Torii Hunter Robbed Barry Bonds in the ASG & It Rewrote Baseball's Future (Butterfly Effect VOL 5)
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- In the 2002 MLB All-Star Game, Twins outfielder Torii Hunter robbed Barry Bonds of a home run, leading to a tie in the mid-summer classic. This seemingly minor event may have changed the future of baseball forever...
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If only Bonds had hit the ball to left field
If only Bonds had struck out...
You should do how Carl Crawford sent the raise to the 2008 World Series
Lmao did Giants Bonds *ever* hit oppo? Always a puller in my mind.
@@grantdowling8550 Yeah he did but not as much.
tHERES YANKEE FANS LIKE ME U KNOW
So what you’re saying is... Barry bonds won the giants a World Series by not hitting it too far
Bonds was a team player?
So he won a ring for his team without being on the team...
😱😱😱
Here's a butterfly effect for you: How the Steve Bartman incident led to LSU winning the 2007 national championship and the ensuing fallout from that.
The Steve Bartman incident, as we all know, happened in Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS. The events that transpired in the bottom of the 8th that night allowed the Marlins to win Game 6, win again in Game 7, and go to the World Series.
At the time, the Florida Marlins were sharing a home field with the Miami Dolphins. Because the Marlins made the World Series, it ensured the Dolphins had to play on infield turf for another week. That week, the Dolphins played a close game against the Patriots, one that could've been won had Olindo Mare made a crucial 4th quarter field goal. Because he was kicking off of infield dirt and not grass, the kick went wide, and the Patriots won the game. The Dolphins would miss the playoffs by a game that year.
The next year, the Dolphins went to shit, prompting the fire of their head coach, Dave Wannstedt. Incidentally, they would hire Nick Saban after this, which had a greater impact on college football than I can describe here. But Dave Wannstedt got fired right in time for a head coach gig to open up at University of Pittsburgh. That's where he ended up.
Now Pitt was far from a good football team in the mid 2000s. Dave Wannstedt did a decent enough job turning that around, but in 2007 they were still pretty bad. At 4-7, they were scheduled to play their last game of the year against #2 West Virginia, who were a win away from playing Ohio State in the national championship. I can't say what would've happened in that game because West Virginia would lose to a very overmatched Pitt team in that game. This was enough to put LSU in the national championship where they beat Ohio State.
Now I'm not sure what greater impact that has on the sports world, and I'm also unsure of what the 2003 Dolphins making the playoffs would've done for Nick Saban and the rest of the college football world. Either way, there's a lot to chew on here.
Wut? I can believe that the Dolphins missed the playoffs because of one missed FG, but the coach wasn't fired til the next year, when the team was worse. You're kind of implying that the missed kick directly resulted in his firing which isn't really true. You can't assume the 2004 Dolphins would have been better in any way just because they made the playoffs in 2003.
Yelich getting injured leading to the nats winning the 2019 ws because Grisham made an error in right field that gave them the Nats lead
I was thinking the other day Cody Bellinger hitting a homerun in the NLCS, injuring himself while celebrating and making it so Chris Taylor was in centerfield in Game 4 of the World Series who initially booted the ball hit by Brett Phillips. (Yes, I know they said they DH’ed Bellinger because of a “bad back” but who is actually buying that story?) It could’ve been the turning point in the series for the Rays and baseball history. Maybe if the Rays won, more teams would adopt their style. And who knows what could happen in future years. Obviously it’s all moot now because the Dodger won the series. But I think it had some serious butterfly effect potential.
Wasn't he playing the marlins too? You could probably go even further back with that butterfly effect
Yelich is a left fielder though...
His bat was definitely missing though
Holy crap my comment was seen and read! And then help make an Idea into one of these videos! My life is complete! Thanks man!😊😊😊
Thank you, it was a great idea!
