id give an honorable mention at the very least to randy "the big unit" johnson for having 5 consecutive 300+ strikeout seasons. '98, '99, '00, '01 and '02. there have been a total of 5 300+ strikeout seasons since then. gotta give the unit respect
One amazing fact that a lot of people don't know about Joe Dimaggio's hitting streak is, after the 56 game streak was broken, he went on to hit safely in another 16 straight games. At least one hit in 72 of 73 straight games....amazing.
Ted Williams had a higher batting average during his streak. DiMaggio should not have won the MVP. Ted Williams outplayed him during the whole season!!
Seeing this list makes me so glad I grew up in a time before analytics. The very idea that a pitcher could be yanked out of a perfect game is absolutely ridiculous. A lot of the little things mentioned here makes me realize that advanced analytics have in fact ruined the game more than helped it. I hope this comment sounds old, because this is one case where I WANT to sound old!
@jimschwandt8089 YES we are old & I don't know about you, but I'm old enough to have seen next day coverage of the greatest game ever pitched, a 16 inning duel between 42 year old Warren Spahn and 25 year old Juan Marichal, ended by a solo home run by Willie Mays. Both pitchers threw over 200 pitches. That's a performance which will never be matched.
@@patcarter-ix2zb I'm not quite that old, but my very first game ever featured Steve Carlton pitching for the Phillies. I can recall Ryan, Seaver, Neikro, Jack Morris, Fernando Valenzuela, Dave Stieb, and a lot of other great arms on the mound. Plenty of complete games to go with 30 and 35 save seasons by relievers.
You forgot Ruth's lifetime slugging average of .690!! No one will ever get near that.The closest any player has gotten is Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig, who are both 56 points below.
Another record I like is four pitchers on the Blatimore Orioles each winning 20 gmes in a season. Hard to get 4 pitchers in all of MLB to win 20 games in a season.
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I’ve seen Pete Rose comment more than once how Johnny van der Meer’s back-to-back no-no’s is unbreakable because it would take 3 in a row, he makes a good point
@@KevinMiller-xn5vu except that that's still 'Possible'...what is not possible is Cy Youngs 511 wins and 749 complete games...Those 2 are totally IMPOSSIBLE! (FACT)
I agree 84 straight games on base is crazy and should last. Imo today players go to the plate with a walk in mind because it seems they can't hit anymore. In past decades players thought more on putting the ball in play.
Actually, I can see this being broken. Salaries keep going up and there's bound to be a pitcher who'll get a big money contract and get a career ending injury after a couple games into the contract.
The dead ball era was odd for sure. First of all, ty Cobb was fast. Like...stupid fast. Second, he was ruthless. He played baseball at its most contact oriented. Crazy slides, straight up tackling pitchers/catchers trying to apply a tag was commonplace. Third, the dead ball era was known for extremely risky baserunning. Because the balls were dead, they weren’t flying over fences, so teams got runs by creating absolute chaos on the base paths. Ty Cobb was the best position player in this eta by a hefty margin. Lastly, pitchers likely didn’t pitch from the stretch when runners were on third, figuring that stealing home was a bit of a fool's errand. Cobb would regularly shake up pitchers when he was on third, and if he had another baserunner drawing attention on first with a heavy lead or outright running, Cobb could get the jump on pitchers. His speed and his instincts were second to none in his time. The most balliest baller of all time imo.
It is worth noting that Ichiro did go hunting for Rose's record, but he simply arrived to the MLB a few years too late to seriously challenge it. If Ichiro was allowed to come over at 21 instead of 27, he'd be much closer to the record if not own it. I get the fact that he's only at 3k hits, but Ichiro owns the single season hits record. It's not impossible for him to have gotten there if he was allowed over "on time."
I will never forget ... when Ichiro was in his first spring training, the late great Tony Gwynn said he was great, but thought he was too small to stand up to the rigors of MLB.
Ichiro hitting 262 in a single season is probably unbreakable. You're looking at a player who would need 2 hits in 132 games in a 162 game season to break it. That's just not going to happen anymore.
Craziest thing about that season is he didn’t even have a hit streak that was half of DiMaggio’s as his career best was 27 in 2009. So not only did he have to average 2 hits a game for 80.9% of the season he had quite a few 0 hit games that year as well 😮
Your list is spot on. The fact that all the unbreakable pitching records occurred before 1940 except for Nolan Ryan's just goes to show you how awesome he was.
@@exmarine268Nolan Ryan got them out at the plate. Gibson's great ERA was a team effort. Strikeouts (Ryan's specialty) are purely the pitcher's individual effort and skill.
@@KorithStoneheart - Gibson was a strikeout pitcher - 3000+ - and holds record for K’s in a World Series game. Hershiser had 50+ consecutive scoreless innings and still didn’t come close. In fact, they lowered the mound 6 inches in 1969 because if the dominance of Gibson.
Babe Ruth set the all-time single season Home Run record FOUR times! (29,54,59,60). For a player to do that now they would have to have 4 seasons of more than 73 homers, with each season getting incrementally better. Fernado Tatis hit two Grand Slams in a single inning. To break it someone would have to hit THREE Grand Slams in an inning. That's never happening.
That's great trivia! Here is a trivia question for you! Who is the only Hall of Famer to have pitched at least 10 seasons and every season had a winning record? (Scroll down) Babe Ruth!
Even more trivia about the Babe. He pitched 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless world series innings, a record which stood for 43 years until Whitey Ford broke it in 1961.
@@patcarter-ix2zb I love it! Here's something for you! Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927. He hit 14% of all home runs in his league that year. For a player to hit 14% of all home runs today, he would have to hit over 300 home runs in one season.
@@thomasmgill1ok…please provide us with even a shred of evidence to back up this claim. If anything, it was actually the opposite, as Cal Sr. was the manager who ended Jr’s record streak for consecutive innings played in 1987.
Walter Johnson is looking down from heaven laughing with his shut out record every time we talk about modern pitching and all the improvements we've made!
Walter Johnson threw a much softer, much dirtier ball for the majority of his career too. I'm not poo-pooing him at all, just making a point. The game is drastically different.
Over nearly 145 years of professional baseball, no player was tougher to strike out than Hall of Fame shortstop Joe Sewell. In 7,132 career at-bats, Sewell heard the umpire say “Strike three” just 114 times. That's one strikeout for every 63 at-bats, or once every 17 games, or in just .
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A few that come to mind... Don Mattingly's 6 grand slams in 1987 Mickey Mantle's 18 WS homers Orel Hershiser's 59.2 consecutive scoreless innings Hack Wilson's 191 RBIs in 1930 Grover Alexander's 16 shutouts in 1916 Charles Radbourne's 60 wins in 1884
He mentioned at the start of the video that he’s only listing career or consecutive records on this list. He decided to exclude single season or single game records from this list. I don’t blame him. Those types of records are hard to compare to career records because different things are required to break them.
@@jasonertle4185Wait, wouldn't Mantle's record be considered over his career? If Joe's record wasn't a career record why wouldn't Orel's be considered as well? Just saying.
@@Smoothstinger Okay, I’ll grant you those two. Mantle’s record and Orel’s record could be considered for this list. The other ones he mentioned can’t.
