Donaldson, Bautista, Encarnacion, Martin and Pillar. These were players that gave their all when playing. Body and soul. Truly passionate for the game and the will to win. These are the kind of players that build championships. Four great hitters and an unbelievable centre fielder. Then add in Tulo and the Jays offense was oh so scary and defensively fantastic. Great players have to be great 2 way players. I always think defensive stats are ignored too often.
@@brandon-ww3mu are you stoned? Jeter was nowhere close to one of the best offensive SS's ever! He had 40+ doubles one time, 20+ HRs twice, and drove in 100 runs 1 time. You need to take a look at HoF SS's and do some offensive statistical comparisons. Jeter's only offensive strong point is his .310 lifetime batting average, and his 3000+ hits. 20+ doubles and 15-20 HRs per season is a dime a dozen. I'd argue that the majority of the Jeter clips you continue to see talked about today, are defensive in nature. His jumping, spinning, off-balance throw from the hole, across his body, and the crazy backhanded flip for the tag at home on a runner, during the playoffs. Never liked the guy, he's in the AL East, so my problem with him is purely biased (not to mention the cheap af Jeffrey Maier over-the-wall catch during the playoffs), but his key attribute was being clutch. Dude did what his team needed almost every time they needed it. And that's something no one can argue about (unfortunately LOL)
Cito Gaston is a genius hitting coach and Bautista is his #1 student. However, Gaston turned around many careers. WHen he arrived in '83 in TOronto suddenly a dozen Blue Jays started hitting who were pretty garbage before he arrived.
its similar to Chris sale 7 year run, but the only difference is, chris sale may end up in the HOF if he can get the cy young this season the funny part he's the front runner after 4 years of injuries...
This guy revitalized baseball in Toronto. With Halladay being traded, the Jays needed a new superstar. Happy to see his name on the Level of Excellence when I went to Rogers.
Which never would have happened if diehard fans hadn't gone all in forcing them to do it! Atkins & Shapiro literally tried to give his # to any other player immediately after they didn't keep him ugh #FireAtkins #FireShapiro
Those were YEARS apart. Bautista wasn't actually good until the very end of his career and even then, everyone overlooks just how much he struck out and how poor his defense was
i remember a jays commentator at the beginning of the season saying 'watch out for this guy, he's been tearing the cover off the ball in spring training', he hits a homerun that atbat. he went on to hit 50+ homeruns that year
When he hit 54 HRs that season seemingly out of nowhere, i remember there were whispers all around the league about him being tainted & on steroids. Random testing were done & the guy was clean. Amazing what a minor tweak in your swing can do to your career.
Worked for Granderson too; he added foot lift and would stomp before connecting with the ball like they did in the old days, it resulted in him generating more lift when he hit the ball.
I love your videos about this 2015 Jays team. Everyone on the team shared a love for winning and gave it their all on the field. This current team is unwatchable but your in depth player analyses of the golden days make me tear up every time.
Ill never forget watching joey bats coming up and running the show for a month. Then steadily hitting homers for years before the jays had to let him go. They have seemed to realize the value in signing an older veteran but I think this man deverves his hype from the jays. The most memorable bat flip in mlb history, hittinf 50 HR in a deadball era and revatalizing a citys passion in their sport. Canada has swagger, but it was respectful, which is why I haven't met too many people who dont appreciate joey bats!!!!
Rumour has it that it was conversations with Cito Gaston and Dwayne Murphy followed by another with Vernon Wells that kicked things off. Cito and Murphy wanted to get Bautista to start his swing early, he complained to Wells that he was starting early and didn’t know what Gaston wanted, Wells told him to start “ridiculously early then” and a lot of baseballs ended up in the stands that season.
I don’t think Jays fans realize how good we have it with Atkins, and how Anthopolous was nothing special until he worked with the Dodgers, before the Braves stint. Atkins rebuilt a depleted farm to build up for the future, has made many great trades that were highly questionable at first (such as the Varsho trade which looks better and better the longer Moreno is a league average hitter), or trading Kikuchi for 3 of the Astros best prospects when Erick Fedde couldn’t get nearly as much of a return as a sub 3 ERA starter. Atkins has hit on many 1 year signings, such as Semien, Ray, Belt, and also threw 700 million at Ohtani, which he declined. It’s not his fault players didn’t develop like they should have
I remember being hot and cold with Double A. He gave us the 2015 season which erased any negative criticism I had towards him though. Hats off to him for moving the Vernon Wells contract, and signing Vlad Jr. on the way out.
