The Scariest Hitters In Baseball History
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- Buckle up for a thrilling ride through the darkest corners of baseball history as we explore the scariest hitters to ever step up to the plate! From the awe-inspiring physical size of players like Aaron Judge and Frank Thomas to the sheer power and dominance of Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth, to the insane physical gifts of Willie Mays and Ken Griffey Jr, these hitters struck terror into the hearts of pitchers for decades apiece. But it wasn't just their strength and skill that made them terrifying - their minds played a crucial role too, like in the case of Ted Williams. Now, remember to leave a like if you enjoy the video, and don't forget to subscribe to Made The Cut for more spine-tingling content!
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As a lifelong White Sox fan, Frank Thomas will always be my favorite ball player. When I was about 10 years old, they had an autograph day at Comisky Park and the line for Frank Thomas was halfway around the stadium. I begged my mom to let me stay in line and when I finally got to The Big Hurt I was amazed at how big he was. He took the baseball from me and his hands were so big, it looked like he was holding a golf ball. To a 10 year old me Frank Thomas was a giant!! One of my favorite baseball memories.
Hank Aaron being left off this list should be a crime. Not even an honorable mention? For shame.
Yea, hall of fame pitchers used to call him "Bad Henry"
I agree my pick is plujos but hank is easily 2nd best to me either him or Ted Williams but they are different types of Hitters
Ya Ted was the best an Hank was like everyone else the rest kinda hitter
Hammering Hank is a alltime great but Ted was is an probably will always be will best hitter of all time ❤
@@EthanNiedorowskiI’m taking his home run record over any ted Williams record🤣
@@kdubs928 you do understand he missed 6 full years to being in the service sector right’? Counting stats teddy would have been part of surely put 521 missing his prime
I mean 🤷♂️ I guess
I’m so proud I got to watch Pujols live for so many years in STL. He did some amazing things on the field.
Cubs fan who had the opposite reaction…
@@IOWAHAWKEYES2020Reds fan. same here.
It’s so sad that Delgado is forgotten for the most part. Dude was a monster.
ya, you even forgot his name, lol
@@jeffcollins1097Carlos. 😆😆😆😆😆😆
"Del-got IT"
I don't know if it's possible to overstate just how beautiful a swing Junior had. The 3 times that I got to see him play live (twice at the Kingdome, once at Safeco) were fantastic experiences.
One was particularly memorable, although the date escapes me. It was either the 97 or 98 season, and my sister had 2 tickets to see the Yankees play the M's in Seattle. Her BF was sent packing a week before, and I was in town visiting. So we went and watched 8 & 1/2 innings of boring baseball. We were about to leave with the M's down 5-2, but there was a walk with 1 out in the bottom. So I figured "let's wait". Then a single. Then another RBI single to right.
Another strike out.
Now it's bottom of the 9th, the score is 5-3 Yankees in Seattle, runners on the corners, and like magic... it's Griffey up to bat.
The cavalier pageantry was breathtaking. And the once lumbering crowd was now electrified with this story unfolding before us.
Could he...?
On a 2-2 he TATTOOS that ball into deep right. The sound alone told me it was LONG gone, but to see it hit the upper deck was just magical.
A hrown man sitting next to my sister actually wept at that moment. Unabashedly cried his eyes out.
My sister and I were swept away with the exhiliration of the moment, as were all the rest of the Seattle faithful.
Old Lou was at the side of the dugout to greet the Kid after the celebration at home plate. Even though I was on the 2nd deck on the 1st base line, I swear I saw Pinella shake his head & smile at Griffey.
My sister & I hugged that emotional old man before we left. He told us he had not seen anything that beautiful in a ballpark since Yastrzemski in the 1968 Red Sox season.
I spent the whole next day at the Queen Anne Seattle Library looking up Carl Yastrzemski, since I was only 20 or 21. It reminded me of my dad, talking about his baseball hero, Sandy Koufax, and my grandfather talking about his childhood watching Connie Mack's Athletics in Philly through a knothole in center field.