As an Orioles fan I love seeing the all time sacrifice fly list having Eddie Murray at #1 with 128, and Cal Ripken at #2 with 127.. there are no active players within the top 30, though #3 on the list is Puljos. I think Murray leads the list, in part, bc he learned the game from Earl Weaver and Cal Sr, and Cal Jr has said Eddie Murray taught him how to be a big leaguer
Longevity (20+) and total number of at-bats is crucial. For example, Pete Rose, who has the most hits ever, also has the most plate appearances as well. If viewed through that lens, the record is no less impressive, but if we were to look at his PA/hits percentage, several players would be ahead of him. Another example, is the number of career plate appearances by Ruth, Aaron, and Bonds, you notice that Ruth came to the plate far less than the other two guys. Here’s something I think about: imagine if Ted Williams didn’t miss 3 entire season in his prime. The year before he joined the Air Force, in 1941, he hit .406, and came in 2nd in AL MVP voting. That was the year DiMaggio hit in 60 straight games. Williams came to the plate 90 times less, but still beat DiMaggio in every single offensive category, except for having 5 less RBIs. Moving on, after missing those 3 years, he still won the AL MVP the year he returned. I know it has nothing to do with this record video, but it reminded me that William’s was the best pure hitter the game has ever seen.
Babe Ruth set the all-time single season Home Run record FOUR times! (29,54,59,60). For a player to do that now they would have to have 4 seasons of more than 73 homers, with each season getting incrementally better. Fernado Tatis hit two Grand Slams in a single inning. To break it someone would have to hit THREE Grand Slams in an inning. That's never happening.
Fun fact: The Tampa Bay Rays FRANCHISE (meaning every player who's ever worn a tampa cap) just recently passed Barry Bond's career intentional walks. if there was one thing barry could do better than homering, it was getting to first base.
Back in Cy Young's days, pitchers seldom threw at full velocity. Plus, they didn't throw arm-killing pitches like the slider. Today, hitters are just too good to finesse them. You have to have both speed and movement to survive, and those attributes tire pitchers. Pitch counts and relief pitching have changed pitching for good.
@@ronparton9185 But he did. Young's career spanned from 1890 through 1911. The mound was moved to its current distance in 1893. Thus, he pitched at that distance for 19 of his 22 years (or 86% of it).
Possibly so but really you can't judge even the speed of Pitchers in the early 50's . Some had lots of Strikeouts & some of players of that era rank high on some lists . With some like Walter Johnson who is up high either batters could not hit, or with Strikeouts Pitchers had to throw pretty fast . No speed guns till Nolan Ryan's time .
@@snuffysmith6842 It's not just the speed guns. Their philosophy towards pitching was different. As for Nolan, he was almost certainly under-measured. Back then, when he was measured at over 100 mph, it was the AVERAGE speed of the pitch. These days, modern guns measure the PEAK speed.
Rogers Hornsby averaged over .400 for 5 straight seasons. Didn’t hit over .490 each year, but the average was over .400. Will never be approached. Also thinking Bob Gibson’s 13 shutouts in one season will never be approached. Heck, nobody will ever approach half.
These records set in the early years of baseball reminds me of the Baseball Barbasol commercial. “I’m your great granddad getting through pitching 17 innings after a breakfast of beans and scotch while you’re there needing a nap after channel surfing. If you’re not gonna act like a man, at least shave like a man. Oh look, they’re sending in the relief pitcher…. Me.” 😂😂😂
this is one of the most fascinating things in sports for me the disparity of endurance in mlb through each era. I have a theory that it's our diet that made us more injury prone, more chemicals, and less of a normal sleeping schedule.
Great list! I would tweak it a little bit though… I would have Ty Cobb at three, Walter Johnson at two, and anything by Cy Young at number one. He has several unbreakable records due the era he was in.
For Wins: Zack Greinke is neither active nor the leader, it's Verlander with 258. In Regards to Cy Young's wins/complete games and how unique he was: In Cy's day pitchers did pitch more, but the extra usage wore out their arms so that most were done by 32-35, and as a result later generations of pitchers could equal the 300-350 win level by pitching into their 40s, essentially trading starts early in their career for starts later in their career. Like other pitchers of his era, .Cy hit 300 wins in his age 34 season.....and then pitched 10 more years, .retiring at the age it took even guys in the 1980s like Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton, no strangers to heavy workloads to reach 300 wins. The theoretical limit of any other pitcher to play the game is about 400 wins (Walter Johnson got to 417 by age 39, Warren Spahn finished with 363 but missed 3 years due to WW2 and possibly could have gotten there with the extra time), and Cy clears that by 100 wins. He may have had the single most durable arm of any human being to play baseball.
In addition, Nolan Ryan got to 324 wins, but he played on a lot of bad teams in his career. Had he gotten more support, he might could’ve approached 400 or more wins.
Theodore Samuel Williams - .406 in 1941 and he wasn't the MVP that year because Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight. George Brett was close to .400 one year but faded late and ended up in the 380's.
highly unlikely but not unbreakable imo. Ranger Suarez just had a 32 inning scoreless streak earlier this year, and with pitchers getting more and more dominant I could see it maybe happening, especially if the trend of pitching taking over the league continues. Still very unlikely though.
He did not mention CY Youngs wins but in essence the part about how many starts guys make today pretty much covers it. They wont even start that many games.
Tatis shouldn't count because you'd have to bat around twice which would require at least a 12 run inning. Not breakable yes but not really the same as the other records.
If a Home Run hitter came up young and stayed healty, he could pursue Bonds 762 if he plays a long career and kept playing as a DH, especially if he played his whole career in a ballpark that helped him. Pujols ended up with 703 in recent times. I think it can be done, but 800 would be tough.
Griffey Jr hit 400 in 10yrs in Seattle, then only 200 in 10yrs in Cincy. The lack of conditioning early came home to roost in his 30s as injury-prone years. Both Griffey Jr and A-Rod could have hit 800... Coulda/shoulda/woulda
None of the records mentioned will ever be broken, the game has changed too much and not for the better. When Nolan Ryan took the mound, he assumed he would pitch a complete game. Now a days a starting pitcher will go out for 4 innings, then some middle relievers will pitch to a few batters, then the closer will throw 12 pitches.
Fernando Tatis's 2 Grand Slams in one inning. Could someone tie it? Sure, though probably still unlikely. Could anyone BREAK it and hit 3 in one inning? Pretty sure we will never see that.
Babe Ruth set the all-time single season Home Run record FOUR times! (29,54,59,60). For a player to do that now they would have to have 4 seasons of more than 73 homers, with each season getting incrementally better.
Another fact about the triples leader, there were some stadiums at the time that didn’t have a outfield wall, just a rope to prevent fans from getting onto the field, if the ball went past it, it was a ground rule triple
I would argue with career S.B. record. Henderson would steal a base regardless of the score. When Lou Brock was in his prime, his purpose for stealing a base was to get into scoring position. If the Cards were up by 4 or 5 runs late in the game, Brock wouldn’t attempt to steal, where as Henderson would steal for the sole purpose of stealing a base. Aside from that, if Brock would attempt to steal leading by several runs, he would’ve taken serious abuse from the infielders. Extra hard tags, knees to the head, getting spiked, etc.
