Good list, but you just can't leave the 1993 Blue Jays out of any 1990's team list. That team was STACKED! Alomar, Olerud, Molitor, Carter, Henderson, Guzman, Morris just to name a few. The 95 Indians is another iconic 90's team I would have definitely included with players like Lofton, Belle, Baerga, Vizquel, Thome, Ramirez, Murray, Mesa, Hershiser.
I think one of the Indians or Mariners teams has to be on the list because those were some of the most memorable teams. There's people who probably can't name players on current rosters who can name the lineup from one of those teams.
I'm kind of surprised that the 1995 Seattle Mariners aren't on this list. Other than maybe the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies, they were arguably the ultimate Cinderella team of the '90s. The 1995 Mariners rallied to win the AL West (and their first ever trip to the postseason) in a one-game playoff against the California Angels after being down by at least 13 games in early August. And then in the best-of-five ALDS against the New York Yankees, the Mariners came back from a two games to none deficit to win the series (spurred by Edgar Martinez's now iconic double off of Jack McDowell in the bottom of the 11th inning in Game 5 at the Kingdome) and a trip to the ALCS. This particular season and the Mariners' playoff run is often credited for helping get the new ballpark (what is now known as T-Mobile Park) built.
Well due for another run later in ur vids....it's more interesting teams in the 90s...like the 91 twins even...or the 95 reds...98 Padres...the 99 mets...n quite a few more...just to back up your inclusion of the 93 giants....they were important in terms of free agency...the expansion of playoffs and the whole gravitas that Barry Bonds had...
@BaronLector Bonds' unreal number of IBBs (120) reflected not only how FEARED he was as a hitter, but also how WEAK the rest of the Giants lineup was. I mean...Ray Durham. Marquis (GIDP) Grissom. Pedro Feliz. Decent players, but nothing like Jeff Kent, Andres Gallaraga, or Ellis Burks.
I liked the video. Some advice is that maybe you tell us where they finished in the playoffs for all the teams. Maybe some more stats on the players too (like if they lead the league in steals, etc). Otherwise, good work!
I'd have put the 1993 Mets on this list, since they didn't all have to be good teams. It seems like everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong for that team. Not that I was sad about it as a Phillies fan.
I have always been intrigued by the 1991 Tigers. That team finished 2nd in runs scored in the AL, behind the Rangers, despite only having a team BA around .245. They drew a TON of walks, had good speed on the basepaths, and hit oodles of home runs. Cecil Fielder tied with Jose Canseco with 44 HR, I believe Mickey Tettleton had 31, and Whitaker and Trammel were outstanding, with Tony Phillips having a breakout year as a lead-off hitter. And their primary right fielder was Rob Deer. He had probably the best season of any player who hit under .190 for a season, with 26 HR and around 80 walks (to go with over 170 strikeouts). If the Tigers would have had even a league-average team ERA that year, I wager they beat out Toronto for the division title. They made a run for the division in late August, if memory serves, before fading. Honesty, that was a fun team to watch. I'm a White Sox fan and I'm happy to see the 1993 team on your list, though. Edit- one more thing- with respect to the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies, note that they scored more runs than any other team in 1993 except for the Tigers, and they did it without the DH. To me, THAT is remarkable.
Montreal was the best team that year. But in the years from 1995-2010 when baseball had four playoff teams per league, the team with the best record in MLB only won in 1998 (NYY), 2007 (BOS), and 2009 (NYY). From 2011-2023, the best record only won in 2013 (BOS), 2016 (CHC), 2018 (BOS), and 2020 (LAD). Wild Cards win about as often as top seeds.
I rarely watch baseball now (except LCS and WS) but really watched it more often mid to late 90s. I liked watching ESPN Sunday night football and often watched baseball tonight. Rockies and Mariners were fun to watch. The Braves pitchers, Clemens, Pedro were great to see too. Of course I wanted to see the home run chases too.
Yeah, great teams, but not having even one of the Cleveland Indians teams that had one of the most stacked lineups of all time. Yeah, they didn't win the WS (trust me, I can't forget), but they also scored more runs than any other team in the 1990s (and that's with them not really even becoming decent until '94.