And all of that came rushing back when I saw Ichiro Suzuki play for the M's less than a decade later.
It came to me again when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, and I started to see pictures of graves with Sox penants on them, and notes reading "you can rest now, Dad... we did it."
THAT is baseball.
Thank you for adding Frank Thomas as a White Sox fan. He was such an underrated home run hitter.
1994 Frank Thomas was something...
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te It stinks they never finished the season. Frank would’ve won MVP. Plus everyone always talks about the Expos if the season never got cancelled, but my Sox would’ve also had a huge shot to win the series
To me the coolest thing about Frank Thomas is how he always played the game his way. Beyond just his strong stance against steroids, he also refused to be anything other than the type of hitter he knew himself to be. People who only saw his size pushed him to swing more and become more of a three true outcomes hitter, but he never saw the point in swinging at bad pitches. He had that excellent eye for the strike zone, and he was gonna use it. He might've been built like a monster slugger, but he was determined to hit for contact.
He also hit 500+ homers and has a career slugging percentage of .555, so he had a little bit of power too
Well said.
Dave Parker was terrifying. His size and stance plus him waving the bat around like a toothpick always used to get me.
This was awesome content especially the Big Hurt with Frank Thomas…total UNIT 💪🏼💪🏼
I'm sure everyone has a suggestion, but for me, most notably missing is Jim Thome. I think it was 1997 that he was hitting between David Justice and Manny Ramirez. He was ALWAYS up in a big spot and was liable to hit one about 600 feet at any moment. And you had young Manny behind him, cleaning up 160something RBIs, so you had to pitch to Thome. What a nightmare for a pitcher, or an AL east fan.
Bonds PROBABLY had a great case for cooperstown in 99??? He had 445 HR at that point and 460 SB and 3 MVP awards along with 4 other seasons where he finished top 5 in MVP. He wasn’t probably a hall of gamer at that point. He was a guaranteed lock first ballot hall of famer at that point.
Total Arrogance Destroyed Him.
8 gold gloves too!
Bro wrote a paragraph
He should've retired in in 1999. Instead he kept playing and juicing (he was probably juicing before then). He might have gotten the benefit of the doubt from HOF voters if he had retired before his head grew to the size of a pumpkin. He doesn't deserve the HOF because he put his eligibility in doubt.
@@user-be9fu5er7nhe still should be in the HOF, even if u wanna take away the years where he had roids he’s still an all time great
When I was younger I worked as a bartender in a hotel. Frank was staying there and sat at my bar one evening. Super nice. I asked him what's the longest hr he ever hit. He said 525 ft and smiled. A guy sitting two seats down from him straight up asked "yeah did you take any of those roids?". I thought Frank would get pissed. Instead he said " Shit I wish I had known it was a thing. I would have made so much more money"😂
Man, Ken griffey Jr swing is so satisfying to watch
Prettiest swing ever.
Great video, Thanks !!!
I'm so glad I was fortunate enough to see Bonds play in SF 2002-2005. I was at many of the games during that time, and I don't think I'll see another player like him in my lifetime. He literally would be intentionally walked throughout the games, and if the pitcher gave him anything to hit, it would likely end up in the seats or water. When he came to the plate, everyone in the stadium would stop what they were doing, stand up, and watch in awe. The numbers he put up will probably never be matched. Juiced? Probably. Do I care about that? No. It was sporting entertainment at its finest. It's hard to describe.
Barry Bonds peaked in 1993 and around 2000-2004...
Yeah, I am glad I got to see him hit especially those last few years when he was in a class of his own. He was always my secret weapon in fantasy baseball for years, I don't know why people passed him up so often in the 90's.
@biffmarcum5014 Because MLB Media hated him even back in the 1990s, he was also a huge primma donna and not a friendly person to be around. That also didn't help his case...
Joe DiMaggio. Until his last season, he had more home runs than strikeouts. As a right-hander, he was handicapped by old Yankee Stadium. Yet his advanced stats on the road are on par with Ted Williams on the road.
