1 small anomaly. Dennis Haysbert was actually in 4 of those movies and didnt make your list. Major League 1, 2 and 3 also in Mr. Baseball. Mr. Baseball was also released in 92. So Sheen and Haysbert were in 3 movies during that span :-)
You forgot Gus from Benchwarmers! He hit 30 home runs, recorded hundreds of strikeouts. He lead his team in batting average, slugging %, ops, on base percentage, home runs, rbis , doubles, singles. He was also his teams best pitcher, leading in era, WHIP, strikeouts, wins, saves ect…. What more could you want??? Gus is the dual athlete of the ages
I met Brendan Fraser at the Dallas FanExpo, and I had him sign my DVD copy of The Scout. He joked that because the movie came out in fall 1994 when MLB players were on strike, he was the only person to get paid wearing a Yankees uniform that fall. Anyways, I'm sure he'll be pleased to have played the man that finished as runner-up GFBOAT.
I remember it. Not fondly. Back when you had multiple Baseball Games. I preferred Acclaim's All Star Baseball series for the time...MLB Triple Play Baseball on N64 is probably my favorite baseball game of all time, closely followed my All Star Baseball 2005.
The greatest fictional ballplayer of all-time is my MLB Power Pros second baseman based on me with 4,161 hits, a .348 batting average, 554 home runs, 755 stolen bases, and 12 MVPS.
When I originally created him in Success Mode he only had C power, he only became a power threat about 8 years in. I actually have his full stats and achievements here: .348 batting average (8th all-time) 3,149 games played (4th all-time) 11,972 at bats (4th all-time) 4,161 hits (3rd all-time) 2,346 singles (13th all-time) 1,004 doubles (1st all-time, 212 more than Tris Speaker's 792) 257 triples (3rd all-time) 554 home runs (16th all-time) 2,279 runs batted in (2nd all-time, 18 behind Hank Aaron's 2,297) 2,400 runs scored (1st all-time, 105 more than Rickey Henderson's 2,295) 1,913 strikeouts (13th all-time) 1,398 walks (28th all-time) 202 hit by pitches (9th all-time) 20 sacrifice hits 215 sacrifice flies 384 double plays (2nd all-time, 42 behind Albert Pujols's 426) .424 on-base percentage (14th all-time) 7,341 total bases (1st all-time, 485 more than Hank Aaron's 6,856) 755 stolen bases (6th all-time) 38 times caught stealing .952 stolen base percentage (1st all-time, .088 better than Carlos Beltran's .864 [minimum 300 steals]) .613 slugging percentage (7th all-time) 13,607 total plate appearances (4th all-time) 51,866 pitches thrown 1,815 extra-base hits (1st all-time, 338 more than Hank Aaron's 1,477) 133 times reached on errors 2,276 ground outs 2,786 fly outs 0.81 ground out / fly out ratio 1.03 on-base plus slugging (6th all-time) 18x All-Star 5x World Series champion (2008, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024) 12x AL MVP 3x World Series MVP 7x All-Star Game MVP 9x Hank Aaron Award winner 2008 AL Rookie of the Year 11x batting title winner 4x home run leader 3x RBI leader 13x stolen base leader 3x Roberto Clemente Award winner 13x Silver Slugger winner 4x Gold Glove winner 2x Triple Crown winner 5x member of the 40-40 Club Spent entire 20 year career with the Tampa Bay Rays First and final at bats were both home runs (final was a walk-off) Hit for the cycle 6 times (most all-time, several players have 3 cycles) Hit 5 home runs in one game on 7/1/2008 (only player to do so) Batted over .400 in 2016 (first since Ted Williams in 1941) Tied Earl Webb's 1931 single-season doubles record with 67 in 2025 Donated $155,805,400 total to charity Married Mia and had 2 boys and 2 girls
Pablo Sanchez is the fucking GOAT. Greatest baseball player who never lived. That young man carried thousands of teams for young kids chillin in front of their giant colorful Mac computers back in the day AND, ANNNNND kid played football/basketball too where he also excelled. Pablo Sanchez is literally the GOAT across the board any you can’t tell me any different
I’m not gonna lie, you had us the first half. Pablo is the GOAT!! Fun fact: I played in a tournament against a kid named Pablo Sanchez. When he came up to bat, and they announced his name, my entire team leaped to the edge of the dugout. Sadly he wasn’t a great player. Still pretty cool to be able to say that I played against Pablo Sanchez.
Saddest thing about Steve Dalkowski is that eventually with the help of Earl Weaver he started actually improving on him command at the plate, he even got invited to spring training in 1963. Where he then immediately blew him arm out, lost all the progress he had made and never made it that close again
I don't care what anyone else thinks I absolutely love For Love Of The Game. Saw it in the theaters twice and have it on blu ray. I loved how they approached the inside of a pitchers head when he's in the zone. When he goes out to the mound for the bottom of the 8th and notices the scoreboard and see's no runs, no hits, no errors, and and Gus comes out to check on him and he asks "Has anyone been on base?"
