The Saddest MLB Season 

He was so bad I thought it was intentional

He was a centerfielder who made his debut at 19. So at 31, he already had 12 years under his belt playing exclusively a position that is truly meant for young and fresh legs.

Hearing the RuneScape music made this SOOOOO nice! Great job on this video!! Keep it up!!

Clicked on it for the title but the RuneScape music made me hit the like button immediately, great vid!

I was curious how many subs you had and I was like no freaking way this guy only has 300(realized you just made the channel). Content is way better than I’d expect from a channel this new. Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll kill it. If I can make a suggestion for a video, those Giants teams with Posey, Sandoval, MadBum, etc had a lot of interesting things to cover!

I don’t even watch baseball but your videos are next level bro, you can take this channel as far as you want it to go!

Terrible season for sure, but Andruw Jones will always have my respect for this reason: That season, he was rehabbing at one point with the Las Vegas 51s. I went to a game and was trying to snag some autographs ( I was about 13 at the time) and didn’t think Jones would sign because 1. Most Major Leaguers rehabbing in the minors tend to be jerks with autographs and 2. He was having such a bad season, I figured he wouldn’t give a crap about fans. He was kind and humble enough, even in the midst of his worst season ever, to stop and sign autographs. Still have it to this day and have always been a fan of his since.

Andruw Jones belongs in the Hall of Fame. 10 Gold Gloves 434 Hr. If Maddux,Glavine,Smoltz,Chipper are in Andruw will be. He saved those Hall of Fame Pitchers allot of runs and hits.

I was a kid growing up in Atlanta when Andrew was in his prime. He was the greatest thing on defense that I ever seen. He should be in the hall. Great video!

Such a great video!! Excited to see more from you.

He was so good with the 90s braves. As an Astros fan hated playing against him and that crazy lineup in the playoffs when the Astros used to be a NL team.

Sad Jones was such a a beast, Watched him and the braves since I was a kid. I bet if he would of got in shape he could of had a couple more years.

Solid video, the music fits well! I hope you keep using similar music in the future, I think it suits the statistical approach you take.

Your scripting is so good! Excited to see what else you put out in the future!

Glad the algorithm is popping off for you, this is well made.

Great research and content. Keep it up!

Oh wtf you only have 160 subs? Ladies and Gentlemen, you’re witnessing the birth of a superstar

RuneScape music is a huge W

lol the RuneScape music, I see you bro.

How pissed do we think Joe Torre was watching that play turn into a triple? He's just sitting there scowling and thinking "How did I end up with such an awful defensive pairing?"

great vid.. subbed

Love the RuneScape music

Dude keep up these baseball videos!

Love ur video

The RuneScape soundtrack really ties this video together

Grew up in the South when the Braves and Skins were still the big teams. Andruw and Chipper really made me hate the Braves (I was a lonely child, so I naturally became a Cubs fan) but I had immense respect for both the Jones. Andruw is definitely a HOFer

Hey man. I'm gonna subscribe because I've seen some videos of yours and I like your subjects and how you write but also I have some constructive criticism which is that if you want the channel to grow you should work on having a creative identity beyond your Jon Bois influence. There's some stuff you've done that's really unique like playing the video transparently behind the graph. I think you should maybe think about how you can do some stuff more like that to make the channel's aesthetic and editing style more unique. Good job!

Just found your channel. Damn good video. You got a new sub here. Can't wait to check out some of your other vids. Keep up the good work.

this video is probably the first instance of anyone comparing an mlb player's decline to a global recession. nice vid

LA supporter here. thanks for reminding me of the andrew jones experience 😬😬 *punches a wall and throws a chair*

The 10 consecutive centerfield gold gloves alone should probably get him in the Hall. Add another 434 homers on top of that and he's a no brainer hall of famer. It used to be 500 career home runs made you an automatic first ballot hall of famer. So that alone gets him pretty close. The 10 straight gold gloves more than makes up for the 66 homers he would have needed for the Hall. He might be the best defensive center fielder of all time. The stat "Defensive Rating" says he's the best defensive center fielder of all time and by a pretty wide margin. That stat has Willy Mays as the #2 center fielder of all time behind but behind him by a fair distance. Once you consider the 434 homers on top of that he has to get in. The other thing to think about is that it does not even remotely look like Andruw took PEDs. He was never in great shape. His numbers actually got worse during the steroid era and he could have taken PEDs to improve them like a lot of players did but he chose not to. He never failed a drug test and his name never came up under any PED investigation or even any rumors or speculation. There is no PED cloud hanging around this guy at all. At the same time he was always competing against juicers so his numbers are solid but many of the numbers compared against him should be taken with a grain of salt. Even in this video it showed Manny Ramirez playing next to him and Manny was caught using steroids that exact same season. Andruw could have easily chosen to take PEDs but chose not to even when his numbers started to decline. He's easily a hall of famer. He's a guy who chose to play clean during the steroid era and still hit 434 home runs against juicers and still one 10 consecutive gold gloves and statistically might be the best defensive player to even play the centerfield position. I honestly can't believe he's been on the ballot for 6-years now and hasn't gotten in yet. I believe if people stopped comparing his numbers to the juicers who played in that era he would have gotten in already. 434 home runs doesn't look like as much when it's compared to the A-Rod's, Bonds's, McGwire's, Sosa's and Manny Ramirez's of the world but all those guys cheated while Andrew did everything clean.