As for Ted, prime Mickey Mantle overlapped aging Ted Williams, yet Ted’s advanced stats in his decline are nearly on par with prime Mantle.
Ted lost three years to world War II as well
Ted's age 38 season was bonkers
DiMaggio has some really crazy numbers
@@s.s.chapter2219Ted also lost most of 2 seasons to the Korean War on top of the 3 to WW2.
Willie McCovey could have easily been included on any list of "Scariest Hitters." Dave Kingman aka "Kong" too!
damn right! there was a point where willie mccovey was easily the most feared hitter in mlb
Cool video! I’d like to see full at-bat breakdowns on why these guys were the best 😅. Big Frank was so patient at the plate you can only see it to believe it 👏
Love that Frank Thomas, aka, the Big Hurt was included on here. Despite being from Kansas City, Missouri, and a life long Royals fan, my favorite baseball player in the league was The Big Hurt. Ya see, since I was born in 1986, I was born the year after they won their first World Series--which would also be their ONLY World Series chmpuonship until finally winning again in 2015 when I was then 29-years-old. Further, they didn't even make the playoffs during practically the same stretch until finally winning the wild card in 2014 and making it to game 7 of the World Series where theyd lose in a heart breaker to San Francisco. And so, during the mid-90s to the early 2000s, the Royals were always quite dismal and rarely even had any decent players to get excited to watch.
And so that's where the Big Hurt fit in. My dads work buddy had season tickets he rarely used and would give them to us quite often, and i remember early on, by '93 or '94, Frank would hammer us every time he stepped into Kauffman, hitting prodigious homers, showing unnatural plate discipline, and lining doubles from gap to gap anytime he wasn't easily jogging to first for a walk or jogging around all 4 bases after a round tripper. And so i fell in love with Big Frank and it became a habit to see at least one game every time they came to KC, and each time each seemed like he'd send a ball into the fountains.
And hell, for good measure, when I was 11, my, my dad, and my 2 older brothers went on a road trip to Chicago and, needless to say, we had to catch a Sox game at Comiskey. And despite it being a cool night for July with the wind blowing in (as i remember we had to stop at a mall to get jackets to wear to the game since we hadnt packed any), the Big Hurt didnt disappoint and hit a moonshot in the only game i ever saw at Comiskey (or whatever it's called now.)
Very nice!
Vladimir Guerrero SR doesn't have the monster stats of many of these guys but the guy was so scary at the plate because he "could" or at least had the ability to hit a homerun on a perfect pitcher's pitch, he hit more homeruns on pitches out of the zone then I remember anyone being able to and somehow had a fairly high batting average for someone who virtually swung at EVERYTHING lol...
The one that bounced on the grass he lobbed out into shallow outfield... lol didn't matter if you fooled him, the pitch was still hitable
That’s literally how I feel watching Bo Bichette
Tony Gwynn struck out 434 times over TWENTY YEARS. Good luck pitching to that dude.
he wasn't a power hitter tho
@@sKarr6988 Yes because all you need is power, right? Fuck that. I am more scared of the guy you can't strike out.
@@cybercatgaming6052 im pretty sure pitchers are more scared of a guy who can score a homer on them then a single or a double
Steroids don’t improve eyesight and skill… 3:48
But the do improve batted ball distance…
And bat speed.
Raise your hand if you think Bonds would've hit 72 home runs without the steroids.
Thought so.
@@patrickgoodman4576not by enough to matter all that much
@@laartworkI’m thinking like 69 without them
No amount of steroids can replace the fact that you have to keep your eye on the ball.
Harmon Killebrew - Never hit for a high batting .Avg but he was without a doubt one of the games most feared hitters from 1959-1972....
100%. My dad said that guy had huge forearms. Big, burley guy
For Babe Ruth's 145 walks, just remember Lou Gehrig was right behind him and they still decided that was the best course of action
And he spent 7 years as a pitcher and most of his homers came in his last 13 seasons
He was also hitting 80 MPH fastballs. Hes undoubtably one of the best to ever especially considering how much better than his peers he was but lets keep things in perspective.
