Rick Monday isn't known just for the flag saving incident - you mention his name in Montreal, and you'll get a string of "tabarnac"s and "calisse"s. It was his 9th inning home run in Game 5 that sealed the 1981 NLCS for the Dodgers over the Expos in Montreal's lone playoff qualification.
That 2009 draft almost took a different turn because Anaheim had 2 consecutive picks that year in the round that Trout was selected. They took him with the 2nd of their two picks preventing the Yankees who were picking next from selecting him.
Not 100% right. The draft pick that Trout was taken was originally the Yankees. Then it went to the Brewers because the Yankees signed CC Sabathia... but then that pick went to the Angels when the Yankees signed Mike Teixeira (Teixeira ranked as a higher class A free agent than Sabathia). Trout was taken with the 25th pick, but the Brewers were picking 26th and the Yankees weren't picking until 29th.
I think the 1965 A's draft was perhaps the best of all the drafts you mentioned. Sal Bando, Gene Tenace and Rick Monday were all All star players and had very long careers.
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Nice video, I enjoyed this! The Red Sox draft with Clemens made me think of another way of rating the drafts: Maybe something like taking the average of the top 5 player WAR from each draft.
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That last category I think is one of the better indicators. Teams are far more willing to let go of players to other teams than they used to be given how conniving or dumb owners could be with players and their salaries these days so modern teams are stacked a bit better against older teams. Also incredible to think that 2009 Angels draft was as deep as it was considering it's the Angels we're talking. RIP Skaggs.
#4 in Team Draft WAR has a surprising stat. The FIRST EVER DRAFT PICK HAD A 33.1 WAR. That's right. Rick Monday was the first MLB draft pick EVER. Today he's more famous for saving the American Flag from being burned in front of a packed house at Dodger Stadium while with the Cubs in 1976, but apparently, he was a damn good player, too. Guys like Monday help teams win World Series.
This is a great video, but honestly the title is kinda not befitting of the content. He just went through the best drafting TEAMS of all time instead of the best DRAFTS of all-time. Would love to actually see a video of that like how most American sports would rank the best drafts. For example, NBA fans rank the 96 draft as one of the top 3 best drafts ever, because it had the likes of Kobe, Nash, Iverson, etc, with no relation to the teams that actually drafted them. I get that baseball has like 20x more rounds, but I think that's a better way to rank the drafts with the best set of players that year instead of drafts with the best set of players drafted by just one team
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@@HufflepuffBaseball42313 I never used the word literally. I used the word "simply" that he holds the top spot with his career WAR alone, which if you remove Bill Sampen, is still true.
I think the third list on this video captured it in the best light possible where massive WAR gainers didn't completely dominate. Even if you take out the big guns, there's very very few draft classes with 4+ good players so the lists get dominated by guys with 60-75 WAR if I put in that limit. Wherever the limit is set, the list will be dominated by players just below that limit.
I don't give a flying fuck what Barry bonds took people don't realize how good he was. Yeah 73 home runs was insane he was hitting a homerun every like six at-bats when he was probably only getting about one or two pitches and entire game to hit but his next couple seasons after that we're just as amazing. 360 three at-bats almost at 360 or 370 batting average 232 walks and still hit 45 homeruns. And he struck out less than 60 times. There is absolutely no one that hit home runs like Barry bonds. Like you could not make one mistake. If you pitched to him and didn't walk him, and you give him one pitch he could drive in the game he would hit a homerun. There's no steroid on the planet that's going to give him the bat control the plate discipline etc and I think him for taking steroids because if they made him better than he already was in a sea of steroids, he did it the best. He was one of the most fun players to ever watch and no drug is going to change that. That was the best baseball ever was and it doesn't matter how it was achieved. Everyone who complains about steroids enjoyed every single second of all of those players. And it wasn't just one or two it was hundreds. If you had a favorite player growing up, chances are he was on steroids and I guarantee you the Hall of Fame is filled with them. If you think I was like Rickey Henderson warrant on steroids when he was hitting 30 home runs in the leadoff spot after getting to the Oakland Athletics with canseco and Maguire and clearly putting on a ton of size, you're delusional if you think that Griffey wasn't on steroids you're delusional. Griffey had every warning sign of steroids. And he broke down and got injured a bunch just like people who take steroids. And everyone says oh well this person didn't get that much bigger or this person wasn't that big and if you say that you have no idea about steroids. You know how big I was the first time I took steroids? 173 lb. Up from 160. Lance Armstrong was on steroids for Christ's sake. Not everyone looked like bonds and McGuire. There are steroids for numerous purposes. I know a buddy of mine who's 156 lbs and he's on more steroids than probably anyone in baseball was. Bonds is the greatest all around hitter of all time and he is the home run King and nothing will take that away from him. He was better than Hank Aaron
Trammell had the higher peak and a World Series MVP. Plus he stayed in baseball after retirement as a coach. That goes a long way for the veteran's committee.
You should do a video on how the Houston Astros were a average ball club and then we're sold to Jim Crane; and how he basically gutted the team and started from scratch which led to 3 consecutive 100 win seasons and winning the World Series. I know the cheat scandal is still fresh but my take is this. . .Every team does it. They have done it since the first days. Some people upload videos with the sound enhanced but I never heard any drum beats at their games. The reason why it blew up is Houston is a small market club even being in the 3rd largest city. Our payroll compared to the Yankees or Red Sox is miniscule. Those big name teams were getting spanked by a team filled with short nobody's. So they started talking about it enough to start an investigation. And again I'll say it, every team steals signs. So many players openly admit it. Anyway, I think you would do a great job of putting a analysis together
Cal Ripken Jr didnt retire until 2002 lol, no way he made the hall of fame in '97 I think you mean 2007, and he was likely to be the first unanimous pick if it weren't for the guys who were protesting steroids refusing to vote at all.
No, never even close to happening. Up until 2020 there were 40+ rounds and a really really good draft by a team would see maybe 10 hitting the majors. 2020 might be the only year where it's possible because the draft was shortened to 5 rounds due to COVID.
I call bull on the basis that Ripken consistently averaged about 670 PA per season during his streak and Gehrig about 685 PA during his. And while Ripken was on good teams, Gehrig also played for the murderer's row Yankees who were generationally good enough at getting hits to give Gehrig more PA per game, which can potentially account for any discrepancy.
@@bmac4 I was at a game (Camden Yards) where Ripken walked into the batters box for two pitches than left the game. I had no idea what this meant until some fans seated around us started to relate to us that after the 3rd inning it meant that a player who started the game would get full credit for playing a full game
The video is comparing over 5,000 players that I had to make a manual dataset for and look at every single baseball reference page for each player. It already took over 70 hours to do. If I didn't lean on WAR, it would've taken hundreds and hundreds of hours. The stat is specifically made to do things like this (compare players across different eras).