@@gamewinningrbi Yeah, quite a.....character.....in the middle of a team with Albert Belle breaking thermostats and I always just pictured Jim Thome in the corner being like "Guys, what??? Come on...."
Not sure if you have a 2000s lost (gonna check after this), but I think the '04 Red Sox team nickname according to Johnny Damon was something like the "stupid idiots."
@@BaronLector Theres a moral of the story. I'm a stupid idiot so I don't even know what this means. I remember everyone said Peyton Manning can't win in the bad weather. I just kept saying. No. He hasn't yet. No. He hasn't yet. It wasn't going to dictate every single result That's the moral I take away from the 2004 Red Sox.
@@OH_MY_DOGGG Paraphrasing, in his book, Johnny Damon was talking about how "in the dugout we were just a bunch of stupid idiots." UPDATE: I just found the quote from his book called "Idiot": “We were our own team. We had our own identity. Well, shoot, we weren’t even around. Why do we feel this pressure? That’s why I was like, ‘We’re a bunch of idiots, we don’t care about any of the stuff that’s happened before.' We knew then that our job was to go out and win right now. But yeah, it caught on.”
Damn, Scott Radinsky is a deep cut. '99 Mets is a good one. They had a 40 year old Rickey Henderson still playing like a star (offensively at least. He'd lost a few steps in the outfield)
Baseball going to a three divisions in each league format, with a wild card, was already in the works before the 1993 season; it was decided to put off the switchover until 1994. Interesting that the Braves went 13-0 against the expansion Colorado Rockies. This was a factor in their catching the San Francisco Giants, who recovered from a dismal 72-90 prior season, almost moving to Tampa/St. Pete, and leading the NL West for most of the season, and finishing one game ahead.
Thanks for the fact check. And that's pretty interesting about the Braves vs Rockies. Similar to the Royals and Tigers getting into the playoffs this as the bottom two wild cards after getting to play the worst team in history White Sox 13 times. Royals went 12-1 against them.
My favorite part of the process of the owners voting for the creation of the LDS and the divisions is one of the few dissenting votes was George W. Bush.
1997 Pirates almost won the NL Central. They had Kendall, Kevin Young, Tony Womack, Randa, Elster, Al Martin, Polcovich. King and Jay Bell left for other teams. Their payroll was the same as the salary for Albert Belle. 1994 Royals: Bob Hamelin DH, competing for playoffs before strike hit. 1993 Giants vs Braves: the last great pennant race. Fred McGriff trade brought the Braves back and there was a fire at Fulton County Stadium when he arrived.
Glad you liked the video. Yeah, I'm definitely missing the Indians on this one. I'm working on a video right now that features the 90s Indians pretty heavily and I came across this bizarre ad that apparently used to run in Cleveland. Maybe you remember it: ruclips.net/user/shortsr7WvdSzSnqA?si=BrX7L0DIkcyPC57N
Its funny you mentioned the 1993 Black Stockings, and yet you didn't even bother to mention the fact that they had arguably two of the greatest athletes of all time technically under their control. First, after his devastating football injury, Bo Jackson managed to work his way back onto the Big League roster... and he did it all despite being the first person with an artificial joint to ever play a professional sport (artificial hip). While he was no longer even an average baseball player, according to his excellent biography by Jeff Pearlman, He was a model teammate who really helped the team develop its younger players. In the past, he was often cantankerous when dealing with athletes who just weren't as gifted as Bo Jackson. Now, three years of rehabilitation had allowed him to develop a respect for men who worked their tail off in the minor leagues for very little pay. And speaking of minor leaguers who worked hard, in the fall of 1993, Michael Jordan retired the first of three times--this time to try his hand at baseball. Although he never played professional major league baseball, the most beloved athlete of my generation was in the White Sox organization in the winter of 1993. What a crazy turn of events.
I really hate half-assed lists like these that only look at 'great' teams that made the playoffs. Actual effort in looking into the 1992 Mets or 1995 Angels are way more interesting than any of these teams.