@@Nickalzz that is a myth, people were still throwing hard at that time, also they were hitting in much larger ball parks than today
Garage
@@nathaniellippert9238 lmfao bs parks were smaller. Ruth had a small porch his whole career!!!
@@tpsin713 true but then it shot out to 490 in center
Growing up playing little league in the early 90's these players were my heroes. Managed to still hang on to some of their trading cards too. I found out my 89' Topps Ken Griffey Jr. Rated Rookie is worth $50 now. Reminded me also of some bad trades I made with a buddy, where apparently, he got the better end of the deal haha such a great era of baseball and history.
I could argue that Canseco was a much scarier hitter than McGwre. That swing of his was absolutely terrifying!
Big Hurt is so under valued. He totally commanded the plate and power was scary.
Thomas was always fun to watch, especially during homerun derbys lol
I'd love to see another video of this type about scariest pitchers. Just as hitters can be intimidating, so too can certain pitchers.
I remember speaking with a former player once at a volunteering event, and he said the scariest pitcher he ever faced was Jim Palmer. Palmer, he said, had a deceptively slow windup, which fooled him into thinking the pitch was coming slowly; the next thing he knew, the umpire was screaming "STRIKE" and the ball was in the catcher's mit without ever showing itself leaving Palmer's hand.
Randy Johnson Would Top That List.
Love Big Papi And Griffey Jr Saying It's Like Getting Slapped After His Pitches.
@@user-be9fu5er7nid also have Clemens, Gibson, Martinez, Aroldis Chapman and Nolan Ryan
I don't mean this as internet hate but a piece of advice would be to change the pitch that you end some of your sentences with. Once you can't help but notice it it becomes a little unsettling and it'd help to vary your cadence a little. Some really awesome batters on that list.
Love the Pujols comparison, "like if Ichiro had the power of Ken Griffey Jr." My favorite trivia about Pujols is that he came into the league the same year as Ichiro, had the same 10-year prime (2001-2010), had the exact same .331 batting average in that prime, but hit 318 more homers while *striking out less.* Despite his power, Pujols was also the game's best contact hitter of his time.
Epic drop!
Edgar Martinez had a higher career OPS than Griffey, Cabrera, and Pujols and has an award for hitting named after him.
Edgar does seem to get ignored a lot. He almost didnt get into the hall of fame, which made me angry.
the reason he gets overshadowed a lot is because he was a dh who didnt really hit for power when at the time you had guys like mcgwire and thomas
What about Albert Belle? For a 8-year period ... there was no hitter more intimidating.
Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Aaron Judge and Barry Bonds.
Manny Ramirez Statistics And Reputation Were Scary Not His Presence.
Unless You Thought Of The Predator when You Saw Him.
Judge doesn't belong in this group..
Manny is the most underrated hitter of all time.
@@wilmars9146yes he does lol, a 6’7 280lbs man who hit 60 homers and hit over .300 is terrifying
@@sir.muffiniii7011 Is Judge on steroids ?
Frank Thomas is an absolute unit.
Yordan Alvarez is also terrifying, he’s the only batter that I feel like is an automatic hit when he’s at the plate.
Watching the ALDS this year as a Twins fan, my heart always sank every time he came to the plate because it felt nearly certain he would get a hit.
He’s gonna be a better version of David Ortiz
@@northstarjakobs as a Rangers fan, I see him way more than I’m comfortable with.
His 2021 season sucked tho
@@sKarr6988 ah yes a 136 OPS+ is bad
Point of order, Pujols played at Maple Woods Community College in the suburbs of Kansas City MISSOURI. He was 2 years ahead of me in high school, but I saw him live several times in district play his junior and senior years with the Fort Osage Indians from Independence, MO who were big rivals of the Liberty, MO Blue Jays I repped in football and debate/forensics from 1998-2000 (Albert graduated in 1998).