@@tgorefanbrother….he traded away Hernandez, guerriel and moreno for what??? Defence which clearly doesnt win games. They fucking blow because of the defence first mentality. They did better when their defence was below average and hit above average. He has failed as a GM whether you like it or not. His plan failed, the players he trusted failed. 100% his fault? No…but he decided who he wanted on the field and it was the wrong choice and most people saw it coming
@@tgorefanLolololol you couldn't be MORE WRONG 🤦 This incompetent front office's failed approach for NINE YEARS, & refusal to address obvious issues THEY CAUSED because they were too arrogant to admit what anyone paying attention knew! 🙄 Stop embarrassing yourself lol. The Ohtani attempt was Rogers & totally related to the media company expanding into Asia NOT Atkins or Shapiro smh
@@ItBeNolanTho outside of 2015 people wanted AA's head. There was a huge AA should be fired right up till the trade deadline. A lot of revisionist history with him. He's made some really good moves as the GM of the Braves, but their core players were already in place before he got there. Also people wanted the barrio group broken up. Now they want them all back.
Most of my experience watching José Bautista was either during the playoffs or during his brief but eventful time with the Mets. I was actually surprised looking back at his Mets numbers how decent his offense was at that point.
I used to watch Jose play every Home game Saturday on 3rd base in 2009. Scott Rolan always took that day off so Jose was able to shine. I always cheered him on and believed in him. Jose always contributed through defence and good at bats. I knew he was worthy of being an every day player and people laughed at me for saying that. Jose proved me right, but nobody expected 50 + home runs! What a pleasure it was watching him play and witnessing him improve week after week.
Man, I enjoyed watching this so much. I look back on the 15/16 years with some of the best memories of my life. Not only were the Jays the hottest ticket in Canada, the way people bonded together. The Jays had an entire nation, and then some standing at their back as they charged forward with some phenomenal seasons and it felt incredible to witness and be apart of. Loved watching this cause it sent me on a nice trip down memory lane. There's a great video that came out around this time - "First place" by Adam Jasin - worth a watch. Thanks for recognizing this GOAT!
Always loved Jose Bautista and miss him in the MLB. Playing MLB the show I used to love using Bautista. Always stay looking around to possibly get one of his cards added back into the game. It’ll forever be a wish. No cap, hope he gets put into the HOF
Another reclamation project by the Jays that worked out for them big time was Edwin Encarnacion. Just like Bautista, Edwin was a player that seemed no one wanted. But he found his groove with the Jays & provided some level of protection to Bautista in the Toronto lineup.
I've been watching the Blue Jays since 1983 and baseball itself since 1979, and in all that time, Jose Bautista is BY FAR, my favourite player ever! I'm almost 60 years old, and I sometimes have tears well up in my eyes when I think about or talk about the Bat Flip home run!
Few things compared to the sound of that homerun in The Dome - Words can't even begin to describe the chest thundering loudness of that eruption - I still get goose bumps
Growing up I was never interested in baseball in anyway, but 2014 I moved & started watching the blue jays with my dad. still watch every season. I’ll never forgot the famous bat flip game & I believe if they just got passed KCR in the ALCS they would have won the World Series that year.
Nice trip down memory lane, with the receipts (stats) to explain what was happening. Coupla things missing - in 2010 everybody assumed Jose was juicing. It was a shock when he wasn't traded at the 2010 deadline. The fight with (and revenge against) Odor. His constant battle against the Orioles. The John Cena "can't see me" gesture when he threw a guy out from right field. But thanks!
Other than Bonds, Joey Bats was the only other player that you could almost with regularity chalk up a home run ever x amount of bats. It was freaky how hot he got...
@@bdeezy1794 Good one but to me it always felt that he had that one exceptional year where he hit that Bond like level when he had his run with Sosa but that felt more like a one year thing than someone just being in the zone for an extended period of time that lasted years. Batista went from being a nobody to home run machine that everyone was wondering if he was on PED or a fluke and he just kept at it until the end of his career. McGwire could had been like that, didnt watch many As games back in the day.
