10 WORST #1 Picks in the MLB Draft
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- 10 WORST #1 Picks in the MLB Draft
These are the 10 worst #1 overall picks of all time in the MLB Draft. Biggest busts of the MLB Draft of all time. Which player do you think was the worst #1 overall pick in the MLB Draft?
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In 92 I was at a grocery store and could see a Brien Taylor gold Topps card through the wrapper. Bought that pack thinking I had just hit the lottery.
Fun fact, only 3 number 1 picks have reached the hall of fame. That's absolutely nuts.
Griffey jr and chipper who is the third?
Harold Baines
@Prayingmantis 211 underrated comment
@@padraigoleary9770 dumb comment
@@OneEightTwoZero Harold Baines should not be in the hall. Crime Dog was soooo much better.
The rangers destroyed David Clyde's career. They brought him up just to boost attendance and rode him into the ground.
Absolutely right. I always felt bad for that kid. Hometown hero and they kept trotting him out there. Talk about pressure.
Sometimes when a person who wasn't around in 1973 only has stats to go by, shouldn't be making videos like this. You are 100% correct Austin Heidland. The Rangers were desperate for attendance and putting the hometown High School phenom on the mound at 18 years old, was that hook. They hurt him in every way, it wasn't that he couldn't pitch. He probably would have been a very good first round overall pick, but the rangers ruined him.
They used him to sell tickets since he was a local kid. Total malfeasance on the part of a crappy franchise.
True
I came here to say just that.
The suspense to #1 was getting to me. I’m like, “Brien Taylor has to be on this list!”. That guy was so friggin’ hyped in 1991 and then never heard of again. Thank you for not disappointing me!
He suffered a catastrophic arm ( I think shoulder) injury while in the minors. I think it happened off the field, was not due to pitching, I think he either got into a car accident
or was in a brawl, can't quite remember.
With acrimonious and public contract negotiations upon signing.
Do greatest draft steals in mlb history
Mike trout prolly
Fire 🔥🔥🔥
Mookie Betts 2011 MLB Draft which is probably one of the best draft classes in recent history
Yeah mike trout
You already know he would put Piazza 1st
5:56 His Son would eventually become one of the best COD Players of all time.
Scumpyyyyyyyy
The ginger ninja
Starved his dog to death. POS human.
Is his sons name "Lil' Abner?
Sethhhhh
Also wanna note that the A’s drafted Reggie Jackson 2nd overall in 1966 after Steve Chilcott
Just beat me to it.
🤦♂️
Reportedly Mets passed on Reggie because he had a white girlfriend. All five AL teams that won the World Series in the 70’s had one common denominator and it wasn’t Steve Chilcott!
And I've asked, "What were the Mets thinking?", ever since.
I get your point ( I thought Chilcott should have been #1 on this list because of Reggie ), but 1970 Orioles.
10:08 “Got arrested for selling cocaine...”
So basically he *was* the next Dwight Gooden then
Hey, Dwight Golden only TOOK cocaine, he didn’t sell it!
Gooden wasn't selling. But perhaps he was one of Taylor's customer's.
Ronald H I didn’t wanna laugh😂😂
Gooden was a buyer not a seller.
@Micah Perry that was a lame attempt at being clever!
Matt Anderson. He sucked and he was a closer. A closer with the #1 overall pick and career ERA over 5 gotta at least get honorable mention
Matt anderson was a stud tho throwing at 100 regularly. At least made a small impact with Detroit.
@@mspacely6521 very small. If you blink you missed it. I think he should have been on this list.
Brady Aiken?
Shawn Abners son is the goat 😂 sethy Seth “scumpy” he’s dirty in cod. One of the goats
Beat me to it. I was waiting for papa Scump to pop up
Shawn Abner also got arrested for animal abuse... that's tough. Yet his son is a gamer!
omg i thought you were joking that’s crazy
I knew his dad played pro ball but had no idea he was a #1 overall pick, that’s crazy
I'm old enough to remember the hype about David Clyde. He had a minuscule ERA as a high school pitcher, and he was rushed to the majors to help the Texas Rangers draw fans. Apparently he fell in with the wrong crowd (same old story) and his career fell apart. i understand he fell just a couple of games short of qualifying for an MLB pension.