That senior HS year of his was freaking nutty, he was IBB'd 55 out of 88 plate appearances, in those 33 times he actually got pitches to hit he destroyed 8 Homer's and 7 other extra base hits.
Miggy deserved more video time. Dude played in Comerica park which is massive and took away at least 60 homers, dead center was 420 feet
420's small for old-school baseball standards
No one absolutely no one compared to Barry bonds in his prime. That stretch from like 2001 to 2004 especially was insane. I don't give a fuck what steroids he was taking I don't give a fuck if people think it's cheating absolutely no one came close to those numbers and they were all fucking juicing. He was hitting slow pitch grapefruits up there. Those numbers are just godly. And much respect to babe Ruth but if you put babe Ruth in today's baseball I don't think he's anywhere near as good. The fact is he was hitting off guys that were throwing 70 and 80 much of the time. And don't get me wrong I understand some of the ballparks were bigger and his bat was bigger and if he had modern training and modern technology people just assumed that he would be just as good, but it is literally impossible to assume that. There is no guarantee that he would be able to rise to the same level with the quality of pictures and scouting and such that we have today. he is very talented so there is a good chance that he would still be a very very very very very very very very very very good hitter butthere are some people that are absolute studs until they reach a certain level of baseball and they just can't adjust no matter how good the technology is no matter how good their training is. I think he would have been a Hall of famer in any era but I do not think he would have had anywhere near as many home runs. And it's literally impossible to know how he would do with modern pitching. It is just night and day better than it used to be. You can almost guarantee that his home runs an average would be down no matter how much he adjusted. And I know that this guy that I'm about to list is not a stud on the level of bonds and pujols and them, and he happens to be my favorite player but you can't tell me that I'm wrong when I say that one of the most feared hitters to face in his prime was Gary Sheffield. He had that absolutely violent swing. He frequently hit 300 with 30 to 40 home runs 100 RBIs 100 bb and usually 50 to 60 k. 3rd baseman were terrified to play against him and he could put the ball out in any part of the field but even the third base coaches would play almost in the outfield area of the third Base line. If he had stayed a little healthier in his career and not missed the equivalent of like two or 3 full seasons in his prime, I think he would have had a legitimate shot at hitting 600 home runs. If Milwaukee and San Diego had not tried to make him a small ball leadoff hitter, he absolutely would have hit 600. Injuries and his first 5 years or so in baseball costume probably cost him 100-125 home runs at least. But his stretch from 99 until 2005 o believe was unreal. 99 he hit 34 home runs 2000 I believe he hit 43 2001 I think he hit like 36 2002 was a little down and he only hit 25 or so but then 2003 he hit 330 with 39 home runs 130ish rbi 2004 and 2005 I think 36 and 35 or 39. He should have been a first ballot Hall of Famer. It's sad what the steroid rumors have done for so many amazing players. I don't give a shit if they were on steroids or not. It was an even playing field because everyone had the chance to take it. Just like everyone has the chance to hire a trainer and weight train. You don't have to do it but it's going to give you an advantage. There's always going to be advantageous. Pictures are going to use substances to make the ball move, hitters are going to take advantage of where they can. Cheating is always been in baseball and it sucks but that's just the way it is. At least with steroids you still have to do the work. You have to eat right you have to work out properly. Steroids give human beings the ability to reach their true potential. the biggest thing that steroids help isn't the strength it's not the distance of the ball it's the healing of injuries and helping guys in their older age that would normally be getting tired towards the end of the season, stay healthier stay in better shape, helps them feel like they did when they were younger. So instead of guys really starting to suffer at the end of the season with fatigue and such because they're older, it helps them basically stay in their prime longer like when they are younger. It's not going to do much for how far you hit the ball. But there were some definite feared hitters in this list bonds being the absolute scariest hands-down bar none no contest
They weren't all juicing. He showed what a great horse could do while juicing. Imagine if Frank Thomas juiced. 90 hr and .400 batting average
If Babe Ruth had been born 5 years later and spent his entire career as a position player, he could have racked up nearly 1000 HRs.
actually they may have never changed the baseball if he showed up 5 years later, to make it easier to hit homeruns.
