The MLB One Hit Wonders Draft (with Foolish Baseball) 

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Foolish Bailey needs to play some Jolly games ASAP

Davey Johnson hit 43 home runs one year and his next closest HR total was 18

2014 Devin Mesoraco is a sleeper pick at catcher. Had 4.9 WAR and his career war was 4.7. Just crazy

bailey looks so good in the studio

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This was cooool. Great seeing Bailey on this channel, as always. Not sure how "one hit wonder" is defined, but I pulled up some examples from my childhood days... 1976 Mark "Bird" Fidrych: Weird dude, liked to talk to the ball before pitching... Leads the AL in ERA (2.34) and ERA+ (159), wins ROY but finishes second in the CY to Jim Palmer because the voters used to cream their pants for 20-win seasons... Pitched 162.0 innings across the next four injury-plagued years... Famously said "bullshit" during a live postgame interview, years before Charlie Rocket dropped an F-bomb on SNL. 1980 Miguel Dilone: Batted .341 in the year George Brett flirted with .400, and stole 61 bases in a season when three different players swiped at least 96, plus he was in Cleveland, which is why even most fans my age don't remember him... Pretty much never an everyday player, seeing action in 800 games across 12 seasons, with 1980 being the closest to a full season. Note: the 1980 season was huge for SBs in general. Several players who no one remembers had massive career highs that year: Rodney Scott (63), Jerry Mumphrey (52), Gene Richards (61) and Dave Collins (79). A few other players better known for other things also had career-best SB years: Ron LeFlore (97), Bump Wills (52), Ozzie Smith (57) and Ivan DeJesus (44). Omar Moreno had 96 bags after pacing the NL in that category in the two previous years, yet did NOT lead the league because LeFlore had gone from Detroit to Montreal that year. Finally, 1980 marked the first time ever that an American Leaguer went for triple digits, as some kid named Rickey Henderson stole exactly 100. Not sure why this one season had so many huge SB performers, but it did. 1980 Doug Corbett and Joe Charboneau: Corbett had a 221 ERA+ (1.98 ERA) with 5.7 WAR as a rookie yet finished with 9.3 career WAR... Finished 3rd in the ROY behind another guy who most GenXers think of when it comes to one-year wonders: Charboneau, who hit .289/.358/.488 in that first year but had 210 PAs for the rest of his brief career, giving him the distinction of having the shortest career of any ROY winner... And I just want to mention the ROY runner-up: Dave Stapleton, a solid glove guy at multiple positions, who in the 1986 World Series was Bill Buckner's late-inning defensive replacement in Games 1, 2 and 5 but not 6... Hell, I'm a Red Sox fan and I didn't remember Stapleton being a decent hitter, but he certainly was as a rookie. 1992 Pat Listach: Came up in a span when I wasn't following baseball quite as avidly, so I don't remember much about him as a player except that he won the ROY and had Tim Kurkjian gushing in some Sports Illustrated year-end recap video... Posted 4.5 WAR with 54 bags in that first year but finished with a career 4.3 WAR, which tells you his overall trajectory... Personally, I know him better as the visiting manager whenever Tacoma came to town in the mid-2010s... Never once got a complaint from him, perhaps because a) I don't think Listach knew there was a press box phone in the dugout, and b) the Rainers radio guy refuses to be the go-between for a manager and OS. 1983 Atlee Hammaker: Led the NL in ERA (2.25), ERA+ (159), FIP (2.57) and WHIP (1.039)... One of my dad's favorite players because he was half-Japanese... Joined Dave Dravecky and Scott Garrelts as a nucleus as very God-fearing, clean-living members of the Giants' pitching staff... Garrelts ended up having one beast of a season himself in 1989, the same year that Dravecky's arm snapped while attempting a comeback from cancer... And yet the end of the 1989 Giants season might be the most famous (or infamous) part of the year, especially for those of us living in Northern California... Fun fact: Sacramento State had a volleyball player named Atlee in the mid-2000s who was named such because her parents were huge Giants fans. 1978 Mike Caldwell: Had some sneaky good years sprinkled earlier in his career... Still, he never came close to the time when he had a 2.36 ERA and a 160 ERA+, but no remembers because he happened to do it in a year when Ron Guidry was in beast mode... Also led the league with 23 CGs, which is probably why his career started going downhill fast - Caldwell was one of the last guys not on Billy Martin's A's teams to post 20-plus CGs in a year 1985 John Tudor: Okay, this guy definitely does NOT count because he was actually pretty solid for most the 1980s, but in this one season, he had 10 shutouts and a league-leading 0.938 WHIP. Never approached either before nor after, but not many have... In the last 60 years, the following pitchers have broken double-digit shutouts in a season: Dean Chance (11 in 1964), Juan Marichal (10 in 1965), Bob Gibson (13 in 1968), Jim Palmer (10 in 1975) and Tudor. And Tudor will almost certainly be the last player ever to do that because teams and coaching staffs have wised up on how to most effectively use starting pitchers.