103 Win 1993 Giants I mean that's like a 14-2 (15-2 now) NFL team missing the playoffs Goes to show how exclusive the MLB postseason was at some point. 4 teams made it IN ALL. That's it
They won the WS in 87 & 91 both in 7 without even getting close to winning on the road...maybe the greatest home field advantage in baseball during 80s-90s. If they played neutral parks those two years don't just not win the WS but also don't even sniff the playoffs
@@ChristopherM720 Yeah, that Homerdome advantage in the playoffs was nuts. The 87 team only won 85 games in the reg season. Maybe a video on the worst world series winners. '06 Cardinals and '14 Giants come to mind.
On initially watching this video, didnt know it was a series showing up in my feed so i assumed it was 10 franchises in general speaking didnt think it was exact years... but I would put some representation of the then Cleveland Indians on this list. The hype of the Major League movies, the loaded teams they had that ran up against the Braves & Yankees & Marlins... they kind of feel like biggest loser (other than Montreal or Seattle) of the decade, they should of won once with Alomar, Visquel, Thome, Ramirez, Belle, Lofton etc.
Yeah, those Cleveland lineups were stacked. Would have liked to have a Cleveland team on here and their turnaround in the mid 90s from a joke franchise (good point about the Major League movies) would have made for a good segment
I think you missed on 10, as the 95 Rockies were more interesting with the Blake Street Bombers of Bichette, Walker, Castillo and Big Cat, plus an all time effort by a bullpen, plus sell outs for every game...earliest expansion team to make the playoffs. They were far more interesting than LaRussa's overmanaging.
Pretty good video - until you showed ignorance on the Broadstreet Bullies. They're one of the most infamous team nicknames in sports history and VERY well known. I'm not even that big of a hockey fan and I've heard of them referenced many times.
Since you mentioned him as the big Sox acquisition in1996, can you perhaps explain how Harold Baines is in the HOF and Sweet Lou Whitiker, with only 4 points less OPS+ essentially twice the WAR and 3 gold gloves isn't? Sorry, nothing against Baines, whose WAR was dinged by awful defense before becoming fulltime DH but...someone must end the madness and anytime I hear a HOF name that has less WAR than the best 2B of the 80s, my teeth grind. And I hated the tigers and feel this way!
Yeah, Baines may be the worst HOF-er, definitely the worst recent player to make it. I think the consensus on why Baines got in is because Tony LaRussa was on the veteran's committee and he was a big Baines fan since his days managing the 80s White Sox. I heard he used GWRBI to make the case for Baines inclusion. A good player but nowhere near HOF worthy. And Whitaker definitely had a way better career.
dynasty -- a powerful group or family that maintains its position for a considerable time even if you wanna say there were only a dynasty over the NL, the Braves were still a dynasty. acting like they aren't just bc they only won 1 WS is silly and makes zero sense
@@sporer_ sports dynasty are different unless you win 3 times in a short period your not a dynasty, your not a real sports fan to know that, the Jordan bulls were a dynasty, the 96 through 2000 yankees were a dynasty, the Boston celtics that won 8 straight championships is a dynasty, being on top for 1 year does not make you dynasty as every other year you got taken down by another team, the modern day dodgers are not dynasty, neither are the braves, being a runner up for most years does not make you a dynasty it makes u runner up who was not able to finish the job most of the years, u do not maintain your position when you fail to be the last one standing every year after being on top you did maintain your position you lost it the next year to another team and never got it back
@@MsSaskue360 says who? you just made up some arbitrary rules. i've forgotten more about sports than you'll ever know so spare me the real sports fan horseshit. virtually everyone with a brain recognizes ATL was a dynasty. you're dead wrong
@@sporer_ your dead wrong you can’t maintain your position when you lost to another team the next year, it’s like if u run a empire and you loose to another army the next year, you are no longer on top you got taken down and u never claim your way to top again you are not a dynasty, your just devaluing dynasty by giving points to a team for making the playoff each year
Good list, but you just can't leave the 1993 Blue Jays out of any 1990's team list.
That team was STACKED!
Alomar, Olerud, Molitor, Carter, Henderson, Guzman, Morris just to name a few.
The 95 Indians is another iconic 90's team I would have definitely included with players like Lofton, Belle, Baerga, Vizquel, Thome, Ramirez, Murray, Mesa, Hershiser.
