The Angriest Pitcher in Baseball History
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I met Carlos at a sporting goods store in Chicago where we both were shopping. I joked to him that he was buying all the size 15 shoes. We talked for like fifteen minutes, he was going down to winter ball, I mentioned his fiery energy and he said he gets so into the moment, etc. He was super cool and got in line behind me even offering to pay for my stuff, including a $300 North Face jacket I was buying. I loved watching him pitch and those were interesting years of baseball.
Mark Buehrle and Carlos Zambrano both being on the 2012 Marlins with Ozzie Guillén managing was definitely a moment I forgot happened. What a weird time
Don't forget SS Jose Reyes. And they tried to make a run at Albert Pujols that offseason to
A lot of Chicago legends in one place!
Also future Cub-Sox Emilio Bonifacio, Rob Brantly, Steve Cishek, Jacob Turner and Former White Sox 1B Carlos Lee
@@Gtasplayer Steve Cishek is a deep cut, nice job lol
Ahhhh yes, the fun "anger management tour" season
One of my favorite memories of him isn’t even him pitching. I remember in 2007 when there was a brawl between the Cubs and Padres where Derrek Lee and Chris Young started fighting and everyone else on both teams tried separate the two in a scrum and randomly the Cubs pull Carlos Zambrano out with his belt in his hand looking like he was gonna whip someone with it. It was so bizarre and hilarious that it made me laugh really hard. Dude was unintentionally hilarious but also a stud pitcher in the 2000’s
For some reason, YT recommends that video (Derrek Lee/Chris Young fight) all the time. Lee's behavior that day was indefensible.
Lmao I remember a time he ran through the sign at 3rd trying to score and got thrown out by a mile. He looked so determined to score as he rounded 3rd disobeying the 3rd base coach😭
Zambrano, like most ball players, was superstitious so he would change his pants every three innings and when the fight happened he was in the middle of changing 😂
Big Z was the face of an era of Cubs Baseball that gave us literally every emotion good bad and inbetween
Met this guy at a Brazilian steakhouse in AZ during Spring Training when I was a kid. He was very kind, would have had no idea he had this other side to him when he was competing. Respect to big Z!
You forgot to mention Z's comeback attempt with the indy league team the Chicago Dogs. This was in 2019, after last pitching in the majors in 2012. He's still only 42 (younger than Rich Hill)
9:22 That Milts Papas no hitter should have been a perfect game. 2 outs in the 9 inning, with a full count, Bruce Froeming called a strike ball four, and Milt got the next guy out. The ump show isn't just modern baseball. It's historic.
That pitch gets closer to the middle every year.
As a Cubs fan, I loved watching Big Z growing up. Never a dull moment watching him play
I don't think people realize how great he was either. Dude was a bonafide ace that could hit dingers if he wanted. Not to mention that on my team he was always great to watch. Definitely a competitor anybody would want on their team.
@@PerkyPineapple I was named after him I have the same first name as his last name
My parents are big Cubs fans
@@PerkyPineapple Watching him hit was a blast, like who doesn’t love a switch hitting pitcher that hits bombs
He's my favorite Cubs pitcher to this day! Watching him as a kid got me so fired up to play ball.
“We stinks”
Would have liked to see him face Anthony Rizzo since Rizzo is known to crowd the plate. Probably would have set him off lol
Puig trying to show him up. That would be EPIC.
Pretty sure they were almost teamates with the Cubs lol
@@beastmodebrandon6963 I think they were at the end of 2011 lol.
@@beastmodebrandon6963 they only just missed each other. Big Z went to Miami the day before Rizzo was traded to the Cubs
@@dontwannaname in a crazy, non sensible, almost religious, dragon-ball Z type of way, I like to think Carlos Zambrano is Anthony Rizzo, or like birthed Rizzo for the cubs and the city of Chicago as a parting gift, like here is my good half, reincarnated.
Remember watching him play. Wore his emotions on his sleeve. Good content as always on the channel.
I grew up a Mets fan in queens but as a kid you couldn’t pry me away from watching this guy he was so talented and interesting
As a Cubs fan I absolutely loved Big Z. I even bought a shirt with his name and number on it. He was the type of player you hated if he was on the other team, but loved if he was on your team. His fire and passion for the game was awesome and something you rarely see anymore.
Zambrano actually destroyed the Gatorade machine in 2009, the season after his no-hitter.
As a cubs fan Zambrano was a beast. I loved pitching with him in mlb 2006 the show his stuff in that game is flat out filthy.
I went to a St Paul Saints game a few years ago (when they were still Indy ball and not a Twins affiliate) and out of nowhere Carlos Zambrano took the mound for the other team. Was such an awesome surprise. He was one of my favorite players to watch back in the day and having him randomly appear at a game like that was so fun. He didn’t pitch well but I didn’t care. Was good to see Big Z in action again.