There is also a movie called "it happens every spring" where the pitcher discovers a substance that repels wood and he uses it as hair gel. Every time he steps off the mound he wipes his hand in his hair and then the ball is completely unhittable because it repels wood. Good movie actually lol but he was impossible to hit
I remember those Stan Ross promo cards. The funny thing about those stats is that they claimed that Ross hit .352 in his comeback season despite being two-for-however many times he swung and missed.
34:37 My god. Pablo Sanchez was a tan gringo the whole time! The dude appropriated an entire culture just to maintain his advantage. No one else had a chance.
Thank you for giving my boy Pablo his due respect. He was a legend to me as a kid and I'll never forget his legacy. I actually still remember when I heard him say he speaks English like 15-18 years ago, baller move
Roy Hobbs is the dude. I thought he was based on a real player until I was like 12. Love the Natural. Great movie. My pitcher has gotta be Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn
In Backyard Baseball 1997, CPU player in the main campaign season, Chico Pappas actually has higher stats than Pablo. You can actually view the generic kid (CPU characters) cards in game by going in an manipulating save state files. With this, you can actually put any player (including the generic kids) on your own team and as many times as you want. You can have a team of 9 Pablos or 9 Chicos. If you go to "Meet the players" while having any of the generic kids, their photo will be replaced by Tony Delvecchio and you see the CPUs player stats. Chico Pappas has perfect 5 baseballs in all 4 categories. While Pablo has all 5's with the exception of 4 in pitching. The more you know.
Roy Hobbs is my favorite baseball player ever. I watched the Natural more times than I can count. Every time I create a ball player in a video game I make Roy Hobbs, going all the way back to Baseball Stars on the NES. Great video.
I have been introduced to baseball through an anime called( Ace of Diamond) written by former koushien Star and one of the graduates of seriyu High, where hideki Matsui study and play
Pablo could also hit like absurd homeruns into space and pitch accurate fastballs that literally caught fire, and had the slipperiest of pitches too. His bunts were ao dirty they literally disappeared into the ground and popped up elsewhere.
Considering the human arm is literally incapable of throwing a baseball 125 mph, I feel super confident in saying he definitely didn't throw it that fast. And the Sidd Finch story will forever be burned in my mind for no reason other than his insanely weird looking feet!
I loved Pedro Serrano from the Major League movies. Also, a sleeper is Rube Baker in Major League II. If you to back and watch during the playoff series he must have hit at l3ast in the .400s and had at least 2 or 3 homers and who knows how many RBI, etc. If you never noticed, go back and give it a watch--he totally rakes all through the playoffs.
@spoof1234 that's because Jacob's Field (the original name of Clevelands Stadium) was being built at the time. And they chose Camden Yards because it looks a lot like Jacobs Field, just reversed, with the big wall being in right field instead of left. Also, in the first Major League they filmed the home games at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium. So neither film is actually filmed in Cleveland. That said, I'd think that would be a reason to like the film more. For example, I'm a Royals fan, I'd love it if the film had been made in Kauffman Stadium.
It's gotta be the kid from rookie of the year. He threw a strike on a line to home plate from the outfield bleachers. In order to do that, he had to have thrown the ball at least 300 mph.
@@fearthedeerreckmon8741Pablo is the Most Feared Hitter in the history of the game and for a Fictional Hitter he got the power to take the Ball out of the Polo Grounds YES THE FUCKING POLO GROUNDS!!!
My man forgot about Yamcha from Dragon Ball Z. He was actually a professional baseball player and has super human strength and speed. Easily would've been the best
I found my copy of Backyard Baseball 2003 behind a bookshelf in my basement just last week, then PABLO Sanchez pops up in my algorithm. What nostalgia man🤣
Yamcha from DBZ. He was so good they had to retire him for making the league look bad. Superhuman strength as a batter and could control the ball mid flight when pitching.
The only reason the Dodgers didn't sign Herman was because it would cost too much to repair the stadium after every game. It was disappointing that Herman wasn't even an honorable mention.
Pablo is the greatest. I'm glad everyone seems to agree. Great picks all around. I do love, For the Love of the Game though. I think you undersold it a bit. Great video.
0:43 "who is the greatest fiction ballplayer of all time" I agree, Who from the who's on first sketch is the greatest fictional baseball player of all time
It's hilarious you go through all this analysis, and then in comes the little terror to throw it all out.😂 I do remember that Spanish quote from Pablo actually. It blew my mind at the time, but also find it impressive that he maintains it for all other parts of the game.
The guy (catcher) holding up Steve Nebraskas left leg after his perfect game was my 8th grade social studies teacher. He was very proud of that cameo. Dude held up the greatest fake player ever.