Out of all the stats Babe Ruth made the one that is the most wild to me is that after Babe hit his 138th home run he set the record so every home run he hit moving forward was the all-time record. Dorktown had a funny way of putting it - that Ruth “dragged” the home run record to 95% of what it is now.
I had a autographed baseball signed by Barry Bonds when he was with Pittsburgh Pirates, they just couldn't beat the damn Braves smh great team at that time in fact last time the Pirates was really good. Bonds, Van Slyke, Bonilla, Bream, Lind, Bell, King, Diaz, Lavaliere, Drebek, Walk, Balinda, good ol days of pirate baseball
You tend to shout the last 1 or 2 syllables of each and every sentence. You say something and THEN YELL. Then you talk some more and you shout AG-AIN. For those of you who notice this you will never be able to not notice him DO IT!!
Actually great advice.
Doesn’t bother me. It’s just his style.
Better then an AI voice
That’s called delivery and it’s perfectly consistent across all videos which is all that matters. It’s only jarring if you’re new. Usually people who do that tend to write their own scripts. The more he does it, usually the snappier the writing or more clever the sentence structure/ punchline I’ve noticed. Voiceover is a performance. Measure the entirety of it, not just intonations.
Thank you for NOTICING
Where is Manny Ramirez??
He missed a bunch of ppl smh
You didn't talk about Stan Musial who in a double header hit 4 consecutive home runs !!! Those were the days I listened the games on the radio
How old r u😭
@@sir.muffiniii7011I am 76 and I listened to the Cardinal games on radio and once in awhile the KC games
@@waynegood9233 damn u lucky u got to witness all those legends
Miguel Cabrera is worthy of more than an honorable mention. Arguably the greatest right handed hitter of his generation. Also your inflection at the end of every other sentence is so annoying I could barely get through the video.
Frank Thomas was a legit power machine without PEDs.
Whoa whoa…Jim Thome was one of the most prolific home run hitters of my lifetime.
Frank Thomas had elite power yet chose to go for more of a pure hitting approach with a high batting average and plenty of doubles but perhaps sacrificing some HRs... in the shortened season of 1994 Thomas had an OPS+ of 212, prior to 2001 Bonds best OPS+ was 206 and Pujol's best season was 192... fax!!!
And he still hit 500+ homers
Mays also lost 2 prime years to military service. Candlestick was not the toughest hitting park in that area, the Astrodome was. To get an idea of the difference between the Astrodome and other parks, the year McGwire and Sosa were chasing Maris record Jeff Bagwell actually had more homeruns than either of them on the road, yet Bagwell only finished with 47 because it was extremely hard to hit homeruns in the Astrodome. He did set the Astro record for homeruns at home that year at 19, but not near enough to keep pace with McGwire and Sosa.
This seems like more of a list of the greatest pure-hitting power-hitters of all-time. Of the guys that were truly the scariest, I'd have to go with Albert Belle, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Mo Vaughn, Mike Piazza, Andres Galarraga, Jim Thome, Gary Sheffield and Adam Dunn to go along with Frank Thomas, Bonds, Babe and Frank Howard. I'd also consider the father/son duo of Cecil and Prince Fielder as well.
Not even an Honorable Mention for Jim Thome?! That’s a shame.
I agree with the video but Big Papi & Hank Aaron should also be mentioned
Carlos Delgado is the most underrated player in history and should be a hall of famer. Change my mind
Don’t listen to the haters great vid
Underrated and overlooked: Todd Helton and Larry Walker both should have been on this list.
I think I know what team you were watching
@@laartwork😭😭😭
Scariest Hitters in Baseball History... Barry Bonds(his scariest years was when other guys talked about in this careers were over and shadows of themselves). He had a small strike zone and swing that made the most of that strike zone. Whatever you think of Bonds, there has been no one since Babe Ruth to create so much fear in manager/pitcher than Bonds.
