of, 'he's the best pitcher in baseball, and doesn't even have a damn chest hair!' Nope, boyish, and skinny and Jeri curled, but he might as well have been 10ft tall with shark's teeth and Terminator' muscle with his attitude AND his pure "stuff"... I lived just outside of Boston, and was amazed watching Roger Clemens fan 20 first, and then do it again... that's just crazy (and nobody is going to do that 3 times either), but Pedro was the better pure artist/predator in his prime... and when you post a WHIP that beats dead ball era numbers *at the height of the steroid era*... well, you do the math...

I like how you address Sosa’s allegations of Steroids but gloss over Mark’s

Definitely on the Mount Rushmore of pitchers

Amazing breakdown Rob! We just broke down his mechanics on our page as well for those wanting more.

Best ever .

His lettuce alone could have been on Mount Rushmore! He was DIRTY DIRTY!

"Grab some pine meat" - my grandma at our family reunion game

Best ever

I’m old enough to have seen them both. And Even as a heartbroken Mets fan in January of 2023. Pedro of the Red Sox is an all time great. DeGrom is the 🐐 He’s better than anybody I’ve ever seen with these 2 eyes. -And no I don’t mean the Pedro that played for the Mets. Whom though reinvented was still very good. Seaver was before my time. As was Gibson Koufax etc. My Rushmore is Pedro, DeGrom, Unit, Kershaw, Maddox Verlander & runner up: Smoltz Hersh, An IMO underrated Dave Stewart & I’m likely forgetting somebody. Grienke Sabathia Johan Musina Glavine were all great but need to rise when Pedro enters the room.

I remember being SO mad that pudge threw the runner out bc I wanted to see Pedro get 6 K 😩

Prime Pedro was superhuman.

Yup no question

Curious why Piazza wasn't in that lineup somewhere.

I think the high heat to Sosa wasn’t a miss at all. Pedro rarely missed. After 2 off-speed pitches he through a fastball right by Sosa’s eyes where he couldn’t not see it fly by, and then he went down with off-speed again. I think that high fastball was specifically thrown to throw Sammy off on the following pitch

When are you going to do a video of the 17K game against the Yankees? I wonder if anyone ever asked him about the at bat where he gave up the HR to Chili Davis, cause really, that should have been a No No if he didn't hit that HR.

I have pedro number 1 all-time.

7:28 the look on Mark’s face 😆 almost like he wants to bash the umpires face in with his bat 😠 I bet Mark was just a real peach to be around, probably still is too. Which is funny because growing up, I always thought he was the good cop to Canseco’s bad cop, but then you hear some of the stories about Mark…

The only problem with Pedro’s All-Star performance is that he actually hurt his arm and had to go on the disabled list as a result

7:18 looks like the juice is about to burst out of his 👀

👍👍👍

Carl Hubbell.

third greatest individual season in history. no disrespect to pudge rodriguez, but martinez was MVP that year.

Remember Pedro. Who's your daddy, chant?

Sosa was the only one on steroids in that lineup?

I'm a die hard Yankees fan and I absolutely HATE Pedro but damn could that guy pitch. One of the best. Hated seeing him on the mound against my Yanks

I'd say 2000 was his peak performance.

In his prime he’d bring the 97mph heat, or 92mph, then changeup between 85-89 and a nasty slurve between 81-85. Just disgusting stuff

Closing thing to playing Chess I've ever seen in baseball......

Unhittable. Absolutely unhittable

Pedro and the best All Star Game Performance ever? Har, har, har. I guess you never heard the name Carl Hubbell. He struck out 5 Hall of Fame Hitters.....IN A ROW. Cripes, nobody else ever came close to that.

That curveball DID make Sammy see a ghost. After that pitch, he turned white......LITERALLY.

did Pedro have the greatest pitching career ever? no..... But Pedro at his peak in 1999 and 2000 was and still is the greatest any pitcher has ever been. This man was a one man wrecking crew that ripped straight through the steroid era

Issue with #45 was he was 5 Feet 11 inches tall 165ibs and being a athlete at that size is considered small (Compared to #51 Almost 7 feet well over 220ibs #21 Obvious steroid use already physically tough. Look for other elite pitchers in MLB not quite as small (Becomes Fragile prone to injuries) As Pedro Martinez.

If you going to judge at least be fair you said about Sammy Sosa using steroids .but didn't have the same concept of believing in Mark McGwire's steroids the guy's body couldn't take any more exploring not an honest resume!

Ohtani >

Pedro looks skinny next to steroid hitters Scrawny and even undernourished But at least you know he didn't cheat

Nolan Ryan not on your list you don't know anything about baseball

2:19 I'll say it absolutely steroids had 100% to do with it.

deGrom was better in 2015.