The Steroid Era records need to come off the lists. Put those guys in the Hall, sure. They did those things when MLB tolerated them. But the records? Let's put Henry Aaron back on top, please.
It's too bad that wouldn't count Ichiro's combined NPB and MLB hit record of 4,367 over Pete Rose's 4,256. It makes me wonder if Ichiro would have been the hiit king if he started his career in the Majors instead of NPB?
Thank for doing this video. It’s truly eye opening for anyone to watch see the ability of the handful of players who were fortunate enough to make it on this list. I knew of about half the records on your list but the others I had no idea about. Some of those records are mind blowing to put in perspective. Def enjoyed the video.
I'm not one of those people who's going to say that Ichiro is the true hit king, but he does serve as proof of concept that Rose's record could be broken by someone special.
Main issue is just longevity. Pete Rose, by his 162 game averages, is not as good as Don Mattingly was, despite the hit Mattinglys numbers took due to the back injury. But Rose played the most games, had the most ABs and plate appearances. Overall, Rose was a very good hitter, batted .307, but he is probably not even on the top 100 best pure hitters list. So you're dead on about Ichiro. A player with decent longevity and health but god tier hitting ability should one day happen, and then the record will fall.
Joe DiMaggio was elected MVP in 1941, his 56-game hitting streak year. What a joke. Ted Williams hit .406 FOR THE SEASON, higher than DiMaggio's average DURING HIS STREAK. Plus, Williams hit more homers (37 to 30). DiMaggio had 5 more RBI. Williams should have won that award.
There's a great video out there breaking down an extremely legitimate argument for Ted being a 10x MVP and the clear cut GOAT. After you watch it, I think you'd also agree. Just search 'Ted Williams greatest of all time' or something like that.
Following Mark Buehrle's perfect game he was perfect heading into the 6th inning of his next start, retiring 17 batters. He recorded 45 outs in a row. 45 was the record in 2009. I don't know if it has been broken.
Excellent video! Can't argue with any of of it. I can think of a few more, but they aren't particularly "career" records (other than Ruth): 1. Babe Ruth set the all-time single season Home Run record FOUR times! (29,54,59,60). For a player to do that now they would have to have 4 seasons of more than 73 homers, with each season getting incrementally better. 2. Fernado Tatis hit two Grand Slams in a single inning. To break it someone would have to hit THREE Grand Slams in an inning. That's never happening. 3. Johnny Vandermeer threw two consecutive no hitters. To break that record someone would have to throw THREE no hitters in a row!
Since its been a common comment, the Rose hits record is already known to be one that is more likely than others Ichiro is one example of why it COULD happen... Going in the other direction with pitching, Cy Young 511 wins should be number 1... teams dont care about personal stats anymore. Its at the point where a guy winning 20 games in a single year is almost non existent. Now having a pitcher average that for 25 years!!!! No pitcher will ever pitch 25 years much less be winning 20 games at min for each of those years.
The only thing with this theory is if you start what if or might be then you have to start counting hits for both sides in their career not just the one you like. So what coulda shoulda just doesn't work.
Like ur enthusiasm about someone in todays era breaking Barry Bonds HR record, but it's not happening without the use of PEDs. Barry's record stands but will always be marred bcuz of the steroids scandal. Today's players don't have the longevity it takes to break some of these records. Injury is the #1 killer of these players. It's amazing with the advancement of training and technology along with medicine that the past players didn't have that today's players struggle with injury
No one will even approach Jamie Moyer going 22 years between hitting sacrifice flies. Or the Phillies hitting more homers in a game than did their opponents yet still lost by 20 runs.
Nice list although technically DiMaggio's record is not a career record. As a kid I was certain that no one could ever break Gehrig's record or get 4,000 hits so you never know. Elly DeLaCruz may get 100 steals this year and he's young but it's a stretch to think he will approach Ricky because besides speed you also have to be a consistently good hitter.
I agree Cy Young's CG record is the most unassailable, his wins record seems easy by comparison. Rickey's steals record is the most ridiculous on a comparative basis though. He's a full *50%* beyond the number 2 guy, Lou Brock. The only other stat leader in any sport that comes close to lapping the competition like that is Gretzky's points record. Other fun facts: ~23% of Rickey's steals were third base, Brock is at ~8.5%. Rickey was caught stealing 335 times, while Brock only barely trails him at 306.
I think it was Bill James (the baseball historian) who once said that if you Split Rickey Henderson into two players, BOTH would make the Hall of Fame. 🙂
Honestly, I have a hard time believing that Rose didn't have that much ability. His best baseball tool/skill was his contact hitting and batting average. Rose played at a time when contact hitting and hitting .300 was valued quite highly. Rose won three batting titles. Rose did hit a lot of singles but he also hit a lot doubles, leading the NL in doubles five times. I think his long decline in his 40's (he is the all time leader in after age 40 hits as well) kind of made people forget how good he was in his prime. In 1968, the Year of the Pitcher, Rose led the NL with a .335 BA and .391 OBP. He even slugged .470. I have read scouting reports who referred to Rose as the best all around player in the NL. This a major league scout whose job is to evaluate player skills. Brian Kenny talks about Rose's 13 year peak he averages 204 hits and .317 avg. In like 159 games a year. Rose stats play people like him or not.
Cy Young’s complete games record is the correct answer. 1. Only two other pitchers in MLB history have even made enough starts in their career to qualify for the complete games record. 2. His career total is larger than all active MLB players combined, by a significant margin.
Reading a bunch of the comments, I don’t know why nobody has mentioned Ichiro Suzuki had more hits than Pete Rose when you add his Japan hits with his MLB totals. Only mentioning it because it seems breakable. Ron Hassey caught two perfect games. Nolan Ryan has an unbeatable walks record. Tough to narrow down the unbeatable records with so many to choose from. Great effort, though, even if we like to argue about them!
Definitely missing the old days of baseball when the ballparks were bigger. Homers were harder to hit, the mound was higher, the strike zone was bigger and the bigger dimensions made the outfielders really work! The game has become very money driven and quite sissified in my opinion. Let the boys PLAY BALL the way it was intended! Without a pith/batter clock & instant replays. Let the no hitter/perfect game bids continue until someone breaks them up! Let the catcher and runner fight for home plate. That was one of the most thrilling things to watch and do in baseball! POW!!!
There is an easy fix - but it will never happen because there is too much money that will be lost. The fix? Turn all over-the-fence home runs into outs. Baseball would go back to what it was supposed to be, speed and strategy. But it will never happen.
Actually on July 17, 1941 he went 0-3 with a walk. First inning ground out Fourth inning walk Seventh inning ground out Eighth inning ground out into a DP. It was fun looking that up!
@@kevinalexander6812 True. It was actually a 38 game streak. For some reason it's now listed as a 36 game, single season streak, at least from what I've seen recently.
If you remove all of Hank Aaron's Home Runs he'd still have over 3,000 hits. A mark which should guarantee you a first ballot Hall of Fame induction. Hank & Ted. The two greatest hitters ever.