Rick Porcello is definitely a good shout at pitcher here. One Cy Young award, but zero other career accolades, including no all-star games (not even in his Cy Young season)

2011 alex Avila just inexplicably has one of the best hitting catcher seasons of the last 50 years

2013 Domonic Brown might be the definition of a one year wonder

Andres Torres might be my favorite Giant ever. His 2010 season was SPECIAL.

Am I crazy for thinking Luis Gonzalez should qualify? He was a great hitter for a lot of his career, but no where near 57 homers and 175 ops+.

Steve Pearce his 2018 post season run comes to mind for me

so I thought they were going to do a draft of all MLB players that had only had 1 HIT in their careers LOL

Pre steroid bust 2012 Melky Cabrera was insane

For a closer, 1995 jose Mesa was insane. League leading 47 saves with 1.13 ERA. Long career and never came close to that again

need to see 2018 Miguel Andujar. .297 ba, 27 bombs, 130 ops + and never played over 50 games in any season since

Haven’t watched yet, my personal OHW squad C: Willians Astudillo 1B: Logan Morrison 2B: Marwin Gonzalez 3B: Renato Nunez SS: Zack Cozart LF: Brady Anderson CF: Desmond Jennings RF: Ryan Ludwick DH: Oscar Gonzalez SP: Brad Bergessen RP: Steve Delabar RP: Carter Capps CL: Nick Anderson

2012 R.A. Dickey has to be the greatest 1 hit wonder pitcher. Cy Young winner as a knuckleballer for a bad Mets team. Never reproduced anything close to that season.

HE CAN LEAVE?!

I will never forget 2019 Danny Santana definitely was a juice ball merchant

Morgan Ensberg was on my list, love that pick. I have a signed ball from him and met him when he played for my local college summer ball semi pro team.

I'm surprised that 2021 ROY Jonathan India wasn't selected as the one year wonder at second when the guy was trying to find a recent one year wonder at second.

I always loved that Jason Castro was an Astro, and grew up in Castro Valley, CA

Andres Torres was so fun to watch in 2010. Loved him and Freddy Sanchez as a 1/2

This is a fun concept always enjoy when foolish comes on the show

As a Marlins fan I'll offer Chris Coghlan in his rookie season, 2009. .321/.390/.460 with 162 hits

I NEED all the Jomboy and JM adjacent people together for a draft similar to the NBA 75 list one with all the different groups drafting. It could be 5 hours and i’d watch every second

some recent names that went through my head watching this: Chris Colabello: 2015 Aristides Aquino: 2019 Joey Wendle: 2018 (led all rookies in bWAR) Paul DeJong: 2017 Aaron Sanchez: 2016

I want to see foolish on some Jolly games now.

Bret Boone was my 2001 Salary cap league darling. Never forget that season.

Lowkey a trio I could watch daily fr keep this up if possible 🫶🏻

2002 Junior Spivey for the Dbacks at 2nd Base is a good one

So much great irony looking at the reference pages!

Fun Andres Torres fact: In 2010, he had to get an appendectomy in mid-September, but he managed to come back in less than 2 weeks to help the Giants win the division and later the World Series

This was a fun way to start my day. Just guys naming dudes lol

I would add 2006 Gary Matthews Jr. Was an all star, finished top 10 in AL position player WAR, was a career .257 hitter who hit .313 and made that one spectacular catch against Houston

Zack Cozart should have made the list, period. 2017: 24 2B 7 3B 24 HR 62 BB / 78 K .297/.385/.548 .933 OPS 140 OPS+ 5.2 WAR His career slashline: .247/.300/.399 .699 OPS 88 OPS+

Daniel Camarena. Literal one hit wonder, got one hit his entire career. It just happened to be a 2 out grand slam against a hall of fame pitcher.

I’m still in awe of 2021 Cedric Mullins

Definitely a bit better of a career than a lot of the guys you mention, but the guy that came to mind for me is 2014 Michael Brantley. 20 HR, 23 for 24 SB, 45 2B, and .327 leading to a 3rd place MVP finish when he had a single other MVP vote the rest of his career.

2016 Blue Jays Michael Saunders. He had a similar year a few years before, but was still clearly on one for him in 2016 and made the all star game.

Austin Barnes actually had a crazy 1 year, although he only played around 100 games but with a 400 obp and 900 ops

Miguel Andujar and Ubaldo Jimenez are who I thought of

i've thought about daric barton 2010 before -- he has absolutely filthy dWAR for some reason. bbref LOVES his 1b defense that year. 18(!!!!) DRS. maybe helped by having pennington and ellis in the IF? idk.