As a Cubs fan from the SouthSide of Chicago, Big Z, Kerry Wood, Mark Prior, A-Ram at third, Lee at first, Soriano in center, goddam I miss that team. Could never put it together but childhood team will forever be my favorite.
I will never understand how the 08 Cubs didn't mop the floor with those Dodgers.
Seriously! On paper, the 08 team was better than the 16 team. After seeing that team suddenly disappear the way they did in the DS, it really was hard not to believe in a curse
As an honest Braves fan, I can agree that Ronald Acuna and Carlos Zambrano are the exact same player. The stats and the eye test show this.
My one wish in life is for MLB videos from the 90s and 2000s to finally get less pixelated than the ones from the 50s.
Not a Cubs fan but I always liked Zambrano. Didn't hurt he ended up in Miami but even when he was in Chicago I respected his passion and his game, hitters who rake are pretty rare.
As a hot head myself. I loved going to Wrigley and watching zambrano, with all that passion out in the open. Related to it. And he was amazing for awhile.
I worked at a Starbucks in Chicago that Zambrano would come into from time to time. One day he was fixing up his coffee and dropped a stir stick or something and the guy I was working with yelled "E1". Won't forget the look on Zambranos face when he turned around.
I was there for his final meltdown as a Cub at Turner Field....pretty surreal for a 13 year old who really loved watching him back in the WGN days
I'm still absolutely infuriated that the Cubs didnt have three aces for the entire 2000's.
Thank the heavenly Lord we won game 7.
He’s my favorite pitcher All time. Thanks for the video.
not a cubs fan but enjoyed watching Big Z and those cubs teams on WGN, the good ol days lol. awesome vid
I didn't know that Zambrano had hit 23 homeruns. Duane Kuiper only hit 1 over a 12-year career. As far as pitchers are concerned, Bob Lemon hit 37 during his career when he played for the Indians.
You know the Gaylord Perry story, right?
@jimwerther753 I do. I heard that he stated that they would put a man on the moon before he ever hit a homerun. I heard that he hit his 1st on July 20th, 1969. I was told that was the only homerun he hit in his career. This, I know, is incorrect, as on June 9th, 1972, he hit a 2-run shot against Minnesota in a game the Indians won 7-1.
What story did you hear?
@@ericschminke8233
Nah, not quite. Story goes like this:
While Alvin Dark was the Giants' manager, in either 1962 or 1963, San Francisco Examiner reporter Harry Jupiter was watching Perry take batting practice and told Dark that Gaylord looked like he had some pop. Dark replied, “No way, there’ll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.”
Six or seven years later, man landed on the moon. 34 minutes afterward, Gaylord took his first at bat of the game, and hit it out of the park for his first career home run.
True story.
Gaylord hit five more HRs in his career, for a total of six.
@jimwerther753 Then the story I heard/read was incorrect.
A supervisor I had back around 2000 would occasionally include at the end of his weekly emails information that he had found intriguing. This was one of them and that was he had said. I took his word for it as it was the first time I had heard it.
A coworker had said that Perry hit 4 homeruns in his career. It turns out this, too, was incorrect.
@@ericschminke8233
Those of us who grew up before the internet became commonplace used to regularly hear great stories which we assumed was true, because how would you know otherwise? My brother told me when I was very young that Met shortstop Frank Taveras had played the most regular season games ever in a single season, because he played 9 games with the Pirates in 1979, was traded to the Mets who had only played 7, and played every game with the Mets as well, giving him an otherwise-impossible 164 game regular season. A few years later I stuck that as a trivia question into my class newspaper (10 cents a copy).
Wait...BREAKING NEWS!! I just find out that my brother's story was (almost) true! I JUST NOW checked it up, because I couldn't remember Frank Taveras's name, and found that he really did play 164 games that year! Wow, I thought my brother made it up, and was going to use that as an example of the BS you could say back then and no one would ever know the difference. Sorry, John! Then again, it does turn out to be "almost", because Maury Wills played 165 games in 1962, including a three game series when the season ended with the Giants and Dodgers tied atop the NL. It became a one game playoff a few years later (think Bucky Dent 1978) but was then three games. Then as now it counts as regular season contests. Or actually not now, because I think MLB changed it a couple of years ago and replaced it with various tiebreakers instead of Game 163.
Taveras is tied for second place with five others at 164 games in a season.
Look what I just learned after all these years, thanks to you!