Frank Robinson- two triple crowns, one in each league and he did during one of the ultimate pitchers era.
Frank definitely, no one intimidated pitchers like that. He would swing a steal rod in the batters box. Frank rules 💪
Been subscribed a little while, I don't mind much but it is really really noticeable and alot of comments always mention it. Will probably improve views and subs if you adjust it
Albert Pujols was the best all around hitter I've ever witnessed his 2006 season was highly underated but his best season was 2003
Who’s Yordaddy?
Those lost years in Cincinnati... and the strike... oi Ken Griffey jr
Damn I forgot or never realized all the golden gloves Barry had.
Ichiro...againsts the A's early in his career I watched a Pitched throw a fastball right past his Ear. Ichiro looked Mad...he sent a Line Drive back at the Pitcher the next play.
I have no problem with people having the belief that steroid use should exempt you from the HOF. I do however have a problem with people who refuse to acknowledge the greatness of Barry Bonds. If you don’t recognize that Bonds is the only player to rival Babe as the greatest to do ever do it you can’t possibly know what you’re watching when it comes to baseball
I did a missionary trip to George Barrios, to the exact dugout with Pujols’ name painted on it. Hit a home run that hit the church in right field that he attended.
I'm commenting before the video starts, Albert Belle better be on this list lol
1:02 nice
I'm surprised that Big Papi aka David Ortiz wasn't mentioned on this video
Gary Sheffield
His Bat Going Bonkers While At Bat Was Scary 😂😂.
Gary Sheffield. Manny, Vlad, Papi, ARod, Palmeiro, Canseco, Juan Gone…you can put 25 players on this list
Yep, Albert Belle too in my opinion.
Had griffey stayed healthy, hed have easily crushed the HR record. That being said, NOBODY touches ted williams. True goat of all time. Not a man or ethnicity who laced up cleats touching that white boy. Absolute beast, and left the league for 6 years to serve his country.
Fairly good choices for the list but I'd have to include 4 players at least in the honorable mentions. Stan Musial, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Ralph Kiner. The first 3 are baseball immortals and their stats speak for themselves but, in the late 40s and early 50s I'd argue there wasn't a scarier hitter in the NL (except maybe Musial) than Kiner. He led the NL in home runs each of his 1st 7 seasons. His career didn't last long so his counting stats aren't impressive (well 369 HR is impressive considering he only played 10 full seasons).
Frank Thomas was smart as a big man to focus on baseball. Way longer career.
My roommates and I always told each other when Bonds was up at bat.
Babe Ruth 😂😂😂
What abt babe ruth
Mickey Mantle 18 world series homeruns countless triples and runs batted in,,,,Mantle played hurt but showed up in the world Series like no other player since or now.holds record for homeruns hit in world series
Bonds the only guy I ever saw swinging for the fences every swing, but also while not swing for fences. Just his regular swing was so good , because he didn't swing at garbage. Also 40 years earlier he couldn't have worn all the gear protecting his right arm. He'd get blown off plate crowding it like that. No way Bob Gibson let's that happen lol
would have been great to see how the greats would have dealt with barry lol. 100% gibson would have gone high and tight on him lol
Never stopped frank robinson
Then Barry would’ve taken it, he’s that guy
Barry Bonds actual ability was highlighted in Pittsburgh where he defined the fact that he was a choker. Going to SF and the use of drugs gets him these stats.
The player shown @13:57 and 22:09 is Orlando Cepeda. Cepeda was #30. Mays was #24. That is clearly a 3 visible on the back of that GIANTS jersey.
If you're talking about scary hitters, Albert Belle should be in there. He averaged 40 hrs per 162 games.
Barry Bonds was by far the scariest hitter in baseball history. Without roids he was every bit as good as Aaron or Mays. After 2000 he either walked or hit a moon shot.