I must as old as you because I remember him also. And you're right about the Rangers exploiting him. We (Angels) did a similar thing to a young pitcher in that same era named Andy Hassler. Tall, good looking kid with live arm...they kept shoving him out there regardless of results because he was considered a attendance draw. Sad what team economics can do to a young talent.
I'm thinking Clyde pitched 4 no hitters as a senior for Spring H. S. 🤔
I saw him pitch against Washington. Think he did well early on in the game.
I knew Brien Tayor would be #1. I knew it. The amount of money the Yankees gave him as a signing bonus was astronomical for starters and Taylors career ending injury to his pitching hand in a brawl was just insane. I had all his rookie cards. His high school stats were unbelievable. He did well in the minors. If only he had a brain and stayed away from that fight. We will just never know.
He skipped instructional camp which hampered his development so it's fair to question his dedication and work ethic
Apparently he had troubles with control, pickoff moves, and developing a secondary pitch even before the injury
@@DanielSong39 I agree with what you wrote in your response. It's just such a shame a man with so much talent threw it away.
@@rilenixx Classic case of penny wise and pound foolish
Just the year before Chipper Jones was drafted #1 and signed for $275K bonus and actually played in the minor leagues that same year
In contrast Taylor did not sign until much later, missed the 1991 season and instructional league, and did not make his professional debut until 1992
He played a full season in 1992 but it's unknown whether he reported to instructional league in 1992
He definitely skipped it in 1993 when he got hurt
In the quest for $1.55M he appears to have hampered his own development which may have cost him even without the injury
Whenever I beat somebody up with a golf club I tell them, " I'm Matt Bush".
@Fuzzy Butkus k. One rule; don't talk about the " club". Lol
I dont always beat up people with a golf club but when I do I say I'm Matt Bush
What Bush did was drive drunk and run over a man on a motorcycle. When he got out of prison, he had to try out for teams by pitching behind the Golden Corral where he worked (his probation terms required him to go from home straight to work, and from work straight home). Interestingly the Rangers managed (to some extent) to rehab two former #1 overall picks, Bush and Josh Hamilton. The only thing the most over-glorified AAA team in baseball has done somewhat right.
@@reedermh at least they werent cheaters like the Astros
Matt Bush gave Matt Antonelli a Rawlings Heart of the Hide Infield glove that he liked a lot.
Why is this his second video with a Mets player on the left and the same player in prison on the right? Sad but will always love the Mets.
That's funny. I thought those were doctor's scrubs...
Nice clickbait though
Do a vid of best player from every round in the draft until there aren’t any good players left
The instant I saw this video I immediately thought of the pitcher Brien Taylor. I think the Yankees signed him in the early to mid-90's. His rc cards along with NHL's Eric Lindros were both pure 🔥 for about 6 months
Lol David Clyde was my pitching coach in high school.
So, was he a good dude?
Did he ever talk about his major league career
Eastbound and Down was about him?
Great to see you back at it Marc!!!
As a Padres fan, Idk why they picked a local HS player when they had a chance to pick Justin Verlander Jered Weaver or Homer Bailey
The Padres passed on Weaver and Stephen Drew because they were Boras clients. They skipped over Verlander over signability concerns, too, but in the end, Verlander signed for about the same amount as Bush.
The Mets could've had Mark McGwire in 1984
That would have been one hell of a medicine cabinet in the clubhouse
Never knew that but sadly, I'm not surprised.
I like that your top ten includes players from different baseball eras. I was expecting players from the past ten years or so, but you dug deep for your assessments. I've been a WS fan since 1959, so it's good to know you've done some fine research. BTW, was Gordon Beckham a #1 pick? He sure had potential, reliable fielding but he could never hit.