If we're talking all of fiction, Yamcha takes it by a mile. 1000 batting average and nothing but home runs. Maybe the fact that he has literal superpowers and bullets would be slow for him should disqualify him, but no one can be better than literal perfection.
Was almost gonna mention that you left off Sidd Finch, but then I remembered that he actually did almost get picked up by the Mets in the 80s. Man, the fact no one can touch his 168 mph fastball almost 50 years later is a testament to just how incredible his story is. Shame he never made it to the big league.
Paste on team Jersey from Bases Loaded. Guy hit .467 with 60HR and absolutely crushes the ball every time you hit with him. Hall: Pitcher on the same team that throws two unhittable pitches and will throw complete game no hit shutouts every game.
Steve Nebraska is basically Shohei Ohtani on the juice. 109mph heaters, and 500+ft dingers. Meanwhile poor Shohei is stuck in the real world and throws 102mph and hits...500+ft dingers...wait...
Air Bud might be the greatest fictional multi sport athlete ever . His accomplishments: junior high school basketball state champion, high school football state champion, high school soccer state champion, FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, junior high school baseball champion, World Series champion, World Series MVP, and a beach volleyball tournament victory of some sort. All of that in approximately 15 years.
You forgot Harmon "Buck" Bokai star Shortstop and 3rd Baseman of the London Kings, if you get a nod from the great Captain Sisko you have to be an overall great. Hell the guy broke DiMaggios Hit Streak and was the hero of the 2042 World Series hitting a walk off series winner.
Gonna make a minor nitpick with the stats you're showing at 25:17 there, it's a major plot point (i.e. the inciting incident) in Mr. 3000 that he actually only had 2,997 hits, and he finishes the movie with 2,999
Pablo back was caged with bolts. Seen them. Heard decades later he rebuild his paralyzed leg after a back device insidr him was moved in surgery n nearly killed him. Long live legendary legend of a
24:20 pre steroid Barry bonds definitely wasn't a borderline Hall of famer, he was a no doubter. Through 1998 he accrued 96.4 rWAR he could have retired that day, at age 33, and would have made the first ballot.
The best player is definitely Sakura from Wii sports imo. I mean she has a 4 pitch arsenal, which includes a screwball. She has a fastball that can touch 105 mph, and she stays completely healthy throwing that screwball. Oh and also she can hit as well.
Steve Nebraska is #1 for me. Also say it's an underrated classic, if you love Albert Brooks (and you should) it's a MUST see. The Scout is stupid, hilarious, and fun (I really mean it when I say it's stupid though). Also, for movie stars who were legit baseball players, check out Kurt Russell's history. Or just watch The Battered Bastards of Baseball documentary. Kurt Russell was a damn good 1st baseman.
As a Yankees fan whose favorite all-time player is Mariano Rivera, Eastbound and Down’s site has a lot of balls saying Kenny Powers got 39 saves for the Yankees in 2003, when Mo had 40 and had a dominant postseason where he won ALCS MVP. Honestly should have picked ANY other team than the one that had the greatest reliever and closer in the history of baseball.
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that I was a third generation Yankee fan who grew up living and dying on every pitch Mo threw in those days. I’d think that might explain my love for him. The bandwagon fans may have left, but the Yanks have no pennants and no World Series wins since 2009, and us true fans aren’t going anywhere. We are handed our teams at birth (mine are NY, Yankees, Giants, Rangers, and Knicks) and root for them until we pass them to the next generation. And so it goes.
One thing I’m confused about, and maybe someone can clarify, you mentioned that the fake players can’t represent real players (play in a true story based on a player). But to me and pretty much everyone jon dowd represented bonds without a question. So I’m unsure how he is able to make this list
Obviously it’s LaSteroid Daddy Hack IV, 1.976 career batting average, 1,023 career homers, 10.346 career OPS, 26.253 career slugging percentage, absolute beast of a guy.
Saying Barry Bonds "before, certain life choices" to the extent the intended meaning is coherent is "a borderline hall of famer" is hilariously absurd. Multiple MVPs, golden gloves, silver sluggers, 40/40 seasons. Before steroids (again, to the extent that is even coherent) was a first ballot hall of famer, if people didn't dislike him so much. I suggest you go watch this channel's multi-part series on Barry Bonds.
@Bread And Circuses not sure exactly what point you are trying to make, but you are talking about him along with me in a comment section on youtube. So I guess we will discuss him a bit postmortem, eh?
I'd be interested in your rating of anime pitchers/players! Major and Ace of Diamond specifically, or at least a video going over the accuracy of their pitches. Feels like it'd be interesting and fun.
My favourite fictional player is Clayton Jones from Carnivale. We barely get to see him play (though that would have changed if they'd gotten a third season) but we do see him whip stones at a guy operating a bulldozer. He's a well-rounded character with a catastrophic past and I adore him.