@@The_Zilli yeah im with you I said MM bc he has fewest at bats per Home Run in MLB history. Sosa has the most 60 HR seasons in MLB history. Always a threat
The big key is that he got his left foot timing down. Cito Gaston and Gene Tenace worked with him on his timing, and switched him to RF to take advantage of his gun of an arm. Such a great player.
Premier content once again. Bravo sir! I hope during the offseason, you get a chance to revisit and reanalyze why and how Corbin Carroll turned it around too! Keep up the wonderful work!
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can't believe you didn't give the man who helped bautista become bautista any credit. *our world series winning manager recognized bautista's swing needed a tweak.* it was all because of cito! nevertheless, good video! those texas series were bonkers!
Interesting take. One of the things that people don't know about Jose is that he's a genuinely great guy and he is very highly thought of. He wasn't so much unwanted more that he just couldn't find the right fit. The teams that 'didn't want him' helped him find another job because of how loved he is and what type of guy he is. They wanted to help him succeed. And when he found the right fit and worked his swing out, he did. Guys a legend.
I remember watching his pirates years as a young pirates fan and when he started having 40hr seasons i was just like "of course" typical pirates such a bummer
Let's not forget the great WS teams of the 90's: Roberto Alomar, Paul Molitor, John Olerud, Tony Fernandez, Joe Carter, Pat Hentgen, Al Lieter, Duanne Wade, and others!
I just remember filling out my fantasy team in 2010 and somehow drafting this stud because he was projected to hit more home runs than the other players available
Still my favourite Jay ever. Too young for Joe Carter and Halladay (RIP.), but I was in high school when Bautista was tearing covers off baseballs, and the swagger he did it with made me like him, even though i didn't care about baseball.
Sidenote...I will never understand how a team could have the uniforms the Bluejays had (like the ones they have now) and decide not only a change is in need but a change to those horrendous unis they swapped to. Glad they finally wisened up.
Cito Gaston is a genius hitting coach and Bautista is his #1 student. However, Gaston turned around many careers. WHen he arrived in '83 in TOronto suddenly a dozen Blue Jays started hitting who were pretty garbage before he arrived.
i remember being sure this team was going to get a ws at some point sadly it wasnt to be but still alot of great years to be a part of as a fan i can only imagine what it was like the for the players and organization ....players like jose wont soon be forgotten... ps great vid well done ...subbed
I will always love bautista cause I was at that Mets game and he hit a walk off grand slam while my whole family was there just thought I’d share cause he just said it was a walk off
It felt like he played baseball angry. Always felt like he was actually fighting in the batter's box. Not a Hall of Famer, but definitely a Canadian Hall of Famer, which is more than enough for us. Such a Blue Jays legend the the most handsome man in baseball 2014. The bat flip was such an impactful moment for the team and overall baseball culture. Also, Sam Dyson sucks.
An impactful moment .....overall baseball culture? The sheer lack of sportsmanship that the past 2 decades of players have played with is an embarrassment to the game. And the Hall of Fame tries to tell you that all they want inducted in the hall are men of high moral character. Yeah, ok. Guys that can't compete on a balanced even playing field (i.e., I'm looking at your steroid era), and guys who can't succeed without the desire to smear it in someone's face......overall baseball culture, you say?
Donaldson, Bautista, Encarnacion, Martin and Pillar. These were players that gave their all when playing. Body and soul. Truly passionate for the game and the will to win. These are the kind of players that build championships. Four great hitters and an unbelievable centre fielder. Then add in Tulo and the Jays offense was oh so scary and defensively fantastic. Great players have to be great 2 way players. I always think defensive stats are ignored too often.
I agree. Jeter was one of the best offensive SS ever but one of the worst defensive players ever
All but Tulo
I was pretty upset when Pillar went
@@brandon-ww3mu are you stoned? Jeter was nowhere close to one of the best offensive SS's ever! He had 40+ doubles one time, 20+ HRs twice, and drove in 100 runs 1 time. You need to take a look at HoF SS's and do some offensive statistical comparisons. Jeter's only offensive strong point is his .310 lifetime batting average, and his 3000+ hits. 20+ doubles and 15-20 HRs per season is a dime a dozen. I'd argue that the majority of the Jeter clips you continue to see talked about today, are defensive in nature. His jumping, spinning, off-balance throw from the hole, across his body, and the crazy backhanded flip for the tag at home on a runner, during the playoffs. Never liked the guy, he's in the AL East, so my problem with him is purely biased (not to mention the cheap af Jeffrey Maier over-the-wall catch during the playoffs), but his key attribute was being clutch. Dude did what his team needed almost every time they needed it. And that's something no one can argue about (unfortunately LOL)
And then Shapiro and Shatkins blew it
I miss those 2014-2016 Jays man
Cito Gaston is a genius hitting coach and Bautista is his #1 student. However, Gaston turned around many careers. WHen he arrived in '83 in TOronto suddenly a dozen Blue Jays started hitting who were pretty garbage before he arrived.
