This made me start looking up random stats for teams each season and I came across Pirates legendary catcher Ryan Doumit who in 2008, he batted .318, .500 slg, and had an otherworldly -57.6 defensive runs. I watched this team growing up and while I knew he was pretty bad defensively, I never thought such a season could be possible.
Great video!.Only issue for me is Soriano. I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves but I don’t think he’s forgotten or his season was forgotten..The guy even hit over 400HRs and stole close to 300..That’s HOF worthy..Not sure if his name is linked to PEDs or not though
Great video! Here are some more. - Brady Anderson in 1996 (50 HR, 110 RBI, .297 AVG, 1.034 OPS) - Jesus Aguilar in 2018 (35 HR, 108 RBI, .274 AVG, .890 OPS) - Carlos Quentin in 2008 (36 HR, 100 RBI, .288 AVG, .965 OPS) I feel like baseball has produced more of these forgotten, one-hit wonder seasons than other sports.
Bill Muiller is definitely the forgotten star from the 2004 Red Sox the problem was the team just had so many personalities and caliber players that he kind of went under the radar
Ellsbury was also plagued by injuries in his last season with the Red Sox. Not a single Sox fan complained when he signed with the Yankees, unlike the Johnny Damon signing. Ellsbury was also a cancer in the clubhouse.
I'd like to shout out 2009 Ben Zobrist. Doesn't get a ton of love because of the team he played for, and for at the time the lack of appreciation for positional versatility and advanced metrics weren't as mainstream. But he definitely should have gotten more MVP votes. Zorilla was a stud.
I would say from the 09 Rays squad, a bigger one to shout out would be Jason Bartlett. 5-6 WAR (depending on if you use f or bWAR respectively, bWar likes his defense more), hit .320 (7th in the league), 136 wRC+, with double digit home runs (almost triple his career high to that point) and 30 SBs for the only times in his career. Just the total opposite of what he did before or after, being otherwise known as a defensive oriented player; he only ever put up an wRC+ over 100 once otherwise in his career, and that wasn't even a full season, and never put up an OPS+ over 100 outside that one year as well. Ironically, he got MVP votes the year prior when he was much less productive, yet got none that year even though he was one of the better hitters in the league that year. Zobrist's year gets at least some attention since he did well after that so 09 is remembered at least a little as his 'coming out party', but outside of Rays fandom, I don't think anyone really remembers Jason Bartlett's 09 season.
Honestly, I'm most surprised that there have been 6 players who have hit a lead-off and walk-off homerun in the same game. That feels like it should have happened even less than that.
I'd like to see one for older decades - I'm just fiending to see something on the season that made me such a baseball fan - Willie McGee's 1985 season was just crazy - .353 avg, 216 hits, 18 triples, 56 stolen bases, gold glove defense. If he didn't face such terrible injury luck starting the next season, I think he would have been a potential Hall of Fame-quality player.
@@rhyde That's great to hear! I feel the same way! I love going back, looking at past seasons from my childhood years and reflecting on all the memories of watching the games and running out to play wiffle ball in my grandparents' yard... Best times of my life!
On that note of Richard Hidalgo, the 2000 Astros were truly an anomaly. Despite not playing in Coors, their pitchers could not figure out how to pitch in their new ballpark since moving in from the Astrodome. The team had 5 hitters with a 130 OPS+ or better but had no starter with an ERA under 4.81. The final total is 938 runs scored and 944 runs allowed with a 72-90 record.
This comment is a perfect example of you can’t make everyone happy. Everyone comments how much they love I don’t do intros and I just get to the video, and this is the first time I’ve gotten this comment 😂 My friend, instead of pretty much everything stated in the video, this is what you decide to comment on? Cmon now 😂
@@rhydethis is the type of video that usually comes out during the offseason when’s there no current topic to talk about Personally idc when it gets posted as long as it’s a banger and this def is 😊
This made me start looking up random stats for teams each season and I came across Pirates legendary catcher Ryan Doumit who in 2008, he batted .318, .500 slg, and had an otherworldly -57.6 defensive runs. I watched this team growing up and while I knew he was pretty bad defensively, I never thought such a season could be possible.
Ooooooo that’s a good one for a future video!
Great video!.Only issue for me is Soriano. I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves but I don’t think he’s forgotten or his season was forgotten..The guy even hit over 400HRs and stole close to 300..That’s HOF worthy..Not sure if his name is linked to PEDs or not though
I can't see a person of his frame generally being a user but that's my opinion.
Size doesn't matter. See Gordon got busted, remember?? And he was skinny as a rail
In 07 Brandon Phillips had a 30-30 season while playing gold glove defense. Mostly forgotten because the reds were awful.
New subscriber! Love your content, keep up the excellent work! Also, peep out the season that Ellis Burks had in 96. It was insanely good.
Great video! Here are some more.
- Brady Anderson in 1996 (50 HR, 110 RBI, .297 AVG, 1.034 OPS)
- Jesus Aguilar in 2018 (35 HR, 108 RBI, .274 AVG, .890 OPS)
- Carlos Quentin in 2008 (36 HR, 100 RBI, .288 AVG, .965 OPS)
I feel like baseball has produced more of these forgotten, one-hit wonder seasons than other sports.