Love bailey and jm keep up the good work💪❗️

jason bartlett in 2008 got mvp votes with 1 home run

Chris Colabello 2015 with the jays having at OPS+ of 138 and his next closest was 86 needs to shouted out too

04 Rich Aurilia could have been a snag at shortstop

Daric Barton is a completely foul pull, Bailey. Well done lmfao. Shoutout 2011 Mike Morse for this if he doesn’t make it before I finish the video.

Austin Barnes 2017 crazy

93 Lenny Dykstra is tge first guy I thought off, for obvious reasons. Funny enough, as a Phillies fan 2 guys I thought of for this as good players that had a great season were Darren Daulton and Dave Hollins in 93, because that was such as weird year. Both Looking at their baseball reference pages, you can make the arguement they had 1-year wonder seasons based on WAR, but for both their best season was 92, when the team finished last in the division.

What you need to do to determine a winner is compare your lineups by total war of each player’s respective best season, and you are trying to accumulate the most war from your players best seasons, and then add up the players WAR from their 3rd best season and you are trying to accumulate the least

Rack em Willie oh my goodness what a throw back lol

While technically not a one-hit wonder due to having several really good seasons and a really good career, I'd like to honorable mention Luis Gonzalez's 2001 season. That year, he hit 57 home runs, with his previous high having been 31... that's the largest gap of home runs for a player's best and 2nd best totals in MLB history. His OPS was 165 points higher than his next best, his OPS+ was 36 points higher, his SLG was 139 points higher, and he set career highs in nearly every category by a wide margin. It's one of the biggest outlier seasons of all time, which was made even more impressive by the fact he already had some other big years.

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I too constantly think about 2000 Darin Erstad

1993. Two National League Catchers. Player 1: .318/.370/.561/.932 153 OPS+ 35hr 7.0 bWAR Player 2: .303/.376/.561/.937 151 OPS+ 30hr 6.6 bWAR Player 1 Was 9th in MVP voting, won ROTY, was an all star, and won silver slugger. He went on to be a HOF player and arguably the best hitting catcher of all time Mr. Mike Piazza. Player 2 got zero accolades that year and was Rick Wilkinsfor the Cubs who accumulated 4.1 bWAR over the next 8 seasons.

If we are only doing 1 through 9 then my team would be full of guys who were very solid. So solid in fact that they would be able to compete. The line up has lots of hit getters and a few home run machines, as well as a fantastic starting pitcher. Nori Aoki (2013): Outfield Matt Stairs (1999): DH Rickie Weeks (2010): Second Base Bill Hall (2006): Third Base Benito Santiago (1996): Catcher Gary Matthews Jr. (2006): Outfield Brandon Belt (2021): First Basemen Deivi Cruz (2000): Shortstop Randy Winn (2005): Outfield Shawn Estes (1997): Starting Pitcher

1993 Rick Wilkins, 2000 Charles Johnson, 2011 Jacoby Ellsbury, 2018 Jesus Aguilar and 2010 Delmon Young are all upset they didn’t even get a shout out here.

Is Jocoby Elseburry eligible, or was 2013 too good of a second best season?

My squad- C Rick Wilkins 1993, 1B John Vander Wall 2000, 2B Junior Spivey 2002, SS Bill Hall 2006, 3B Fernando Tatis Sr 1999, LF Bernard Gilkey 1996, CF Jacoby Ellsbury 2011, RF Richard Hidalgo 2000, DH Rich Aurilia 2001 (could be the SS and move Bill Hall here). Pitcher Ben Sheets 04 although he had some good seasons off of that but that was a big outlier.

You guys should do peak hall of famers like they got great rate stats but didn’t play long enough to make the hall (obviously no ped players and no pre 1980 seasons ) I feel like yall could make the minimum but 6 years min seems good

norm cash better be on this. 9.2 war one season 201 OPS+ next best war was 5.4. great career but crazy single season

Crazy Jason Bartlett finished 18th in MVP in 2008, before the season mentioned in the video, and he only had 1 homer and 1.7 WAR 😂

1998 Scott Brosius definitely comes to mind

Daren Erstad in 2000 is absolutely something I think about on at least a monthly basis 😂 that season was WILD. The really insane thing about that season is he had 240 hits and finished 8th in mvp voting… absolutely robbed

Dan Gladden... career .270 hitter. His rookie season he hit .351 over 400 plate appearances in 1984. He never hit .300 again (although he did have a reasonable career on the base paths). 3.2 WAR over 86 games. Brook Jacoby had a pretty good year in '87. So did Jack Clark. .286, 35 HRs, .459 OBP. Here is a funny one... obviously way too short a sample size, but Alan Knicely got traded to Houston and went 4 for 7 with two home runs. Hack Wilson had a few good seasons... in terms of raw falloff... .356, 56 HRs, 191 RBIs to .261, 13 HR, 61 RBI. (But he had some other really good seasons.) Not a full season, but Gary Sanchez had a great partial year and was never anything close to that again. Atlee Hammaker, 1983... 2.25 ERA led the league. Next best qualifying ERA season was 3.58. 4.6 WAR. Next best was 2.2. Googling around though, the absolute champ in terms of WAR gap is probably Tim Keefe... WAR 19.9 WAR. His second best was 10.3. I mean, 3 seasons with a WAR over ten, but when your best season it was 19.9 nothing else will come close.

