Who is the BEST College Baseball Player of All-Time? 

Do I even have to say it?

Anytime John Olerud is recognized for how incredible of a player he was is a good day

Todd Helton set the NCAA record for consecutive scoreless innings pitched at Tennessee

Best John O story (while maybe apocryphal) is Rickey, after joining John in Seattle, noticed he played in a helmet and said “I used to play with a guy like that in NY” and John said “yeah, Rickey, that was me”

Barry. Bonds. his entire team at ASU voted to kick him off the team but he was so valuable that the head coach vetoed the team’s vote

Holy shit, the "whopper" part of the video played and then a real ad played and it was the SAME damn burger king commercial! What the hell is the nonsense.

I love Mike's girl cosplay

Thank you. Johnny O was the guy I thought of immediately. 2 way player award named after him. No minors

Loved Olerud from jump with the Jays. The era he played in kinda obscured how good he was - other 1Bs were hitting 40 bombs and driving in 100, and getting all the attention; while Olerud was busy "only" hitting .300, walking a hundred times, and playing the best defense in the league - except for the few years he shared a league with Mark Grace. Everybody in the '90s wanted a first baseman who could bat cleanup, a 1B tailor made for the 2-hole was bound to be underrated. What's weird (I mean not that weird - the Cubs had WGN showing their games nationwide) is that Grace is more remembered than Olerud, though Johnny O was better almost every year they were both in MLB. And yeah. The Babe Ruth of college ball.

1986-88 must've been a crazy three years for College baseball

Great vid. I share the love for John-O. The man seemed to hit 300 every year, also had some pop in his bat and, from what I’ve heard anyway, was a great teammate.

great list. always been an Olerud fan. thought you would put Brooks Kieschnick on the list

i got to see trevor bauer and gerrit cole pitch at the college world series for ucla!! they were crazy good i also saw buster posey for florida state, jackie bradley jr. for south carolina, dustin ackley for unc, gordon beckham and josh fields for georgia

I can apricate trying to avoid recency bias, but you can't not at least mention Adley Rustchman. Buster Posy was amazing, but do you not agree Rustchman's time at Oregon State was any less impressive? As a two sport athlete freshman he played in 61 games, hitting .234/.322/.306 on his way to a CWS appearance. Sophomore year he gives up punting for the football team, reworks his swing and slashed .408/.505/.628 with nine home runs and 83 RBIs ending that season with a CWS record 17hits, CWS MVP and least forget the Championship itself? How did he follow that up? Junior year, pegged as the consensus number one over all pick, with a new Coach, multiple team mates from the past few seasons drafted in the first round? The answer is .411/.575/.751 with 17 home runs and 58 RBIs. Yes he didn't make it to the CWS that season, but his performance was so dominate that he took home both the Golden Spikes and the Dick Houser awards.

Thank You For The College Baseball History On OLERUD. I Learned Something New Today In Sports History. I Only Remember Him Wearing That Hitters Hat All Time & Now It All Makes Sense.

Before I even watch a second of this, it's Pete Incaviglia!

Great Vid! Love watching college baseball! I was wondering if you could do a video on Mickey Vernon?

Marshall mcDougall hit 6 hr in one game, which is impressive. Just pointing it out

Damn Max Scherzer has always looked older. Amazing pitcher

Damn young Jedi good job on the video. Baseball is life

Robin Ventura and Pete incavillia were unreal at ok state.

Great video, nice work Jordan.

Interesting topic to cover, now I know why some if these guys were heavily scouted before they got drafted into the MLB

Dear SRS team, you folks are killing it! Please keep it up

Gerald Dempsey Posey III, not "Dempster"

Haven't seen a video with the narrator before, good job! 👍

no mention of spencer torkelson? his total numbers get buried because of a covid-shortened season and an early collegiate exit for the draft, but being fortunate to watch him every day was a magnificent sight to behold. one of the sweetest right handed swings, incredible plate discipline, GREAT defense evident by his move to 3rd upon being drafted

I think you forgetting Mark Kotsay 641 abs 52 k's 45 hrs .404 ba 216 rbis. pitching (mainly a reliever/closer)3 wins 2 loses 14 saves 3.90 era (only bad stat)

great video

YES! Olerud was great Id pay to watch that guy take BP Mostly forgotten mlb player but had a very respectable career with flashes of a superstar (93 season) He came to the sox in 2005 and i got there early, hoping to watch him hit. Maybe the most underrated swing in modern baseball And, I think, a real down to earth guy that's gone through heavy stuff...i believe the reason he came to Boston was because of the excellent hospitals. His kid had health issues.

