The Biggest Steal in MLB Draft History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- 1389 players were drafted before Mike Piazza. He outperformed them all.
0:00 Mike?
0:28 Draft
1:52 Mike!
2:32 1390
3:20 Catcher
4:27 Debut
5:16 Positional Specialization
6:15 Prime
6:54 Retirement
7:18 The Hall
7:56 Crazy Interesting Stat
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This video is the biggest steal of recommendation algorithm history
Yes Sir I agree also the breakdown was great. I had no clue of the nepotism was part of his story.
And oh how wrong they were. Came out a Hall of Famer in the toughest sport to do so.
I don't know what that means
the "he's a catcher now" reminded me of football/soccer player casemiro who won many titles for real madrid. when he first tried out in sao paulo the scout asked the kids "who plays striker? who plays number 10?" and a bunch of hands were raised up, that's what everyone wanted to play. but when he asked who played defensive midfielder and no one raised their hand casemiro saw the opportunity and said "i do", despite also wanting to play an offensive position and having never played DM before. great vid
It blows my mind how many good small baseball channels there are like this
this is the lowest effort content ive ever seen on youtube
@@ppstorm_ spot on bio
They all have a very similar style too, while we may prefer it, it seems the algorithm does not.
@@ppstorm_ if you're talking about the vid mean you may not be interested, but to say the creator didn't put in any effort you know you're just being a prick. If it's about my comment on the vid, you can fucking blow me.
Great video. I lived through this as Mike was my catcher and teammate in 89, 90 and first half of 92 in San Antonio. He and I had some really funny conversations in winter workouts at Dodger Stadium.. He's actually a funny guy. The reason he left the team midway through 1990 from my recollection was he was not happy with our Manager Joe Alvarez (many were not) and his playing time splitting with our other catcher Pete Gonzales. It was pretty incredible watching his meteoric rise after the 1990 season. The guy worked his butt off...period. Many late days after practice in Vero. HOF was well deserved for Mike
Piazza played 137 of his 141 games as a catcher in 1997, while Joe Torre played only 90 of his 161 games as a catcher in 1970 when got more hits than Mike.
Great video. Seth Lugo hasn’t had nearly the career Piazza did, of course. But he’s another pretty crazy outlier. He had an unremarkable career at the D3 college level at Centenary, and was drafted in the 34th round. Nothing would have suggested he’d become a reliable MLB starter one day, and now he’s signed a three-year, $45 million contract with the Royals to secure generational wealth.
He never gave up, and battled through a bunch of injuries to get his chance with the Mets, and he made the most of it. Happy for him.
I'll have to read up on that, sounds like a great story
I know the views aren’t there yet but your content is great! Keep it up
I read the comment as I was closing the video, I thought this was one of the big youtube baseball channels. Just to look and see 300 views. Keep up the great work
Thank you!
Agreed with the above - very excited to see you find your voice and your style. Fantastic video.
I couldn't agree more with this comment. And he will get there
Still shocked this channel hasn’t blown up yet
Appreciate that, I'll keep the content coming regardless
How on earth does this not have more views? Very well made, keep it up mate
Nice vid! Love the OSRS music
Do you know what song that first one was?
I'm an old guy. Got to watch some of the GOAT baseball players in their prime. For instance. Mays, Aaron, Robinson, Gibson, Koufax, etc. Lifetime Dodger fan too and Mike Piazza is my favorite player of all time.
My favorite player of all time. As a child I sobbed when he was traded to the Mets. Great video!! Will definitely check out more!
You nailed this video dude. Nice job. I look forward to the next.
Great video, been looking for good baseball history videos as a new fan to the sport and videos like these are perfect, you earned a sub man
Just found your channel and man keep it up. Big Jon Bois energy
Great video about my favorite player! Subscribed to hopefully see more great content from you
Imagine being in round 62 of a draft and being upset about who was selected lol
great video, i have always been fascinated by his draft position v performance then i recently found out about the Ted Williams part--a truly bizarre story... big time suspect for steroids... awesome power to opposite field... hit Grand Slam with 2 outs v '98 Kerry Wood...
This is a great channel. Love the content
Good stuff, subbed
So glad when the yt algorithm gets it right and recommends an excellent vid
Nice video, well done!
Loved the video, excited to be here from the start
Let's gooooo
Is that RuneScape music in the video? 😂 great job though this was interesting.
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Bro your content is insanely underrated keep it up
Appreciate the support!
Quality video subscribed 👍
How do you only have 3.7k subs? This video is great, you deserve more in my opinion.
Thanks man, appreciate that
Excellent video my friend
Great video !
this was a nice video, would be neat to look into all of the outliers, seems like a couple of those 3rd and 4th round picks or what not did really well and could’ve gone 1st round
Appreciate that, and yea there are some steals in the early rounds, too. The biggest one that stands out to me on the chart is Rickey Henderson getting drafted in the 4th round. There were some other good ones like Roger Clemens getting drafted in the 12th round, but he was also one of those players that got redrafted a couple of years later in the 1st round.
what an underdog story. luv it, luv him. thank you mike for all your hard work and effort.