Yup he is a special kinda moron 🙄
2 time champ players love him dave steib stands by him ❤
Cito is a special person an so underrated
THEY were such a fun to watch man
I miss the 92 93 jays
@@andrewhandelsman834 at the 1993 All Star game the BLue Jays were the Evil Empire and Cito Gaston was Darth Vader. it was wild.
Probably won’t end up making the hall of fame but that 6 year peak was so crazy that maybe he deserves it.
Its like Tim Lincecum's 7 year stretch. Legendary, but it won't get him into the HOF despite 2 Cy Youngs, 2 No-Hitters, and 3 WS Rings.
Lin is a HOF
its similar to Chris sale 7 year run, but the only difference is, chris sale may end up in the HOF if he can get the cy young this season the funny part he's the front runner after 4 years of injuries...
@@TheDjhoysebebe yh he's in the hall
Bautista is honestly overrated, in my opinion at least
This guy revitalized baseball in Toronto. With Halladay being traded, the Jays needed a new superstar. Happy to see his name on the Level of Excellence when I went to Rogers.
Which never would have happened if diehard fans hadn't gone all in forcing them to do it! Atkins & Shapiro literally tried to give his # to any other player immediately after they didn't keep him ugh
#FireAtkins #FireShapiro
@JustMeELC sometimes heart beats skill. It's why leafs fans adore Tie Domi. He was heart and soul of our team behind Sundin
It was awesome player
He was
Those were YEARS apart. Bautista wasn't actually good until the very end of his career and even then, everyone overlooks just how much he struck out and how poor his defense was
i remember a jays commentator at the beginning of the season saying 'watch out for this guy, he's been tearing the cover off the ball in spring training', he hits a homerun that atbat. he went on to hit 50+ homeruns that year
Mans knew his stuff!
José has provided me with more wonderful memories than any other Blue Jay. I've been a fan since 77 and he'll always be my favourite Jay.
When he hit 54 HRs that season seemingly out of nowhere, i remember there were whispers all around the league about him being tainted & on steroids. Random testing were done & the guy was clean.
Amazing what a minor tweak in your swing can do to your career.
Worked for Granderson too; he added foot lift and would stomp before connecting with the ball like they did in the old days, it resulted in him generating more lift when he hit the ball.
"The villain of Baltimore" thats what us Orioles fans called him, but overall I love the guy, he followed me on twitter which is so badass
Cool
Infinite aura from the bat flip
cringe
@@SadBoysCollectiveCirca96 took time out of your day to reply, cringe
@@smythe92 what’s cringe is not having an original personality and using trendy sayings to supplement the lack of originality
@@SadBoysCollectiveCirca96 stay miserable
@@smythe92 get a personality
I love your videos about this 2015 Jays team. Everyone on the team shared a love for winning and gave it their all on the field. This current team is unwatchable but your in depth player analyses of the golden days make me tear up every time.
Ill never forget watching joey bats coming up and running the show for a month. Then steadily hitting homers for years before the jays had to let him go. They have seemed to realize the value in signing an older veteran but I think this man deverves his hype from the jays. The most memorable bat flip in mlb history, hittinf 50 HR in a deadball era and revatalizing a citys passion in their sport. Canada has swagger, but it was respectful, which is why I haven't met too many people who dont appreciate joey bats!!!!
Rumour has it that it was conversations with Cito Gaston and Dwayne Murphy followed by another with Vernon Wells that kicked things off. Cito and Murphy wanted to get Bautista to start his swing early, he complained to Wells that he was starting early and didn’t know what Gaston wanted, Wells told him to start “ridiculously early then” and a lot of baseballs ended up in the stands that season.
