The 2007 Arizona Diamondbacks Broke Baseball 

The 1987 Minnesota Twins were outscored in the regular season, and won the World Series. That is the greatest overachievement

You should make a video of insane reliever peaks in mlb history, one guy that comes to mind for more recent is 2014-2018 Dellin Betances who was basically unhittable

As a baseball obsessed 9-year-old in Arizona this team will always be my first notable baseball memory. I could still name most of the players, and was reminded that Eric Byrnes was my first ever favorite player

Dude I haven’t heard Orlando Hudson’s name in awhile. He was one of my favorite infielders at that time growing up. This is an interesting team

It's just tough to be a sports fan in AZ. Dbacks are the only one of the major 4 sports with a championship in town. 2007 dbacks just put them with the other 3, "close but maybe next year", then it turns into a full rebuild.

Why didn't the Dbacks really follow this 2007 appearance up with good teams? 2009. Right when the young players shown in this vid were starting to come into their own it fell apart. It was incredible how much went wrong for the Dbacks in 2009: -Brandon Webb gets pulled on Opening Day with "shoulder tightness" and never pitches in the majors again. -In an attempt to replace Webb, the Dbacks traded away Max Scherzer in a vain attempt to get another Ace (Ian Kennedy) -Conor Jackson, the 27 year-old 1B who hit .300 in '08, contracted Valley Fever and never fully recovered. The postseason 2011 Dbacks's 1B combine to hit .235 (Thank God for Grand-Slam Goldschmidt) -Eric Byrnes breaks his hand and (besides a hilarious comeback attempt with the Mariners) his career is over. -Jarrod Parker, AZs #1 prospect goes through Tommy John surgery and never pitches for the Dbacks. -Diamondbacks had FIVE FIRST ROUND PICKS in the '09 draft, and only got AJ Pollock out of those five, missing out on players like Trout, Arenado, Kipnis, Corbin, Seager, LeMahieu, Matz, and Marisnick. (Thank God for 8th Rounder Goldschmidt) -Dbacks fire Bob Melvin, one of the best managers of the past decade to go with unproven AJ Hinch - who himself gets fired halfway through 2010.

As a Dbacks fan i can’t even begin to explain how shocking this season was

I smile hearing the MLB Power Pros music in the back. Vintage.

Hard to believe that the '07 Diamondbacks were the best team in the NL that year.

I miss those D-backs uniforms. They were perfect

I’m all for the Power Pros soundtrack being used as the background music in Jolly’s videos, always adds to them imo

That was such a fun team. I thought they were going places. They had so many good core pieces.

0:27 the DBacks and Rockies didn’t have the same regular season win total. Arizona ended at 90-72 and Colorado ended at 89-73, same as the Padres. The Rockies only won 90 games because the game 163 they won was added on. Arizona won the division alone by one game. It had nothing to do with head to head.

Love the MLB Power Pros music for a 2007 themed video

The funniest thing ever was that the Rockies visited Fenway during 2007 and sweep my Red Sox and then we faced then on the World Series and sweep then . Go Sox !!!!

Thanks for giving some love to my snakes. I was a freshman in high school this year. I went to that nlcs game 2, our section was the one where the previous night they had thrown garbage on the field so they had extra security up there. Watching Valverde meltdown in extras, I knew our season was over. Still love this team, and Chris Young will forever be my favorite Diamondback.

Still cannot stress enough how the MLB Power Pros music puts a smile on my face before I even hear your voice.

you can hear the confidence in your voice grow compared to your older videos. Keep up the amazing content jolly!!! your channel is awesome

Love the Power Pros sounds

When I think about the 2007 MLB season, I think about the first MLB Power Pros game

The 2007 NL was the most underwhelming season for an entire league in MLB history. The Mets meltdown was the most exciting thing that happened, including the Rockies run.

