Nomar Garciaparra: The Rise & Fall 

@Larry Love might have to add him to the list

I feel like that Mexican American baseball player stat is inaccurate. There have to be more than that

@Larry Love I told a guy I worked with who was a big time Red Sox fan after he was boasting about Nomar and ARod. I said when all is said and done Jeter will be the only one playing Shortstop.

Greed done him in.

Barry Larkin best defense

@@HobieMorales Omar 11 gold gloves...Barry Larkin 3. Try again.😂😂😂😂😂

@@daf631 who his an MVP and a chip

@@daf631 Barry Larkin 12 time all star and 9 time silver slugger Omar just 3 time all star and 0 silver slugger You try again 😆

@Long Duck Dong Dude I was 8 lol. Hard to tell an 8 year old that.

@@RandallFPS Bro u were 8??HTF long could u have possibly watched this dude play to get that attached,I could even see 10 or 11 but 8??I mean damn his SOX career woulda started when u were F'N 1 yr old??only played 7 yrs and the nxt 3 or 4 yrs u dont remember anything,damn man apparently u got attached quite quickly to him!?

@@raypratt36112nd grade in 2002 was when I started playing real baseball not t-ball so I was into watching what I loved to play. Also went to a game in 2002 ON Nomars birthday when he hit 3 homeruns. 22-4 blowout. That was my first game, will never forget something like that. And that's how he stuck in my mind. Then a few years later he gets traded, right as I'm starting to appreciate him more....

My Knicks could use something like that 😂

He wasn’t clean lmao he tested positive for ligma

Love when athletes do those things!

@Larry Love imagine Nomar playing in Yankee stadium though, Jeter might've been, that's a big might, defensive player but offensive there's really no comparison in power. They both have strengths and weaknesses but Nomar playing in a MLB stadium like the Yankees dimensions, that might as well be little league.

That is an awesome comparison, thanks for sharing and watching as well!

@@tomreha-sports7053 Thank you for the video. I watch stuff like this all the time and I am shocked it took me this long to stumble across your content. Excellent work... !

@@RustCole01 thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it! Much more to come

@@RustCole01I would argue that Nomar is closer to being a Hall of Fame shortstop than Bledsoe is to being a Hall of Fame quarterback, but that’s just me. Both were good at what they did.

Yup, the fan duquett years, never could get the pitching straight

@@chrisconway9089part of the problem was that the ownership group at the time didn’t want to spend on pitching, so they ended up filling out the rotation with washed up Bret Saberhagen, Aaron Sele, etc. Meanwhile the Yankees had Pettite, Cone, Wells, acquired Clemens, etc Later the roles would reverse, and it was the Yankees signing washed up pitchers like Kevin Brown, Jaret Wright, Carl Pavano, etc while the Red Sox boasted Pedro, Schilling, later Beckett, etc

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Oh ok,I was hoping that happened,cuz I dont remember that happening??thats awesome,cuz he was great in that era!!

@@raypratt3611 Not to brag too much, but many Red Sox players love that we fans are so involved and informed. Even when the club kicks them out, they return eventually for the fans’ benefit. Case in point, Pudge Fisk who went free agent to the White Sox because Boston management botched his offer. Returned to Boston to have his number retired in Fenway. They know we love them and they come back for that!

isn't it "Nomaw"? LOL

@@jdspreest No, I spent most of my childhood in Boston. “Nomah” is closer. The other way would be more like NYC.

Thats awesome, love hearing that. Thanks for watching as well!

His dad is named after him now

@@itsmealex8959 lol

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Yeah I was pumped too oh well what are you gonna do

@@davestryjak6042 Nomar really did feel like that missing piece that the 2004 Cubs really needed at the time...too bad in retrospect the 2004 cubs were such a clusterfuck. Chock full of mental midgets lol

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I don't like the long ball. Small ball is way more entertaining.

Hey man,one of the smart ones,I watched baseball and NFL and NBA for over 30 yrs but then I started slowly realizing they are just pure scripted ENTERTAINMENT and NO different then the WWE and dk if it will ever come out fully that they are all pre scripted gms and seasons and even off seasons now,DRAFT,FREE AGENCY,PLAYERS PERSONAL PROBLEMS,its designed to keep u goin ALL YR now and I doubt it was quite as scripted when I grew up in the 80's and early 90's but with the technology today that they use,it is out of control,espesially the NBA with the NFL right behind em and yes MLB too!!

Tulo and Lincecum were like a decade later. By the time they hit their primes, not only was Nomar on his way out, but baseball’s popularity had dropped off a cliff. Nomar was a bona-fide megastar that unfortunately Tulo and Lincecum never had a chance to become, and there was nothing their on-field play could do about it. Major League Baseball let those later guys down big time

He was even voted a full share too so his team mates appreciated him at least.