Not even a week after the Padres gave Matt Bush a 1 million dollar signing bonus, they sent him to Arizona for a baseball camp and him and his brother got arrested at a bar for being drunk and fighting. The Pads were so pissed off that they almost rescinded his bonus but his agent talked the Padres into forgiving him. But he was a bust anyway, never played to his potential as a SS or a hitter. In and out of jail and always in trouble. He really blew it.
I remember for a brief moment Brien Taylor cards were the chase baseball cards of that year's sets.
shawn abner might be a bust but he created the greatest cod player of all time
Can't have 3 Padres on the list Lol !!!
I actually spoke with Shawn Abner shortly after he was drafted when I called into the Art Rust Jr. sports talk show. You guys should really look up Art Rust Jr. He was doing sports talk long long before it became a thing
I remember Art Rust Jr. I think he was on WABC before WFAN started broadcasting. He got mad at people calling in that weren’t interested in having a serious discussion about sports.
@@MrOccyc Yeah, he was before his time and it's hard to believe, but he had a hard time getting callers occasionally. People just weren't calling in to radio stations to talk sports. How times have changed. He might have pre-dated sports talk radio, but I don't think he would fit in now. Now it's all bombast and shouting. His show was mellow. I think he played jazz music in the background.
I enjoyed your list and knew Taylor was going to be on top. I’d like to see you do another list about drafts that went bust because the team missed out on a bigger player. Example- Chilcott was drafted by the Mets but they passed on Reggie Jackson.
What's crazy about the Astros picking Mark Appel first overall is that the Cubs chose Kris Bryant with the next pick. Can you imagine an already loaded Houston Astros team with Kris Bryant added to it? Boggles my mind.
I guess it's safe to say Brien Taylor was the JaMarcus Russell of MLB.
JaMarcus Russell actually played in the NFL Brien Taylor did not play in the majors ( I actually met him about 18 years ago, he was a really nice guy, he was on his way to Shea Stadium for a interview for the Met coaching staff)
First thing that popped into my mind was Brien Taylor.
LoL me too!!
Actually I said his name out loud when started talking about the #1 spot.
Same
@@justinmartin1831 Honestly, the first guy that came to my mind when I saw the title to this video is Matt Bush, considering that it took 12 whole years between him getting drafted and him finally making it to the majors. If he hadn't made it to the majors at all, I am sure Marc would have put him a lot higher.
I was thinking Gregg Jefferies.
Pirates fan here. We certainly dodged a bullet by not signing Mark Appel. But I do recall being upset at the time when Appel decided to return to Stanford for his senior season instead of signing with the Pirates.
Great video 👍 . Really enjoyed it .
David Clyde basically sacrificed his career for the Texas Rangers and kept the franchise afloat.
It wasn’t David Clyde’s fault. At least my dad just said that.
This is one of my favorite videos you’ve made.
3:16 I kept getting that damn baseball card with those large, multi-year bundles they used to sell at convenience stores. Boy, were those things a rip-off.....
Who’s where after Mark Appel got called up
Great list. I would throw brady aiken on there though
Ethan Sugar Aiken was drafted first, but didn’t sign. Indians took him 17th the next season. Besides that he’s still only 23. It’s not looking good, but there’s still time.
Great job as usual!
David Clyde is a cautionary tale of what an organization does not do with regards towards the development of a high school prospect. 20 days after his final high school game he is pitching in the big leagues because the owner at the time Bob Short wanted to boost sagging attendance. He was essentially fed to the wolves having some early success but that too was temporary. Had he gotten drafted and given a chance to develop he might have had a legitimate chance to have a long and successful career in the big leagues.
