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The Steroid Era's Forgotten Star
Juan Gonzalez was signed at the age of 16 from Puerto Rico and by the mid-90s, he was one of the best players in the game. He led the league in home runs and rbis multiple times and won MVP in 1996 and 1998. He was later traded to the Tigers and had a chance to be the highest paid player in the game but did not want to play in the large field. His career would come to an end amidst numerous injuries and steroid allegations which kept him from the Hall of Fame and left him overshadowed.
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The Dark Side Of Hank Aaron's Home Run Chase
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It became clear that Hank Aaron was going to become the home run king after 1972, and the race heated up in the summer of 1973, and with the chase, it also brought ton of attention, not all in a good way. Aaron received almost 1 million pieces of mail during the chase and estimates were made that one third of the mail was hateful. Numerous racist taunts, slurs, and death threats directed at Aar...
How Orel Hershiser Set The Unbreakable Streak
Просмотров 8 тыс.21 час назад
Orel Hershiser was in a tight race for the Cy Young as the 1988 season was coming to an end, until he decided to pitch the last 59 innings of the season without giving up a run. Breaking the record set by Don Drysdale in 1968 by one inning. And he carried that stretch into the playoffs as he would throw 8 shutout innings in game 1 of the 1988 NLCS against the Mets. Going on to win NLCS & World ...
What Was The Best Winning Streak In Baseball?
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.День назад
Since 1903, just 4 times in MLB history a team went on a 20 game winning streak. The 1916 Giants being the first team to do so on their 26 game win streak that has still not been topped. The next being the 1935 Cubs which was gave them the pennant as they would go on to lose the 1935 World Series to the Tigers. The one after that being the most famous in the 2002 Oakland Athletics, topped off w...
How Bobby Cox Created The Atlanta Braves
Просмотров 7 тыс.14 дней назад
Before he led the Braves to 14 straight division titles and a World Series, he was in the front office as GM. There he made numerous signings, trades, and draft picks that led to success they never had. Signing or drafting the likes of Steve Avery, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, David Justice, and Chipper Jones. And with the pieces there, he took over the manager position as he once had and made the...
The Biggest Hall Of Fame Snubs At Every Position
Просмотров 25 тыс.21 день назад
With every year brings more hall of fame snubs, some worse than others but all debated. In this video we look at the snubs of every position to Dwight Evans to Kenny Loft to Graig Nettles to Lou Whitaker to Keith Hernandez to Johan Santana to Thurman Munson with more to come. Follow us: Twitter: sportsesque Instagram: baseballinpix #sports #history #baseball #baseballh...
Harry Caray: Baseball's Wildest Announcer
Просмотров 7 тыс.21 день назад
One of baseball's most beloved and biggest personalities came from the broadcast booth in Harry Caray. Starting his career in Illinois in the 1930s, he eventually became the Cardinals announcer for 25 years before moving to the Oakland Athletics then going to the Chicago White Sox then the Chicago Cubs. Throughout his career, he became beloved by the fans for his personality and his willingness...
Why Rickey Henderson Ended His Career Independently
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.28 дней назад
After 24 seasons in the majors, Rickey Henderson went unsigned at the age of 46. But he did not retire, instead playing independent ball for the San Diego Surf Dawgs hoping for one last chance in the majors. He did not get that final game he wanted, but he still made an impact with his teammates on the Surf Dawgs like he had with every team he played for. Follow us: Twitter: sportse...
Jim Abbott: The Best Story In Baseball
Просмотров 3,9 тыс.Месяц назад
Jim Abbott was born with one hand but didn't let his disability stop him from being great. He would dominate in high school and afterwards went to Michigan where he won the golden spikes award. He would then represent Team USA in the Pan American Games and Olympics before being drafted by the Angels. Going to have a good 10 year career, receiving Cy Young votes in 1991 and throwing a no hitter ...
What Happened To The Astrodome?
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What Happened To The Astrodome?
Phil Niekro: The Greatest Knuckleballer Of All Time
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Phil Niekro: The Greatest Knuckleballer Of All Time
How The Marlins Dismantled Two Dynasties
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How The Marlins Dismantled Two Dynasties
The Forgotten 40-40 Season Of Alfonso Soriano
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The Forgotten 40-40 Season Of Alfonso Soriano
How Good Could Johnny Bench Have Been?
Просмотров 12 тыс.2 месяца назад
How Good Could Johnny Bench Have Been?
Michigan-Ohio State's 10 Year War
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Michigan-Ohio State's 10 Year War
Jake Arrieta's Out Of Nowhere Historic Run
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.2 месяца назад
Jake Arrieta's Out Of Nowhere Historic Run
The MVP Race That Changed Everything
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.2 месяца назад
The MVP Race That Changed Everything
Looking At Nolan Ryan's 7 No Hitters
Просмотров 3,5 тыс.2 месяца назад
Looking At Nolan Ryan's 7 No Hitters
The Most Unexpected Cy Young Winners
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The Most Unexpected Cy Young Winners
How A Losing Player Won World Series MVP
Просмотров 2,8 тыс.3 месяца назад
How A Losing Player Won World Series MVP
Barry Bonds Playoff Run That Changed Everything
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.3 месяца назад
Barry Bonds Playoff Run That Changed Everything
The Greatest 4 Game Series Of All Time
Просмотров 6 тыс.3 месяца назад
The Greatest 4 Game Series Of All Time
How The Dodgers Finally Beat The Yankees After 5 Tries
Просмотров 3,2 тыс.3 месяца назад
How The Dodgers Finally Beat The Yankees After 5 Tries
Teams That Followed Up World Series With Terrible Seasons
Просмотров 11 тыс.3 месяца назад
Teams That Followed Up World Series With Terrible Seasons
How The Giants Became Baseball's Last Dynasty
Просмотров 21 тыс.3 месяца назад
How The Giants Became Baseball's Last Dynasty
The Best Seasons Of Non-MVP Players
Просмотров 3,6 тыс.3 месяца назад
The Best Seasons Of Non-MVP Players
The Pitcher Who Forgot How To Throw In The Playoffs
Просмотров 5 тыс.4 месяца назад
The Pitcher Who Forgot How To Throw In The Playoffs
How Bad Were The Worst World Series Champions?
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How Bad Were The Worst World Series Champions?
Best MLB Playoff Linsanity Runs
Просмотров 8 тыс.4 месяца назад
Best MLB Playoff Linsanity Runs
How An Unknown Player Massacred The Red Sox
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How An Unknown Player Massacred The Red Sox

