What about the fact that Adam Dunn literally hit a ball into another state? On August 10, 2004, at a home game against the LA Dodgers, Dunn launched a 535 foot home run, which is tied as the 4th longest home run in MLB history. This home run left the stadium and bounced from the street into the Ohio River. The Ohio River was declared a border between Ohio and Kentucky, so if anything entered the river, it was in Kentucky. This meant that Adam Dunn had not only hit the longest home run in Great American Ball Park history, but was also the first MLB player to hit a baseball into another state. Saying that he crushed the ball is an understatement.
Not really true. The border between Kentucky and Ohio is at the low water mark on the Ohio side. That means it extends about 100-500 feet into the river. Not at the shore line. This was settled back in the 80s.
*lets make a video where we are super quiet so people have to turn their volume way up and then lets crank that intro music to the max to blow out peoples eardrums and wake up their entire house*
When I first watched this years ago I knew little to nothing about baseball and genuinely believed Barry Bonds started clobbering home runs because he exercised and ate well balanced breakfasts
Well as the saying goes, everyone during that era was doping, but there's still only one Barry Bonds. He was putting up record-breaking seasons before the drugs and after, he still stood above everyone else in the game. Still GOAT material imo
@@jayiyengar9136 everyone wasn’t doping and Bonds was far better relative to his peers when he was taking rods compared to when he wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong he’s still an all time great without them and I think he should be in the Hall, but without roids he wouldn’t be GOAT level. He simply cheated
You have to be such a Braindead dork to think boosted testosterone makes you great at baseball. Do you even have a clue you can’t bench 145 dipshits how many people take testosterone and are not elite athletes lmfao. Bunch of Braindead dorks.
Joey Gallo is the new Adam Dunn, except on a whole other level. He has 1406 career plate appearances as of May 11, 2019. In that period he has 100 home runs, 199 walks, 528 strikeouts and 11 hit by pitches. This adds up to 838 four true outcomes. Adam Dunn’s four true outcomes percentage was 50.9. Joey Gallo’s four true outcomes percentage is 59.6. Gallo is the new king.
I played with Adam Dunn in 99 and 2000 in the minors and he was as likeable as anyone could be. He was the greatest big man athlete I had ever seen and will ever see and I met a few. 6'7 250lbs and could run. I saw him more than once truck a catcher at home and get up and walk away. He never taunted or showed that much emotion. Heres the problem with success. People get complacent and I think he got complacent. Hes still one of the greatest players I ever played with but I never made it to the bigs like he did.
Adam Dunn was my favorite player growing up in Cincinnati. I cried when I accidently broke his bobble head the night I got it. He, to me, really was a hero, because he gave me an early love for baseball that I still have today.
Cleveland Indians radio play by play guy Tom Hamilton once said, "Adam Dunn fields ground balls like they're live grenades." My all time favorite quote by Hammy.
During a recent Clemson football game one of the commentary guys described a inaccurate pass as "if it was a hand grenade no one would have died" lmao. I am a Clemson fan and still had to laugh at that.
As a reds fan, I always said Adam Dunn either hit a home run, struckout, or walked, just by watching him on a day to day basis. Cool to see that my idea actually is confirmed in statistics
Reds fan here. I was talking to my wife one Opening Day and told her, "With Adam Dunn, it's usually a HR or a K." That Opening Day, he went 2-4, 2HRs 2Ks.
And you don't even mention the adventure that was watching Dunn play in the field. He's the man who truly brought excitement back to the routine fly ball.
Dunn managed to generate almost as much negative defensive value as he did positive offensive value. The man truly was an enigma of a ballplayer and it's one of the biggest reasons why he's one of my favorite players of all time.
I'm Brazilian and I thought I knew the game of baseball quite well - for a Brazilian. Now my girlfriend thinks I'm a complete crazy dude for my reaction to that statistical outlier. By the way, I've unsuccesfully tried to explain to her the concept of slugging...
I realize this is an old post, but I loved Adam Dunn and didn't start posting on TH-cam until this year. I think part of the reason Dunn hit Kershaw pretty well is that Kershaw likes to keep the ball down in the zone and Dunn liked the ball in the lower part of the strike zone. Dunn seemed to struggle against the pitchers who could elevate their fastballs in the zone and/or had really wicked sliders/breaking stuff. But he could hit it a long way if you (as a pitcher) missed your spot.