@@SportStorm23 Great video as always! Man P.S. I am a Yankee fan so from now on I will be forgetting my phone all the time! 😜😂😂😂
That was you? Lol nice idea
I remember that 2002 All Star Game with the "let them play" chants
I got one for you: how Nate Poole's miracle catch at the end of the 2003 NFL season led to two Giants Super Bowl titles and the Saints' first. Simple summary...
- Nate Poole's catch won the game for the Cardinals, but cost them the first overall pick in the following draft.
- The Chargers wound up picking first overall, and they were not sold on their current QB Drew Brees, so they took Eli Manning even though Manning said he didn't want to play for them.
- The Chargers and Giants swap Eli Manning and Philip Rivers after the Giants draft Rivers 4th overall.
- With Rivers waiting and Drew Brees hitting free agency on an injured shoulder, the Chargers stick with Rivers and let Brees walk. He goes to New Orleans and leads them to a Super Bowl.
- Manning becomes the starter for the Giants in his rookie year and doesn't miss a start until he's benched in 2018, winning two Super Bowl MVPs along the way.
You can even go back further than that to the implementation of the "force out" rule. Poole caught the pass but only got one foot in bounds, but the officials said he was forced out of bounds and thus the TD stood.
My favorite butterfly effect is the bad pass by the buffalo bills during a close game in the 1970 season. That loss allowed them to get the first overall pick where they chose OJ Simpson which put him in Buffalo where he met his wife and allegedly killed her. He then hired Robert Kardashian to be his lawyer making the family somewhat famous and allowing them to turn into what they are today
She was from California.
O.J.'s first season with the Bills was in 1969, and he met Nicole Brown while she was working as a waitress in Beverly Hills, California, not Buffalo. Lazy and terrible copypasta.
Wasn’t Robert Kardashian trans?
@@mauriciomovilla3701 no, Robert Kardashian died after the OJ case, and his wife remarried to Bruce Jenner, who in 2015 came out as trans and renamed to Caitlyn Jenner
@@jimweb854 ohhhhh
I still get chills when I see Bumgarner walking out of the bullpen. Those were happy times.
Indeed. Back when our bullpen could actually hold a lead
Butterfly effect on how the Phillies losing seasons after 2011 cost the Mets a world series in 2015. Basically just outlining how Chase Utley going to the Dodgers and breaking Tejada's legs prevented the Mets from having the defense they needed in the World Series, that really was their downfall.
Thats such revisionist history, Tejada was a below average player his entire career, he in no way would have been the factor in the mets beating the Royals
@@holdenlewis3017 Offensively, absolutely he wouldn't have had an impact, but his defense was stellar, and as that was the Mets' biggest issue so my case is just saying that his defense could have or maybe even would have given the Mets a WS
@@excaliburman1000 still no
As a Mets fan I cannot believe I just read that u think if we had Ruben tejada didn’t get hurt we would of won the World Series
@@excaliburman1000 his defense was not stellar stop!!!
Here's an NHL one:
Patrik Stefan failed to score on an empty net causing the Oilers to tie the game with seconds remaining earning a point. That point pushed them over the Blackhawks in standings. Both teams finished with 71 points but the Oilers had the tie breaker. The Hawks ended up winning Kane. If Stefan scored the Oilers would have Kane right now.
I always felt bad for Stefan. I know he was a #1 overall pick and never lived up to expectations but what happened to him on that play was just bad luck. He did everything right but just as he was gonna backhand it in the puck just bounced on him. It would be one thing if he fell down or missed with a shot but there was nothing he could do about the puck bouncing like that. Also if the Oilers don’t score going the other way Stefan’s play would be remembered as just a funny blooper.
As a Hawks fan, this is one I’d really like to see.
Hot take: if Torii hadn't made the catch in 2002 then the "This Time It Counts" stipulation would have eventually been implemented in 2009, because the 2008 ASG, which went 14 innings in our timeline, would likely have been called before it got that far.