Earned a sub, good stuff
Awesome video
Great content would’ve thought you’d have many more subs
Casual bb fan. Great content, very well produced.
Grew up a huge Dodger fan and always felt that letting Piazza go was the biggest blunder in Dodgers history. Everyone knew his story about the draft, his dad, Lasorda, etc., and the fans absolutely adored him. He was the ultimate underdog and was a huge draw. I remember it being over money, of course, with the Dodgers ultimately signing veteran pitcher Kevin Brown to a then record-setting 10 year/$100M+ deal instead of agreeing to a similar contract with Piazza. Terrible optics and a huge buzz kill for Dodger fans at the time.
One of the top three. The Dodgers had Roberto Clemente and lost him to the Pirates in the Rule 5 Draft. And they traded Pedro Martinez to the Expos for Delino DeShields. The Yordan Alvarez trade (for Josh Fields) isn't looking too good either.
Piazza, Clemente, Martinez, any of them might have qualified as the greatest Dodger (by WAR) in history, if the team had had the sense to keep them
Those are huge on a pure baseball level, for sure. But for me letting Piazza go was just so demoralizing. Not only was he arguably the premier hitting catcher at the time, his story was just so compelling it transcended baseball. I guess I don't really know why, but I never really got over it (LOL). I just remember being so stunned when word spread he was gone. Guess it's time to just let it go. 😉
@@Zippy994 I understand. Clemente and Martinez weren't superstars when the Dodgers lost them. Piazza did have such a great story. I remember how angry I was when they were forced to trade him because the fools who ran the Dodgers at the time (Fox Entertainment) decided to go public with the negotiations, in a misguided attempt to gain public sympathy. It was pathetic.
P.S.: A friend reminded me that the Dodgers also let Adrian Beltre go. For nothing.
It's never been easy being a Dodger fan.
7:15 was a ball measured at 496 but went considerably further than the ball Stanton hit that went 504. It cleared the bleachers in the deepest part of the park and cleared by a good distance. I think it was closer to 510 feet. The longest home run I've seen in a game at coors
So avoided the elephant in the room regarding Mike's ... performance.
Yea I thought about covering the allegations of his steroid use, but since no illegal use was ever actually proven, I figured it was best to leave it alone. The way I see it, if he's cleared to be elected into the Hall of Fame, that's enough for me.
@@Full_Draft At this point the closest is Piazza saying he used Andro while it was legal in the MLB.
Lolz, if you mean his very mid defensive skills, you can just come right out and say it! ;-)
@nuraby_9228 everything everyone was using was legal at the time, and we crucify them for it.
This is really good content, I suspect you’ll be hovering around 50-100k soon when things pick up. Happened with baseball doesn’t exist, stark raving sports, it will probably happen to you.
great video! can you make a video on detroit pistons 2023-2024 season?
Surprising he played almost his whole career in the NL. You would figure an AL team would sign him to be a catcher and DH.
I had no idea abut this story. Pretty awesome. I wasn't a huge fan, but it was funny how he owned Roger Clemens
Two of my three favorite Dodgers of all time are in this video. Piazza, Reggie Smith, and Kershaw. Of course, Rick Monday for his save of the flag but he’s on a different pedestal.
Mike Piazza is my third favorite Dodger of all time! (behind Ohtani and Nomo). I remember going to so many Dodger Games with my dad and watching Mike knock out so many HRs!
you're my favourite sleeper channel in this niche 🔥
Appreciate the consistent support!
Mike's best friend his entire life has been Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society and Ozzy Osborne. Zakk knocked someone out during an interview when they asked a BS question about Mike back in the 90s.
Really??? I did not know that! Love them both!
The Alimighty TH-cam Algorithm is never wrong. This was good content.
I was lucky (or unlucky depending on your POV) to live in Bakersfield while Piazza played there. The ball exploded off his bat better than anyone else playing for the team. Very loud outs and moonshot home runs. It was obvious he was special.
I never knew he was drafted so late, it definitely makes me like him more after hearing this story. He could have easily not returned to baseball and lived a good like as a car salesman in Pennsylvania but instead he decided to go have himself a hall of fame career
amazing video, love the runescape music.
Do You know what that first song was?
The track is called Newbie Melody
Its nice to see Jon Bois influence spread far and wide.
Came for the title, stayed for the music
Omg the name Mike Piazza literally jumpscared me he went to my high school. It’s not a large high school either. I knew he went to the MLB but I don’t follow baseball closely and didn’t know he was THAT good.
As someone who grew up watching and playing baseball. It's insane that you didn't know.
If a player this good came from my hometown he would be on the news every night after a homerun.
He was a household name in the US during the peak of his career. That was also during the peak of baseball's popularity of the steroid era.