I think one of the Indians or Mariners teams has to be on the list because those were some of the most memorable teams. There's people who probably can't name players on current rosters who can name the lineup from one of those teams.
95 Indians. All those personalities. One of the best lineups top to bottom. Team hadn't made the playoffs in 40 years.
Frank Thomas didn’t win a World Series in 93, but he absolutely did in 2005
Oh man, you're right. He was still there. But he didn't play in the post season. I will need to issue a correction!
@@gamewinningrbi right right. Unfortunately he got hurt, but was having a decent season when he got hurt. 12 HR in 34 games. Great video.
I'm kind of surprised that the 1995 Seattle Mariners aren't on this list. Other than maybe the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies, they were arguably the ultimate Cinderella team of the '90s. The 1995 Mariners rallied to win the AL West (and their first ever trip to the postseason) in a one-game playoff against the California Angels after being down by at least 13 games in early August.
And then in the best-of-five ALDS against the New York Yankees, the Mariners came back from a two games to none deficit to win the series (spurred by Edgar Martinez's now iconic double off of Jack McDowell in the bottom of the 11th inning in Game 5 at the Kingdome) and a trip to the ALCS. This particular season and the Mariners' playoff run is often credited for helping get the new ballpark (what is now known as T-Mobile Park) built.
Yeah, this is definitely a snub on my part. I know I had them on an initial list, but you make a bunch of great points. Should definitely be on there.
Well due for another run later in ur vids....it's more interesting teams in the 90s...like the 91 twins even...or the 95 reds...98 Padres...the 99 mets...n quite a few more...just to back up your inclusion of the 93 giants....they were important in terms of free agency...the expansion of playoffs and the whole gravitas that Barry Bonds had...
Still didn't make it to the world series 😂 Mariners gonna Mariner.
To put Barry Bonds' intentional walk number into perspective, Aaron Judge leads the league in IBB this season with... 20.
Truly bonkers
If you haven't, check out Secret Base's video about Bonds' numbers if he played without a bat.
@BaronLector Bonds' unreal number of IBBs (120) reflected not only how FEARED he was as a hitter, but also how WEAK the rest of the Giants lineup was. I mean...Ray Durham. Marquis (GIDP) Grissom. Pedro Feliz. Decent players, but nothing like Jeff Kent, Andres Gallaraga, or Ellis Burks.
This video is just as good and you bring the same style and creativity. Much love for this. It made my day off.
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words.
I liked the video. Some advice is that maybe you tell us where they finished in the playoffs for all the teams. Maybe some more stats on the players too (like if they lead the league in steals, etc).
Otherwise, good work!
I'd have put the 1993 Mets on this list, since they didn't all have to be good teams.
It seems like everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong for that team.
Not that I was sad about it as a Phillies fan.
Yeah, that would have been an interesting road to go down. Maybe a future vid on teams "where everything went wrong" or something could be cool.
I have always been intrigued by the 1991 Tigers.
That team finished 2nd in runs scored in the AL, behind the Rangers, despite only having a team BA around .245. They drew a TON of walks, had good speed on the basepaths, and hit oodles of home runs. Cecil Fielder tied with Jose Canseco with 44 HR, I believe Mickey Tettleton had 31, and Whitaker and Trammel were outstanding, with Tony Phillips having a breakout year as a lead-off hitter.
And their primary right fielder was Rob Deer. He had probably the best season of any player who hit under .190 for a season, with 26 HR and around 80 walks (to go with over 170 strikeouts).
If the Tigers would have had even a league-average team ERA that year, I wager they beat out Toronto for the division title. They made a run for the division in late August, if memory serves, before fading.
Honesty, that was a fun team to watch. I'm a White Sox fan and I'm happy to see the 1993 team on your list, though.
Edit- one more thing- with respect to the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies, note that they scored more runs than any other team in 1993 except for the Tigers, and they did it without the DH. To me, THAT is remarkable.
That's a great pick! It was like a team-wide 3 true outcomes approach, with Rob Deer reaching 3TO nirvana.
Technically, Thomas did win a championship ring in 05.