Also Kyle Schwarber being 3 for 5, including a single in the 10th in 2016 WS Game 7 would have never happened at Wrigley, since his knee was shattered and he was only used as a DH at Progressive. Cubs would have had home field advantage with the current rule.
It wasn't always a meaningless exhibition game. Back in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, winning the All-Star game was 2nd in importance to winning the World Series. Fans had strong allegiance to the NL or AL. If your team didn't make the WS, but your league won the AS, it was a pretty good year. Players took the game very seriously too. I actually liked the home-field rule. It gave some importance to the AS game.
Nelson Cruz’s missed catch in the 2011 WS caused the Rangers downfall
Nah, Rangers had no pitching depth. Making or missing the catch wouldn’t have mattered. The Rangers just never had the pitching to win, or even do well. They were just the least worst team in the AL West, not hard to do when the rest of your division consists of the Mariners, Angels, and A’s at the time.
@@SplicerOtter that missed catch cost the Rangers the game
@@KevinMartinez-pt5zl debateable is Nelson would have even got there in the first place.
He was never playing as a glove, he played as a bat. The mistake was not replacing him with a defense oriented outfielder.
I was outside Busch Stadium that night that Game 6 was rained out ...
Butterfly Effect: Funny you mention Michael Morse - his career was ended by the reinvention of the “Eephus pitch” in the 1940s… it allowed Dave Laroche to be a notable/successful baseball player (since it’s just a lob) which likely resulted in his son Adam Laroche (& another son - almost a statistically impossible feat) becoming MLB players.
Laroche was traded from the Giants to the Pirates to an injured mostly-minor-league-playing Hunter Strickland. Strickland of course took Bryce Harper’s home run in the playoffs personally, and many many months later, he held a grudge and plunked Harper, which led to the helmet-chucking fight that severely injured Morse as he absorbed a blow (from his own teammate) intended for Harper… damn you Eephus Pitch.
You can also take this farther since Morse prevented the brutal blow from hitting MLB Superstar Harper, who has had many major accomplishments (though the Nats didn’t need him that year - I think he actually struck out to end their season in the playoffs)
Do the butterfly effect for how trading away Brendan Shanahan in July of 1995 helped the St. Louis Blues win the 2019 Stanley Cup. Basically he was a fan favorite who was traded away for a young defenseman in Pronger. So essentially everyone hated Pronger at first. Pronger went on to do good things with the Blues but never helped them win a cup. Pronger was traded in the mid 2000’s for multiple players including defensemen Eric Brewer. Since Pronger was a fan favorite everyone disliked Brewer (who oddly enough became the Blues captain at one point). Brewer was then shipped off to Tampa Bay for a 2nd round pick.... who ended up being Jordan Binnington. Nuff said.
2011 World Series gives me instant depression
I LOVE that our ALL-STAR game meant something!... I know theyve changed it bcuz Commissioner Manfred has to DESTROY any remnants of what kept this Beautiful Game relevant and amazing for over a 100 years.
Such BS.
Bud Selig the Commissioner before Manfred helped the Game stay TRUE to the Roots. Manfred is the guy that called the World Series Trophy a "piece of metal" what a Prick .
So it's Torii Hunter's fault the Rangers didn't win the World Series. That's the story and I'm sticking with it. /s
actually it was three not two. you neglected the 2013 season where the red sox won at fenway after the AL won
Hurricane Harvey and then yada yada the Astros cheat
You could add how in 2016 the DH in Cleveland helped the Cubs with the injured Kyle Schwarber coming back to play after missing most of the season with an injury.
Still have chills from 2011. I remember beginning my mom to let me stay up and watch the rest of the game.
I hate these arguments! Let's play your scenario. Bonds hits the HR, now what? You assume the game will play out EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT DID? You completely negate the fact that another batter would bat after Bonds thus ruining the whole premise of this video.