Not giving Anthopolous the keys to the kingdom has spoken for itself.
I don’t think Jays fans realize how good we have it with Atkins, and how Anthopolous was nothing special until he worked with the Dodgers, before the Braves stint. Atkins rebuilt a depleted farm to build up for the future, has made many great trades that were highly questionable at first (such as the Varsho trade which looks better and better the longer Moreno is a league average hitter), or trading Kikuchi for 3 of the Astros best prospects when Erick Fedde couldn’t get nearly as much of a return as a sub 3 ERA starter. Atkins has hit on many 1 year signings, such as Semien, Ray, Belt, and also threw 700 million at Ohtani, which he declined. It’s not his fault players didn’t develop like they should have
I remember being hot and cold with Double A. He gave us the 2015 season which erased any negative criticism I had towards him though. Hats off to him for moving the Vernon Wells contract, and signing Vlad Jr. on the way out.
@@tgorefanbrother….he traded away Hernandez, guerriel and moreno for what??? Defence which clearly doesnt win games. They fucking blow because of the defence first mentality. They did better when their defence was below average and hit above average. He has failed as a GM whether you like it or not. His plan failed, the players he trusted failed. 100% his fault? No…but he decided who he wanted on the field and it was the wrong choice and most people saw it coming
@@tgorefanLolololol you couldn't be MORE WRONG 🤦 This incompetent front office's failed approach for NINE YEARS, & refusal to address obvious issues THEY CAUSED because they were too arrogant to admit what anyone paying attention knew! 🙄
Stop embarrassing yourself lol. The Ohtani attempt was Rogers & totally related to the media company expanding into Asia NOT Atkins or Shapiro smh
@@ItBeNolanTho outside of 2015 people wanted AA's head. There was a huge AA should be fired right up till the trade deadline. A lot of revisionist history with him. He's made some really good moves as the GM of the Braves, but their core players were already in place before he got there. Also people wanted the barrio group broken up. Now they want them all back.
That front office swap killed us
Yes that's why I don't watch them anymore
Most of my experience watching José Bautista was either during the playoffs or during his brief but eventful time with the Mets. I was actually surprised looking back at his Mets numbers how decent his offense was at that point.
All he did well as a Met was strike out...worst acquisition production of a star/power hitter since Jason Bay
As a Jays fan I remember I was waiting for him to fall apart and it just never happened. His swing was incredible.
for 6 of his 15 year career, otherwise he blew.
7:10 BRUUUUUH, the way your face changes lmao it got me. Great video, Bautista really had a hell of a prime
I used to watch Jose play every Home game Saturday on 3rd base in 2009. Scott Rolan always took that day off so Jose was able to shine. I always cheered him on and believed in him. Jose always contributed through defence and good at bats. I knew he was worthy of being an every day player and people laughed at me for saying that. Jose proved me right, but nobody expected 50 + home runs! What a pleasure it was watching him play and witnessing him improve week after week.
Man, I enjoyed watching this so much. I look back on the 15/16 years with some of the best memories of my life. Not only were the Jays the hottest ticket in Canada, the way people bonded together. The Jays had an entire nation, and then some standing at their back as they charged forward with some phenomenal seasons and it felt incredible to witness and be apart of. Loved watching this cause it sent me on a nice trip down memory lane. There's a great video that came out around this time - "First place" by Adam Jasin - worth a watch. Thanks for recognizing this GOAT!
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Always loved Jose Bautista and miss him in the MLB. Playing MLB the show I used to love using Bautista. Always stay looking around to possibly get one of his cards added back into the game. It’ll forever be a wish. No cap, hope he gets put into the HOF
Another reclamation project by the Jays that worked out for them big time was Edwin Encarnacion. Just like Bautista, Edwin was a player that seemed no one wanted. But he found his groove with the Jays & provided some level of protection to Bautista in the Toronto lineup.
Great video! Your storytelling is top notch. Love from a Jays fan ❤️
Was at the “Bat Flip” game with my dad…we were in the stands in that famous clip. My dad watches that clip often…good memories for him/I.
love Jose , his eyes for the zone 2015 and before were top of the league
Man i miss those days, Jays legend. Watching him and Edwin was special, then when Donaldson came that offense was nasty
I've been watching the Blue Jays since 1983 and baseball itself since 1979, and in all that time, Jose Bautista is BY FAR, my favourite player ever! I'm almost 60 years old, and I sometimes have tears well up in my eyes when I think about or talk about the Bat Flip home run!