In all fairness Andruw had started to decline his last year in Atlanta and his knees clearly became problematic as time went on. This decline was largely why he received only a 2 year deal. LA seemed to not be a good place for him either. But there is a misconception that he stopped being a productive hitter at this point when he actually was quite productive in limited action for the remainder of his career, offensively. His body took a beating. He routinely played nearly every game since age 20 or so and he, like Ichiro, grew up working extremely hard since he was a little kid. I heard he had to do, if I recall, 200 pushups and situps every night before bed as a kid. Foreign athletes are often pushed so hard at such a young age that they decline very sharply after age 30 or so. Some don't tho. He gave his all for a decade in Atlanta.

WHOOOOAAAAAA seeing Kershaw on the mound with Manny and Jones in the OF is so weird

Prime Andruw Jones was a time to be alive. Go Braves

Mark Mcgwire batted 201 in 91? He famously gave his salary back to the A's that year.

I mean when a guy that was this “good” all of a sudden turns that ridiculously bad, I assume something happened to his performance enhancing substance supply. Like David Ortiz that one year where he shrunk to half size and couldn’t hit for the first 2/3 of the season, Gerrit Cole when they first banned spider tack, or Sammy Sosa right when they started testing and then wound up having to cork his bat.

Great video! I was a Dodger season ticket holder that season and it was SHOCKING. I'd like to say that I was sympathetic and cheered for him to get out of his slump but I wasn't. I started yelling "fat ass, fat ass" chants in the stands that actually caught on. So much of his downfall was also due to poor conditioning and preseason work ethic. It was painful to watch and made it impossible to support him. This is also why I don't support his HoF bid.

Bro the runescape music

Please do more video's like this.

Great video. Just some friendly advice. Pick up the pace just a tad bit and it will be PERFECT!

Video editing, music gave me 90s vibe

Thought I was trippin when I heard the RuneScape music lmao

When he was good he was good !! But it got really ugly when he was struggling.

An overlooked thing is he spread out his stance at the suggestion of Willie Mays I think and while it gave him his 2 best offensive seasons he had to revert back his last year in ATL because his knees were bothering him. His decline started that year. Anyone saying it was ALL a matter of tanking dont understand this. If he felt healthy he wouldve kept that stance in his contract year and had a monster year and signed a longer deal but he had a poor year. If it was just about his not trying then why the worst year of his career in his contract year? The braves knew what was happening. The poor performance gave them the chance to sign him but they passed.

My stance on it is simple: if we're going to let Sandy Koufax get in based solely on the back of his 6 year peak, then Andruw Jones needs to get in, without a doubt. Longer career, similarly elite peak, but with multiple other high quality seasons as well. You take out Koufax's peak, he's average at best; you take out Jones's best 6 year run, he's still a solid MLB starter with occasional flashes of All-Star quality. We didn't let Koufax's lack of a back end of his career keep him out, so neither should Jones's late career decline keep him out, if that's the standard we are going with. Anything else is hypocritical.

Travis Shaw’s 2019 season (which was briefly shown in this video) could also have this title. No, he didn’t have the longevity that Andruw Jones had, but Shaw was a 30+ homer beast for the Brewers in 2017 and 2018 before inexplicably falling off a cliff. Like Jones after 2008, Shaw’s career never recovered.

Andruw Jojo Line

Is this runescape music?

good subject for a video, no one has touched on this yet

He played for the cameras. He timed his jumps on fly balls so he could dive for them.

No "everyday player" from the "Modern Era" that has a season below the Mendoza line should be in the HOF.

The RuneScape music lol

it wasnt chris davis's first 54 at bats it was the last 5 games of 2018 and first 12 of 2019

His son Druw was a 1st round pick for the Diamondbacks last year.

Man I always wondered what happened to that dude. He went from one the best players in MLB to terrible instantly.

pedro martinez 1999 and 2000 seasons they were the worst back to back seasons for batters

2022 and 2023 Trent Grisham

Man I don't remember him being with the Dodgers.

Surprised this isn't a "Sadman Baseball" topic.

Welcome to the club Stanton!

He would booed when announced in the starting lineup.

Andruw was arguably the best defensive outfielder of all time and he also hit 434 home runs. He should be in the hall no doubt.

Lou Gehrig's 1939 season is undoubtedly the saddest thing in sports history. Speaking of 39, how about a video explaining why the 39 Yankees are the single greatest team of all time.

Jones played in my hometown’s AAA team (the Greenville Braves) when I was growing up. He was a great player!

Lol is this the runescape soundtrack?

Blg shock here. Analytics and pitchers figured him out

wasup wit the music

Nice video. It feels a bit too much, like secret base with the music

zion williamson a baseball

This is a classic example of being driven by the wrong motivations. When he got that contract he thought he was being paid for what he did the previous 12 years. That's not how baseball works and man it can be humbling. No, his " I'm the man status" and lack of work ethic that off-season cost him the back half of what should have been a no doubt hall of fame career.