Anyway, the point is, as I have told my kids, nowadays someone tells you something and you don't believe it until the internet confirms it for you. Back in my day (and yours too, I imagine), you figured the guy was telling you the truth, and believed a bunch of baloney stories, then passed it on to the next guy, who believed it too. Lots of urban legends back in the day, some of which people still believe today. (Talk show host Mike Francesa told his rather large WFAN audience about a guy who came back from Vietnam with arms covered in tattoos, trying to forget about all the people he'd killed in the jungles of 'Nam. So he put on a long-sleeved sweater and started a show for kids, which is how we all know the name Fred Rogers, as in Mr. Rogers. Great story, no? Alas, Mike didn't bother Googling that one first, as the entire story is utter fabrication.
Perhaps they would have never had witch trials in Salem if they had Google back in the day.
Loved playing with him in MLB2K10!
I went to the game where he blew up on Derrick Lee. We got there in the 2nd inning right after it happened and our seats were aligned perfectly to see into the cubs dugout . I was like "wtf is all that bubblegum laying all over the floor of their dugout?" Then the people next to us told us what happened. LOL. Couldn't wait to get home and see what happened.
You could honestly just call these videos, "*Insert name*: Hall of Very Good" and even more people would be on board. We all love the forgotten heroes of the early 2000s
Zambrano was a lot of fun to watch. He made me become a Cubs fan. I wanted to see him go for a World Series title with the Cubs but unfortunately was never given the chance. Thanks for the memories Big Z!
I feel like someone else that had a hot streak was Jake Peavy from the Giants always remember seeing him yelling at the opposition or teammates.
As a long time White Sox fan, I was always unhappy to see Zambrano on the bump against us. He was always brilliant.
I was at that no hitter can we acknowledge he had just come back from the IL which made it more improbable. The next game Ted Lily nearly threw another no hitter. Last insane stretch I remember was Wood, Tapani and I wanna say Jon Lieber. 3 1 hit shutouts in a row.
As someone who grew up as a Zambrano fan (hell, I've even got a shirsey from his time in Indy ball with the Chicago Dogs), I think part of the reason he had the meltdowns he did was the steady loss in velocity. When he first came up, he was pumping mid-90's heat in there without issue; by the end of his MLB career, he was struggling to top 89 (and was sitting at maybe 85 in 1-2 inning outings with the Dogs at the end). The quality of off-speed stuff was there, and I still think he could have made it at least a few more years as a solid MLB starter had he learned to work around the diminished velocity, but that just wasn't who he is.
Still all in all nice to see him remembered as more than just a tirade machine, the dude was a force a solid 7 years.
I'm a die-hard Cubs fan. I loved Zambrano when he was pitching for them!
Loved watching Zambrano growing up
As someone who lives in Milwaukee, thank you Jolly for calling it Miller Park.
I used to love watching him play against the Reds growing up. Man was entertainment on the diamond 😂
Ah Big Z. I remember watching his interview after Cubs fans booed him at home and I thought he handled it well. He seemed more hurt than anything I mean he was struggling not through lack of effort or anything and for his own teams fans to boo him must have hurt.
I remember some coaches on the cubs wanted him to DH. I also missed when C.C was on the brewers.
You didn’t touch on the fact that he was a switch hitter. He took batting very seriously and was frequently used as a pinch hitter.
He said as much when comparing him to Jimmy Rollins.
he did
is he REALLY the best hitting pitcher of the 21st century? I can think of maybe another
Who else, I am interested in knowing
I can think of 3 others. Ig in his best decade you wouldnt count rick ankiel as a pitcher
MadBum
@@pwx13 there's this guy, who plays for the angels, not really a well known ballplayer who has a lot of success at the plate
@@michaelbaucom4019 hes gonna end up in someone's bullpen and on someone's bench if the dimebags pull through. A lot of teams could use a lefty inning-eater with some power. Dare i say teach a mad dog new tricks, i think hed be pretty scary with a knuckleball and mid-90s cutters.
glad to see this vid bc I truly got into baseball the latter half of Big Zs career and didn't understand why he flamed out... now its pretty obvious
also a video idea: teams that have had successful reclamation projects (Dodgers, Yanks, Rays, etc, have had a bunch and it could make for an interesting video series)
What could have been. Another frustrating thing about him was how many games he had to leave early because he got dehydrated. Is it that hard to remember to drink water? About the only player he seemed to have any respect for was Henry Blanco, who caught for him most of the time. They had some memorable arguments during mound visits. Z went off the rails after Blanco got traded after the 2008 season.
shoutout wgn for always letting me watch cub games from the west coast
I'm a huge Cardinals fan, but always loved Zambrano. I like a dude who plays pissed off.
There was a legendary thread on the ESPN boards 30 years ago, I think from a White Sox fan: "if Zambrano starts, your [sic] in trouble"
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God damn, Big Z was way more effective as a #9 than I remembered. We love pitchers that can hit. I wanna know how stoked Jolly and Jerry were when Bartolo hit his in San Diego lol
That fight against his batterymate actually helped the Cubs.