I was the bat boy for the Winter Haven Mets when Steve was the catcher. I would stand on second base after home games and catch balls for him as he practiced throwing from the down position. He was great in my book, should have made it to the majors and could have if it weren't for his injury. Just saying.
bro how could u not include Shawn Abner's son the king Scump
Sethy Seth the goat
Shawn Abners son Seth Abner is actually considered one of if not the best call of duty player to every live.
I remember when the Mets talk Shawn Abner in 1984 and he was projected as being a 300 hitter in the Major Leagues.
fun fact: Shawn Abner is Optic Scump’s dad.
Scumper jumper too bad he lost in champs today
dalten brehaut bruh oof
Mark Appell was taken over Kris Bryant .. as a cubs fan, thank you Astros
Cubs dodged three bullets in that draft. It's been widely reported that Epstein wanted Appel, but he went to the Astros. They were also said to have been debating between Bryant, Jon Gray, and Kohl Stewart (confirmed by Hoyer when they announced Stewart's signing back in January) as their #2 right up to an hour before the draft.
As a Giants fan, Thanx Cubs! ( Not really)
Good info. Brutal video editing.
Editing actually ok. The fact that he needed that much editing because he couldn’t complete a sentence in one take concerns me.
keep up the good work!❤️🔥😎
Matt Anderson drafted by the tigers in 1997 should be on this list
Rank the performance of MVPs in the seasons after they won it.
David Clyde was to a degree the victim of a lousy owner. Of course he wasn’t ready to be facing major league hitters, but he was an attraction for a struggling owner. He was used to boost attendance regardless of the harm it did his development. If handled properly, Clyde’s career could’ve been different.
Very true!
Can you make a video of the best player from each round that currently play(then another of all time).
Do a video on the best late round picks
^^^This.
Piazza
Mark Appel-Astros-one fault in an otherwise flawless run for Astros picks
I hear they're going to draft a bunch of nice fresh new garbage cans next year
I think it’s Mark Appel just talking strictly baseball. Drafted in the top 10 twice by two teams you gotta carve out some type of career. Brien Taylor has a good case though, but that’s what makes the draft such a crapshoot at times, you think you’re picking the right guy and you miss on him.
Keep dropping bangers
As a rays fan, I can think or Tim Beckham , Josh Hamilton, because he because he never did anything for the rays, and Delmon young
Hamilton and Young Actually Had Productive Years, He's Making Draft Busts, Hamilton and Young Are Far From That
Look up brandon willie martin.
I stole a car with Shawn Abner and he ratted me out. Great guy.
I smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins. It was Johnny Hopkins and Sloan Kettering. And they were blazing that shit up every day. Great guy n gal.
In 1980 the Philadelphia Phillies selected catcher Lebo Powell as their 1st pick in the amateur draft, and the 13th player selected overall. He never made it to the major leagues, and just a few years later was working as a bouncer at a bar in Florida. There's more at this link: www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lebo_Powell
What amazing insight and wisdom!
Honestly David dosent seem like a bad player he was just rushed
Imagine the 2019 Astros rotation: Verlander, Cole, Greinke, Appel
Don't forget the garbage cans
And Brady Aiken (their #1 overall pick in 2014), if he had ever amounted to anything.
I saw David Clyde pitch in late 1979. He was released by the Indians in 1980 just one day short of qualifying for his major league pension.
One former New York sportscaster(Sal Marciano) said of Brien Taylor after his fighting incident I paraphrase" his million dollar arm and 15 cent brain".
The Mets passed on someone named Reggie Jackson in 66 to draft Steve Chilcott. Only the Mets can miss like that
Well,the Metropolitans made up for it.They got Tom Seaver..Oh! WAIT!✋You win this debate,right can't pass on Mr.October Reggie Jackson he won more World Series Championships.Great Insight👍👍
They still won a world series
this guy doing this is clueless. The biggest asterisk for Chilcott is Reggie Jackson at No. 2 and Marc didn't mention it. I guess when all you do is read off a stat sheet and have no sense of history, this is what you get.