I think for better or worse he was a symbol of the “old” Red Sox. Pedro lasted the season but was no longer the ace. The front office wanted to distance itself from the 2003 Game 7 debacle, and the Red Sox history of failure more generally, as much as possible. Obviously by the time the trade actually happened, contract negotiations had caused the relationship to sour to the point that Nomar was pouting on the bench refusing to go into the game at Yankee Stadium during the biggest game of the season (one of the best MLB games of all time). After that he was basically dead to the Red Sox and even to Red Sox Nation.

I don't think sabermetrics had anything to do with his trade. What did was the numerous injuries that he was suffering from. It was pretty clear to see by mid 2004 that Nomar wouldn't be back to his old self anytime soon, and that coupled with what was said to be a sour attitude led to the trade. Yes, it was heartbreaking for us Red Sox fans, but for anyone who had been paying attention it really wasn't surprising.

Thank you!!

dope!

Won as many chips as I did, I got a smaller nose, and more money in stocks. You should be worshiping me.

@@speakingtruths4215 We do worship you..You're a God out here fam

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Maybe she's doing alright if she's still with him

@@supremium6841 you know these dudes have to put women on a pedestal, as if it’s such a great honor to be with them

@@josecenteno08 it's crazy bro. As if she's been making headlines in the news lately or something. We haven't heard squat from her either.

Found the incels 😂

I was hoping for and answer.

The most common narrative is that he started juicing in order to come back from the nagging wrist injury, but it was the 90s, man. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone was doing it.

I don't remember the video mentioning his positive PED test but I could've just missed it. P sure he got popped in Chicago.

😂😂😂😂

Bro,how TF long were u growing up??those are 2 separate era's my man!!

Nomar could have been a luxury at first base and DH too, for those Yankees teams.

The opposing teams would be calling "HAX!"

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He will get in through the VC

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Absolutely, thanks for watching!

Thank you so much!

Thank you my brotha!

I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Japanese-American. Male. I wanted Nomar in Seattle! Even in 2009, I read in Larry Stone's piece, that Nomar was among the available free agents, and I wanted us to pick him up. I have RED SOX 5, CUBS 5, DODGERS 5, and ATHLETICS 1 GARCIAPARRA jerseys.

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Thanks for the support !

I'm not entirely convinced you can't still make a case for Nomar. If you pretend Arod and Jeter never existed he's still one of the greatest hitting shortstops of all time and would hardly be the worst guy in the HOF.

@@CapAnson12345 he had HOF talent Forsure. But the longevity just wasn’t there

@Harry Engel Especially since he finished with less than 2,000 hits. In a way it made him kind of similar to Don Mattingly, started off with HoF career only to get curtailed by injuries in what should have been their prime seasons.

It’s the exact same move every time, it’s like a rehearsed dance with his hands 🧤

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Thank you Julio!

Appreciate that ! And absolutely, barring injuries he could have made HoF

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I'm big on being un-bias, really appreciate that feedback. More to come!

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Yep, I learned that years ago watching a documentary on his life. I believe his ancestry was never really in the spotlight. Look for his story. It’s pretty incredible. 👍

He kept it a secret.

@@DJVMFVME He didn't keep it a secret it was just something he didn't give much thought to . Also his mom was a weirdo and he was more embarrassed of that then the fact he was chicano

@@themadlad8540 Williams was born to Samuel Stuart Williams, a white photographer and pickle salesman, and May Venzor, a Mexican-American Salvation Army devotee who often volunteered in Tijuana, Mexico, leaving Williams and his brother to fend for themselves with their alcoholic father, Bradlee said. His Mexican family ended up in San Diego as tension simmered before the Mexican Revolution began in 1910. It’s a past Williams concealed until near the end of his life, said Bradlee. “He was ashamed.” After his sensational 1939 rookie year, Williams returned to San Diego to find around 20 of his Mexican-Americans relatives waiting for him at the train station. Williams took one look at them and fled. Bradlee, who was among those interviewed for the film and who found some of Williams’ cousins, said the family remained proud of his on-the-field achievements. “But you can see they were a little bit hurt that he had shunned them,” Bradlee said. In the film, daughter Claudia Williams said she would sometimes ask her father about his mother. But he refused to talk about her, or his past, she said. -AP News

There was a documentary on Netflix or Amazon...He was a fighter pilot too.

@@joeyo4163 he was an absolute fucking Ace fighter pilot!!!

@plain truth what?

@plain truth what you talking about Willis

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He couldn't sniff and damn sure never carry jeters jock strap inexcusable choke clutch big game hitter

No heart no balls no leadership

@@chrisbeneway9292 Found the salty Yankees apologist.

Im a die hard redsox fan but the defining moment and cementing of legacies for those 2 guys came in 04 when Jeter dove into stands caught flyball bustled his face up n Nomar was pouting on the bench injured like always from abusing steroids just shrugged like hey good play. A few weeks later he was gone. He completely fell off the face of the earth afterwards, nuff said. I give respect and credit where it's due

Well I guess I was wrong

Absolutely agree and I’m a Yankee fan as well !

Thank you Brett! More to come

its like jumbo joe leaving that year too

Everyone was roided up back then.

@@t-rozbenouameur5304 True story

Rick kehoe and mike Bullard had same rood supplier as nomar!