I hear you, but that's where the butterfly effect comes in. Tori Hunter's catch is a play that took a run off the board in a game that ultimately ended up tied 7-7 after 11 innings, which then lead to the decision to have the all-star game determine home field advantage, and set up some of the greatest world series moments in the past decade.
Interesting idea but I kinda doubt this had much affect
Awesome video! As a Yankees fan, I used to watch every pitch of the All-Star Game like it was Game 7 of the World Series, even though it rarely ended up mattering for my team. Thanks for nothing, Torii Hunter.
I do have a quick point to make though. At 5:00 you suggest that the home field advantage rule didn't end up mattering much because a team only won the World Series at home when their league won the All-Star Game twice. While that is a crazy stat, I feel like that's not the issue people had with the rule. If you look at most of the other matchups, the team that hosted Games 1 and 2 DID go on to win the whole thing. It's why I always hated the rule. It's not the home field advantage later on in the series that tended to matter, it was those first two games. Just something I thought about while watching. Glad the rule's a thing of the past. Again, great job with the video!
As a Giants fan: THANK YOU TORII HUNTER!!!
Wait if I go home the Yankees will win the next 5 World Series? Do I quarantine or prevent the Yankees... the ulitimate question
A small price to pay for the Evil Empire to continue to lose in the playoffs
I think the All Star rule helped the Cubs in 2016 which was the last year MLB used the game to determine home field advantage. If I remember correctly Kyle Schwarber had great stats in the World Series and he was able to DH in four games whereas if MLB gave the Cubs home field advantage due to having a better record he doesn't get as many at-bats due to injury.
Butterfly Effect Mets. Owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz on the heels of an embarrassing Ponzi Scandal were at Chapter 10 and 1/2. Then in 2013 Matt Harvey fell out of the sky. Citi Feild had a weekly holiday. "Harvey Day". Then the farm system developed and we had a World Series contender. Without spoiling I will only point out one possibe side effect had that never happened. If the Wilpons had to sell the team then, there was a very vocal NYC Real Estate tycoon who had made passing comments about buying the team. That person was famous for his Reality TV show called "The Apprentice" as well as for Almost everthing in Atlantic City. (He's more famous now for the job he took in 2016 coining phrases like "Fake News" and "Build A wall") Baseball ranifications are also quite farr from the charts. Had they competed and been ran like a big league team they would have had to make trades, like a converted SS from (I believe) Stetson U named Jacob Degrom, Virtually unheard of 1b prospect Pete Alonso and so on... Worth looking into.
Klay Thompson's 4th Q against the Thunder in the 2016 WCF changed the last 5 years of the NBA.
KD doesn't leave OKC. We probably get a Warriors-Thunder WCF rematch in 2017. Zaza doesn't undercut Kawhi and set off a bizzarre series of injuries. The Cavs (possibly) beat either the Thunder again in 2017 or the Warriors. Kawhi doesn't grow unhappy in SA. Kyrie likely doesn't want to go to another team after winning a second title in 2017. Kawhi doesn't end up in Toronto. Lebron doesn't go to LA in 2018 to try and make it easier to form another super team since no rational free agent wants to live in Cleveland. Kawhi never hits the shot against the sixers. Milwaukee or Philly makes the NBA finals in 2019. KD never tears his achilles and is either still in OKC or a team thats not the Nets. Klay never tears his ACL. Lebron doesn't openly tamper to get AD to the Lakers. Lakers don't make it to the finals in 2020 nor do they win it.
I know I'm missing some other details and assuming some things, but Klay's 4th quarter directly, indirectly or likely cause the rest of these things to occur
I will drive to my favorite restaurant and forget my phone! I suppose I will have to drive back.