Stories like this make me wonder how much talent is lost in the world because kids dont have the same level of connection
Views dont show it but this is good content
not mentioned: Piazza did a bunch of steroids before he came back then had his "miraculous" turnaround
Runescape opening music ? SUBBED
Bruh... Combine RuneScape music with a baseball video. You're a genius
Love the RuneScape music in the background
Do you know what that first RuneScape song was? The one in the opening.
Subbed just for the runescape music
fire video easy watch
the narration is great. there's one 600k channel where the guy inflects upwards into a question mark on about every sentence and it's annoying af. i'm sure you know who i'm talking about
How do you bat .329 and lack making contact at the plate? If I see that and I'm drafting I see upside
What about the other major league sports? Who were among the lowest drafted NFL/NBA players to become HOFers?
Are you using an old school RuneScape soundtrack in this video?? Lolll
Bro he definitely is 😂 I thought the same thing
I remember seeing him play for the missions in 92’ good guy
Missions is such a great team name
Piazza always got a bad rap for his defense. But he was actually much better than the numbers might suggest. He was tremendous at stopping balls in the dirt and rarely had a passed ball. As for throwing out base stealers ... much of that had to do with this pitchers never helping hold guys on. And he wroekd for and earned everything he got once in the majors.
The fact that there was more than 60 rounds in the draft is just insane
They even got up to 100 rounds in 1996. Wild stuff
If Teddy Ballgame says you can hit, well, then you can hit. The man forgot more about hitting than most people knew. If he hadn't lost 4+ years (most during his prime) to military service imagine what his career numbers might have been. Williams missed all of the 1943-45 seasons and missed most of the 1952 and 1953 seasons as well. Add in another 145 HR's, 500 rbi, and 800 hits (less than he was averaging per season at that time) and he might have finished with 666 HR, 2339 rbi, and 3454 hits. Those numbers would have made him 6th All Time in HR's, 1st in rbi, and 7th in hits.
Amazing video, how you don’t have over 100k subs is mind boggling. I’ll give you one more sub to get you a bit closer
Was a young Dodger fan during the 5 in a row ROY. Piazza was my favorite player and was mad when it was obvious he wasn't going to resign but he was to blame. He forgot that the Dodgers were the only team to give him a chance, criticized the fans and the nail in the coffin was criticizing Vin Scully!
sorry dude but Vin Scully was and still is massively overrated (RIP)
@@senororlando2 Blasphemy. Even trash fans from our most hated rivals give this man respect.
Piazza had a really, REALLY good pharmacist!!
Nice Runescape music
Does anyone know what the first song in this video is?
He also has an interesting song about him
I hope Mike knows I think about him. He made my childhood great here in New York he signed my birthday card in. 1999
The video states that 5 players have hit a HR out of Dodger Stadium, but then lists the FOUR players that hit the combined 5 HRs.
Got recommended. Liked it so subscribe d
Bro im afking on rs and i had to pause twice to make sure that wasnt my music
Subbing instantly. Great vid
Osrs music earned you a sub
Great video too btw
One never knows where an Allstar or a future HOF will come from.
Wish you had talked about his defense at all. Being one of the best hitting catchers is a lot more impressive if he's at least decent as a catcher. Did he sacrifice all those specialist drills for hitting, or did he hit super well despite doing them all excellently - I don't know after this video, which is a problem.
A lot of people say that he wasn't a great defensive catcher. He the % of players he'd catch stealing is 8% less than average over his career. However, recent sentiment has shifted a little bit. With all these advanced metrics, people are starting to think that Piazza wasn't as much of a defensive liability as people thought. SBNation did a great article explaining how Piazza might actually be a good defensive catcher. It's worth a read.
Given his sudden change in performance, I wonder if there was something else involved like steroids. Although I know nothing about him, but how could a person change so suddenly in just a year?
I wonder what he changed in the return to home after being convinced to return that led to such an increase in offense. Had to be more than suspected steroids.
My favorite player as a child!
top 10 in mvp voting as a rookie is wild
While this is not a new topic and it's been well covered, I felt you made a great video not that my opinion means much.
Gosh Larry Walker was so good
I'm still pissed that the Dodgers traded him for a bunch of crappy players.
Placido Polanco!!! 💛
The Runescape music used here really exemplifies that baseball is the sport for nerds.
What does OPS stand for?
no stride swing , don't see that much anymore
subbed at 4k subs
Did I hear RuneScape music?
Ungrateful. He went into the Hall as a Met because he didn’t get a contract he wanted before his first contract was up. He wouldn’t even be playing baseball if it hadn’t been for Lasorda and the Dodgers.
That's why I hate pitch com. Now catchers don't have to pitch sequence and call a game for a pitcher. Taking a huge element out of the game, it hurts my heart
Came back in ‘93
Roided out.
Remember no urinalysis and no
ban on steroids in 90’s.
No mention of this?
Had bad back acne.
Do better.