Meet The Most Underrated Pitcher of the Steroid Era
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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Brad Radke was a strike throwing, walk-limiting, and run-preventing pitcher for the Twins in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was a consistent presence providing valuable production to their team, but no one noticed...
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No shit, Ive been saying for the longest time Brad Radke is one of those guys who fell through the cracks of baseball history & never got the shine they deserved for the performance he brought. Incredibly hyped for this video. Those late 90's to early 2000's Twins were a fun squad with a lot of electric players to watch growing up. Also, everyone might hate on it, but the Metrodome brings back so many great memories, its dearly missed. Jason Kubel would also be a great, weird career video to cover. He has two unique grand slams in his time playing
Edit: Yo, you nailed how to pronounce Hennepin. 10/10 video
and cuddyer
The baggie dome! I always thought that place was cool and those teams were fun to watch and as long as they didn't play the red Sox I would root for them
@@davidbarton1806 speaking of the Red Sox, David Ortiz was absolutely BUILT perfectly for hitting home runs in the Metrodome, plus slamming a few doubles off of that baggie from time to time.
Unfortunately the Twins were obsessed with trying to get him to "use the entire field" while he was hitting. Cutting him is probably the biggest mistake in Twins history, and every fan knew it at the time...
But that might change within the next few years (re: Luis Arraez)
@@srschriver ya I agree and he was also built for fenway with the green monster
And those coaches where right because once he started going the opposite way
(Using the monster) he's game went to another level and I know you wanted him to stay but I'm so glad he came here and help not us not just end the curse but to win two more world series! And thanks for the comment I'll pulling for the twins this year good luck
And God bless
@@davidbarton1806 I think the Twins problem was that they tried to just hammer it home with him that he *needed* to hit to the opposite field, and would drill him on that, which probably messed with his confidence at the time. I think the Red Sox were happy to let opposite field hitting develop a little bit more naturally for him. Of course, that's just me speculating...I could be wrong
So much Twins nostalgia in this video. Radke was the sole bright spot for a few years. Even the Twins fanbase underrate him to this very day. I was at the game where he was going for his 13th win in a row. That was the most people I’d ever seen at a Twins game in my life up until that point.
Radke pitched his shoulder to splinters for this club and it's a shame that half of his career was spent playing for such terrible editions of the Twins. Linda Pitmon's verse of "Fair Weather Fans" resonated with me so much that my own version of it is barely changed.
"I grew up outside of Minneapolis,
Glued to the radio and the '90s Twins
And the sad sound of cryin' when they couldn't
Score enough runs for a Brad Radke win"
Did the 2023 playoffs surpass it, if you went of course? From what I have seen and heard it was loud and packed. I wish I could have gone. 😮💨
I always liked his effortless pitching style. So simple. Almost looked like he was pretending to be a guy who could throw super hard, but no one ever noticed. He was a cool guy too.
Radke was my first favorite baseball player, so thanks for the video. He was a joy to watch. Actually, when we were going to games in the 1990s, I tried to make my dad make sure we were going to a Radke start. He made good hitters look really, really bad, consistently. You could pretty much see their frustration when they got duped by that changeup and that big, looooong power stroke yielded nothing better than a soft line drive against Radke.
A few things to add to this:
Radke's changeup -- which was arguably the best changeup in the league while he was pitching -- was actually a circle change, which very few pitchers were throwing as their number 2 pitch.
Radke, being from Eau Claire Wisconsin, was basically considered a "hometown kid" in the Twin Cities (Eau Claire is maybe 30 minutes from the easternmost edge of the metro area). He kept a house in the area and was very active in the community.
In the 2004 off-season, Radke received a better offer from I believe the Yankees and possibly the Red Sox, as well. My memory is failing me a bit, but one thing I am certain about is that he gave the Twins a "hometown discount" to stay here.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention this, but one of Radke's stated reasons for retiring when he did is that black mold was discovered in his home in Florida, and he felt bad about not being able to be around all of the time to look after his children and his family's health.
Anyway, those are just a few more fun facts about Brad Radke.
The Twins (the team and especially the fans) definitely go for the hometown players. If you're from Minnesota or just the general Upper Midwest and play for the Twins, you're gonna get a lot of love. Biggest example of that has gotta be Joe Mauer, unsurprisingly.
