Grand total of 27 non-major league innings as a professional, dude was just ready to be absolutely average in the show right out of college, which is extremely impressive
He is one of only four pitchers since 1989 to go straight to the majors and never pitch in the minors. Jim Abbott - 1989 Chan Ho Park - 1994 Mike Leake - 2010 Garrett Crochet - 2020 Love the video. Leake was fun to watch.
Leake actually has one of the craziest above-average achievements of all time among any Major Leaguer, although it has nothing to do with his performance on an MLB field. He was drafted 8th overall in 2009, immediately made the major league team, and never looked back. He pitched 7.1 innings in the minors his entire career. Pretty astonishing
Being average among the elite club of people known as MLB pitchers is an incredible feat. You are better than 50% of the very best in the world. Doing that for one year is a remarkable achievement. Doing it consistently, reliably, year in and year out, for a decade, is tremendous. What makes many of the best teams so good is not just the performance of their stars, but the abundance of average players in place of below average. If some of the worst players on your team is average, your team is great. And they could not be so without some reliable and consistent performers like Mike Leake. They may not be the biggest names making the biggest bucks, but they are very valuable assets nonetheless.
If you keep going with this, I'd love to see you put together a team of the most average players - I wonder how they would fair! Maybe better than average? Or if you really want to drive yourself insane, I'd love to see a team with the most average season of all time!
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The Chad Innings Eater made $80M. Love it
Omg you predicted the video
Grand total of 27 non-major league innings as a professional, dude was just ready to be absolutely average in the show right out of college, which is extremely impressive
Can confirm, I absolutely said "Oh yeah, I had that guy on my fantasy team for a while"
He is one of only four pitchers since 1989 to go straight to the majors and never pitch in the minors.
Jim Abbott - 1989
Chan Ho Park - 1994
Mike Leake - 2010
Garrett Crochet - 2020
Love the video. Leake was fun to watch.
Yes, I remember when I had Peek-a-boo Veech on my fantasy team back in the day. Won me a handful of dough!
If Mike Leake doesn’t have an updated nickname list that includes “Ruler of Routineville” - we riot
100% had this guy on my fantasy team
Leake actually has one of the craziest above-average achievements of all time among any Major Leaguer, although it has nothing to do with his performance on an MLB field. He was drafted 8th overall in 2009, immediately made the major league team, and never looked back. He pitched 7.1 innings in the minors his entire career. Pretty astonishing
Being average among the elite club of people known as MLB pitchers is an incredible feat. You are better than 50% of the very best in the world. Doing that for one year is a remarkable achievement. Doing it consistently, reliably, year in and year out, for a decade, is tremendous. What makes many of the best teams so good is not just the performance of their stars, but the abundance of average players in place of below average. If some of the worst players on your team is average, your team is great. And they could not be so without some reliable and consistent performers like Mike Leake. They may not be the biggest names making the biggest bucks, but they are very valuable assets nonetheless.
Being in the middle of all the pitchers in all of pro ball is pretty damn good!
I love this series
Great videos. Any chance you do the most average fielder. Good luck!!
My mind when right to Mike Leake with the Dusty Baker w/Reds thumbnail
Anyone else checking back in for that Peek-a-boo Veach video?
You’ve got some awesome stuff. One of my favorite baseball follows. Keep it up
Availability! I love that saying at the end there
My guess is Jamie Moyer
Nothing average about this series, good stuff man
FYI Mike Leake never pitched in the minor leagues.
He also was the Reds ace pitcher for like 5 years.
Let's pour a glass of tepid water and drink a toast to Mr. Average.
If you keep going with this, I'd love to see you put together a team of the most average players - I wonder how they would fair! Maybe better than average? Or if you really want to drive yourself insane, I'd love to see a team with the most average season of all time!
Thats a great idea
2:13 is that the wife-trading guy?
Randy wolf and Matt Garza were the first guys I thought of for this. Now just need the most average manager
Awesome video. This guy is the King of Commonplace!
Damn, my guess going in was Bronson Arroyo, even though there's nothing average about that leg kick. Right team wrong guy
Arroyo was in the running. I didn’t have time to talk about him so I at least slipped in some footage.
All-time great leg kick.
He went straight to the Majors…nothing average about that!
Another unskippable vid for a stat dweeb like me :D Great work as usual!
Videos and channels like this are helping me get back into baseball. Great stuff mna
The first player who comes to mind, is Kyle Hendricks
looking at ur list. mike leak popped out at me at 3:00 mark. im like if i had to choose he is my man. 10 seconds later i was right lol
definitely one of the pitchers of all time!
Jamie Moyer!
Jamie Moyer pitched until he was almost 50 years old. There is nothing average about that
@@MikeHart72 did you know that he is the oldest player in history to have an RBI
Keep it up with the uploads man! I hope you keep gathering a following cause I eat this type of content up!
If you think his WHIP keeps him from being average, you don't know about Fritz Peterson.
Oopsie you said OPS+ by accident at 2:30
Otherwise great vid, keep it up!
Leake was a great hitter though
You call Mike Leake an outlier? I'd say for the purposes of this video he's the most INlier a person could ever be.
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this vid serving up some LUKEWARM ass takes 🔥 🧊