Bowser from Mario Superstar Baseball absolutely clears the hitting category. His pull hits are basically automatic dingers, and he's so much of a threat that most competitive players choose to intentionally walk him
My only regret is I didn’t have time to talk about how bad that sad sack Charlie Brown is at baseball. Maybe a video for another day…
Can't forget about casey
Uhh Charlie Sheen played a lot of baseball. Through high school.
I also loved how you called rudebaker, all the different names as the coach called him.! Lol😂
1 small anomaly. Dennis Haysbert was actually in 4 of those movies and didnt make your list. Major League 1, 2 and 3 also in Mr. Baseball. Mr. Baseball was also released in 92. So Sheen and Haysbert were in 3 movies during that span :-)
Disappointed by this, waiting on this video to come.
You forgot Gus from Benchwarmers!
He hit 30 home runs, recorded hundreds of strikeouts. He lead his team in batting average, slugging %, ops, on base percentage, home runs, rbis , doubles, singles. He was also his teams best pitcher, leading in era, WHIP, strikeouts, wins, saves ect….
What more could you want??? Gus is the dual athlete of the ages
Definitely the man who inspired Shohei Ohtani.
Pablo better
He was playing against a bunch of kids, though. Maybe that was held against him.
@@timothybrown5999 But that's a terrible argument when they picked Pablo as the best baseball player when all Pablo did was play against kids.
@@88CDawg Pablo is playing against other children. Not a grown man playing 10 year olds.
The quote “he would be Shoehi Ohtani if a room full of writers were on cocaine” tickled the shit outa me 😂
Bro. There is only one answer. PABLO SANCHEZ. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
He also destroyed in Backyard Football, Bo Jackson incarnate for sure
PASTE from bases loaded would scoff at Sanchez
Jon Dowd
Its literally this easy of an argument. Dude is Bo Jackson
@@bryantsteury8910 wrong
I met Brendan Fraser at the Dallas FanExpo, and I had him sign my DVD copy of The Scout. He joked that because the movie came out in fall 1994 when MLB players were on strike, he was the only person to get paid wearing a Yankees uniform that fall. Anyways, I'm sure he'll be pleased to have played the man that finished as runner-up GFBOAT.
I’m absolutely floored that you included Jon Dowd. I thought I was the only one nerdy enough to remember MVP Baseball 2005
I remember it. Not fondly. Back when you had multiple Baseball Games. I preferred Acclaim's All Star Baseball series for the time...MLB Triple Play Baseball on N64 is probably my favorite baseball game of all time, closely followed my All Star Baseball 2005.
How can you forget what is STILL the greatest baseball game ever made?
It still widely has a rep as one of the GOAT sports video games, just about any sports video game enthusiast at least knows of it.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 lmaoooooo what????? Not fondly??? You don't remember the best baseball game ever fondly? Ok❤
Still have my copy
The greatest fictional ballplayer of all-time is my MLB Power Pros second baseman based on me with 4,161 hits, a .348 batting average, 554 home runs, 755 stolen bases, and 12 MVPS.
Really? Only 554 home runs in Power Pros? Lol
My guy played 20 years, hit 872 home runs and atole 800 bases
When I originally created him in Success Mode he only had C power, he only became a power threat about 8 years in. I actually have his full stats and achievements here:
.348 batting average (8th all-time)
3,149 games played (4th all-time)
11,972 at bats (4th all-time)
4,161 hits (3rd all-time)
2,346 singles (13th all-time)
1,004 doubles (1st all-time, 212 more than Tris Speaker's 792)
257 triples (3rd all-time)
554 home runs (16th all-time)
2,279 runs batted in (2nd all-time, 18 behind Hank Aaron's 2,297)
2,400 runs scored (1st all-time, 105 more than Rickey Henderson's 2,295)
1,913 strikeouts (13th all-time)
1,398 walks (28th all-time)
202 hit by pitches (9th all-time)
20 sacrifice hits
215 sacrifice flies
384 double plays (2nd all-time, 42 behind Albert Pujols's 426)
.424 on-base percentage (14th all-time)
7,341 total bases (1st all-time, 485 more than Hank Aaron's 6,856)
755 stolen bases (6th all-time)
38 times caught stealing
.952 stolen base percentage (1st all-time, .088 better than Carlos Beltran's .864 [minimum 300 steals])
.613 slugging percentage (7th all-time)
13,607 total plate appearances (4th all-time)
51,866 pitches thrown
1,815 extra-base hits (1st all-time, 338 more than Hank Aaron's 1,477)
133 times reached on errors
2,276 ground outs
2,786 fly outs
0.81 ground out / fly out ratio
1.03 on-base plus slugging (6th all-time)
18x All-Star
5x World Series champion (2008, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
12x AL MVP