Can we please show Mike Sweeney some love one of the most forgotten players of the 90’s early 00’s
I remember crying as a child during Radkes last game and it being a loss, some nostalgia here. Thank you for the video!
Make a video on Philip Humber’s perfect game, there’s surprisingly few videos on it, he had a career ERA over 5 and only pitched 2 full seasons worth of innings, but somehow pitched a perfect game.
Brian Dozier should get a video. One of the most underappreciated infielders of the 2010s. Right there with Rod Carew for best 2nd baseman in team history.
Brad Radke with the Twins was like Reggie Miller with the Pacers in that he could've left multiple times, but his heart was with the team he started and ended his career with. I started watching baseball in 2002 when the Twins were beginning their reign in the AL Central. I even got to see Radke crush another solid starter in the day C.C. Sabathia back in 2005. Radke was a really good pitcher and was a huge part of the Twins emergence as a perennial playoff contender. Great video.
I am glad you did this video. Radke's arm was hanging on with scotch tape and safety pins at the end. He was a warrior, and while not a Hall of Famer, I would sure like to see 22 hanging in left field.
Brad Radke. Ain’t heard his name in awhile! Thanks SRS! May I suggest a video on Eric Karros? Much like Brad, good player but severely underrated!
HOLY [redacted]!! How am I just seeing this video now?? Thanks for the shoutout, this was excellently done.
Forgot to mention. I was at the game In 1997 when Radke won his 20th game. I still have the scorecard.
Shawn green, mark mulder, and Tim Hudson are all underrated/undertalked about players you could do a vid on
Please cover Warren Spahn next! In my opinion, the greatest most winning left handed pitcher to ever do it
Chuck Finley and Kevin Appier are always names that come to mind of pitchers that just weren't appreciated during that era
What an underrated pitcher on those Twins teams during the lean years when they were playing at the dome. Also he was on the old Sega world series baseball commercial.
Brian Dozier should have a video, he was one of my favorite players that many people forget about. Another one I want to see is glen perkins
this is the first video of yours that I've seen and id really like to see you make a video about Kyle Hendricks' career. I'm a huge cubs fan so there's some bias there but he's also truly one of the last of a dying breed when it comes to slow-ball pitchers. I think he deserves a nice deep dive into how he's been so successful
Robin Ventura deserves a video. Probably one of the best defensive third basemen of the 90s and was the grand slam KING. He had 18 for goodness sake (tied with Willie McCovey). 56.1 WAR with 1.8k hits and 6 HR's shy of 300. 6x gold glove and almost won MVP in 99 if he hadn't gotten hurt. He also hit the grand slam single, too.
Favorite player growing up. Full Stop.
How about video about Eric Byrnes? A modern day Charlie Hustle. The most unexpected 40-40 season in MLB. Now the newest manager of the Savannah Bananas.
What kind of 40-40 season are you talking about? Byrnes had a year or 2 with 40+ steals but besides singles, he never hit 40 of anything in a season (he hit 39 doubles one year but never hit mire than 20-some HR in a season)
A very underrated pitcher from the 90’s has gotta be Rick Helling. Very interesting career statistically and a 2003 WS champ
I loved Brad Radke! He was so underrated.
Great video. Watched him pitch multiple times at the dome. His last year the Twins went 16-2 in interleague play which turned their season around and propelled them to the playoffs.
Thanks for the awesome video! Radke was underrated for sure.
Another great vid, I suppose if we’re to provide any recommendation…
Any kid born in Baltimore, likely did so b/c we had parents from Balto. Which means, any generation born b4 1990 prob never saw a good baseball team while having (grand)parents regale us in stories of Boog, Brooks, Cakes, Cal, Eddie, 4 20 game winners in one season, etc…you get the idea. Yet we grew up watching Rodrigo López, Daniel Cabrera, Sidney Ponson, & Jeremy Guthrie act as staff “aces”
We got tricked a couple times in the mid 2000s, Brian Roberts, young Markakis, Palmeiro, Tejada, Javy Lopez, Sosa, etc….but those teams were never real contenders.