Great. Torii Hunter (who lives in DFW) screws up the only real chance the Rangers had of winning the World Series. (The Rangers, if MLB had a promotion and relegation system like European soccer, would stay between AA and AAA most years. When you are the oldest sports franchise -- in ALL of the four major league sports -- to NEVER win your league title, that proves you're useless. Maybe MLB should have thought about contracting them instead of the Twins.)
wow. when i finished the video i said to myself that this was bogus, and that the stats will maintain that AL teams are better in DH games than NL teams because they carry a DH on the roster. fact is, morse had a slightly higher batting average (.279) than butler(.271), more homeruns (16 vs 9), a higher slugging percentage (.475 vs .379), and higher ops (.811 vs .702). he had over 100 less plate appearances so i wont compare how many 2b, 3b, walk and other counting stats, but i think it is clear that morse was a much better hitter than butler that year. shocked by these results.
In the 2012 all-star game Justin Verlander was the starter and I seem to recall a news article where he was trying to impress the crowd his fastball on the radar gun a little too much and wasn't treating it like a regular game. He gave up 5 runs in the first and cost the AL home field advantage in the WS. Verlander and the Tigers were the ones to lose out on home field advantage. That always has irritated me that the all-star game could have that much impact on something as important as the World Series. I don't blame JV, I blame the stupid rule.
Butterfly effect
Randy Johnson kills a bird with a fastball
Then puts up the greatest 4 year stretch of any player not using roids
That's a nice take, but your assumptions are wrong and the extrapolations you make are a bit ridiculous. If you were able to prove that home field advantage is correlated to home team losses, then I'd be convinced. But you showed that home field advantage has no effect during the regular season and the playoffs. Also you only showed just 2 examples between 2003 and 2016 in which the home team lost the world series. That is enough to show your "butterfly effect" claim is flawed.
Plus, how are you going to prove that Hunter robbing Bond's HR led to the NL losing the 2002 ASG and the change in rules? You've just negated the performances of all of the other player's performance during the game? You suggest that one play in the first inning would have no effect in how the game proceeds in the following innings. What if Bonds didn't hit a homer in 3rd inning.
I love your butterfly effect videos, but this is a stretch.
Please do some diligence in filtering out "interesting but bad" butterfly effect stories, instead of fully accepting the comment suggestions.
In 2012 the Giants and Dodgers had a 4-game series where utility infielder Joaquin Arias went on a tear leading the Giants to sweep the series. As a result a few days later the Dodgers announced a major trade with the Red Sox for Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez, and Nick Punto. While only Gonzalez really panned out for them it was the first announcement by the new ownership group that they had money and were willing to spend. However because of the complete disaster that was Carl Crawford, management opted instead to focus on trades, prospects, and locking up star players. Cut to a bunch of years later and they're a game away from winning the World Series.
Home field in Cleveland helped the Cubs as well. It gave Schwarber the chance to come in at DH and let Lester (who was an awful hitter), Arietta, and Hendricks pitch. It also gave the Cubs the change to keep Chapman in games a little longer since he didn’t have the hit. Schwarber in my opinion should have won WS MVP that year, he was a great hitter and lead to the go-ahead run. If the game is in Wrigley, Hendricks may come out sooner, no Lester, and Chapman may not pitch in the 9th. But instead, The DH gave the cubs 1 more bat the Indians didn’t have at the time in Schwarber
Before the rule change home field only alternated leagues each year (AL at home in even years and NL at home in odd years). Afterward the team with the best record had home field. In all the World Series between 03-16 only two of them had the worse record with home field, 2011 and 2016, and both of them would’ve fit the alternating league pattern prior to 2003. So the ASG rule, while entirely dumb and should’ve never been used, didn’t really change what should’ve happened in any World Series.
Also 2016 the AL wins the All Star game so Cleveland gets home field against the Cubs who now get 4 games with Kyle Schwarber at DH who was making an early return from a torn ACL and only played in games where he could DH, Cubs win in 7.