Yes, I messed this up, forgetting that Frank was on that 05 team but didn't play in the playoffs. I noted a correction in the video description
Frank Thomas won a world series in 2005
Yes, my bad. He didn't play in the postseason that year, which is why I blanked on that one. Noted this in the vid description.
How you gonna leave Cleveland out?
Bro You hit a grand salami ,👏👏 i love the history of the baseball and this video is awesome 👌👌✌️
Thanks!
8:40 I think the 1993 Phillies most famous nickname is Macho Row
Yeah, that's a better one
Macho Row was only for a certain group in the locker room... anyone familiar with that team knows that
Exactly what I was going to comment. Not sure where he got the broad street bellies. And how they aren’t number 1 on this last is amazing to me.
Montreal Expos are the defacto 1994 World Champions based on overall record.
FACTS!
Holy Cope Nuggets Batman.
74-40 is nuts
Growing up, I referred to them as the "Regular Season World Champions."
Montreal was the best team that year. But in the years from 1995-2010 when baseball had four playoff teams per league, the team with the best record in MLB only won in 1998 (NYY), 2007 (BOS), and 2009 (NYY). From 2011-2023, the best record only won in 2013 (BOS), 2016 (CHC), 2018 (BOS), and 2020 (LAD). Wild Cards win about as often as top seeds.
Sorry, no...not unless you call the Reds the true winners of the 1981 world champs.
The Keyser Soze of baseball teams is a chefs kiss of a nickname
I rarely watch baseball now (except LCS and WS) but really watched it more often mid to late 90s. I liked watching ESPN Sunday night football and often watched baseball tonight. Rockies and Mariners were fun to watch. The Braves pitchers, Clemens, Pedro were great to see too. Of course I wanted to see the home run chases too.
Yeah, great teams, but not having even one of the Cleveland Indians teams that had one of the most stacked lineups of all time. Yeah, they didn't win the WS (trust me, I can't forget), but they also scored more runs than any other team in the 1990s (and that's with them not really even becoming decent until '94.
Yeah, I probably dropped the ball not having the mid 90s Cleveland turnaround on here. Plus Manny being Manny is always fun to reminisce about.
@@gamewinningrbi Yeah, quite a.....character.....in the middle of a team with Albert Belle breaking thermostats and I always just pictured Jim Thome in the corner being like "Guys, what??? Come on...."
96 Cardinals remain my 2nd favorite Cards team behind the 85 team
It was a fun team. Lankford, Gant, Jordan was such a cool outfield
Not sure if you have a 2000s lost (gonna check after this), but I think the '04 Red Sox team nickname according to Johnny Damon was something like the "stupid idiots."
Have only done the 80's and 90's in this series of videos, but 2000's will be next (although have some different videos in the works before then).
@@gamewinningrbi I just noticed you were a new channel. Welcome, and you earned a Follow. Nice, clean, videos.
@@BaronLector Thanks!
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Theres a moral of the story. I'm a stupid idiot so I don't even know what this means.
I remember everyone said Peyton Manning can't win in the bad weather. I just kept saying. No. He hasn't yet. No. He hasn't yet.
It wasn't going to dictate every single result
That's the moral I take away from the 2004 Red Sox.
@@OH_MY_DOGGG Paraphrasing, in his book, Johnny Damon was talking about how "in the dugout we were just a bunch of stupid idiots."
UPDATE: I just found the quote from his book called "Idiot": “We were our own team. We had our own identity. Well, shoot, we weren’t even around. Why do we feel this pressure? That’s why I was like, ‘We’re a bunch of idiots, we don’t care about any of the stuff that’s happened before.' We knew then that our job was to go out and win right now. But yeah, it caught on.”
glad to see the '93 White Sox on here; any team with Scott Radinsky on it was the most interesting of the '90s to me. oh, and the '99 Mets.
Damn, Scott Radinsky is a deep cut. '99 Mets is a good one. They had a 40 year old Rickey Henderson still playing like a star (offensively at least. He'd lost a few steps in the outfield)
What about the 1990 White Sox? Their first year back in contention since 1985.
that was a fun squad. RIP Ivan Calderon
Baseball going to a three divisions in each league format, with a wild card, was already in the works before the 1993 season; it was decided to put off the switchover until 1994. Interesting that the Braves went 13-0 against the expansion Colorado Rockies. This was a factor in their catching the San Francisco Giants, who recovered from a dismal 72-90 prior season, almost moving to Tampa/St. Pete, and leading the NL West for most of the season, and finishing one game ahead.