Then…
We traded Erik Bedard for Adam Jones, Chris Tillman, & George Sherrill. This was the catalyst for a stretch between 2011-2015 where the Orioles has the best record in the MLB (crazy, right?) Adam Jones and/or Nick Markakis were the guys who broke Baltimore back into MLB relevancy and would make for a great video.
Radke was great, super reliable for us. 7 innings and 3 runs, that was his signature start that you could count give or take.
Loved this video. Would love a video on BJ Surhoff. My favorite player growing up and the player picked before Bonds
Brian Jordan was very underrated as a fielder and an above-average hitter. Never won a Gold Glove, but amassed 10.4 dWAR in 871 defensive games played between 1995 and 2001. Also led NL with 2.2 dWAR in 1996. Darrin Jackson also put up huge dWAR for a few years but never won a Gold Glove. His 3.9 dWAR in 1992 appears to be the highest single season dWAR ever for a NL outfielder. Maybe you could do a video about Jordan or Jackson.
After his rookie season, Brad Radke was featured in the advertising campaign for Sega’s World Series Baseball II (for the Sega Saturn). The commercial ended with the tag line, “Authentic as Wrigley. Real as Radke.” It highlighted him giving up 32 HRs in 1995 and featured a conga line of opposing hitters. … He went from being a tag line to being quietly great.
Mark Grace, Fred McGriff, Keith Hernandez perhaps. thanks for all your work.
Tim Wakefield. 200 wins which is most amongst Red Sox, (while also having the highest ERA amongst 200-game winners). He was a bullpen salve, dare I say an INNINGS EATER as a knuckleballer - so he could definitely pitch some ugly games (a complete game loss while letting giving up 5, 4 in the first three innings in 2005 comes to mind), while also spinning 7 and 8 scoreless with regularity. Baseball writers and most of the fans I knew in Boston grew anxious when Wake took the mound, you could see when his knuckler was floating and unhittable or when it was batting practice - and then he pitched for 19 years. He also created some of the coolest and weirdest stories, such as needing to trade for and escort Doug Mirabelli 3000 miles from San Diego to Boston in one day in 2006 because no one else could catch Wake at the time, sympathies to Josh Bard and Jason Varitek because they were tortured by the knuck. Everything seen and said by Wake has been that he's a genuine good dude who also continued to mentor other knucklers, even after retirement.
If he could escape the 1st inning you knew he was going to pitch great the rest of the game. Loved Radke!
Hideki Matsui deserves a video had one of the greatest World Series performances of all time yet he’s so overlooked!
One of my favorite players growing up. Thank you for this video
Tommy John. 26 season. Career WAR: 62. Career ERA: 3.34. ERA+: 111 Over 4,500 IP. 288 wins.
Eric Byrnes. As an Oakland fan, he was the mascot of many different A’s teams (good and bad teams)
Troy Glaus during his Angels career, especially 2000 and 2002 😊
Steve Finley and Mark Grace are both very underrated. Great video Radke was an animal but he had trouble with Jim Thome though.
I am familiar with Radke, but I was shocked when I looked him up to find he had an over 45 career WAR.
Mark Prior was my favorite pitcher when I was young. Would make a wonderful video.
Love your videos. Would love to see one on Paul Konerko one day
Jason Giambi is my all time favorite baseball player, dude has to get some HOF votes, he was making clubs and hitting homers after age 40
I would like to see a video on Phil Coke because he was a very interesting player but it probably wouldn’t be very interesting to much people
Matt Cain. Spent most of his career in the shadow of Tim Lincecum, pitched the most dominant perfect game ever, and ended his career with a losing record. If you're looking for a similar player to highlight.
Love the vid. As a life long Phillies fan I would love if you made a video about dick allen. He is one of the most underrated players of all time and deserves to be in the hall. Thanks
Not a Dick vid.
Do one on Kevin Appier. Very similar career to Radke
You should make a video on Kyle Seager. He’s going to always be overlooked by fans since his brother is so great, but Kyle was important to every Mariner fan during the dark times of the playoff drought
There’s also another twin with a very random season. Dennys Reyes with a sub 1 era in 2006 in 50.2 innings
I was 9 in 2001. I loved those Twins and Radke was phenomenal we just didn’t put up runs for him to win more games otherwise he’d be more respected.