I was so waiting for Steve Chilcott. They passed reggie Jackson to draft him
TENNESSEE had an 18-year-old farm boy who was throwing 107mph for seven innings he was averaging ten strikeouts per game and threw six shutouts in one season, He played in what was called the K&T league which was teams in Tennessee playing teams in KENTUCKY it was for adults over the age of 18, CINCINNATI, ST.LOUIS, both sent scouts to see him and both offered big signing bonuses and contracts but police said it wasn't enough and sent the scouts packing back to their teams, This is a farmboy earning 36.00 a week living in a two-room shack with his father mother sister and brother and he wore overhauls, shoes held together by fishing line and the family survived off beans, potatoes, eggs, and coffee on Saturday night it was bologna and cheese with an RC cola, The last offer was 20,000 signing bonus and 45,000 a season and MICKEY MANTEL was the highest-paid player at 125,000 a season so the 45,000 was a damn good offer back then and still, the police said no, finely the scouts gave-up and there were no more offers were made, the story goes he remained a dirt poor farmer still playing on a Sunday still throwing over a 100 mph and still averaging 10 strikeouts per game, People in the town said when it finely dawned on him there would be no more offers that he just sat down and cried until the police told him to take his ass home or go to jail,
Still not as bad as Portland passing on Michael Jordan, and then years later Kevin Durant!!
Hey Marc what app do you use to edit?
Nice Video..Lots of great information! BTW Go Tigers! 🤔😏
420 views and 69 like noice👌
A view does not equate to a like. Of the 420 viewers, only 69 felt strongly enough to give a like.
Thanks Ken. You're really on the ball.
Someone needs to tell this guy to take a breath, talks like he's on the clock
Wears me out listening to him. Not natural energy. Forced.
Would love to see best and worst picks for each team
I remember the initial deal for Giles was for Derek Fisher instead of Appel. As a Phillies fan, I wish we would've taken Fisher instead. At least could've had a guy off the bench.
A fine idea for a video, but one word for you to consider: "Decaf"
Glad someone else thinks that. These dude needs to dial it down a hair.
Too bad he could not have talked at a faster rate, much too slow for me.
That's fast forward
Played twilight ball with Al Chambers in 1996. He wore Jordan’s cleats (they played together in the ChiSox organization a year or two before). Saw him hit a ball 500+. Crazy powerful swing and a super nice guy. Never knew his career history until this video....
Love the shirt choice!!!
Slow down & breath man, you're going to stroke out.
It's why there's an edit every half second, so the sound never stops.
Whitey Herzog said about David Clyde that young guys need to be sent to where they can dominate, not the majors
There is a book that I am aware of but have not read called "Seasons in Hell : With Bill Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Team in Baseball" - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers". The book mentions the poor handling of David Clyde along with the infamous yet darkly-comedic well document incident known as "Ten Cent Beer Night".
u should do best player at each number of all time
You should do another video about the draft. Talk about some guys who weren’t drafted but signed and tell us which ones are good
Nothing on this earth is for sure...but death!! Sorry for being bear of bad news...BUT Taylor...I remember that guy being in the draft and all of us thought he was gonna be a super star! NOT. Sad!!
Nice video🔥🔥
As a big Mets fan, it pains me to see 2 Mets in the top 10. We have never had much of a farm system, but I still keep hope that it will change over time. We have had amazing stories on how we won our 2 World Series title though. I appreciate your content, and how you are a hardcore Mets fan too!
Cool info!
Sub and like
Love the Gamecock shirt!!
When the Padres selected Matt Bush I heard that it was John Moores who pushed to have him drafted against the recommendations of Padres scouts. I think the reason why the Padres wasted their first overall pick on him is only because he was from the San Diego area. It's true that there have been some players from the San Diego area that have turned out to be good, but Matt Bush was not one of them. It compares to when the Chargers drafted Ryan Leaf.
And they passed on guys like Justin Verlander and Jered Weaver for him...