Honorable mention… Brady Anderson 50 HR season as a lead off hitter
Bill Muiller is definitely the forgotten star from the 2004 Red Sox the problem was the team just had so many personalities and caliber players that he kind of went under the radar
@6:09 “Piazza threw a bat at Clemens”
Alternate universe, Evil Piazza (doesn’t have a mustache) throws a bat at Roger Clemens lol
Hahahaha there goes my potato brain
Clemens thought it was the ball. Everyone was so focused on baseball. Nobody processed how thats probably a worse offense.
Ellsbury was also plagued by injuries in his last season with the Red Sox. Not a single Sox fan complained when he signed with the Yankees, unlike the Johnny Damon signing. Ellsbury was also a cancer in the clubhouse.
One of my least favorite players ever
Remember when Fernando Tatis hit two grand slams in the same inning, both off of Chan Ho Park?
Insane. The fact that Mueller did it from both sides of the plate in the same game is mind blowing to me 😂
Another underappreciated fact about Bill Mueller... he had a career 455 batting average off Mariano Rivera, the guy could rake
I'd like to shout out 2009 Ben Zobrist. Doesn't get a ton of love because of the team he played for, and for at the time the lack of appreciation for positional versatility and advanced metrics weren't as mainstream. But he definitely should have gotten more MVP votes. Zorilla was a stud.
More videos if this one does well ❤️
I would say from the 09 Rays squad, a bigger one to shout out would be Jason Bartlett. 5-6 WAR (depending on if you use f or bWAR respectively, bWar likes his defense more), hit .320 (7th in the league), 136 wRC+, with double digit home runs (almost triple his career high to that point) and 30 SBs for the only times in his career. Just the total opposite of what he did before or after, being otherwise known as a defensive oriented player; he only ever put up an wRC+ over 100 once otherwise in his career, and that wasn't even a full season, and never put up an OPS+ over 100 outside that one year as well. Ironically, he got MVP votes the year prior when he was much less productive, yet got none that year even though he was one of the better hitters in the league that year. Zobrist's year gets at least some attention since he did well after that so 09 is remembered at least a little as his 'coming out party', but outside of Rays fandom, I don't think anyone really remembers Jason Bartlett's 09 season.
0:53 He did that batting 7th....
Honestly, I'm most surprised that there have been 6 players who have hit a lead-off and walk-off homerun in the same game. That feels like it should have happened even less than that.
Ironically Hidalgo was the only player on this list that I didn’t know who they were. Probably because I was -1 years old in 2000
Hahaha definitely not a name you hear often
I'd like to see one for older decades - I'm just fiending to see something on the season that made me such a baseball fan - Willie McGee's 1985 season was just crazy - .353 avg, 216 hits, 18 triples, 56 stolen bases, gold glove defense. If he didn't face such terrible injury luck starting the next season, I think he would have been a potential Hall of Fame-quality player.
I would love to keep doing these videos. It’s fun to go back in time and look at these seasons, especially older ones as well.
@@rhyde That's great to hear! I feel the same way! I love going back, looking at past seasons from my childhood years and reflecting on all the memories of watching the games and running out to play wiffle ball in my grandparents' yard... Best times of my life!
On that note of Richard Hidalgo, the 2000 Astros were truly an anomaly. Despite not playing in Coors, their pitchers could not figure out how to pitch in their new ballpark since moving in from the Astrodome. The team had 5 hitters with a 130 OPS+ or better but had no starter with an ERA under 4.81. The final total is 938 runs scored and 944 runs allowed with a 72-90 record.
Posada 2007?
brian dozier was really my childhood, those twins teams werent that good but man were they fun to watch
Love the vid when you doing EoW streams?
Thanks buddy! Back to Sunday night streams this coming week, and I’ll be starting morning streams tomorrow
when's power rankings
No it was JET TO THE ER BEST GOATEST LEGENDARY CLASSICAL BEING OF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Why do you not do intros to the video just starts up so quick
This comment is a perfect example of you can’t make everyone happy. Everyone comments how much they love I don’t do intros and I just get to the video, and this is the first time I’ve gotten this comment 😂
My friend, instead of pretty much everything stated in the video, this is what you decide to comment on? Cmon now 😂
Great video. See you Tuesday
One year wonder years smell like steroids are involved aka: Brady Anderson
1996 brady anderson
He cheated
@@FeiLi-i9z well no shit
Is it cheating if the whole league is doing it
@@buzz9900 yes
@@FeiLi-i9z You have zero proof.
The a's.better.pick.chris.davis.back up...idc if he feel off.or.what..they need s9mebody.with power.thwy can afford
Brother I think this is off season content
What are you even talking about? 😂😂😂
@@rhydethis is the type of video that usually comes out during the offseason when’s there no current topic to talk about
Personally idc when it gets posted as long as it’s a banger and this def is 😊
Me too.
I watched it. Nice one.
What a dumb comment
For me its 1960 Norm Cash. Everyone was talking about the Mantle Maris MVP race but Norm shouldve won in my opinion.
K.
@@TylerDowler5 ok