Комментарии

  • @Imadawg213
    @Imadawg213 29 минут назад

    So far the 20s have been fun but at the same time I could say just as rough, Tigers became good but lost Al divisional, then the lions had the best record just to lose 1 game in

  • @jaybeeo1530
    @jaybeeo1530 59 минут назад

    How did Texas not win anything?

  • @ludvigborga3676
    @ludvigborga3676 3 часа назад

    As a Yankees fan, I have NEVER forgotten about Gone-zo. Dude had Yankee pitching for breakfast.

  • @mrpopsful
    @mrpopsful 4 часа назад

    "Are you buying a house in Detroit?" "No! Apartment... Apartment." He was none too popular during his Detroit stint, numbers really suffered that year (granted Commerica is a big park)

  • @rsuriyop
    @rsuriyop 9 часов назад

    If you were around for the whole decade of the 90s and watched baseball back then, then no you wouldn't have forgotten about Juan Gonzalez. He was one of the sluggers who I used to greatly admire back then. And he also happened to be my neighborhood friend's favorite ball player.

  • @guerrillashaman7526
    @guerrillashaman7526 10 часов назад

    I don’t give a PHUuk, 90’s were the best, juiced or not, don’t act like these dudes these days aren’t supplementing their lives away, heart attacks and strokes by 40, balls hit further now than ever, especially by 5’8” 150 pound midgets.

  • @yoseftreitman7226
    @yoseftreitman7226 10 часов назад

    "George Steinbrenner better check the deed, because right now it is Juan Gonzalez who owns the Yankees."

  • @robertanderson2898
    @robertanderson2898 11 часов назад

    Roger Maris and Dale Murphy also have 2 MVPs each. Murph is the only one who has a legit shot at the Hall of Fame.

  • @Publiclighthouse
    @Publiclighthouse 12 часов назад

    Damn, he had 3 failed marriages before the age of 30? I wonder how many kids he had at that point?

  • @netherjonnava1808
    @netherjonnava1808 13 часов назад

    PETA is trash😊

  • @klashxp
    @klashxp 13 часов назад

    Saying the Dallas Fort Worth area is a small market is wild lol

  • @debgib007
    @debgib007 16 часов назад

    Had they been black they would've been in Prison for 10 years.

  • @nelslyman8167
    @nelslyman8167 17 часов назад

    Funny how Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols were playing the dodgers when they achieved their milestones

  • @thereilneid2868
    @thereilneid2868 18 часов назад

    A quitter & thief in Detroit.

  • @routeirish2503
    @routeirish2503 20 часов назад

    He has BETTER STATS than Dave " the joke" Parker. HOF IS A JOKE. DAVE PARKER??? GTFOH

    • @gringobronx7670
      @gringobronx7670 17 часов назад

      Bro dave was a superstar in the 70s and 80s he was an mvp and got 2 rings he definetly a HOFer

    • @routeirish2503
      @routeirish2503 17 часов назад

      @gringobronx7670 Barely 1800hits. 330 HR'S??? THAT'S YOUR HOF??? GTFOH 😆 🤣

    • @gringobronx7670
      @gringobronx7670 16 часов назад

      @routeirish2503 bro parker got over 2,712 hits what are you talking about, you just proved to yourself that you know nothing about Dave Parker

    • @routeirish2503
      @routeirish2503 16 часов назад

      @gringobronx7670 YOU ARE SMOKING CRACK. LOOK IT UP. BILL BUCKNER HAD OVER 2800 HITS. NOT FATBOY PARKER. LOL

  • @sonofvirginia
    @sonofvirginia 20 часов назад

    I loved Gonzo back in the day. what a player.