Barrett was gone within weeks of the fight.
The next two years saw the Cubs win their division.
this dude defined my childhood. awesome to see a jolly video on big z
Absolutely loved Zambrano as a Cubs fan, dude was a work horse, he was solid, pretty intense but good on him for it
I LOVED ZAMBRANO! What an intimidator. A great hitter for his position. God, what a force of nature.
It doesn’t matter but the Ejection after anther Morgan scored was in 2009 and I remember that because the pirates just added sleeves back to the jerseys for that year and this game was like a week before they traded McClouth and brought up McCutchen
I loved Z growing up, awesome vid idea Jolly!
Listened to that entire No-hitter driving home from a wedding.
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I watched a LOT of Big Z games in the 2000s, and I must say it was a pleasure watching him blow up a water cooler every few weeks.
If you ever find Mets vs Marlins July 5th, 2000, please post Eric Cammack's triple in his only MLB at bat.
The most beloved guy in Chicago History probably too
As a brewer fan, thank you for not acknowledging any name but Miller Park
Milt Pappas was the pitcher the O’s traded for Frank Robinson in the offseason of 65. Never knew he played for the cubs!
my mother watched a lot of the cubs in 2005 he was always her favorite
I can live off of pizza, pilsner beer and jolly olive videos.
Al " The Mad Hungarian " Hrabosky would like a word...although to be fair, he was more crazy than angry
Madison Bumgarner is a contender for angriest pitcher...along with HOFers Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale(RIP to both)
I was at the no hitter in Milwaukee. Amazing experience
He was a lot of fun to watch.
I met Big Z in the gun section at Scheels when he was in Des Moines on a Rehab assignment.
One of my favorite Cubs players of all time!
As a Marlins fan, I both loved and hated Zambrano because he was so fun to watch, so fiery/passionate, and always dominated the fish
There's just something about throwing a no-hitter that is so emotionally charged and it's so hard to explain. Like watching someone exceed their normal limits and be almost superhuman for 2-3 hours shows that people can do such incredible things sometimes.
The 2003 marlins were crazy. Won a world series during a rebuild, lol.
the red astros jerseys are clean, the pinstripe ones are kinda nice too.
Zambrano kinda redeemed himself in Miami for his short stint with the Marlins though
Zamboni!!! Dude had an attitude. But man, he could get it.
Fun story: Zambrano's no hitter was on my 8th birthday, and in the 8th inning the power went out in my house because of the storm from Hurricane Ike hitting Chicagoland. By the time the power came back on, the game was over, and I didn't know if he finished the no-no until the next morning's paper.
I loved Big Z, he was what every Cubs fan wanted to see
11:04 Steve Bartman esk guy waving behind the plate 🤪
0:22 "He might be the best hitting pitcher of the 21st century"
I shouldn't have to tell you why that's wrong
Definitely could never question his passion
Zambo! Thought hed stand the test of time better than the other Cubs lost aces of the 2000s, he pitched like he was too angry to die.
1:06, 2:13 Mark Prior spottings 🐐
Can you do a breakdown of Mike tauchman’s current dominant run?
At first the angry outbursts made him endearing, he was my favorite of that stacked Cubs rotation. But it became detrimental to the team before long.
“the best hitting pitcher of the 21st century” excuse me😂
Love your content, as always.
There was never a dull moment when Big Z was starting
I always wanted to see Big Z in the Home Run Derby
Zambrano was the only survivor of the Dusty Baker death march of pitchers.
Zambrano got injured playing beer league softball DURING the MLB regular season.
I got to see his no hitter in Milwaukee against the Astros
Amazing 🤩
It's a shame his career ended because of the rage issues because he was still decent at the end. He wasn't an ace anymore, but definitely a reliable inning eater who probably could've played another 2 or 3 years. Sucks even more because he's solidly in the Hall of Very Good right now, but if he had a few more nice seasons he could've edged his way up into the Hall of Fame conversation.
2004 cubs starting rotation was Maddux, Zambrano, Wood, Prior, and Clement…what could have been
Anyway, I love that man. Batshit crazy, but one hell of a pitcher
Did you just forget Shohei when talking about pitchers who "hit" ? Dude literally leads the entire mlb ..
Shohei is the difference between a pitcher who hits and being both a batter and a pitcher.
Real life Kenny Powers
Joaquin Andujar gets my vote. Just about every time he gave up a home run somebody was going to be thrown at.
This dude was not only a good pitcher but an awesome hitter. Closest I’ve seen is Degrom hitting wise with less pop
@@timothyplocinski5672 he doesn’t count. Own category
I'm just here for the Acuña arguments.
Zambrano can hit like Acuna but can Acuna pitch like Zambrano? I think it's clear who the better player is
Man i loved watching him pitch I now model my show player after him.