Thanks for the fact check. And that's pretty interesting about the Braves vs Rockies. Similar to the Royals and Tigers getting into the playoffs this as the bottom two wild cards after getting to play the worst team in history White Sox 13 times. Royals went 12-1 against them.
My favorite part of the process of the owners voting for the creation of the LDS and the divisions is one of the few dissenting votes was George W. Bush.
Wait french-Canadian baseball commentators need to come back
Sans doute!
1997 Pirates almost won the NL Central. They had Kendall, Kevin Young, Tony Womack, Randa, Elster, Al Martin, Polcovich. King and Jay Bell left for other teams. Their payroll was the same as the salary for Albert Belle.
1994 Royals: Bob Hamelin DH, competing for playoffs before strike hit.
1993 Giants vs Braves: the last great pennant race. Fred McGriff trade brought the Braves back and there was a fire at Fulton County Stadium when he arrived.
Sloppy steaks leads to success
Makes the team SO MUCH more fun
I truly did enjoy the video and reminiscing about so many of these teams from my childhood.....even without an Indians representative lol.
Glad you liked the video. Yeah, I'm definitely missing the Indians on this one. I'm working on a video right now that features the 90s Indians pretty heavily and I came across this bizarre ad that apparently used to run in Cleveland. Maybe you remember it: ruclips.net/user/shortsr7WvdSzSnqA?si=BrX7L0DIkcyPC57N
@@gamewinningrbi All great work and definitely subscribed to keep watching your output!
Its funny you mentioned the 1993 Black Stockings, and yet you didn't even bother to mention the fact that they had arguably two of the greatest athletes of all time technically under their control. First, after his devastating football injury, Bo Jackson managed to work his way back onto the Big League roster... and he did it all despite being the first person with an artificial joint to ever play a professional sport (artificial hip). While he was no longer even an average baseball player, according to his excellent biography by Jeff Pearlman, He was a model teammate who really helped the team develop its younger players. In the past, he was often cantankerous when dealing with athletes who just weren't as gifted as Bo Jackson. Now, three years of rehabilitation had allowed him to develop a respect for men who worked their tail off in the minor leagues for very little pay.
And speaking of minor leaguers who worked hard, in the fall of 1993, Michael Jordan retired the first of three times--this time to try his hand at baseball. Although he never played professional major league baseball, the most beloved athlete of my generation was in the White Sox organization in the winter of 1993.
What a crazy turn of events.
Great points. It is crazy that they had both of those guys in the organization.
What's the inro music?
soundcloud.com/mandimore-music/hello-welcome
I really hate half-assed lists like these that only look at 'great' teams that made the playoffs. Actual effort in looking into the 1992 Mets or 1995 Angels are way more interesting than any of these teams.
103 Win 1993 Giants I mean that's like a 14-2 (15-2 now) NFL team missing the playoffs
Goes to show how exclusive the MLB postseason was at some point. 4 teams made it IN ALL. That's it
Yeah, and before 1969, only two teams made it.
1991 Minnesota Twins again.
They won the WS in 87 & 91 both in 7 without even getting close to winning on the road...maybe the greatest home field advantage in baseball during 80s-90s. If they played neutral parks those two years don't just not win the WS but also don't even sniff the playoffs
@@ChristopherM720 Yeah, that Homerdome advantage in the playoffs was nuts. The 87 team only won 85 games in the reg season. Maybe a video on the worst world series winners. '06 Cardinals and '14 Giants come to mind.
Snubbed the Indians..
On initially watching this video, didnt know it was a series showing up in my feed so i assumed it was 10 franchises in general speaking didnt think it was exact years... but I would put some representation of the then Cleveland Indians on this list. The hype of the Major League movies, the loaded teams they had that ran up against the Braves & Yankees & Marlins... they kind of feel like biggest loser (other than Montreal or Seattle) of the decade, they should of won once with Alomar, Visquel, Thome, Ramirez, Belle, Lofton etc.