  • @robertcullen7042
    @robertcullen7042 21 час назад

    Maybe if his teammates weren’t, canseco, palmeiro, and pudge. All juicers

  • @derekleblanc9717
    @derekleblanc9717 21 час назад

    Poor mans manny

  • @LarryDanaDavid
    @LarryDanaDavid 22 часа назад

    The epitome of a stat first selfish player. Definitely not a team player. There’s a reason people have forgotten about him.

  • @illmerica322
    @illmerica322 23 часа назад

    Dude you're channel is sick baseball content

  • @illmerica322
    @illmerica322 23 часа назад

    Why is there not a Satchel Paige major motion picture

  • @JTT311
    @JTT311 23 часа назад

    Juan gone flat out mashed!!!! All the puny little girly men crying about steroids when more than half the league was probably on them. Even the pitchers

  • @proph3t_24gaming8
    @proph3t_24gaming8 23 часа назад

    Watching all of this unfold live on mlb network with my brother in our room will forever be my favorite memory. Greatest night of baseball ever.

  • @tywalraven4936
    @tywalraven4936 День назад

    Incredible hitter! Dude could hit any pitch in any location very, very hard.

  • @Ashura96
    @Ashura96 День назад

    Juan Gonzalez got really pissed off after that idiot owner Tom Hicks made the steroid allegations against him. That basically made him disappear entirely from the public eye. He did not show up to his Rangers HOF induction in 2015, or any other time he was honored like the GLP All-Time team after the last game there in 2019. Not until September 2023 did he finally make an appearance to formally receive his Rangers HOF jacket. Perhaps whatever good fortune led to that reconciliation was good karma for the team that year.

  • @aaacomp1
    @aaacomp1 День назад

    You need to slow down your speech and annunciate better. I had a really hard time listening to this.

  • @shoukatsukai
    @shoukatsukai День назад

    Stole MVPs from Belle and Griffey in respective years

  • @dasfette
    @dasfette День назад

    As a Tigers fan, I've never forgotten Juan Gonzalez.

    • @001Flange
      @001Flange 16 часов назад

      I'm so glad he didn't sign that contract with the Tigers.

    • @dasfette
      @dasfette 15 часов назад

      @001Flange Agreed. It would've completely killed that rebuild. 06 would've NEVER happened had we been stuck with him for 8 years.

    • @TheFett79
      @TheFett79 15 часов назад

      He is the reason they moved the LF wall in...

  • @rufuspipemos
    @rufuspipemos День назад

    Juan drove in so many runs I've never seen anyone do that before or since. In two seasons he had more RBIs than games played.

  • @Nomah1979
    @Nomah1979 День назад

    Those early 90s Texas teams were insane, Rusty Greer was a hell of a player as well

    • @Ashura96
      @Ashura96 День назад

      If only he didn't get injured so much. Adrian Beltre might have had to wear another number lol

    • @Nomah1979
      @Nomah1979 День назад

      @@Ashura96 Ya he only had prob 5 good years...During those last 3 seasons it seemed like he was never on the field...its a shame he could have been a poor mans Josh Hamilton-type hitter 320 BA with 25 ish HR and a close to .400 OBP

    • @Evonypepe
      @Evonypepe 21 час назад

      My go to team in that one Griffey jr baseball game 😂

    • @Nomah1979
      @Nomah1979 19 часов назад

      @@Evonypepe I think I remember that!! Dean Palmer would mash in that game

  • @wordnerd2005
    @wordnerd2005 День назад

    I only wish the Braves would've won more championships in the 90's. They were loaded with pitching and all star rosters.

  • @MaxPower1208
    @MaxPower1208 День назад

    Was a great hitter

  • @christopherseat9871
    @christopherseat9871 День назад

    Should never went to Detroit

  • @timalan5376
    @timalan5376 День назад

    Sad, for he was my favorite player.