Another record that will not be broken is Hall of Famer Old Hoss Radbourn's Triple Crown 60 win season. With a 1.38 ERA, he nearly had another MLB record, being only 2nd on the innings list with 678 2/3rds innings, just 1 1/3 innings short of the all time for a single season and following his previous 7th place all time innings season of 632 1/3rd. He also managed to get himself number 5 on the all time list for single season strikeouts that season with 441. Not sure what kind of contract incentives he had in that Hall of Fame worthy 1884 season, but I imagine he got himself an extra $100-$200 for the effort.
The 80s-2K's was the peak for closers, and the fact that only 2 pitcher surpassed 500, much less 600, is still amazing. Guys like Gagne and KRod were great for short runs but ultimately flamed out. Just goes to show how amazing Hoffman and Rivera were. I doubt current active leaders Jensen (426) and Kimbrel (425) make it 450, much less 500.
Players don't steal bases like they use to. Another unbreakable record is Hendersons 130 stolen bases. The season is only 162 games. Somebody stealing 131 is not possible. You would have to get on a base a lot.
Tony Gwynn has the highest career average for players who started their careers after WWII, and it isn't even close. He's 10 points above the next player.
Ryan is the GOAT. He holds the all-time record (min. 1,000 innings) for the lowest hits-per-nine-innings mark. The righty allowed 3,923 hits in 5,386 innings for a H/9 of 6.56. Ryan led his league in H/9 12 times, six more than any other pitcher. Nobody will ever get close to many of his 51 records. As a matter of fact, holding 51 MLB record IS a record that will never be broken. That should be #1 on the list 😂😂😂
Derek Jeter played 2,747 games and only 5 times took the field with his team already eliminated mathematically from playoff contention, for a percentage of 0.00182%. I don't think any player in history will ever approach having 99.99% of their games being in playoff contention.
id give an honorable mention at the very least to randy "the big unit" johnson for having 5 consecutive 300+ strikeout seasons. '98, '99, '00, '01 and '02. there have been a total of 5 300+ strikeout seasons since then. gotta give the unit respect
ABSOLUTELY! He was UNHITTABLE (when on his "A" game!!!)
One amazing fact that a lot of people don't know about Joe Dimaggio's hitting streak is, after the 56 game streak was broken, he went on to hit safely in another 16 straight games. At least one hit in 72 of 73 straight games....amazing.
Ted Williams had at least four seasons where he he was on base more than he was off.
Also, when he started that streak, the Yankees were in 4th place. When he was done, they were in first! THATS the MVP
Ted Williams had a higher batting average during his streak. DiMaggio should not have won the MVP.
Ted Williams outplayed him during the whole season!!
Seeing this list makes me so glad I grew up in a time before analytics. The very idea that a pitcher could be yanked out of a perfect game is absolutely ridiculous. A lot of the little things mentioned here makes me realize that advanced analytics have in fact ruined the game more than helped it.
I hope this comment sounds old, because this is one case where I WANT to sound old!
@jimschwandt8089 YES we are old & I don't know about you, but I'm old enough to have seen next day coverage of the greatest game ever pitched, a 16 inning duel between 42 year old Warren Spahn and 25 year old Juan Marichal, ended by a solo home run by Willie Mays. Both pitchers threw over 200 pitches. That's a performance which will never be matched.
@@patcarter-ix2zb I'm not quite that old, but my very first game ever featured Steve Carlton pitching for the Phillies. I can recall Ryan, Seaver, Neikro, Jack Morris, Fernando Valenzuela, Dave Stieb, and a lot of other great arms on the mound. Plenty of complete games to go with 30 and 35 save seasons by relievers.
You forgot Ruth's lifetime slugging average of .690!! No one will ever get near that.The closest any player has gotten is Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig, who are both 56 points below.
Actually, MLB just broke this record by including Negro League stats as official MLB statistics. Gibson now has the lifetime SLG% record at over .700.
Josh Gibson, .718 ⚾️
@@davidwindellmlb just being woke. Negro leagues had many great players, but it wasn't the mlb officially.
Another record I like is four pitchers on the Blatimore Orioles each winning 20 gmes in a season. Hard to get 4 pitchers in all of MLB to win 20 games in a season.
Good catch
Do you know what season?
1970 Baltimore team@@jonmartin2913
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I’ve seen Pete Rose comment more than once how Johnny van der Meer’s back-to-back no-no’s is unbreakable because it would take 3 in a row, he makes a good point
Ain't happening. Vander Meer's back-to-back no hit games will forever be preserved, never to be approached.
It's rather doubtful we'll see 27 innings pitched in three consecutive starts, let alone three no-hitters.
@@KevinMiller-xn5vu We shall see how Skenes ends up.
Yep, sorry ass pitchers today can't even pitch a complete game.
@@KevinMiller-xn5vu except that that's still 'Possible'...what is not possible is Cy Youngs 511 wins and 749 complete games...Those 2 are totally IMPOSSIBLE! (FACT)
It’s insane to think that Cy Young has more complete games than Hank Aaron has homeruns. Just really think about that.
Ted Williams' 84 game on base streak. Dick Hall's 5,085 batters faced and 1 wild pitch.
I agree 84 straight games on base is crazy and should last. Imo today players go to the plate with a walk in mind because it seems they can't hit anymore. In past decades players thought more on putting the ball in play.
Bob Gibson -1.12 ERA in 1968 - will never be broken. No one has come close.
As well as his 13 shutouts that season. Heck, nobody will approach half. (I know it’s not the most, but the guys with more did it like 100 years ago.
@@chrisweidner4768- Gibson was the most intimidating pitcher of the pitcher’s era. Amazing athlete. One of my heroes as a kid.
@@exmarine268 Me as well. Him and Lou Brock.
@@chrisweidner4768 - Yes. Made me very sad when both passed away recently.
$245 million dollars for less than 30 innings pitched-Stephen Strasburg. Never be broken😂
Actually, I can see this being broken. Salaries keep going up and there's bound to be a pitcher who'll get a big money contract and get a career ending injury after a couple games into the contract.
Byron Buxton is on track to play the least innings for the most money.
I just spit out my coffee laughing at this. How true
@@baxtronx5972did buxton sign a huge extension recently? If not no way he catches Stras or Chris Davis
It truly is wild right? I hope he gives a nice chunk to charity considering he did very little for all of it
I would argue that Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright's career starts by a single battery should be on this list
Ty Cobb stole home 54 times. Will straight up never be broken.
No kidding. Second place on that list is Max Carey at 33, still 21 behind Cobb.
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That's mind-booggling, Did pitchers simply not hold runners on third during those times?
The dead ball era was odd for sure. First of all, ty Cobb was fast. Like...stupid fast. Second, he was ruthless. He played baseball at its most contact oriented. Crazy slides, straight up tackling pitchers/catchers trying to apply a tag was commonplace. Third, the dead ball era was known for extremely risky baserunning. Because the balls were dead, they weren’t flying over fences, so teams got runs by creating absolute chaos on the base paths. Ty Cobb was the best position player in this eta by a hefty margin. Lastly, pitchers likely didn’t pitch from the stretch when runners were on third, figuring that stealing home was a bit of a fool's errand. Cobb would regularly shake up pitchers when he was on third, and if he had another baserunner drawing attention on first with a heavy lead or outright running, Cobb could get the jump on pitchers. His speed and his instincts were second to none in his time.