Do you think he played his way out hall of fame?

Tim Anderson last season was pretty sadly bad. Dudes production got knocked down and he got knocked out 😵

Image those people that made fun of Mendoza line watching baseball today and realize they were analytically stupid. Schwarber cranking nearly 100 homers in two season around 200 and 2 consecutive NLCS's.

Chris Davis is by far the most pathetic contract story I can even imagine. You could make a pretty awful movie about how Murphy's Law was in effect for the slugger, and it wasn't completely undeserved. Stopping Adderall ruined his career. He could afford some grimy doctors, I'd have just bought the scripts. You only need one to prescribe it. If he wants to abuse it... it must have gotten really bad... It ruined the Orioles attempt to sustain success. It was a huge investment, the biggest in franchise history, and dragged the team down for 7 years while actually trying to compete, before leading to the inevitable rebuild with a 25 million dollar investment into what used to be a solid power hitter that struck out a lot. After the suspension, he had no power and a monster hole in his swing that opposing pitchers found with ease. He struck out so much, had the 54 consecutive at-bays without a hit to start his season. It was humiliating, as an Orioles fan, I felt that humiliation in my soul, because I was so proud to have him in an Orioles uniform, I feel like I vouched for him, and he destroyed what little bit we had built

Pretty much he got paid and stopped caring.

5:30 What were the Dodgers smoking to "A" put an overweight Jones in CF next to Manny in LF... And "B" expecting anything in the gap to not instantly be a triple because they did that. I get people weren't fully aware of the decline of Jones to come... But still with Manny already in LF anything but lower defensive expectations is nuts. Manny was already terrible on defense despite having the Green Monster helping him cover less ground in Boston. Jones was clearly overweight and showing normal signs of aging even if his decline wasn't so severe. It's mind boggling to me Joe Torre was the Dodger manager at the time. After Torre was mlb's version of "King Midas" for nearly 3/4's of a decade in pinstripes.

wins above replacement-- what dat?

So many players with better stats are not in the HOF. No way does he deserve it.

I think there’s way too many people in the Hall. MLB is like 120 years old. How can we have 350 HOFers???

thanks for the yankees dodgers immaculate grid help!!

You can’t put everyone in the Hall..And after watching Jones most of his career, he comes up just a little short in my opinion..No shame in that.There’s a lot of good players that fall just a little short of the Hall

I think Giancarlo Stanton wants you to redo this take on the worst season ever!!

Classic Natural Baseball Player finds himself lost in a forest when his skills decline.

Let's get this man into the Hall!

My grandpa and I used to watch Houston Astros and loved Atlanta Braves because of Andruw Jones and Chipper Jones

Prime Andruw Jones was the greatest defensive outfielder of all time

Jones dosnt belong. We don’t award players who don’t care. We shouldn’t reward a wife beater. And we have reason to doubt on the advanced defensive numbers.

Andruw Jones is the laziest player i have ever seen. Non-speedsters like Paul LoDuca and Brad Hawpe took an extra base when Jones played their routine singles lackadaisically, with the submarine flip back toward the infield not even getting near 2nd base ahead of the runner. Then, when the Braves had finally had enough of him at age 30, he signed with the Dodgers and showed up to spring training very fat. When asked about his weight, he laughed it off. He was told that the fans might not appreciate their team's big free agent showing up so out of shape, so he said he didn't care what the fans thought. If he was such a great player, why did very smart baseball guys like John Scheurholz and Bobby Cox let him walk out the door as a free agent in the prime of his career? I can't believe there are people who want to put Andruw Jones in the Hall of Fame.

Ozzie smith is in the hall of fame based on his glove. Andrew Jones should be in the Hall based on his defense

If he hadn't played after 2006, he'd already have been elected

An outfield of an old Manny and a bum Andruw might be the worst defensive cf-lf duo of all time lol

It’s like he started getting older, his metabolism started to slow down and he didn’t make any adjustments for it. He thought he can eat and behave like he did when he was a kid and get away with it. Anyone who has aged into their 30s knows you can’t. I have a hard time giving my vote for the Hall to someone who didn’t just decline as all players do as they age but fell off a cliff. He wasn’t just an average player for some many years. He was well below average.

Andruw Jones is one of the Definitions of Hall of Very Good. Him, Todd Helton, Magglio Ordonez, and Matt Holiday are the Mt Rushmore of Hall of Very Good.

Never underestimate the Hall Of Very Good letting him in

You consider Henderson one of the greatest of all time but somehow you are unable to spell his name. Wow

The end of the steroid era ruined his career

Steroids?

Lazy and selfish player. It's why Gary Sheffield isn't in the Hall either.

The hall of fame will mean nothing to me if andruw jones makes the hall and not Barry Bonds. Put an asterisk next to his name idgaf but he’s going to be in the record books FOREVER and so will jones I suppose but not the good records

I absolutely hate Andruw Jones. I hope he never makes it into the Hall of Fame. He is the definition of lazy. Yes his early years were good, but I can never forget or forgive him for his time with the Dodgers.