  • @chrislewis5069
    @chrislewis5069 День назад

    He was not a swinger, he was just guy that twirled his bat through the zone. I have never seen a “swing” like his. He hit so many wall scrapers for being juiced beast

  • @russsnyder2026
    @russsnyder2026 День назад

    To me, one of the craziest mlb stats is that Juan González only made the all-star game THREE times. He had a year where he hit 47 homeruns, 144 RBIs, and OPS 1.011 and did NOT make the all-star team

    • @Nomah1979
      @Nomah1979 День назад

      ya the 90s were weird, Ellis Burks was another one who had a year where he hit 344 no all-star team...another year hitting 32 HR no all-star team....The man hit nearly 300 for his career and had a 4-year stretch where he averaged around 30 HR a year for CLE and SF no all-star nods

    • @russsnyder2026
      @russsnyder2026 День назад

      @ people still over valued the singles hitter

    • @robertanderson2898
      @robertanderson2898 11 часов назад

      It's up to the fans. Kirk Gibson made ZERO all star teams. The 1988 N.L. MVP.

    • @BayAreaThrowbacks
      @BayAreaThrowbacks 6 часов назад

      And that’s why I don’t believe we should look at all star games for players legacies. All stars should not be voted by the fans if we look at them towards payers legacies.

    • @mlgerab
      @mlgerab 6 часов назад

      Wait, what? How?

  • @dempseyarmy7524
    @dempseyarmy7524 День назад

    "Ee-gor" not "eye-gor"

  • @pokeysdad17
    @pokeysdad17 День назад

    that whole team was dirty. palmeiro, gonzalez, pudge, and canseco.

    • @Headhunter_212
      @Headhunter_212 18 часов назад

      That volume discount kicks in after three players 😂😂. Don’t forget Sierra. El Caballo loved the juice.

    • @pokeysdad17
      @pokeysdad17 13 часов назад

      @@Headhunter_212 thank you. i had forgotten about sierra. just coincidence they are all hispanic?

  • @davidalexander8996
    @davidalexander8996 День назад

    Hershiser played like Ohtani in Game 2 of the 1988 World Series, with a single, two doubles, a run scored, an RBI, and even beat out a strong throw from Canseco going from first to third on the bases.

  • @julioferrer2248
    @julioferrer2248 День назад

    Who is this Gonazalez fellow?

  • @dontatme1290
    @dontatme1290 2 дня назад

    15:21 “no definitive proof” In March of 2005, 2 years after his 500th home run, Palmeiro famously appeared before congress in the steroid trials, pointed his finger at them and emphatically said “I have never used steroids. PERIOD!”. On July 15, 2005, three months after testifying, he reached the 3,000 hit plateau. 15 days later he was suspended after testing positive for stanozolol. Pretty definitive.

  • @Sungazerglass
    @Sungazerglass 2 дня назад

    Palmeiro was one of my favorite players, but he dropped dirty after defiantly telling congress he didn’t take steroids. Juando never did. Either lie, or fail a drug test.

  • @TravisCrawfordTCMI
    @TravisCrawfordTCMI 2 дня назад

    Palmeiro had definitive proof of usage. He tested positive for Winstrol the same year that he went before congress and said "I have never taken steroids. Period."

    • @OH_MY_DOGGG
      @OH_MY_DOGGG День назад

      I guess he meant that he never stole them

    • @markkaminski2416
      @markkaminski2416 20 часов назад

      Yeah that was a laugh! About a month later he tested positive and was out of the game. I remember the clips of his testimony. 😂🤣

  • @miguelestrada9206
    @miguelestrada9206 2 дня назад

    Bum😢😢😢😢

  • @terrenceliburd8655
    @terrenceliburd8655 2 дня назад

    It looks tame compared to the car wrecks ive seen at the plate

  • @henrywallacesghost5883
    @henrywallacesghost5883 2 дня назад

    Jaun had that "yeah I just farted" smile😂

  • @shhhvcnear
    @shhhvcnear 2 дня назад

    Forgotten? I was a rangers fan in the 90s wouldn't forget him

  • @russiancardboardarmor5976
    @russiancardboardarmor5976 2 дня назад

    He definitely used

    • @Chize41
      @Chize41 2 дня назад

      Yup…guys in the league used to laugh about how obvious he and Julio Franco were in those days

  • @karlschlenzig6884
    @karlschlenzig6884 2 дня назад

    He was a monster offensively

  • @komickaze85
    @komickaze85 2 дня назад

    Puerto Rico is not a country, it's a US territory. Other than that, good video.

    • @cococock2418
      @cococock2418 2 дня назад

      braindead pedantic comment. no one considers it a part of the US, its another country de facto

    • @henrywallacesghost5883
      @henrywallacesghost5883 2 дня назад

      ​@@cococock2418Still better than calling it a floating pile of garbage either way😂

    • @gringobronx7670
      @gringobronx7670 2 дня назад

      ​@@cococock2418can't except much from somebody with a username like that

    • @ajatathemu
      @ajatathemu 2 дня назад

      @@cococock2418and that’s the problem. You put feelings in front of fact

    • @TheBatugan77
      @TheBatugan77 День назад

      ​@@cococock2418 Puerto Rico is whatever we SAY it is, you little pissant.