Yeah, those Cleveland lineups were stacked. Would have liked to have a Cleveland team on here and their turnaround in the mid 90s from a joke franchise (good point about the Major League movies) would have made for a good segment
If the rays ever do decide to move, please go to Montreal and buy the rights 🙏 everyone who thinks themselves a baseball fan would appreciate it.
I hope they bring baseball back to Montreal. They're saying that 2 teams might be added in 2031.
I think you missed on 10, as the 95 Rockies were more interesting with the Blake Street Bombers of Bichette,
Walker, Castillo and Big Cat, plus an all time effort by a bullpen, plus sell outs for every game...earliest expansion team to make the playoffs. They were far more interesting than LaRussa's overmanaging.
Definitely had the BSB's on early drafts of this. Was a tough cut.
If Bonds had never used steroids...he'd be legit viewed as in the pantheon with Ruth, Aaron and Mays.
Absolutely. And personally, I think he should be in the pantheon anyway.
Pretty good video - until you showed ignorance on the Broadstreet Bullies. They're one of the most infamous team nicknames in sports history and VERY well known. I'm not even that big of a hockey fan and I've heard of them referenced many times.
I will plead ignorance regarding hockey. But this is a baseball channel.
Please subscribe though. I doubt I’ll ever mention hockey again!
Since you mentioned him as the big Sox acquisition in1996, can you perhaps explain how Harold Baines is in the HOF and Sweet Lou Whitiker, with only 4 points less OPS+ essentially twice the WAR and 3 gold gloves isn't? Sorry, nothing against Baines, whose WAR was dinged by awful defense before becoming fulltime DH but...someone must end the madness and anytime I hear a HOF name that has less WAR than the best 2B of the 80s, my teeth grind. And I hated the tigers and feel this way!
Yeah, Baines may be the worst HOF-er, definitely the worst recent player to make it. I think the consensus on why Baines got in is because Tony LaRussa was on the veteran's committee and he was a big Baines fan since his days managing the 80s White Sox. I heard he used GWRBI to make the case for Baines inclusion. A good player but nowhere near HOF worthy. And Whitaker definitely had a way better career.
98 Cardinals didn't make the playoffs?
This is why baseball suffers: mark McGuire and sosa should've both been there
Yeah, the Big Mac cardinals were pretty mediocre. Great offense, but terrible pitching staffs/bullpens.
@@gamewinningrbi Pitching was the problem for the Cards throughout the 90's.
Shout out to the 97 Baltimore Orioles. One of the best teams to never win a World Series imo.
Refuse to Lose Mariners of '95
To me, the 1993 Phillies are the most memorable, and I am in no way a Phillies fan.
Alou stayed til 96
This video loses all credibility by ignoring the Toronto Blue Jays
Rickey
Braves were not dynasty they only won once, seriously people don’t know how to use dynasty
dynasty -- a powerful group or family that maintains its position for a considerable time
even if you wanna say there were only a dynasty over the NL, the Braves were still a dynasty. acting like they aren't just bc they only won 1 WS is silly and makes zero sense
@@sporer_ sports dynasty are different unless you win 3 times in a short period your not a dynasty, your not a real sports fan to know that, the Jordan bulls were a dynasty, the 96 through 2000 yankees were a dynasty, the Boston celtics that won 8 straight championships is a dynasty, being on top for 1 year does not make you dynasty as every other year you got taken down by another team, the modern day dodgers are not dynasty, neither are the braves, being a runner up for most years does not make you a dynasty it makes u runner up who was not able to finish the job most of the years, u do not maintain your position when you fail to be the last one standing every year after being on top you did maintain your position you lost it the next year to another team and never got it back
@@MsSaskue360 says who? you just made up some arbitrary rules. i've forgotten more about sports than you'll ever know so spare me the real sports fan horseshit. virtually everyone with a brain recognizes ATL was a dynasty. you're dead wrong
@@sporer_ your dead wrong you can’t maintain your position when you lost to another team the next year, it’s like if u run a empire and you loose to another army the next year, you are no longer on top you got taken down and u never claim your way to top again you are not a dynasty, your just devaluing dynasty by giving points to a team for making the playoff each year
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