This is the perfect exercise for this group.

i could name like a million braves pitchers. also johan camargo at 3rd base in 2018 i knew foolish was going to name estrada in 03 after he said catcher and needed a braves. i got excited. i remember my dad saying "no stick" estrada at the begginining of 03 then he had his really good yr and i ragged my dad the whole yr about that

I've always wondered why the Friars gave up on Villanueva. Love the s/o Foolish

I was thinking Larry Hisle 1977 but it turns out he had some other good years.

I was a giants fan when I was a kid during the 2010s era and I forgot about Andres Torres

Bobo Holloman I believe would qualify if single game players are considered. Threw a no hitter, and only pitched 22 games; all in 1953.

I know it’s so nerdy but having a guy from the 1920s who played 3 seasons and had 220 hits one year would’ve been fun. Like a thousand of those guys.

spent the entire 55 minutes thinking about mark prior. foundational player to me as a 7-year-old cubs fan. felt insane to realize later in life just how short his career was because of the injuries

As a Giants fan can’t believe I didn’t immediately think of Andres Torres. My first thought was Rich Aurilia

If we're doing two months wonder, I'm picking Henri Rodriguez April-May 1996 (20 HR, ended up with 30 something). I wish there was also monthly WAR out there, cause it was negative for his 1996. Again on the Expos point of view, our pitching one year wonder is 1878 Ross Grimsley, the only 20 wins by an Expo pitcher. (Btw I know about wins.)

I'll never forget, I was teaching English to a Korean kid who loved baseball, and I was trying to use a baseball example to teach him grammar. I asked him "who is your favorite player in the MLB?" "Mark Trumbo"

50:15 BBD blew my mind with this one. He really did build a career off of punching Bautista.

I would have gone with Jonathan Schoop in 2017. I know he had a 3.4 win season the year before but he put up a 6.5 in 2017. Was an all star, got MVP votes.

Edmonds was on a Housewives show a while ago and came across horrrriiiiibbblllyyy. He seemed to hate his child bride... I think he's 2-3 more marriages deep since that though

Maybe i’m a biased tigers fan but Brandon Inge in 2009 deserves a shoutout

FB named some absolute legendary dudes today, respect.

2016 Aledmys Diaz would’ve been a good shortstop pick.

Toby Borland, 1995. His rookie year. 2.36 ERA, 184 ERA+ in 34.1 innings pitched, and he never came close to that again. Nice guy though, and a fantastic mustache

Quentin would have been the MVP. It was a really down year offensively in the AL and Carlos was dominating that year. He really had no competition in that race (Cy Young Award was a different story). He broke his wrist slamming his bat early Sept. and missed the rest of the season. That dumb moment cost his that award. As a bitter White Sox fan, it's a painful memory but its burned into my brain.

brett boone came to mind first ben sheets and brandon webb pitchers

Drove me crazy not seeing anybody pick 2000 Richard Hidalgo 😂😂

Buzz Arlet, a true one hit wonder… only played one year

I’m 3 minutes in but I imagine it’s safe to say Ellsbury for his MVP runner up season has to be on this board

The ultimate OYW is "Super" Joe Charboneau. Won ROY w 2.5WAR and was -.4 & -.5 the next 2 years and out of baseball

One day wonder goes to Tuffy Rhodes. Hit 3 home runs off Doc Gooden on opening day in 1994. Only had 41 the rest of career, in MLB. Of course, here in Japan he's a legendary HR hitter.

Not sure if he qualifies but mike lieberthal 1999 was a pretty special year from the catcher position.

where’s the love for twins and blue jays legend chris collabello ?!?!

2018 Kyle Freeland had one of the two best Rockies pitching seasons ever (the other being 2010 Ubaldo) and I’d argue he’s more of a 1 hit wonder than Ubaldo. 8 war season and never again over 3.5

We stan Paul Lo Duca in this household. Our big, beautiful, Italian boy.

Jim Hickman (Lf-Rf) 1970 cubs ...

It's not a one-year wonder because it was over two years, but Arrieta. Last 20 starts of 2015, 0.86 ERA, first 15 starts of 2016, 1.74 ERA. In those 35 straight starts, 245 innings and a 1.21 ERA. Greatest 35 start stretch in baseball history, just a shame it wasn't one full season.

Watched the Talkin Yanks "short term Yankees draft" in preparation for this