3x World Series MVP
7x All-Star Game MVP
9x Hank Aaron Award winner
2008 AL Rookie of the Year
11x batting title winner
4x home run leader
3x RBI leader
13x stolen base leader
3x Roberto Clemente Award winner
13x Silver Slugger winner
4x Gold Glove winner
2x Triple Crown winner
5x member of the 40-40 Club
Spent entire 20 year career with the Tampa Bay Rays
First and final at bats were both home runs (final was a walk-off)
Hit for the cycle 6 times (most all-time, several players have 3 cycles)
Hit 5 home runs in one game on 7/1/2008 (only player to do so)
Batted over .400 in 2016 (first since Ted Williams in 1941)
Tied Earl Webb's 1931 single-season doubles record with 67 in 2025
Donated $155,805,400 total to charity
Married Mia and had 2 boys and 2 girls
I envy that you guys still have access to your MLB Power Pros game. I loved that game 🥲
My two way in mlb22 has 7 perfect games hit 100 homerun all in one season but can’t get payover 500k
Pablo from backyard baseball is the autentic goat
Pablo Sanchez: The Great One of Baseball
El home run Rey!!! Pablo was also an awesome pitcher, not a belly itcher
Nah cootie
He will get those shoes
Pablo Sanchez is the fucking GOAT. Greatest baseball player who never lived. That young man carried thousands of teams for young kids chillin in front of their giant colorful Mac computers back in the day AND, ANNNNND kid played football/basketball too where he also excelled. Pablo Sanchez is literally the GOAT across the board any you can’t tell me any different
The Henry Rowengartner section is the best part of this! My man threw out all the wrong names 🤣
Bungrinder
Gardenhoser 😂
@@michaeltran2743Runnamucker
I’m not gonna lie, you had us the first half.
Pablo is the GOAT!!
Fun fact: I played in a tournament against a kid named Pablo Sanchez. When he came up to bat, and they announced his name, my entire team leaped to the edge of the dugout.
Sadly he wasn’t a great player.
Still pretty cool to be able to say that I played against Pablo Sanchez.
Saddest thing about Steve Dalkowski is that eventually with the help of Earl Weaver he started actually improving on him command at the plate, he even got invited to spring training in 1963. Where he then immediately blew him arm out, lost all the progress he had made and never made it that close again
The day he received the news he was going to make the MLB squad he blew his arm btw
The Bugs Bunny "Slow Ball" strikes out 3 guys with one pitch. That's 9 strikes on 1 pitch. Worth an honorable for sure!
What about the elephant ball player Bobo from “Gone Batty”
Dude, I think this might has been the best video ever from this channel. Pablo played in a whole different level than the others.
"...Ben Verlander's Brother..."
Ben Verlander is gonna love that...😂
“How’s your wife with my kid” is probably the best villain introduction line ever put to film
I haven’t seen quite a few of these, awesome video concept. Pablo Sanchez #1 for real
“Tungsten Arm” O’Doyle unlucky to miss the cut
A bloody disgrace!
MVP Baseball 2005 also had the guy with the comically oversized bat who hit a home run or hard line drive every time. RIP In Peace Keegan Patterson
Keegan, Jacob and Corey all did that. Eric kiss was the og in mvp 03
So happy you covered Mike hessman… He is an absolute legend for our Toledo Mud Hens. It’s a shame he never got more playing time in the Majors.
I feel Donkey Kong deserves a special mention for not even using a bat to bat
@Bread And Circuses Petey Piranha uses his bare (leaf) hand.
I don't care what anyone else thinks I absolutely love For Love Of The Game. Saw it in the theaters twice and have it on blu ray. I loved how they approached the inside of a pitchers head when he's in the zone. When he goes out to the mound for the bottom of the 8th and notices the scoreboard and see's no runs, no hits, no errors, and and Gus comes out to check on him and he asks "Has anyone been on base?"
Completely agree! I've seen it get knocked on a few RUclips videos and I was shocked! I absolutely loved that baseball movie!
Yeah man people like bad stuff lol. big bang theory was the most popular show on tv for 5 years, it was still a pile of shit.
There is also a movie called "it happens every spring" where the pitcher discovers a substance that repels wood and he uses it as hair gel. Every time he steps off the mound he wipes his hand in his hair and then the ball is completely unhittable because it repels wood. Good movie actually lol but he was impossible to hit
I remember those Stan Ross promo cards. The funny thing about those stats is that they claimed that Ross hit .352 in his comeback season despite being two-for-however many times he swung and missed.
The Dominican dude from benchwarmers gotta be up there
Oh the 12 yr old?
@@arcwiz yes
Danny Almonte as a hitter?