He wasn't though. He would have been very good, but below the Top Tier. Barry would have been more Carlos Beltran than Historical Best Ever Discussion. People think he started later than he did when he obviously started when he had to rebound after a disasterous 1989. He started getting bigger from there and it wasn't until he overdid it that people publicly raised eyebrows. Everybody wants to act like his first MVP isn't tainted as if that makes up for his later tainted records in an attempt to get him in the Hall.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Barry Bonds was absolutely in Wiilie Mays and Hank Aaron territory. Through his age 33 season, before he hit the juice, Bonds had 3 MVP awards, 441 HRs, 8 Gold Gloves and 100 WAR. Mays and Aaron only had one MVP a piece by age 33. Bonds was easily already top tier greatest players by historical standards by 1998. It is difficult to feel bad for Bonds because he was such a jerk, but Bonds was putting up MVP numbers and getting completely overshadowed by McGwire, Sosa, who he absolutely knew were juicing while the MLB looked the other way.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 I looked up Carlos Beltran's stats through age 33 and he is not even in the same league as Barry Bonds. Not to detract from Beltran, who was a very, very good ball player, but no MVPs and about half the wins above replacement as Bonds.
Bonds being 20lbs heavier when comparing his 90's homerun title to his 73 homerun title is hilarious lol. That 70 homerun bonds looked like he ate the previous bonds!
Albert Belle? Guy was a monster but got no love because he was a jerk to reporters.
I Know Neither Tony Gwyn Or Ichiro Were Power Hitters But They Were Definitely Feared Along With Rod Carew, Pete Rose And Certainly A Few Others I've Certainly Ommited.
Aaron Judge actually put together an OPS+ over 200 in his 62hr season.
it’s weird seeing Ted Williams not wearing a batting helmet
where is hank Aaron no seriously where is he
I am very surprised that Albert Belle is not this list. You can say what you want about the corked bat incident. That dude was a freak show. He was a slugger that a pitcher didn't want to a 500ft mistake to left center into the upper deck. If it wasn't for his degenerative hip problem that cut his career short. There is no doubt he would be in the 500 homerun club or possibly 600 homerun club. But his lack of popularity with the media won't do him any favors , if he gets any hall of fame votes. Albert Belle in his prime was the best player to me in my opinion.
I love mtc
Griffey and Mantle are the two great "what might have beens"
Bonds 2001-2004 stats are absolutely INSANEEEEEE idc if he was on steroids or not
I wish we could’ve seen how Josh Hamilton would’ve played out he was great for his short career
Sad Ending Even Worse After Second Third Chances. Always Found It Amazing That He Was A Heavy Cocaine User But All His Senses (Especially Hand Eye Ability) Were So Positivity Effective.
No argument about this list, but I was surprised that Mickey Mantle didn't even get a name drop.
What about Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Jim Thome, and Fred McGriff?
Yeah, as soon as I saw Hammerin' Hank and the Mick weren't on this list I knew it was crap.
I feel Giancarlo Stanton could’ve made it in scary guy too pitch too even though he’s batting a .198
Tony Gwynn was one of the nicest guys to meet. Albert Belle definitely one of the worst. A friend of mine asked for an autograph on one of his bats that he bought. Belle accused him of stealing it. Was a class act In the minors as well when he was called Joey.
You said Pujols didn’t get walked a lot, but that was only at the end of his career. He had 6 straight seasons in his prime with more than 90 walks and 4 over 100
I was surprised that that Mickey Mantle was not even an Honorable Mention.
Great list but I'm surprised Arod didn't make the cut with 696 homers, 3000+ hits and 2000+ runs and 2000+ rbis. I'm still mad at the Yankees for pulling him before he got to 700. Steroids or not he was a great athlete.
Delgado would be remembered a lot more if it hadn't been for bad timing. His prime was both after the Blue Jays went back to back and weren't as good a team and a lot of the attention went to other players during that era.
Mickey Mantle got SNUBBED