South Central PA makes some great MLB draft busts! Chambers went to Harrisburg and Abner went to Mechanicsburg
Not to mention Matt bush also ran over a motorcyclist while he was drunk driving an SUV in Port Charlotte FL when he was a Ray and then proceeded to leave the scene. Other than that though I’m sure he’s a good guy lmao
'66 was an interesting draft. Not only did the Mets take Chilcott, they took Chilcott and left a gentleman named Reggie Jackson on the board who was gobbled up by the KC A's at #2. But the best story of the '66 draft is Morton Lamb taken in the 2nd round by the Indians ("Guardians"). Lamb hit 37 home runs as a High Schooler that year. Sadly, the night afore his first game in the Minors, he was caught in a hotel with 2 hookers and a monkey that he had stolen from the local zoo. During Lamb's arrest, which he resisted, he tore both is ACL and broke a small bone in his neck. He never appeared in a Professional game due to the injuries.
Not mentioned about Steve Chilcott is the Mets chose him over Reggie Jackson who was picked # 2
I'd like to see a video on which team historically has the best uniform. As a WS fan, I think it was the Cincinnati Red Legs (early 20th Century style) or maybe even the Cleveland Indians of the fifties. Too bad you can't do a poll on it.
The Padres have got to be the worst-drafting team ever. Hopefully that's changing with McKenzie Gore and CJ Abrams.
Hopefully things start to turn around for us Padre fans
I would add Mike Ivie. Drafted by the Padres 1st overall in 1970 as a catcher, and even though he was a catcher in the minors, he refuse to catch in the majors. There were times he had a problem throwing the ball back to the pitcher. He ended up at third and first. Now he was better than the other first round pick of the padres, Matt Bush, had a decent career in the major with several teams, but he was no first round pick.
At least the Mets were able to use Shawn Abner as part of a deal to get Kevin McReynolds, so I guess he had some value. But Steve Chilcott was another story. The reason why I would rank him the worst #1 is that everyone knew the #1 was a young outfielder coming out of Arizona State named Reginald Martinez Jackson. The Mets scouted him, but when GM M. Donald Grant found out that a Black Hispanic man had a white girlfriend, he hit the roof, and ordered his scouts to find another player (as well as an excuse). Claiming they had a lack of catching depth, they took Chilcott. It was ridiculous because they had acquired a 23-year old catcher named Jerry Grote from the Astros during the 65-66 off season, and had 4 other catchers 30 or under in the system: Choo Choo Coleman, Hawk Taylor, John Stephenson and Greg Goossen. In effect, the Mets allowed racism to get in the way of drafting a consensus first pick and future Hall of Famer.
I would agree. Chilcott had injury issues throughout his minor league career that hindered his path to the majors. Had the Mets drafted Jackson he would have given them an outfield left to right that included Cleon Jones, Tommie Agee, and Mr. October. They settled for a platoon situation for a good part of the late 1960s and early 1970s that generally included Ron Swoboda and Art Shamsky.
Swoboda and Shamsky were important cogs in the 1969 Met team but never in their prime had numbers like Jackson did in his prime years. Who knows how dominant the Mets would have been during the late 1960s into the mid-1970s had they drafted Jackson?
In defense of Chilcott, who knows how good he would have been had he not been injured? Grote obviously earned his keep by working with the likes of Seaver, Koosman, Gentry, and later Matlack.
Marc when will you stream on Twitch next?
You should do a video on the best #2 overall players. Like Verlander
Mark appel has now made his major league debut
Love the video
I’m interested in seeing a video of how many #1 picks actually ended up being the best player in the draft
A few come to mind...Ken Griffey, Jr., Chipper Jones, Alex Rodriguez, and Joe Mauer.
When my dad heard someone who speaks really fast he would say, I bet that person is from New York. He would then ask where they were from and he was right, all of the time. I think it helped that he was also from New York and had a trained ear. Nice list GiraffeNeck.