I dont think youve done it yet, but Dustin Pedroia would be a big recommendation. From his rookie season, to his unfortunate end of his career, it all seems like a good video idea
What about a video on Brian McCann? I feel like a lot of people don’t know who he is and I think he’s underrated cause he was a good player
Really solid and underrated career great video
John Valentin! He needs some recognition! Johnny V!
Love watching SRS videos puff puff & pass
I grew up as a Jays fans in the early 2000s and I think those teams had a lot of guys like this partially because they were never a good team, but they were also never bottom of the league, they always had some young talent to be hopeful about and secondly at that time the American media really didn't give the Jays any attention so they lived in a bubble, but you could look at guys like Shaun Marcum, Vernon Wells, Adam Lind, Brandon Morrow (I know one of the big baseball youtubers already did a video on him), Aaron Hill or Ricky Romero (he became a Canadian and for hardcore fans of that time is still loved). Could also talk about Roy Halladay but he was actually getting some attention outside Toronto he was so good so doesn't really count in the category of player I'm talking about.
Still have my Radke autograph from when he did a signing at a target in town.
Derek Holland, never won a world series but helped my Texas Rangers win two ALCS
The one pitcher that was kind of underrated in my opinion was NY Mets RHP Bobby Jones.
He the epitome of ride together or die together. Had multiple chances to leave but held his hopes.
I would love to see a video on Mr. Marlin: Jeff Conine!
I feel like Tony Womack deserves a video mainly as a bias Dbacks fan
He gave up a ton of HRs...
But had excellent control, walks under 2 per nine. He threw only 3.2 pitches per batter so he was able to log alot of innings as well. Despite the shit velo, he had that solid change up.
Please do a video on Steve Finley. The journeyman of all journeymen, played everywhere and did it well.
Please cover Sidney Ponson!
Quinton McCracken said Radke and Estes where the toughest pitchers he faced.
Buddy Bell is an underappreciated player.
Paul Konerko was a severely underrated player.
Please do David Ross or Jon Lester for the Cubs 2016 playoff run
Jim Abbott's 7-15 record 2.77 era season with the angels in 1992
how about Hiroki Kuroda? 79-79 in 7 years and a 3.45 ERA with the Dodgers and Yankees. no other pitcher in history got screwed more than he did. went 11-13 in one season with a 3.31 ERA in the AL East
As a Yankees fan Can you cover Domingo German?
3B out of UNLV 9 Matt Williams
Man is definition of Underrated
What about Mark Grace? He was a very consistent player on a Cubs team that went no where
Hey man I dunno- he was one of the 8 players to get a card in select post cereals. He was appreciated at the time
Please do a video on Julio tehran’s prime
Imagine this narrator awkwardly interjecting his baseball takes, like its a recital, into a group of dudes on the school bus who grew up playing outside
Kenny Rodgers next
Can you cover the Anthony Rendon on the 2019 nationals coming from a Nats fan he was the best offensive player on that roster was super clutch and played amazing defense
Here's a player for you to do a deep dive on: Dave Nilsson. He was my favorite Brewer as a kid.
Aaron Hill?
What Greg Maddox done during the steroid Era was amazing.
You should do Rueter next
My favorite Twins player of all time 🥰
Jack Morris.
Melvin Mora was pretty underrated.
Lou Whitaker deserves a video
Please do Andre Etheir
Please oh please do JOSE BAUTISTA
Jorge posada is the best player to not have a video like this on youtube
Backyard Baseball OGs know Brad Radke!
9:26 is that a young Big Papi?
Orel Hershiser based on longevity alone
Radke was fun to watch. Even if he was kicking your teams ass.
Chone 'don't call him chone' figgins. That'd be a good video topic
Mike Hampton!
Why not Aaron sele? Very underrated pitcher
Veronica is my favorite Radke..
Derek Lowe Aka "dlo" aka "the finisher" desperately needs some love just see for yourself.. 2002 season 2004 playoffs dude seals up each clincher in ever series including game 7 in the Yankees series coming back 3 0 😱 ya d-lo needs a video. Imo.
Chris pratt was his catcher for a while to if that helps
Once knew a teacher who had his last name. But she wasn't related to him.
Steve Klein for the Cardinals