The most balliest baller of all time imo.
Absolutely
In a white league... doesn't impress me one bit
It is worth noting that Ichiro did go hunting for Rose's record, but he simply arrived to the MLB a few years too late to seriously challenge it. If Ichiro was allowed to come over at 21 instead of 27, he'd be much closer to the record if not own it. I get the fact that he's only at 3k hits, but Ichiro owns the single season hits record. It's not impossible for him to have gotten there if he was allowed over "on time."
I will never forget ... when Ichiro was in his first spring training, the late great Tony Gwynn said he was great, but thought he was too small to stand up to the rigors of MLB.
And 10 seasons straight with 200 hits in itself is great. Pete Rose never did that. He had 10 200 hit seasons but not consecutive.
Coulda Woulda shoulda! And Tiger should have broken Jacks record but never going to be broken !!!!!
@@davidsmith-uw2ciin an washed down pitcher era except for the Braves !
Ted Williams lost what 5 seasons to military war duty !!
Ichiro hitting 262 in a single season is probably unbreakable. You're looking at a player who would need 2 hits in 132 games in a 162 game season to break it. That's just not going to happen anymore.
Craziest thing about that season is he didn’t even have a hit streak that was half of DiMaggio’s as his career best was 27 in 2009. So not only did he have to average 2 hits a game for 80.9% of the season he had quite a few 0 hit games that year as well 😮
This is my favorites stat and record I wanted my favorite player Juan Pierre to hit this many.he got 226
Your list is spot on. The fact that all the unbreakable pitching records occurred before 1940 except for Nolan Ryan's just goes to show you how awesome he was.
Not quite- 1.12 season ERA by Bob Gibson 1968 - will never be broken. Ryan never came close to that.
totally agree modern fans don't realize what a freak of nature Ryan was
@@exmarine268Nolan Ryan got them out at the plate. Gibson's great ERA was a team effort. Strikeouts (Ryan's specialty) are purely the pitcher's individual effort and skill.
@@KorithStoneheart - Gibson was a strikeout pitcher - 3000+ - and holds record for K’s in a World Series game. Hershiser had 50+ consecutive scoreless innings and still didn’t come close. In fact, they lowered the mound 6 inches in 1969 because if the dominance of Gibson.
@@KorithStoneheart - Ryan also gave up a lot of runs. He is not the best in all categories. Sorry.
What about Johnny Vander Meer's 2 no-hitters in a row? In order to break it someone would need to throw 3 no-hitters in a row. That's pretty tough.
Babe Ruth set the all-time single season Home Run record FOUR times! (29,54,59,60). For a player to do that now they would have to have 4 seasons of more than 73 homers, with each season getting incrementally better. Fernado Tatis hit two Grand Slams in a single inning. To break it someone would have to hit THREE Grand Slams in an inning. That's never happening.
@@dandiehm8414 those are also pretty tough records to break.
Yes but this is a list of unbreakable CAREER records. Not game or multi-game records. Otherwise it should and would be in this video!
@@thomasmgill1 Well, if it is all about career records, then Babe Ruth set the CAREER record for Home Runs over 500 times!
Especially since the starters only have a 80 pitch count. Sad.
FYI, Clayton Kershaw has fewer career shutouts than Babe Ruth
DAMN!
Babe the ace!
That's great trivia!
Here is a trivia question for you! Who is the only Hall of Famer to have pitched at least 10 seasons and every season had a winning record? (Scroll down)
Babe Ruth!
And can't win a playoff game unless it's a 60 game season. A well deserved asterisk in my book
Even more trivia about the Babe. He pitched 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless world series innings, a record which stood for 43 years until Whitey Ford broke it in 1961.
@@patcarter-ix2zb I love it!
Here's something for you!
Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927.
He hit 14% of all home runs in his league that year.
For a player to hit 14% of all home runs today, he would have to hit over 300 home runs in one season.
The only reason Lou Gehrig's record was broken is that he became ill......and died
That and Cal's daddy was on the coaching staff so they put him in the starting lineup on days he was injured or ill and should have been on the bench.
@@patcarter-ix2zb And would then get pulled after the 1st inning LMAO. Just so it counted as a "game started" and kept the fraudulent streak "alive"
@@thomasmgill1ok…please provide us with even a shred of evidence to back up this claim.
If anything, it was actually the opposite, as Cal Sr. was the manager who ended Jr’s record streak for consecutive innings played in 1987.
Walter Johnson is looking down from heaven laughing with his shut out record every time we talk about modern pitching and all the improvements we've made!
Laughing, I’m sure he is cursing pitchers.
Modern improvement. lol With the way pitchers get hurt so often, it doesn’t seem like such an improvement to me.
Not to mention he is still second in all time wins and at one time held the career strikeout record too!
Walter Johnson threw a much softer, much dirtier ball for the majority of his career too. I'm not poo-pooing him at all, just making a point. The game is drastically different.
Walter Johnson is dead and heaven is a primitive myth.
Over nearly 145 years of professional baseball, no player was tougher to strike out than Hall of Fame shortstop Joe Sewell. In 7,132 career at-bats, Sewell heard the umpire say “Strike three” just 114 times. That's one strikeout for every 63 at-bats, or once every 17 games, or in just .
Insane. One year Sewell stuck out just SIX TIMES in 700 plate appearances
@@thomasmgill1
Nope, if anything the mark of sanity... Spacial relationships master, sharp eye and brain... Health and fitness... all The Mark of rationality, no Insanity needed
@@thomasmgill1Don't sell him short. The year Sewell made 699 plate appearance, he struck out only *four* times.
A few that come to mind...
Don Mattingly's 6 grand slams in 1987
Mickey Mantle's 18 WS homers
Orel Hershiser's 59.2 consecutive scoreless innings
Hack Wilson's 191 RBIs in 1930
Grover Alexander's 16 shutouts in 1916
Charles Radbourne's 60 wins in 1884
He mentioned at the start of the video that he’s only listing career or consecutive records on this list. He decided to exclude single season or single game records from this list. I don’t blame him. Those types of records are hard to compare to career records because different things are required to break them.
I forgot about Orel’s shoutout streak. No one is going to do that nowadays cause they would need about 20 starts just to get to that many innings
@@jasonertle4185Wait, wouldn't Mantle's record be considered over his career? If Joe's record wasn't a career record why wouldn't Orel's be considered as well? Just saying.
@@Smoothstinger Okay, I’ll grant you those two. Mantle’s record and Orel’s record could be considered for this list. The other ones he mentioned can’t.
Royce Lewis almost broke the Grand slam record last year and he was injured.
As an Orioles fan I love seeing the all time sacrifice fly list having Eddie Murray at #1 with 128, and Cal Ripken at #2 with 127.. there are no active players within the top 30, though #3 on the list is Puljos.
