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Pedro's K% was approximately 100% greater than league average, not 50% in 1997

forever my favorite angels player he's loyal

Best fastball that anyone has ever seen? I think you all talk like cleft assholes when masturbation sounds like that. No its NOT the best fastball in the world. Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson and Sandy Colfax are pretty hard to deny that they had the best fast ball of all time. This guy can use stickum and have a sticky baseball so not it won't be the same in the Show. He is not better than Shohei Otani's 103 ball . The best pitcher in the world right now is NOT from Japan. He is is about to win the Cy Young and I would take him every single time if I had to choose between the two . Skubal is the best complete pitcher in baseball. I do not believe that anyone who watches the guy play could say otherwise. The guy is fantastic. Now if you wanted to say best available pitcher on the international marketplace I would agree but not the best in the world. Skenes is the real deal and there are many great pitchers in many places even Mexico has one guy I can think of that is one of those type players. if they have never won a Cy young they are not the best in the world because they have never played the best hitters. The best hitters in the world cannot hit Skenes. They can hit Yamamoto and Imanaga all over at times. So do not give me that song and dance. I would not even say that Sasaki is not even better than Jacob Misiorowski right now as far as talent goes and they throw the exact same fastball with similar windups and releases. I would say he is even with Mis right now but not better.

TWO WORDS ..PAUL SKENES . Sorry the best pitchers are in the MLB already. The Japan group is a nice addition but they are not better than the guys in the Show . Sorry they just are not . They fit in here but they are not the dominate pitchers you all make them out to be . Shohei Otani , Imanaga and the Yamamoto proved they come over and play well but not dominate until they learn how to actually pitch big league style or they tear themselves up like happened with Otani and will happen with Sasaki as his shoulder is already showing signs of going the bad way. They take a lot of work to make the MLB from Japan as the leagues may play the same sport but are not the same in anyway. They have the tools but until they come to the Bigs they are never complete.

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Not 2027 but you will see him in MLB in 2025.

Ruined baseball. Oakland was ruined well before “money ball” days.

The strategy used for Moneyball was due to a shitty budget so they had to work with it, that's WHY it was used, it didn't ruin anything. They had 20 straight Wins as one of the lowest budget teams.

It's not surprising that a small, weak market like Oakland has had consistent losing teams. The way Baseball works it is so much easier to be in a market with lots of money available.

Today's A's collapse has nothing to do with moneyball. It has to do with the owner. BUT Moneyball did hurt the A's in the post season. I wrote an article on it showing why. The A's were great at drafting and getting young players. Problem is when they wanted big money they couldn't afford them anymore. With moneyball though in the regular season the A's relied on OB% which was greatly enhanced by HR's and walks. In the post season the pitching is far better and what are the two things that are harder to come by in the playoffs? Walks and Home runs. The A's did NOT manufacture runs. The way to beat the A's was simple. No walks and limit the hr's. During the regular season, many of the games the A's lost they had few walks or hr's. The games that they were given walks and home runs, they usually won. The problem is when you are in the playoffs those don't happen a lot so you need to steal bases and hit in the clutch with runners in scoring position and low avg. players don't often do it. How many times in the playoffs did Eric Chavez, or many of the other stars not hit with RISP. So many times. While the teams that had an expensive payroll, had guys that walked but they also could hit.

I'm sure you have a lot of good information to share here. you might want to consider speaking a little more slowly and clearly.

14:47 what is the music that begins to play in this section?

The writer that voted against Pedro, later on voted for Roger Clemens for MVP. Which explain , that racism had something to do with it.

Japan's Nolan Ryan

If I had a dollar for every lie you told in this video, I'd be able to pay off the national debt. Trout was NEVER the best player in baseball...heck, wasn't even the best player on his team. Those are myths. Guy K'd too much, just had an average arm in center, and What happened to all those stolen bases? Nope. Nice try, though.

sasaki would look good in a dodgers uniform, along with ohtani and yamamoto, a pitching powerhouse trifecta

It’s honestly wild how much success this team has had over the last 25 years.

Yeah but he’s sucked lately

He needs a breaking pitches at this point because every batters knows it’s gonna be a fastball no matter how hard he throws

Funny how he tried to load the bases last night for Ohtani

The Oakland fans don't hate the team, they hate the A's owner. Get your facts straight.

And now he blows every save. Even against the white sox.

How do you even have a hall of fame without players like Pete rose the all time hit leader, Barry bonds who is the only player I've ever seen that could pull a 100 mph fastball at his belt buckle out of the park, Roger clemens the owner of the most Cy young awards. Regardless of what people want to say about guys like these it's called the baseball hall of fame, yet some of its all time greatest players aren't in it.

Whatever the motivation, it appears that Mike spent too much time in the weight room. You don’t change your body type without chemical assistance. Is he better than Bo Jackson?

The fact he did this at the height of the steroid era will never not blow my damn mind. Pedro always made me proud to be a Red Sox fan.

Steroids baby babe Ruth #1

When i was like 11 or 12 years old it would have been in 2001, 2002. Me and my cousins all wrote a letter to our favorite baseball player. Mine ofcourse was Barry Bonds. I wrote the letter and my grandma sent them all out. A month or so later i get an autographed Barry Bonds baseball card sent back to my in the mail. Put Barry in the Hall of Fame already... its ridiculous he hasnt been voted in yet.... him and Pete Rose

Great video, thanks.

Great vid, learned a lot as a first year MLB fan

In 1999, Pedro not only won the pitcher’s Triple Crown (wins/strikeouts/ERA) he had five more wins than anyone else, 100 more strikeouts and 1.00 better ERA. And he was just as good in 2000. The only pitcher who can compare is Koufax.

😂😂 both the marlins and Royals managed to make it work 😂😂

For me, you talk way too fast. It is too bad because I was a Martinez fan when he was with Boston. Who is chasing you?

Best I’ve ever seen. In prime he took the bump its was pretty much a guaranteed W.

Cutter and a slider? Seems like they overlap. Having a nice splitter or changeup for lefties would be a nice 2 strike out pitch with his natural stuff

Dude could paint each side of the plate with a perfect 12-6 at will. Pedro before his shoulder injury in 2001 was the best pitcher I've ever watched. PERIOD.

Kind of like having the best sports car stuck in a broke garage.

Zack wheeler??

Great content just subbed

Subbed, and also thanks for not being the guy who takes up half the screen and takes away from all the great stuff, hate that, fire vid. After this imma look on the channel fro a pujols type of this. 👍👍

2019 next 7 outings?

Barry bonds was one of the best players ever. But because of the ped allegations and his massive ego he chose to take performance enhancing drugs. And because of that decision, his legacy will always be tainted.

Randy Johnson eclipsed that era and all before it.

What makes you think Pedro didn't take steroids? Little athletes took them too. Ever hear of Lance Armstrong?

the most dominant pitcher I ever witnessed in my lifetime he just made Hall of famers look silly.

Steroid “era”. They were all on gear before, during, and after. And someone being small doesn’t mean they aren’t also on gear too.

Other teams would have started using the moneyball strategy eventually, whether the A's had employed it or not.

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Greatest of all time what...CHEAT?

Pedro got screwed out of 3 MVP awards by the nonsensical voting, and a ALCS game 7 win over the Yankees by Graddy Little. Dude was stout.

Pedro > Clemens any day all day