@@arcwiz"he's got documentation, play ball!" 😂
Pablo Sanchez better be #1
34:37 My god. Pablo Sanchez was a tan gringo the whole time! The dude appropriated an entire culture just to maintain his advantage. No one else had a chance.
Thank you for giving my boy Pablo his due respect. He was a legend to me as a kid and I'll never forget his legacy. I actually still remember when I heard him say he speaks English like 15-18 years ago, baller move
Roy Hobbs is the dude. I thought he was based on a real player until I was like 12. Love the Natural. Great movie. My pitcher has gotta be Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn
In Backyard Baseball 1997, CPU player in the main campaign season, Chico Pappas actually has higher stats than Pablo. You can actually view the generic kid (CPU characters) cards in game by going in an manipulating save state files. With this, you can actually put any player (including the generic kids) on your own team and as many times as you want. You can have a team of 9 Pablos or 9 Chicos. If you go to "Meet the players" while having any of the generic kids, their photo will be replaced by Tony Delvecchio and you see the CPUs player stats. Chico Pappas has perfect 5 baseballs in all 4 categories. While Pablo has all 5's with the exception of 4 in pitching. The more you know.
Roy Hobbs is my favorite baseball player ever. I watched the Natural more times than I can count. Every time I create a ball player in a video game I make Roy Hobbs, going all the way back to Baseball Stars on the NES. Great video.
I watched it in English class and I can say that Hobbs quickly became my favorite.
I have been introduced to baseball through an anime called( Ace of Diamond) written by former koushien Star and one of the graduates of seriyu High, where hideki Matsui study and play
Was looking for an anime comment, haven’t got to Ace of Diamond yet, but Tokuchi from One Outs is absolutely that guy
@Jackson
There's also an anime called Gurazeni also fun to watch
Major's been my intro to Japanese baseball
As if I needed any more reasons to love this channel. Ya done made my heart happy by using Power Pros music.
Big hit, happy body. 👍
Pablo could also hit like absurd homeruns into space and pitch accurate fastballs that literally caught fire, and had the slipperiest of pitches too.
His bunts were ao dirty they literally disappeared into the ground and popped up elsewhere.
Considering the human arm is literally incapable of throwing a baseball 125 mph, I feel super confident in saying he definitely didn't throw it that fast. And the Sidd Finch story will forever be burned in my mind for no reason other than his insanely weird looking feet!
I loved Pedro Serrano from the Major League movies. Also, a sleeper is Rube Baker in Major League II. If you to back and watch during the playoff series he must have hit at l3ast in the .400s and had at least 2 or 3 homers and who knows how many RBI, etc. If you never noticed, go back and give it a watch--he totally rakes all through the playoffs.
Being an Orioles fan, I can't watch ML II. Seeing OPACY with Indians logos just makes my skin crawl.
@spoof1234 that's because Jacob's Field (the original name of Clevelands Stadium) was being built at the time. And they chose Camden Yards because it looks a lot like Jacobs Field, just reversed, with the big wall being in right field instead of left. Also, in the first Major League they filmed the home games at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium. So neither film is actually filmed in Cleveland.
That said, I'd think that would be a reason to like the film more. For example, I'm a Royals fan, I'd love it if the film had been made in Kauffman Stadium.
Big Rickey Henderson fan here, I'm partial to Willie Mays Hayes.
It's gotta be the kid from rookie of the year. He threw a strike on a line to home plate from the outfield bleachers. In order to do that, he had to have thrown the ball at least 300 mph.
Nah Pablo takes him 500 dead center
@@fearthedeerreckmon8741Pablo is the Most Feared Hitter in the history of the game
and for a Fictional Hitter he got the power to take the Ball out of the Polo Grounds
YES THE FUCKING POLO GROUNDS!!!
It's not even close. Pablo Sánchez is "the secret weapon" himself. The greatest athlete that ever lived
My man forgot about Yamcha from Dragon Ball Z. He was actually a professional baseball player and has super human strength and speed. Easily would've been the best
I found my copy of Backyard Baseball 2003 behind a bookshelf in my basement just last week, then PABLO Sanchez pops up in my algorithm. What nostalgia man🤣
Yamcha from DBZ. He was so good they had to retire him for making the league look bad. Superhuman strength as a batter and could control the ball mid flight when pitching.
How is Ness not on this list? He can swing so hard he can knock 10 foot tall mutant turtles into the stratosphere
Truth. You're an Earthbound fan?
Roy Hobbs - the Natural. He started as a Pitcher. Ended as a Hitter. The End
In the mid 1960s, you had two great talents passed over by Leo Durocher and the Dodgers - Herman Munster and Jethro Bodine.
If only they had legalized the Possum Ball.
The only reason the Dodgers didn't sign Herman was because it would cost too much to repair the stadium after every game. It was disappointing that Herman wasn't even an honorable mention.
Hey , Ellie May had a better arm than Jethro !