I think Murray leads the list, in part, bc he learned the game from Earl Weaver and Cal Sr, and Cal Jr has said Eddie Murray taught him how to be a big leaguer
Longevity (20+) and total number of at-bats is crucial. For example, Pete Rose, who has the most hits ever, also has the most plate appearances as well. If viewed through that lens, the record is no less impressive, but if we were to look at his PA/hits percentage, several players would be ahead of him. Another example, is the number of career plate appearances by Ruth, Aaron, and Bonds, you notice that Ruth came to the plate far less than the other two guys. Here’s something I think about: imagine if Ted Williams didn’t miss 3 entire season in his prime. The year before he joined the Air Force, in 1941, he hit .406, and came in 2nd in AL MVP voting. That was the year DiMaggio hit in 60 straight games. Williams came to the plate 90 times less, but still beat DiMaggio in every single offensive category, except for having 5 less RBIs. Moving on, after missing those 3 years, he still won the AL MVP the year he returned. I know it has nothing to do with this record video, but it reminded me that William’s was the best pure hitter the game has ever seen.
Dimaggiohit in 56 straight games not 60.
@@jeffrecob8646 I know, I realized my mistake afterwards.
Williams also missed two years in the Korean war!!
I can't argue with that.
Cy Young also pitched an unbelievable 7,356 innings.
NEVER be broken ! ! !
I know records for single-season were not included but it seems very unlikely that anyone will ever break hack Wilson's record for 191 RBIs in 1930.
Nice to see some love for Sam Crawford’s triples record it’s seem to always be forgotten on lists of this nature.
Johnny Vander Meer, 2 consecutive no-hitters
No one will ever get 3 in a row
Babe Ruth set the all-time single season Home Run record FOUR times! (29,54,59,60). For a player to do that now they would have to have 4 seasons of more than 73 homers, with each season getting incrementally better. Fernado Tatis hit two Grand Slams in a single inning. To break it someone would have to hit THREE Grand Slams in an inning. That's never happening.
NEVER ! ! !
Fun fact: The Tampa Bay Rays FRANCHISE (meaning every player who's ever worn a tampa cap) just recently passed Barry Bond's career intentional walks. if there was one thing barry could do better than homering, it was getting to first base.
wow I love that stat! Have you confirmed it?
Or maybe ingesting PEDs
How about Jesse Burkett’s 55 inside the park home runs? No one’s ever coming close to that one again.
Back in Cy Young's days, pitchers seldom threw at full velocity. Plus, they didn't throw arm-killing pitches like the slider. Today, hitters are just too good to finesse them. You have to have both speed and movement to survive, and those attributes tire pitchers. Pitch counts and relief pitching have changed pitching for good.
Cy Young also didn't pitch from 60' 6".
@@ronparton9185 But he did. Young's career spanned from 1890 through 1911. The mound was moved to its current distance in 1893. Thus, he pitched at that distance for 19 of his 22 years (or 86% of it).
Possibly so but really you can't judge even the speed of Pitchers in the early 50's . Some had lots of Strikeouts & some of players of that era rank high on some lists . With some like Walter Johnson who is up high either batters could not hit, or with Strikeouts Pitchers had to throw pretty fast . No speed guns till Nolan Ryan's time .
@@snuffysmith6842 It's not just the speed guns. Their philosophy towards pitching was different.
As for Nolan, he was almost certainly under-measured. Back then, when he was measured at over 100 mph, it was the AVERAGE speed of the pitch. These days, modern guns measure the PEAK speed.
Stan Musial - more doubles than strikeouts.
Bob Gibson - 7 consecutive wins in the World Series - ALL complete games.
Rogers Hornsby averaged over .400 for 5 straight seasons. Didn’t hit over .490 each year, but the average was over .400. Will never be approached. Also thinking Bob Gibson’s 13 shutouts in one season will never be approached. Heck, nobody will ever approach half.
The No-No record will never be broken
Nolan Ryan's strikeout record will never be broken
These records set in the early years of baseball reminds me of the Baseball Barbasol commercial. “I’m your great granddad getting through pitching 17 innings after a breakfast of beans and scotch while you’re there needing a nap after channel surfing. If you’re not gonna act like a man, at least shave like a man. Oh look, they’re sending in the relief pitcher…. Me.”
😂😂😂
this is one of the most fascinating things in sports for me the disparity of endurance in mlb through each era. I have a theory that it's our diet that made us more injury prone, more chemicals, and less of a normal sleeping schedule.
Great list! I would tweak it a little bit though… I would have Ty Cobb at three, Walter Johnson at two, and anything by Cy Young at number one. He has several unbreakable records due the era he was in.
For Wins:
Zack Greinke is neither active nor the leader, it's Verlander with 258.
In Regards to Cy Young's wins/complete games and how unique he was: In Cy's day pitchers did pitch more, but the extra usage wore out their arms so that most were done by 32-35, and as a result later generations of pitchers could equal the 300-350 win level by pitching into their 40s, essentially trading starts early in their career for starts later in their career. Like other pitchers of his era, .Cy hit 300 wins in his age 34 season.....and then pitched 10 more years, .retiring at the age it took even guys in the 1980s like Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton, no strangers to heavy workloads to reach 300 wins.
The theoretical limit of any other pitcher to play the game is about 400 wins (Walter Johnson got to 417 by age 39, Warren Spahn finished with 363 but missed 3 years due to WW2 and possibly could have gotten there with the extra time), and Cy clears that by 100 wins.
He may have had the single most durable arm of any human being to play baseball.
In addition, Nolan Ryan got to 324 wins, but he played on a lot of bad teams in his career. Had he gotten more support, he might could’ve approached 400 or more wins.
762 ? Nope 755 is the one !
I love this page. You know it's a crazy bunch of stats when Barry's Hrs are a Honerable Mention.
Theodore Samuel Williams - .406 in 1941 and he wasn't the MVP that year because Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight. George Brett was close to .400 one year but faded late and ended up in the 380's.
I don’t think anyone will break the consecutive scoreless innings record 59 2/3
I think a reliever could. I seriously doubt it though.
highly unlikely but not unbreakable imo. Ranger Suarez just had a 32 inning scoreless streak earlier this year, and with pitchers getting more and more dominant I could see it maybe happening, especially if the trend of pitching taking over the league continues. Still very unlikely though.
@@benluecken2839 now a days with analytics they won’t let a pitcher go that long
Pretty soon. Pitchers won't even throw 59 innings in a year pretty soon.
@@mdarrenu Yeah and by the time pitchers born today are retiring,, only the most durable workhorses will pitch 59 innings in their career
humm baby’s vids are goated
I may not always agree with him, but his videos and voice are classic.
Fantastic video. It shows (a) how much the game has changed and (b) how we need to consider these records in context, rather than absolute.
a record is a record.
Cy Young's 749 complete games is totally out of reach. They pull guys after six innings with a no-hitter these days. Ridiculous.
Tatis' 2 grand slams in one inning. Vandermeer's back to back no hitters. Cy Young's 511 wins. Nolan Ryan's all-time SOs.
He did not mention CY Youngs wins but in essence the part about how many starts guys make today pretty much covers it. They wont even start that many games.
Cy young losses and complete games are far more unbreakable than 511 wins.....but all 3 are impossible. Just different degrees of impossibility
@@deathminder9206 Yes he did. #3 or #4 on the list was his 511 wins. #1 was his 749 Complete games.