You could do Hideo Nomo finding a loophole in his contract that allowed him to come to the US to play baseball, leading to some of the best ball players, such as Ichiro Suzuki, Darvish, and Ohtani being allowed to get drafted and play in the MLb
No. Rewarding the NL or AL with home field is a good incentive to have them play harder in an exhibition. The reason it failed was because people complained that the all star teams we’re consistently loaded with red sox and yankee players.......... then the karens complained and you had more equal representation. Besides “risking injury” in baseball is like risking injury when you go to the supermarket. They play 162 games a year, the ratio for injuries in any given is slim to none.
The Home Run Derby sucks, just practice turned into an absurd spectacle for the almighty dollar (aka keep up with the .Jones, the .NBA)
Jets spend a first-round supplemental pick on Rob Moore in 1990 so Ron Wolf does not have a first-round pick in 1991 and the Falcons get Brett Favre instead ...
Hal Steinbrenner personally not allowing the yanks to get Verlander off waivers in August of 2017 flushed a potential dynasty down the toilet and changed the face of MLB and how fans currently perceive the game to this day.
REPENT and get right with GOD before it’s too LATE, Transfer your trust from yourself to the SAVIOR
Mike Morse was actually too hurt to play the field, so he wouldn't have been in the lineup if not for the DH. Same for Kyle Schwarber in 2016.
But if I like the video that can cause a butterfly effect of another video coming out which someone would watch and get an idea on baseball which then leads to the Yankees winning 5 world series in a row. And no one wants that either. Granted me writing this can cause that too...
Good idea for a potential Butterfly Effect: If the Astros draft Derek Jeter over Phil Nevin in 1992, the Astros scandal never occurs
(hesitantly raises hand) I wouldn't mind if the Yankees win the next five World Series.
Everyone else: GET HIM
And rangers fans still get heartbroken everytime that dreadful game 6 shows up.......
How about the trade between the mets and brewers falling through in 2015? Phillips would've stayed in Houston and we could have potentially never seen his world series miracle hit
You forgot to mention that the 2013 Red Sox also won the World Series at home with home field advantage. It even says that in the graphic you showed.
Malcom butler winning super bowl 49 with the interception lead to the Eagles winning super bowl 52
If only mad bum didn’t exist. The cardinals would’ve been in the 2014 WS.
Hey I watch torii hunters son, jr., play for my hometown minor league team! Huntsville trash pandas😎
How about, for a butterfly affect, John Elway agrees to play for the Colts. Him forcing a trade to Denver set off a domino effect that still has ramifications.
Between 2003 and 2016 there were 3 teams that won at home after their league won them home field advantage. Looks like we overlooked the 2013 Red Sox for some reason?
If Bonds had gone deep instead of Torii's catch....wow...
So there’s a chance the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals both win titles in ‘11 and ‘14 it’s still pretty interesting to see how one missed home run alters everything
I dig the story, but just as hunter's catch started a chain of events, hunter not making the catch would've also started a chain of events, and it's probable that the rest of that all-star game doesn't go the exact same way, and this video is never made.
You forgot the 2013 Red Sox, 3 teams won with home field advantage at home after their league won the all-star game
Don't forget the various walk off runs in various world series games in that time span other than 2011 game 6
I want the yankees to win the next 5 world series maybe me breaking my collarbone and tearing my ac joint could make that happen :D
I hate they took that rule away, It actually made the game important. Unlike the pro bowl in football that means absolutely nothing.
Giants wouldn't have had home field under the current rules anyway because the Royals had a better record.
i read an article discussing delmon young and the rays trading him which out of the players drafted that year. they actually got more out of him than most of the other teams in the next like 10 year span or something.
NL teams always have an advantage in the World Series because there pitchers are used to hitting and AL pitchers aren’t, and then when they’re on the road they get a DH
The 2013 Red Sox also won the World Series at home the same year the AL won the All Star game.
With this philosophy you could have say that any play during that game that was involved with a run scoring was the reason for the change, not just that one play. You could say pitch that was thrown to Bonds when he hit the two run shot was the reason the rule was changed
2014 Royals had better regular season record, none of this matter.
How about the Butterfly Effect of Derek Boogaard?