Pablo is the greatest. I'm glad everyone seems to agree. Great picks all around. I do love, For the Love of the Game though. I think you undersold it a bit. Great video.
0:43 "who is the greatest fiction ballplayer of all time" I agree, Who from the who's on first sketch is the greatest fictional baseball player of all time
It's hilarious you go through all this analysis, and then in comes the little terror to throw it all out.😂 I do remember that Spanish quote from Pablo actually. It blew my mind at the time, but also find it impressive that he maintains it for all other parts of the game.
The guy (catcher) holding up Steve Nebraskas left leg after his perfect game was my 8th grade social studies teacher. He was very proud of that cameo. Dude held up the greatest fake player ever.
Hell yeah dude 🤟🏼
“If you mixed Shohei Ohtani with a writer’s room full of cocaine” best quote this channel has ever produced
If we're talking all of fiction, Yamcha takes it by a mile. 1000 batting average and nothing but home runs. Maybe the fact that he has literal superpowers and bullets would be slow for him should disqualify him, but no one can be better than literal perfection.
Facts this entire list should be yamcha and ace of diamond characters.
I love that you kept intentionally screwing up Rowengartner's name lol. Very in the spirit
The real gfoat is definitely my Road to the Show character: Pingle Whurl. He hit with a .875 batting average and hit over 255 home runs in one year
Actually, the name of Babe Ruth's analog from The Natural is "The Whammer", not The Whopper.
it’s Steve Nebraska hands down… his character was literally made to be the best pitcher and hitter ever
I like how Christopher Robin is disqualified for supernatural powers.
Roy Hobbs as a pitcher too. He struck out the Whammer!
Sittch from MLB Power Pros 2008 erasure 😔
1. Rick Vaughn, Pedro Cerrano, Willie Mays Hays, Roger Dorn, Jake Taylor, Eddie Harris, Lou Brown, et al.
2. All others.
Was almost gonna mention that you left off Sidd Finch, but then I remembered that he actually did almost get picked up by the Mets in the 80s. Man, the fact no one can touch his 168 mph fastball almost 50 years later is a testament to just how incredible his story is. Shame he never made it to the big league.
Paste on team Jersey from Bases Loaded. Guy hit .467 with 60HR and absolutely crushes the ball every time you hit with him.
Hall: Pitcher on the same team that throws two unhittable pitches and will throw complete game no hit shutouts every game.
Re: Roy Hobbs: "Using a bat he carved from a tree..." From what else would one carve a bat?
Uhh I’m sorry. No Mel Clark from Angels in the Outfield? Iconic Tony Danza role
“He pitched 3 shutouts in a row for Cincinnati in 1986”
Roy Hobbs is the “best god damn hitter I ever saw!”
Steve Nebraska is basically Shohei Ohtani on the juice. 109mph heaters, and 500+ft dingers. Meanwhile poor Shohei is stuck in the real world and throws 102mph and hits...500+ft dingers...wait...
Before I watch, Steve Nebraska has to be the best. Hits Homeruns every at bat, pitches perfect games with 27 k’s every time he pitches.
Oh man Jon Dowd was a blast from the past
Actually i thought the implication of ROTY was that RollyGlober would eventually make it back to the show when he was at the right age to do so.
Pablo's won me many titles back in the day! Like this video 1000x
Cinquefoil, first baseman of the Boar Tooth Mob, is the home run king of three worlds and don’t you forget it
Air Bud might be the greatest fictional multi sport athlete ever . His accomplishments: junior high school basketball state champion, high school football state champion, high school soccer state champion, FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, junior high school baseball champion, World Series champion, World Series MVP, and a beach volleyball tournament victory of some sort.
All of that in approximately 15 years.
I made it through most of this video thinking, yeah but what about Pablo Sanchez? Well played sir.
Roy Hobbs and it isn't even close. Being mythically good is the whole point of the character.
You forgot Harmon "Buck" Bokai star Shortstop and 3rd Baseman of the London Kings, if you get a nod from the great Captain Sisko you have to be an overall great.
Hell the guy broke DiMaggios Hit Streak and was the hero of the 2042 World Series hitting a walk off series winner.
I came to the comments to talk about Bokai. You beat me to it.
Captain Sisko!!!!!!
Gonna make a minor nitpick with the stats you're showing at 25:17 there, it's a major plot point (i.e. the inciting incident) in Mr. 3000 that he actually only had 2,997 hits, and he finishes the movie with 2,999
Sidd Finch>
Pablo back was caged with bolts. Seen them. Heard decades later he rebuild his paralyzed leg after a back device insidr him was moved in surgery n nearly killed him. Long live legendary legend of a
Glad you gave some love to Bingo Long and Kenny Powers. Great video. I'd like to see the same for made up football players.
