It was a blessing to be able to watch the Braves throughout the 90s. Maddox , Glavine, and Smoltz was as good a 3 man rotation as there ever was. It was legendary. And Maddox was just the best
Some people would take Roger Clemens. Or Randy Johnson. Or Curt Schilling. Or Pedro Martinez. Or Kevin Brown. Or Mike Mussina. But i'm taking Greg Maddux every single time.
It was my honor to love the Braves, have TBS broadcast 100 games/year, and have Glavine/Maddux/Smoltz pitch our games. Rocker added some fuel. That was the best pitching staff in history.
Steroid Era, and the Braves were not doing them except for Gary Sheffield who wasn't there that long, and didn't show up until after Atlanta's last WS appearance.
@@iwannaseenow1 You are fooling yourself guy. The evidence was obvious, McGuire, Bonds, Sosa and many others were thin as a rail and after 5 months of so called weight training added another 50 lbs of bulk. Not all the teams did it on a wide scale, but we know that the Yankees Pettit, Clemens, Layritez, and Justice were juiced, all of them admitted it except Clemens. We know for a fact that McGuire was also despite crying like a damn baby in front of the country. However, nothing ever popped up with the Braves, and most people believe that was because of Bobby Cox, even Justice said there's no way you would do that with Bobby around, but with the Yankees it was a pretty common thing.
Maddux earned a lot of balls called strikes because he hit his spots with so much precision. If I was the ump, I would call a strike just because Maddux threw it. He must of hit his spot. It must be a strike.
Maddux made the baseball do things science says can't be done and nobody else before or since can do. Now you tell me why? There will never be another greg Maddux, it would be hard to argue against him being the greatest pitcher ever, stats don't tell everything, baseball is a team sport, I am talking about the position of pitcher.
Alignment. That's why. All pitchers land in the same spot with their landing feet every time. Same spot every time. Maddux was taught by medar to step to a different landing spot every time. This in turn allows his ball to be located better and have movement others don't have.
No one tells the story of Maddux pissing on Chipper Jones leg in the showers. I read it in a book about Leo Mazzone and then saw an interview where Chipper Jones confirmed it , and he took it as a hazing for being a rookie team member
in the playoffs John Smoltz gave up 2.88 Runs/9Ings and Greg Maddux gave up 4.41 as Smoltz never gave up unearned runs in playoffs and Maddux gave up a lot of unearned runs... i think using ERA over Runs/9Ing dates back to the dead ball era when fields and gloves were rough and errors were common... in the modern times using ERA is odd and instead R/9Ing should be used... if a hitter hits a ball over the fence and the outfield catches it the batter does not get an "earned home run" creditted to his stats so why the need to protect pitchers??? fax!!!
I remember numerous times Greg swearing when he threw a ball not where he intended it to go. "Sh**! Fu**! Goddam**!" It was hilarious to hear "the professor" use foul language.
Yes, I remember one time you could hear Maddux swearing on the TV, even though the batter grounded out, because the pitch wasn't exactly like he wanted it.
I wonder if they had Robo-ump’s, if those Brave’s pitcher’s would be in the HOF? I swore they never were in the strike zone. Props to them, but I remember them never being near the plate on their pitches. Greg was great at having the ball come back into the catcher’s mitt where it looked like it was over the plate
+Greg Douglass Dan Patrick is the biggest prick ever and he LOVES himself. He’s a complete dork. You’ll NEVER see a great athlete who has an interview with him..they knew better...Smoltz was just as much of a tool.
Maddux would put every ball right at the line, and he was known everywhere for it, so he forced umps to give him the benefit of the doubt because he was so precise. They can't see that shit from behind, the side, and on top 6 times like we can..all you know is it was so damn close and it was moving all over and I dont even know when it got to the plate so fuck...its a strike?
The movement and placement on the ball was utterly confusing to both batters and umpires. I see very little bitching from batters that took strike 3 on balls a bit out of the zone because they knew that was the scouting report.
Maddox wanted $25 mil over 5 years and the Cubs front office said “No way-too expensive”. They let him go just as was hitting his peak. Then they’d go out and overpay for a way past his prime power hitter counting on beating the opponent 10-8 every game. Letting Maddox go was probably the worst move in franchise history. The Cubs have a history of trading talent that ends up in the Hall of Fame for other teams.
I liked the interview as a whole, but this is the same show that wasn't aware that the baseball season had started when the Royals were playing the Mets in 2016 in early April, thinking it a spring training game. If you are that uninformed, uneducated as a sports radio show, then maybe you should up it up a notch and try to be better. Jeez, do some homework or something, you know. These guys are fun for some laughs, but sometimes their sports is a bit , or more than a bit, off. Like they are milking it as much as they can for name recognition, that name being Dan Patrick, and seeing how far it will carry them.
I cant have both? :) But...yeah man, there is a reason he never won a Cy Young. Not saying he isn't a hall of famer and an all time great, he 100% is, but spotty, certainly throughout the entirety of his career. The definition of consistency would be Maddux, for my number 1, the go to when the playoffs are on the line, I'll take Maddux thanks. He is a legend cus he could throw a hundred and when he was on he was the best, but you don't remember the bad 5 inning outings where he would have 6 walks because the highs of his career were so memorable. You don't remember them from Maddux because they didn't happen.
I removed all that playoff talk (one line). Rest of the point stands, and is you know..factual. Not just a garbage opinion. Feel free to keep at pocking holes in the statement or whatever, but, it's really not even that close of a call.