That was a crazy moment!
This was a fantasticly made video and I cried alot. Wow thankyou. Grew up watching this man dominate..
I'm glad you enjoyed!
Just stumbled onto this video. Great stuff! I was hooked
let's gooo I'd been hoping you'd do a video on José! one of the most iconic names in canadian sports history
Was a Bautista fan as a teen between 2014-2016. Glad to see he still has the image of being the GOAT today
THE MOST ICONIC.... but I'm a Jays fan so I could be biased lol
ya think?
Few things compared to the sound of that homerun in The Dome - Words can't even begin to describe the chest thundering loudness of that eruption - I still get goose bumps
Favorite blue jay and baseball player ever as a kid growing up in toronto
For me favorite player in my 20s
That homerun and that bat flip (I love how he basically tossed the bat) is a top 10 Blue Jays moment.
What a crazy career.
Loved Joey Bats.
Always played angry and I was all for it.
Growing up I was never interested in baseball in anyway, but 2014 I moved & started watching the blue jays with my dad. still watch every season. I’ll never forgot the famous bat flip game & I believe if they just got passed KCR in the ALCS they would have won the World Series that year.
I rode Bautista to my fantasy league championship in 2010 because I picked him up off waivers when he had 3 home runs.
All-time waiver coup right there.
ngl Grennlight, that segway into the ad read was clean
Also might jve to catch you at Fenway whenever that Jays Sox game is 😭
JBau a total legend, possibly my favourite Jay ever
Nice trip down memory lane, with the receipts (stats) to explain what was happening. Coupla things missing - in 2010 everybody assumed Jose was juicing. It was a shock when he wasn't traded at the 2010 deadline. The fight with (and revenge against) Odor. His constant battle against the Orioles. The John Cena "can't see me" gesture when he threw a guy out from right field. But thanks!
2015-2016 peak Blue Jays. I need that again
Good ole jays days. Team is such a let down now. Even with the Raptors chip the excitement of jays playoffs was just another level
The 2010’s MLB hit different now in days man
Other than Bonds, Joey Bats was the only other player that you could almost with regularity chalk up a home run ever x amount of bats. It was freaky how hot he got...
Mark McGwire
@@bdeezy1794 Good one but to me it always felt that he had that one exceptional year where he hit that Bond like level when he had his run with Sosa but that felt more like a one year thing than someone just being in the zone for an extended period of time that lasted years. Batista went from being a nobody to home run machine that everyone was wondering if he was on PED or a fluke and he just kept at it until the end of his career. McGwire could had been like that, didnt watch many As games back in the day.
@@The_Zilli yeah im with you I said MM bc he has fewest at bats per Home Run in MLB history. Sosa has the most 60 HR seasons in MLB history. Always a threat
Great story brother. Made me shed a tear
imagine him actually returning as a 2-way player
i'd rather not. A boxer/fighter he is not. His brief attempt at MMA didn't end well for him.
The big key is that he got his left foot timing down. Cito Gaston and Gene Tenace worked with him on his timing, and switched him to RF to take advantage of his gun of an arm. Such a great player.
I remember getting in to baseball during Jose and Edwins primes
Premier content once again. Bravo sir! I hope during the offseason, you get a chance to revisit and reanalyze why and how Corbin Carroll turned it around too! Keep up the wonderful work!
That 2015 team had so much swagger.
I loved the video. I just have one minor correction----Encarnacion's walk off homer in the wildcard game was in the 11th inning, not the 10th inning.
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You did a great job on this video.. Thanks!
50 hours of your life that you'll never get back. Such a shame.
@@nik040271you replied to comments 17 times, all hating. what a fucking bum lmao
can't believe you didn't give the man who helped bautista become bautista any credit. *our world series winning manager recognized bautista's swing needed a tweak.* it was all because of cito!
nevertheless, good video! those texas series were bonkers!
It was great being a Jays fan in the Bautista days.
Interesting take. One of the things that people don't know about Jose is that he's a genuinely great guy and he is very highly thought of. He wasn't so much unwanted more that he just couldn't find the right fit. The teams that 'didn't want him' helped him find another job because of how loved he is and what type of guy he is. They wanted to help him succeed. And when he found the right fit and worked his swing out, he did. Guys a legend.