24:20 pre steroid Barry bonds definitely wasn't a borderline Hall of famer, he was a no doubter. Through 1998 he accrued 96.4 rWAR he could have retired that day, at age 33, and would have made the first ballot.
Steve Nebraska is the clear winner...he pitched a perfect game, 27 strikeouts, 9 immaculate innings. There's no debate.
And doesn’t he hit a home run every at bat? Clear winner
Bugs Bunny.
Could throw pitches that stopped in midair and then started up again! Best changeup ever! Unhittable!
Im taking Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez as my first overall pick any day
Got that stuff right ! Bennie The Jet was great . Had a kid like him in our neighborhood Randy , RIP Randy .
Pablo Sanchez is the greatest athlete of a generation. This should be no question. The greatest multi sport athlete of all time
The best player is definitely Sakura from Wii sports imo. I mean she has a 4 pitch arsenal, which includes a screwball. She has a fastball that can touch 105 mph, and she stays completely healthy throwing that screwball. Oh and also she can hit as well.
Power Pro Kun from the Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball/MLB Power Pros games sorta fits a spot.
The list is really for the stuff he’s done in the games alongside the spin offs (the Pocket games have different Pro Kuns as the protagonist )
why y’all put cheese on my cheeseburger?
Steve Nebraska is #1 for me. Also say it's an underrated classic, if you love Albert Brooks (and you should) it's a MUST see. The Scout is stupid, hilarious, and fun (I really mean it when I say it's stupid though).
Also, for movie stars who were legit baseball players, check out Kurt Russell's history. Or just watch The Battered Bastards of Baseball documentary. Kurt Russell was a damn good 1st baseman.
Justice for Willie Mays Hayes
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As a Yankees fan whose favorite all-time player is Mariano Rivera, Eastbound and Down’s site has a lot of balls saying Kenny Powers got 39 saves for the Yankees in 2003, when Mo had 40 and had a dominant postseason where he won ALCS MVP.
Honestly should have picked ANY other team than the one that had the greatest reliever and closer in the history of baseball.
Why are you a huge fan of Mariano Rivera?
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Why isn’t EVERYONE a huge fan of Mariano Rivera?
@NathanDav42 MO's a very inoffensive and humble guy, but he's a player who's infamous for playing for the most hated baseball team on planet Earth...
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that I was a third generation Yankee fan who grew up living and dying on every pitch Mo threw in those days. I’d think that might explain my love for him. The bandwagon fans may have left, but the Yanks have no pennants and no World Series wins since 2009, and us true fans aren’t going anywhere. We are handed our teams at birth (mine are NY, Yankees, Giants, Rangers, and Knicks) and root for them until we pass them to the next generation.
And so it goes.
One thing I’m confused about, and maybe someone can clarify, you mentioned that the fake players can’t represent real players (play in a true story based on a player). But to me and pretty much everyone jon dowd represented bonds without a question. So I’m unsure how he is able to make this list
Obviously it’s LaSteroid Daddy Hack IV, 1.976 career batting average, 1,023 career homers, 10.346 career OPS, 26.253 career slugging percentage, absolute beast of a guy.
The thing is if anyone managed to even foul tip a Steve Nebraska pitch, he would have a mental breakdown right there.
Lol yea anyone who saw the movie knows he was hanging on by a thread. After a few days on Twitter Steve Nebraska would be done.
Saying Barry Bonds "before, certain life choices" to the extent the intended meaning is coherent is "a borderline hall of famer" is hilariously absurd. Multiple MVPs, golden gloves, silver sluggers, 40/40 seasons. Before steroids (again, to the extent that is even coherent) was a first ballot hall of famer, if people didn't dislike him so much.
I suggest you go watch this channel's multi-part series on Barry Bonds.
@Bread And Circuses not sure exactly what point you are trying to make, but you are talking about him along with me in a comment section on youtube. So I guess we will discuss him a bit postmortem, eh?
I'd be interested in your rating of anime pitchers/players! Major and Ace of Diamond specifically, or at least a video going over the accuracy of their pitches. Feels like it'd be interesting and fun.
My favourite fictional player is Clayton Jones from Carnivale. We barely get to see him play (though that would have changed if they'd gotten a third season) but we do see him whip stones at a guy operating a bulldozer. He's a well-rounded character with a catastrophic past and I adore him.
Forgot about jimmy hamill from ea collige baseball. Automatic HR
Chester McBadbat after Timmy made the wish is the real GFBOAT.
I like to think Henry Rowengartner grew up to be Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire.
That is Hilarious.
I love how he said Henry Rowengartner once and messed it up every other time just like the movie
where is matt from wii sports?
Bowser from Mario Superstar Baseball absolutely clears the hitting category. His pull hits are basically automatic dingers, and he's so much of a threat that most competitive players choose to intentionally walk him
Oh you speedrun that forgotten baseball game?