MLB Players Who WASTED Their Hall of Fame Talent 

I live in Toledo too! Small world! Went to Whitmer

Me too dude

Hate to say this... but Strawberry, Gooden, and Dykstra seem to have been among the dimmest bulbs in MLB at the time. Talent isn't everything.

2K Rebuilder his injuries weren’t really his fault though

@@MrMineGeekz i know

But at no point did people see him as hof talent

@@Bidwellz9 before his injuries h was on his way, 30/30 club, all star and at the time was baseballs Ironman not missing a game for four straight seasons

He never really wasted his talent though, however he would certainly be worth making a list of what could have been had it not been for injuries

Canseco was a mediocre talent in the minors until he started juicing.

Parker was so much more talented than Strawberry and Canseco. Absolute 5 tool player built like a linebacker

Canseco said in his book, he never would've even been in the show without steroids.

cant use him, he didnt play enough and he also didnt waste anything, he died

Bidwellz9 yes I know. I acknowledged it was short. Just saying he passed while his career was on the rise. His own mistakes cut what looked like a promising career short.

Brien Taylor never became successful because he was injured in a bar fight protecting his little brother. That was right after he and his mom (agent) bilked the Yankees for over one and a half million to sign with them. If Taylor did not get the money, he threatened he would skip baseball and attend a junior college. This led to a rule change which prohibits this type of "extortion".

@@fje6902 This is exactly correct!!!

​@@fje6902 - How did those poor Fl bumpkins bilk the Yankees out of millions? That was his worth. You're pocket watching with your whyte hood showing.

@@apex_prowler95 A kid who hasn't thrown a pitch of professional ball is not worth $1 million dollars. Sandy Alderson screwed every team when he gave Todd van Poppel that deal. Van Poppel was awful, but at least he got a chance to pitch for the A's. Brien Taylor ruined his career over a bar fight.

RamiiYT its cauze he went on the cover of 2k😂 the curse is real

Nathan Barclay it is true bro😂😔

People here in Dallas still hate David Freese

Anonymike : The ironic thing about Parker is that he had 2 really good years with the Pirates in 78 and 79, winning an MVP and a World Series, while using cocaine and amphetamines. Keith Hernandez did the same, but his numbers were not nearly as good.

@@alfjgist Parker is absolutely a Hall of Fame player. Unless he was using actual PED's, and there is no evidence of that in the arc of his career that I can see, he tops my list. It's not the Hall of Exemplary Male Celibates. If we kicked out athletes who cheated on their wives or took something, there'd be no one there. In the 1950's and 1960's almost everybody did greenies. Amphetamine may not have directly enhanced performance, but it kept players alert and helped players in their 30's avoid creeping weight gain. In the NFL back in the era, many players did speed. Some delibarately drank themselves under the table the night before the game because they believed having a massive hangover helped them generate the rage they needed to play. A lot of them may have thought that being on speed or being hung dulled their sensitivity to pain also. Later, they used cocaine for the same reasons. Some athletes have opened up about drug use. Jose Canseco is one who admitted it. He has said that without PED's he would never have made the major leagues at all.

@Anonymike no argument there. I was just pointing out that Parker played just as good and drugs didn’t ruin his career, rather it was the drug trials in Pittsburgh in 85 that ruined him. Those trials took down public opinion of the players involved. Parker and Hernandez being the 2 biggest names out there at the time. Parker deserves to be in the Hall based on his numbers as compared to other outfielders in his era. He was a great player, but his real problem on the field was the bad teams he was with in Pittsburgh after 1980

Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, and Clemens will be under a cloud for a long time. Palmeiro has the most impressive stats for someone who will be denied the Hall of Fame except perhaps for Pete Rose, but there are arguments that he could have never done Hall of Fame performance without the illicit chemicals.

Rich: I agree. As a long suffering Mets fan, these two were a delight to watch during the mid 80s. It is indeed unfortunate that such potential was not fully realized.

I think Hernandez was done with the drugs at that time. I did not like that he did them but at least he manned up and admitted it.

TheBallzyKiddo ! Yep

not for awhile ):

lol he wasnt on steroids, what he took was furosemide....not a steroid at all

which one of the guys you listed wasted their talent? Pete Rose has the most hits ever, how did he waste his talent?

@@ronstewart7890 he will never make the hall of fame. thats the point. very talented players who did something so bad the HOF wont let them in.

wow

Thanks, Soup!

Someone had told me. He wouldn't play though nagging injuries.

Same with Mattingly.

The flight back from the NLCS is legendary

Did you check out the vid Jon Bois/SB Nation did on Lonnie Smith???

@@lovesupreme6154 I just watched it. I knew most of it, really good video though. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wTM_eN8AZeQ.html

It Wouldn't Shock Me If Hamilton Got In

Future Gohan If he does, good on him. It probably would take a long time for him to get into the hall, again, would be good if he was in the hall. My whole thing is that his prime was such a small window. 4 years, 5 if he wasn’t injured as much in 2009. Because of that, I feel he either will not get in the hall, or barely get into the hall.

I think the yoda made him faster. He didn't really waste his talent. A yoda free Otis Nixon is still just an average player at best. He was probably better with the coke.

Would he tho

Itsscottybruh yes, ppl don’t realize that he was good with the Pirates and he also won an mvp.

Nah

Obmot58 P well technically steroids weren’t illegal, at least the ones he was using, so he wasn’t cheating. Lots of players ~ 80% of the MLB were doing steroids. You think of him poorly now but at the time he wasn’t doing anything 4/5 other people were doing with the consent of mangers, owners and MLB

In my opinion they should be in the Hall of Fame right now. What he did was not against the rules at the time and he never failed a drug test. I think the only reason he not in the Hall of Fame when other steroid users are like Ivan Rodriguez... is because quite frankly nobody likes him and he was an asshole to the people that vote players in.

Miami Jay? He's a legend at the bank.

SebastianTheGreat His name should never be spoken in Chicago again.

I guess he didnt really waste his talent..didnt read the full script..my bad fellas...he should still be in h.o.f. tho..

What you mean arod only juiced for a few seasons not like he didn't produce