God imagine how weak the NL in a year has to be for a 90 win team with a negative run differential be the #1 seed. The 2021 Mariners were also a 90 win team with a negative run differential that punched above their weight and yet were two games out of a playoff spot EVEN WITH an expanded playoff roster (5 vs 4 teams per league)

Would love for you to do a deep dive on some of those Baltimore teams, so much talent on them teams! Machado, Trumbo, Davis, Schoop, Jones, Hardy, Weiters, Reynolds, Young, Markakis, Gausman, Jimenez, Britton!

Very fond memory of this team and season. Thanks for the reminiscence!

Gotta say that D-backs hat logo is the best in their history

Great video. This was my childhood team I grew up with. Went to my first Dbacks game in 2007, been a fan ever since

Love the videos man, the amount of effort and time you put into everything is amazing. Please don’t stop💯 if I have one request though, please make the ref guess videos for JM a little harder! I’m tired of guessing all the guys in the first 30 seconds😂

These videos get more and more entertaining with each passing upload. Jolly is here to stay 💪

Great vid man thx

Another great vid. 2 thumbs up fer the MLB Power Pros music.

I’m honestly curious could we get a video about the players who were drafted by the Diamondbacks and later became stars on different teams

What about the 2012 Orioles? All those extra-inning W's? I KNOW they overachieved! Thanks Jolly!

Great video!

The Power Pros music is giving me nostalgia overload. I would always play as the Dbacks in Power Pros 2007 franchise mode

Oh thank you for the Dbacks video! 🥰

One of my fav Diamondbacks teams to watch. They also had 3 straight walk offs in 2007

I love that you use power pros music in your videos

They did not sign Adam Dunn, they traded for him in mid August of 2008, he barely played for them.

You just blew my mind into 10000 pieces with that Yorvit Torrealba name drop. That would be the ultimate “hard” round answer for RefGuess

Jolly when I think 2007 I think of the Phillies miraculously winning the division over your Mets down 7 games with 17 to go

The highest seed in the 2007 National League won 90 games? Nuts how wide open the league was that year.

The GOAT strikes again with another banger

Clicked for the thumbnail... nice work

Man the 2016 Rangers season was soooo fun 36-11 in one run games

Kinda reminds me of the 2021 SF Giants too

As an Angels fan, I find this video to be pretty relatable.

Micah Owings tried making an MLB comeback as a first baseman and has a career OPS in the 800s. Man's wasn't just a good hitting pitcher, he was legitimately a good hitter.

Who's here after they won 84 games and made the NLCS

Love the MLB PowerPros music in the background

It really shows the importance of situational hitting and being clutch on the diamond whether it's getting a big hit with RISP late in the game or making a great game saving catch or a big pitch when you're in a jam. Numbers alone don't tell us everything about the game. Perhaps that team gelled well together and had chemistry and a clubhouse leader. They certainly had a good mix of veterans and rookies. Whatever the case, I'm glad the game is played on the field, not on paper or computers!

This is astounding. Were there any metrics not mentioned that they excelled in? Base Running? BABIB? I feel like there has to be something explain their success even a little bit.

At 19, I’m in med school not doing well in chemistry. Justin Upton at 19 made his debut. Well, if school is considered the minor I’m in high-A ball. That’s some ways off.

I remember watching the 2001 world series and became obsessed with the 2007 team and was convinced they would go back to the world series that year.

You should do a video on the best hitting pitchers in modern mlb history

I remember at the very beginning of the 08 season when they started really well, it looked like the DBacks were set up for years of championship contention, given they were coming off the NLCS berth & had what appeared at the time to be a talented young core. Then it actually turned out that they weren't that talented after all. One of the more puzzling teams in recent memory for sure.

Great video would love to see a video on the 2002 angels they literally had no hall of famers on there roster and still managed to win the world series

I'd love to see a video about the 85 Cardinals. My favorite team ever. Coleman was a kleptomaniac on the bases, McGee was a beast (if he didn't get hurt in 86...), Ozzie Smith was the Wiz (nuff said), Herr,, Clark, Pendleton, Van Slyke were great that year too. Tudor, Andujar, Worrell etc gave them good pitching backed up by one of the best fielding teams I've ever seen. That was a fun team that would make a fun video to make and watch imo.