I remember watching his pirates years as a young pirates fan and when he started having 40hr seasons i was just like "of course" typical pirates such a bummer
That 2015 Blue Jays team...Joey Bats and...Munenori Kawasaki...BUSH PARTY!!!
He was fun to watch that’s for sure
Good video man. You got a new subscriber
Let's not forget the great WS teams of the 90's: Roberto Alomar, Paul Molitor, John Olerud, Tony Fernandez, Joe Carter, Pat Hentgen, Al Lieter, Duanne Wade, and others!
Great story telling bro!
I just remember filling out my fantasy team in 2010 and somehow drafting this stud because he was projected to hit more home runs than the other players available
We have never been the same since our front office changed. It’s a damn shame. The skydome is so loud when the Jays are relevant in the AL East.
just found your channel great video defiantly will be tuning in more
Still my favourite Jay ever. Too young for Joe Carter and Halladay (RIP.), but I was in high school when Bautista was tearing covers off baseballs, and the swagger he did it with made me like him, even though i didn't care about baseball.
i rarely comment on videos on youtube but this one was really well done. good job.
Sidenote...I will never understand how a team could have the uniforms the Bluejays had (like the ones they have now) and decide not only a change is in need but a change to those horrendous unis they swapped to. Glad they finally wisened up.
beautiful video bro. well done
Joey Bats will always be a blue jays legend. That 2015/17 roster should have won something
Cito Gaston is a genius hitting coach and Bautista is his #1 student. However, Gaston turned around many careers. WHen he arrived in '83 in TOronto suddenly a dozen Blue Jays started hitting who were pretty garbage before he arrived.
i remember being sure this team was going to get a ws at some point sadly it wasnt to be but still alot of great years to be a part of as a fan i can only imagine what it was like the for the players and organization ....players like jose wont soon be forgotten... ps great vid well done ...subbed
My favourite player. He made watching the Jays fun.
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Great video! Keep up the good work
When the Red Sox played the Jay I was always worried about his power!
This was a very well made video. Good job
I never realized that Beeston came back to the Blue Jays. Beeston leaving the Blue Jays should be considered a canary in the mineshaft warning.
Great video buddy!
The mother of all bat flips.
I've never seen a batter so good at hitting non-strike offerings out of the park. Pitchers literally couldn't pitch around him.
yo this video was so good i hope more people see this and you get more followers
great video man!
Toronto misses this man and that team so badly
I will always love bautista cause I was at that Mets game and he hit a walk off grand slam while my whole family was there just thought I’d share cause he just said it was a walk off
After this,this would be my third episode in one day
Injuries really robbed him during his prime also.. He was on a roll and would get hit with bad injuries. Great vid!
He hit absolute bombs too
That bat flip was a Canadian heritage moment
This dude is insane
Got him off the scrapheap, boy did he launch some rockets?😮
i love joey bats
Atkins blew the jays up absolute useless gm
Yes
I wish I watched baseball early enough to see Bautista
If those Jays teams had a Dave Stieb or Roy Halladay type ace, they would've won the World Series
It felt like he played baseball angry. Always felt like he was actually fighting in the batter's box. Not a Hall of Famer, but definitely a Canadian Hall of Famer, which is more than enough for us. Such a Blue Jays legend the the most handsome man in baseball 2014.
The bat flip was such an impactful moment for the team and overall baseball culture.
Also, Sam Dyson sucks.
An impactful moment .....overall baseball culture? The sheer lack of sportsmanship that the past 2 decades of players have played with is an embarrassment to the game. And the Hall of Fame tries to tell you that all they want inducted in the hall are men of high moral character. Yeah, ok. Guys that can't compete on a balanced even playing field (i.e., I'm looking at your steroid era), and guys who can't succeed without the desire to smear it in someone's face......overall baseball culture, you say?
He's one of the reasons why I love Blue Jays
The beginning of Bautista's best period as a player coincided with the Blue Jays' worst era for uniforms
Some of us find ourselves late in the game. It’s spiritual growth by becoming more than your past limited beliefs
We need more momentum collabs
GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!
6:06 that's so cool how in May he carried the jays to 19 wins with his 12 home runs. wow!