Tatis shouldn't count because you'd have to bat around twice which would require at least a 12 run inning. Not breakable yes but not really the same as the other records.
While it's not a record, no one will pitch TWO World Series perfect games, let alone one.
If a Home Run hitter came up young and stayed healty, he could pursue Bonds 762 if he plays a long career and kept playing as a DH, especially if he played his whole career in a ballpark that helped him. Pujols ended up with 703 in recent times. I think it can be done, but 800 would be tough.
Pujols on steroids would have killed bonds record for home runs but pujols did things the right way
Griffey Jr hit 400 in 10yrs in Seattle, then only 200 in 10yrs in Cincy. The lack of conditioning early came home to roost in his 30s as injury-prone years. Both Griffey Jr and A-Rod could have hit 800... Coulda/shoulda/woulda
I think you're right.
None of the records mentioned will ever be broken, the game has changed too much and not for the better. When Nolan Ryan took the mound, he assumed he would pitch a complete game. Now a days a starting pitcher will go out for 4 innings, then some middle relievers will pitch to a few batters, then the closer will throw 12 pitches.
And everyone will congratulate themselves on doing their job.
Fernando Tatis's 2 Grand Slams in one inning. Could someone tie it? Sure, though probably still unlikely. Could anyone BREAK it and hit 3 in one inning? Pretty sure we will never see that.
Chan Ho Park is the only pitcher to give up two grand slams in one inning, as well. Unbreakable as well? 🤔
Yep!!
Yep!!
Babe Ruth set the all-time single season Home Run record FOUR times! (29,54,59,60). For a player to do that now they would have to have 4 seasons of more than 73 homers, with each season getting incrementally better.
And they were both of the same Pitcher
Another fact about the triples leader, there were some stadiums at the time that didn’t have a outfield wall, just a rope to prevent fans from getting onto the field, if the ball went past it, it was a ground rule triple
😮 Whoa! I didn’t know that. That’s crazy!
I would argue with career S.B. record. Henderson would steal a base regardless of the score. When Lou Brock was in his prime, his purpose for stealing a base was to get into scoring position. If the Cards were up by 4 or 5 runs late in the game, Brock wouldn’t attempt to steal, where as Henderson would steal for the sole purpose of stealing a base. Aside from that, if Brock would attempt to steal leading by several runs, he would’ve taken serious abuse from the infielders. Extra hard tags, knees to the head, getting spiked, etc.
What about Mickey Mantle’s 18 World Series homers?
Should be safe g job on The Commerce Comet!
The Steroid Era records need to come off the lists. Put those guys in the Hall, sure. They did those things when MLB tolerated them. But the records? Let's put Henry Aaron back on top, please.
Bonds faced pitchers who were on Steroids too.
Erik you are setting the record for unbeatable quality vids. Good job buddy! Keep them coming 😊
Thanks! There are a couple of mistakes. The comment sectIon found them QUICK!
It's too bad that wouldn't count Ichiro's combined NPB and MLB hit record of 4,367 over Pete Rose's 4,256. It makes me wonder if Ichiro would have been the hiit king if he started his career in the Majors instead of NPB?
Rose's hits are actually at around 4,700 total all counted. Professionally so still a bit short.
Barry bonds records shouldn't count
Thank for doing this video. It’s truly eye opening for anyone to watch see the ability of the handful of players who were fortunate enough to make it on this list. I knew of about half the records on your list but the others I had no idea about. Some of those records are mind blowing to put in perspective. Def enjoyed the video.
I'm not one of those people who's going to say that Ichiro is the true hit king, but he does serve as proof of concept that Rose's record could be broken by someone special.
Main issue is just longevity. Pete Rose, by his 162 game averages, is not as good as Don Mattingly was, despite the hit Mattinglys numbers took due to the back injury. But Rose played the most games, had the most ABs and plate appearances.
Overall, Rose was a very good hitter, batted .307, but he is probably not even on the top 100 best pure hitters list.
So you're dead on about Ichiro. A player with decent longevity and health but god tier hitting ability should one day happen, and then the record will fall.
Ichiro isn't a creep so he's my hit king
A player, such as ichiro, would have to not care about obp
The game shifting to a power over contact approach makes this difficult, but not impossible. Great take.
Not top 100??? Most at bats ever and still a career .300 hitter… his longevity and consistency alone easily puts him in top 100.
You have expressed your thoughts very well
If Cal Ripkens record is to be broken it will be by a DH and not a guy who plays in the field.
Joe DiMaggio was elected MVP in 1941, his 56-game hitting streak year. What a joke. Ted Williams hit .406 FOR THE SEASON, higher than DiMaggio's average DURING HIS STREAK. Plus, Williams hit more homers (37 to 30). DiMaggio had 5 more RBI.
Williams should have won that award.
Don't forget Teddy Ball Game was at statistical .400 on the last day of the season, then he went 6-for-8 in a doubleheader to reach .406.
There's a great video out there breaking down an extremely legitimate argument for Ted being a 10x MVP and the clear cut GOAT. After you watch it, I think you'd also agree. Just search 'Ted Williams greatest of all time' or something like that.
as well as at least 3 other years...
DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak WILL NEVER BE BROKEN
Following Mark Buehrle's perfect game he was perfect heading into the 6th inning of his next start, retiring 17 batters. He recorded 45 outs in a row. 45 was the record in 2009. I don't know if it has been broken.
Yusmeiro Petit broke that record recording 46 outs in a row in 2014.
As a reliever so you could differentiate the record.
Excellent video! Can't argue with any of of it. I can think of a few more, but they aren't particularly "career" records (other than Ruth): 1. Babe Ruth set the all-time single season Home Run record FOUR times! (29,54,59,60). For a player to do that now they would have to have 4 seasons of more than 73 homers, with each season getting incrementally better. 2. Fernado Tatis hit two Grand Slams in a single inning. To break it someone would have to hit THREE Grand Slams in an inning. That's never happening. 3. Johnny Vandermeer threw two consecutive no hitters. To break that record someone would have to throw THREE no hitters in a row!
Since its been a common comment, the Rose hits record is already known to be one that is more likely than others Ichiro is one example of why it COULD happen... Going in the other direction with pitching, Cy Young 511 wins should be number 1... teams dont care about personal stats anymore. Its at the point where a guy winning 20 games in a single year is almost non existent. Now having a pitcher average that for 25 years!!!! No pitcher will ever pitch 25 years much less be winning 20 games at min for each of those years.
The only thing with this theory is if you start what if or might be then you have to start counting hits for both sides in their career not just the one you like. So what coulda shoulda just doesn't work.
Like ur enthusiasm about someone in todays era breaking Barry Bonds HR record, but it's not happening without the use of PEDs. Barry's record stands but will always be marred bcuz of the steroids scandal. Today's players don't have the longevity it takes to break some of these records. Injury is the #1 killer of these players. It's amazing with the advancement of training and technology along with medicine that the past players didn't have that today's players struggle with injury
imo it's because today's players are trained beyond optimum.
No one will even approach Jamie Moyer going 22 years between hitting sacrifice flies.
Or the Phillies hitting more homers in a game than did their opponents yet still lost by 20 runs.