That fireball comment hit hard lol

The 2021 Giants kind of remind me of this team. Overachievers, best record in the National League, get beat out by division rivals in the postseason.

Love love love love love the MLB power pros music

We love to see DBacks content

This team was so fun to watch. Miss those baby backs days. Gets me excited to see this years team.

I love the power pros music. Greatest video game of all time

The explanation for the pythagorean record is that basically, whenever the 07 D-Backs won, it was a close game. Whenever they lost, they got absolutely shilacked.

2007 has to be the worst year in modern baseball.

Kind of a typical first year Bob Melvin team. They play out of their minds and the fanbase falls in love, and then it’s a hard act to follow up.

“Ha ha, suck it, Math” -The 2007 Diamondbacks

You sold me this team on Justin Upton and Miguel Montero. I now wonder if this team would have done better than Colorado did VS Boston.

Reminds me of last years mariners without the bad conference to help 😂

I heard they're coming out with a new power pros game this year with a focus on the WBC

The real reason nobody remembers them though is that nobody really remembers the Rockies too. Them getting absolutely crushed in the World Series really ruined any talk. The narrative going into the postseason was that the AL was significantly better than the NL and the fact that that bore out to be true really ruins the cinderella stories from the NLWest.

Thanks mate great video GO DBACKS

Wait, wait, wait Max Scherzer played for the d-backs

10:49 And….now 2023!

You should make a video about Ted Lilly; he was a decent pitcher.

The 2021 Mariners had the same record with an even worse run differential (-51), but aren’t remembered because they missed out on the playoffs

I hope you can make a video about how the Detroit Tigers became a world series team in 2006 it would be nice.

It's surprising and frankly disappointing that you don't mention the team defence of the '07 D-backs even once in this video. They ranked 3rd in the NL in Total Zone Runs Above Avg., 2nd in Defensive Runs Saved Above Avg., and 8th in Defensive Efficiency. According to the Plus/Minus System, the D-backs had the 3rd best defence in the NL. Without such stellar team defence, there's no way the '07 team would have won all those 1-run games, and in my mind it was their gloves that pushed this team from average to competitive. It's quite a shame that none of this was never mentioned.

This was the era of overachieving teams post-steroids when the talent pool wasn’t nearly as good as it is today. That’s why you got a lot of random Cinderella WS runs that were quickly undone by a superior team. Nowadays you have to be pretty talented to make a World Series appearance, much less win it.

Even if they were to get pass the rockies in the NL championship series that yr., not sure if they would’ve topped off with the Red Sox or who knows it could’ve been anyone’s guess on how that series between the sox and dbacks would’ve shaped up to be

When Mich oh wings pitched it was like having a DH back then for them lol

Jolly sorry if this question is random, but who do you believe is the greatest position player? The last 5 people I asked all had different answers

Eric Byrnes was a fascinating character.

Webby is my all time favorite “underrated” player

Can you do a video on the 2012 Orioles

these guys just took 2/3 in a series from me in power pros :(

YOU USED THE 2007 MLB POWER PROS SONG OMG

Like the 2022 version of the Vikings!

They remind me of the 88 win 2021 Braves. They got hot at thè right time.

2021 Mariners were made for this video series

It's crazy this Dbacks team was the first seed in the NL. They've had other teams with better talent that disappointed badly.

Owings could've been a 2 way ish player today, Wild!

You know what team people are going to comment about from that thumbnail

Dunn was a trade addition later on in 2008.

I wouldn't say blowouts skew the the Pythagorean Win % Metric. Really good/talented ((or bad/replacement level)) teams win ((or lose)) by big margins often enough.

A VIDEO ON MY DBACKS LETS GO ! WORLD SERIES CHAMPS 2026 !

Good video. Dodgers underachieved that year and the Cubs choked in the first round as usual.

Hold on… how the hell did 90 wins get you the 1 -seed?!? No way that happens in todays game

hard to remember Mark Reynolds as a rookie

I, currently 19 years old, am watching this video while writing a paper, and decidedly not manning right field for the diamondbacks