JD Drew, Pat Burrell and the freak Tim Linculm ( SP) should have been mentioned in my opinion

It’s Lance Berkman and that’s the only choice

I love John Olerud. Watched him all the time when he was with Mariners.

I know Steve hacker, he gives lessons up at the place I hit at, my dad used to teach lessons at the same place with him He's a super nice guy

Barry. However, Buster has a real argument. Lance Berkman was UNBELIEVABLE. My favorites though: Jeff Weaver, Giuseppe Chiaramonte, and Justin Wilson. Go Dogs!!!

Jered Weaver’s junior year at LBSU.

8:27 strickland pitching to posey in college lol

Can’t forget Pedro Alvarez….he broke every hitting record at Vanderbilt….it’s why he went 2nd overall in the 2008 draft….ahead of your boy Posey 🤷🏼‍♂️

Bob Horner was the best overall college hitter. Anthony Rendon was probably the best freshman and sophomore. For a two-way player, Dave Winfield was probably the best pitcher in college in 1973. Shut out USC's best team in the CWS. Horner and Winfield both went directly from college to the majors, Winfield of course as an outfielder.

I miss watching Posey play 😢

Jon olreud

lol the shoutout to the king of juco

I remember Pat Burrell being a stud at Miami U.

eric sim is a jabroni

Shout out Marshall McDougall.

Lou Gehrig! You said of ALL time.

My guess off the top of my head before watching is Robin Ventura

What about Brooks Kieschnick? Texas 90-93 he’s the only 2x Dick howser trophy twice and won them back to back

Will Clark

My girl deadnamed Buster Posey 😭😭😭

Darren Dreifort.

As a coug there is only one proper response to seeing John O. GO COUGS!

Sucks that Buster called it quits. I respect it but he had so much baseball in front of him and proved he could play other positions.

John olerud was pretty good

Inky... everyone else is playing for 2nd place. 🧡

Mark Prior USC

Calfzilla. Mark price

Robin Ventura and it's not even close.

JD Drew

Pete incaviglia

Brendan McKay

I'm sorry. Barry Bonds wasn't ONE of the best players of his generation, Bonds is THE greatest player of his generation and arguably the greatest player of all time. Other than that, fantastic video!

Robin Ventura.

Kevin kopps?

on the contrary, these collegiate statements likely solidify Bonds as the greatest player on the offensive side of the ball. Steroids don't make you good at hitting the ball. all I'm saying

All this John Olerud talk with no Ricky story??

RBIs

Posey

Barry Bonds

Khalil Greene

Pete Incaviglia is by far the best player of all time………. Those will never be broken, the others may.

Adley Rutschman. No arguments

Who tf is this announcer?

Wrong Jac Caglianone

Why did everyone in this video only play three seasons? Do good players ever play for four seasons?

Where Carson Fulmer 🫤

Damn didn’t make it..

Comleg

Not sure why Ben McDonald is on this list. You spent more time explaining what a nice guy he is than justifying his placement in this video.

Jeff Conine not being on this list is a travesty! 🤷🏼‍♂️

No Dustin Ackley, cmon SRS you guys are better than this.

Most of the these were all in the gorilla ball era

We’re talking college here let’s not say shohei ohtani who? Lmao 😂

people need to put some respect on bonds name jus cause roids when everyone else was using them he was the scapegoat

GIRLS can like BASEBALL?

Why doesn’t she pluralize RBI

When did a woman start doing videos for the channel?

Pete incaviglia has entered the chat

Mariners legend John Olerud

Steroids made it entertaining..their job is to entertain..Bonds did his job better than most, so what's the problem??