Don't tell Pete Rose it's a fun laid back game, he will truck your ass.
I wonder why home field makes a difference in football and basketball but not hockey or baseball.
Good video but needs to be rename. Its ridiculous you even consider this a “butterfly effect”
my dad played baseball against Tori Hunter in highschool
The all star game deciding the world series homefield was better than the old way where it was the AL in odd years and the NL in even years.
These butterfly effect videos are cool. Keep them coming!
I got one how the MLB player strike broke the curse of the bambino
As a raider fan the worst butterfly effect is the tuck rule game that would be a good video idea
Bro does someone going back to get there phone start a maybe World Series dynasty?
Wait a minute so me getting food leads to the Yankees winning 5 ws ?????????
If bonds hits the first homer the whole game changes and no guarantee that the rest of the game plays out the same
Blustery poesy getting injured at home plate making the rule
Torri Hunter, an Angels Legend, even before ever joining the Angels
Love your vids man
5:07
Isn't it 3 becasue the Sox won in 2013 at Fenway?
5:06 *the 2013 Red Sox crying in the corner alone
I have one more butterfly effect for you guys. No spoilers this time. In 1996 the Mariners played an exhibition game against their minor league team, and a young kid named David Airas was so good in that game A-Rod and Griffey jr. told management to bring him up but they traded him a few months later.
I HIGHLY recommend you look up DAVID ARIAS and ask what might have been had management listened and ultimately what happened to Airas.😉🤯🦋
Check that the name is spelt DAVID ARIAS.
5:08 correction 3 times, Red Sox won at home in 2013
I do in fact want the Yankees to win the next 5 World Series.
I liked the rule that the winner of the all star team got home field in the WS
Mo Rivera to Aaron judge
Bumgarner rakes. Pretty decent undersell.
That 2002 AL lineup was basically a Yankees/Red Sox lineup yet it was the Angels that won the World Series
Despite having 7 players on the All-Star team the Red Sox didn't even make the playoffs that season and neither the Yankees nor the Red Sox were in the ALCS. That was the year the A's won 20 straight in August and September to catch the Angels to win the AL West, denying the Red Sox the Wild Card. The A's promptly lost in 5 games in the ALDS for the 3rd season in a row to Hunter's Twins. Let's also not forget that the Twins (and Expos) had nearly been contracted by MLB before the 2002 season until a court injunction thwarted MLB's plans. So you could actually take this butterfly effect back even further to that court injunction, because if MLB had contracted the Twins there's no way of knowing who is in CF for the AL to start the 2002 All-Star Game.
Doing a little reading to refresh my memory on the contraction details, you could also do a butterfly effect on the failed contraction attempt leading to the Red Sox winning the 2004 World Series. After contraction failed by January 2002, Expos owner Jeffrey Loria sold the team to MLB and used that money as a significant amount of the purchase price to buy the Florida Marlins from John Henry. Henry turned around after selling the Marlins and bought the Red Sox...and the rest is history.
I think you need to do a video about the Kent bottenfeild/. Jim edmonds trade chain that lasted 19 years
I think there was an effect on 2004 as well because it should have been a national league advantage. I would like to have seen what they would have done if Curt Schilling had to bat with his repaired ankle.
The Red Sox probably would have just shifted their rotation slightly to have Schilling start at Fenway, so it probably wouldn't have had as big of an effect as you might think.
A butterfly effect that I just learned about.
January 4, 2007. Patrik Stefan missed an easy empty-net goal against the Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers tied the game and lost in overtime. The one extra point affected the draft lottery. That point pushed them over the Blackhawks in standings. Both teams finished with 71 points but the Oilers had the tie breaker. The Hawks ended up winning Kane. It's hard to say who would've gotten Kane, but it's likely not the Hawks....