Ricky Henderson's home runs leading off a game.
Nice list although technically DiMaggio's record is not a career record. As a kid I was certain that no one could ever break Gehrig's record or get 4,000 hits so you never know. Elly DeLaCruz may get 100 steals this year and he's young but it's a stretch to think he will approach Ricky because besides speed you also have to be a consistently good hitter.
I agree Cy Young's CG record is the most unassailable, his wins record seems easy by comparison.
Rickey's steals record is the most ridiculous on a comparative basis though. He's a full *50%* beyond the number 2 guy, Lou Brock. The only other stat leader in any sport that comes close to lapping the competition like that is Gretzky's points record.
Other fun facts: ~23% of Rickey's steals were third base, Brock is at ~8.5%. Rickey was caught stealing 335 times, while Brock only barely trails him at 306.
I think it was Bill James (the baseball historian) who once said that if you Split Rickey Henderson into two players, BOTH would make the Hall of Fame. 🙂
Honestly, I have a hard time believing that Rose didn't have that much ability. His best baseball tool/skill was his contact hitting and batting average. Rose played at a time when contact hitting and hitting .300 was valued quite highly. Rose won three batting titles. Rose did hit a lot of singles but he also hit a lot doubles, leading the NL in doubles five times. I think his long decline in his 40's (he is the all time leader in after age 40 hits as well) kind of made people forget how good he was in his prime. In 1968, the Year of the Pitcher, Rose led the NL with a .335 BA and .391 OBP. He even slugged .470. I have read scouting reports who referred to Rose as the best all around player in the NL. This a major league scout whose job is to evaluate player skills. Brian Kenny talks about Rose's 13 year peak he averages 204 hits and .317 avg. In like 159 games a year. Rose stats play people like him or not.
Cy Young’s complete games record is the correct answer.
1. Only two other pitchers in MLB history have even made enough starts in their career to qualify for the complete games record.
2. His career total is larger than all active MLB players combined, by a significant margin.
Reading a bunch of the comments, I don’t know why nobody has mentioned Ichiro Suzuki had more hits than Pete Rose when you add his Japan hits with his MLB totals. Only mentioning it because it seems breakable.
Ron Hassey caught two perfect games.
Nolan Ryan has an unbeatable walks record.
Tough to narrow down the unbeatable records with so many to choose from.
Great effort, though, even if we like to argue about them!
Definitely missing the old days of baseball when the ballparks were bigger. Homers were harder to hit, the mound was higher, the strike zone was bigger and the bigger dimensions made the outfielders really work! The game has become very money driven and quite sissified in my opinion. Let the boys PLAY BALL the way it was intended! Without a pith/batter clock & instant replays. Let the no hitter/perfect game bids continue until someone breaks them up! Let the catcher and runner fight for home plate. That was one of the most thrilling things to watch and do in baseball! POW!!!
There is an easy fix - but it will never happen because there is too much money that will be lost. The fix? Turn all over-the-fence home runs into outs. Baseball would go back to what it was supposed to be, speed and strategy. But it will never happen.
Disagree with all of this.
Hank Aaron still holds the HR record
@@Grandpa_Moses true
Koufax had 4 no hitters in a very short period of time compared to nolan....
Sure enjoy your videos Erik
DiMaggio hit 56 straight hit then went 0-4 the next game, then went on another 22 game hit streak...... WOW
Actually on July 17, 1941 he went 0-3 with a walk.
First inning ground out
Fourth inning walk
Seventh inning ground out
Eighth inning ground out into a DP.
It was fun looking that up!
it was a 16-game hit streak (72 out of 73 games).
Babe Ruth - lifetime slugging average.
Nolan was the fastest pitcher ever. EVER. (Speed measuring wasn't sophisticated enough to truly measure him.)
great job with this list and your comments
Willie Mc Covey 23 career grand slams
Luis Castillo of the Florida Marlins had a 35 game hit streak in 2002
So did Chase Utley (35) and Jimmy Rollins (36) with the Phillies around 2005 and 06.
Rollins streak was over two separate seasons if I remember correctly. Loved J-Roll!
@@kevinalexander6812 True. It was actually a 38 game streak. For some reason it's now listed as a 36 game, single season streak, at least from what I've seen recently.
Glad to see a new TOP video. Great job as usual.
If Walter Johnson had pitched for a good team like New York or Boston, he would surpassed Cy Young for most wins.
The Babe’s slugging% and OPS%!
If you remove all of Hank Aaron's Home Runs he'd still have over 3,000 hits. A mark which should guarantee you a first ballot Hall of Fame induction.
Hank & Ted. The two greatest hitters ever.
Commenting before fully watching: No one will beat Nolan Ryan's seven no-hitters
Correct
@@HummBabyBaseballor his strike out record
Or his career walks record, but that’s for another video
Owen Wilson 36 triples good luck everyone cause nobodys catching that
Joe D faced something like 28 different pitchers during his streak. Players today could face that many in a week, and all of them throwing GAS!! 🔥 ⛽️
I don't think so.
Another record that will not be broken is Hall of Famer Old Hoss Radbourn's Triple Crown 60 win season. With a 1.38 ERA, he nearly had another MLB record, being only 2nd on the innings list with 678 2/3rds innings, just 1 1/3 innings short of the all time for a single season and following his previous 7th place all time innings season of 632 1/3rd. He also managed to get himself number 5 on the all time list for single season strikeouts that season with 441. Not sure what kind of contract incentives he had in that Hall of Fame worthy 1884 season, but I imagine he got himself an extra $100-$200 for the effort.
This is a great list!
Mariano Rivera with 652 saves and Derek Jeter with 162/200 playoff games/hits.
The 80s-2K's was the peak for closers, and the fact that only 2 pitcher surpassed 500, much less 600, is still amazing. Guys like Gagne and KRod were great for short runs but ultimately flamed out. Just goes to show how amazing Hoffman and Rivera were. I doubt current active leaders Jensen (426) and Kimbrel (425) make it 450, much less 500.
Players don't steal bases like they use to. Another unbreakable record is Hendersons 130 stolen bases. The season is only 162 games. Somebody stealing 131 is not possible. You would have to get on a base a lot.
Tony Gwynn has the highest career average for players who started their careers after WWII, and it isn't even close. He's 10 points above the next player.
Ryan is the GOAT. He holds the all-time record (min. 1,000 innings) for the lowest hits-per-nine-innings mark. The righty allowed 3,923 hits in 5,386 innings for a H/9 of 6.56. Ryan led his league in H/9 12 times, six more than any other pitcher. Nobody will ever get close to many of his 51 records. As a matter of fact, holding 51 MLB record IS a record that will never be broken. That should be #1 on the list 😂😂😂
Very informative video! Thanks!
Derek Jeter played 2,747 games and only 5 times took the field with his team already eliminated mathematically from playoff contention, for a percentage of 0.00182%. I don't think any player in history will ever approach having 99.99% of their games being in playoff contention.
Which led to his career hit total as he seldom faced the other teams' closer.
10:31 interesting that almost all the leader in on base percentage bat left.
I've watched this 9 times before. I'm watching again right now
The HOF is an absolute JOKE without the all-time hits leader.
And Home Run leader.