He signed my Emperors New Groove DVD years ago when he played for the Dayton Dragons. I asked him to sign my bat but he said he would only sign that DVD case.
The other strange is Adam Dunn went over 1000 at bats without a Sacrifice Fly. Dunn went the entire 2004 season without a Sac Fly. How is this possible???
I don’t have a ton of great memories from the Reds at the time Dunn was on the team, but one that has always stuck is Dunn hitting a walkoff grand slam to win by one run. Legend.
Adam Dunn never played in a post season game. He was only eligible for one: the 2014 American League Wild Card game as a member of the Oakland A’s. The A’s lost to the Kansas City Royals in extra innings. Dunn did not start the game, but was available for pinch hitting duties. Even though there were plenty of pinch hitting opportunities, A’s manager Bob Melvin never put him in. When asked by a reporter after the game why Dunn was not used as a pinch hitter, Melvin looked bewildered and gave a rambling nonsensical answer. I think Melvin genuinely forgot that Dunn was even on the team. (Dunn was acquired that September and did nothing to contribute down the stretch.) Adam Dunn announced his retirement shortly after the completion of that game.
I went on a Wrigley Field tour about 10 years ago. One of the visitor's clubhouse attendants told our group that Adam Dunn would eat 10 McDonald's cheeseburgers before every game.
Terrific video. This is one reason why TH-cam is so powerful; bringing out of obscurity one of the best (arguably, or not) players of all time. Well done Boys.
"So if you think about it, Dunn's a hero. He forced baseball teams to pay guys a total of nearly seven million bucks to just stand there. He's a creator of pointless labor. There's nothing more heroic than that." Happy International Workers' Day! ☭
So you're comparing Adam Dunn's refusal to hit ground balls to Francisco d'Anconia paying people to work in the San Sebastian Mines where he knew there was no valuable ore to mine?
I don't think there is a more underrated player in MLB history than Adam Dunn. They guy wasn't particularly good in the field. He did not hit for a high average. Couldn't run the bases that well either. But given all of his weaknesses, his career OPS of .852 ranked 159th all time, which would put him just a bit behind hall of fame numbers for a corner outfielder.
I agree 100% and I will say this about his fielding. I agree he was definitely no Gold Glover, but he would make the occasional really nice play. He wasn't any worse in the field than a lot of players I've seen. The pitching staffs in Cincinnati and Washington were pretty awful as well...he'd have made fewer errors with a better pitching staff. And I don't think anyone in baseball history (I'm excluding the juicers here) hit HRs the way Adam Dunn did. Not just the number and frequency, but how he hit them. He just didn't hit many wall-scrapers.
@@joelspencer9233 He got a lot of flak for his fielding but it really wasn't that bad. He played in a notorious hitter's ballpark on a team that sucked and he was also a very large man. On paper it wasn't good, but there were a lot of exterior causes to that other than just "he sucked". Although he still wasn't great. He's in the Reds HoF for a reason. Everyone in Cincinnati loves him.
He’s nowhere near a HOF level player in terms of actual production but I actually heard a compelling argument for him being a HOFer based on how influential he is. Idk I stopped watching baseball obsessively after the 2011 season and the fact that everyone is trying to be Adam Dunn now prevents me from starting up again. I couldn’t stand Adam Dunn (as a player I mean. I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy). I don’t mind guys who hit for power, walk a lot and strikeout a lot if they also are just good hitters in general: my favorite player Jim Edmonds was a good example of this. A more modern example is Mike Trout. But guys who hit like .220 are just lame I’m sorry. I don’t care how much power they have.
@@RandyRhoadsRules3 Dunn was, at least offensively, better than the majority of guys who emulate his approach. During his prime (2001-2010) he averaged a slash line of .251/.381/.521. Joey Gallo wishes he was that good at the plate, as he's averaged .206/.333/.489 since he debuted in 2015. Gallo's a FAR better defender though, but from a purely offensive approach, give me prime Dunn over Gallo any day.
Legend has it that Adam Dunn was also a very good basketball player capable of dunking, and was recruited by Mack Brown (as a quarterback, not a safety)
Hi, the music is a lot louder than the rest of the show, if some leveling or other audio magic could be applied for future eps it would be very nice please
youtube isn't fixing audio levels in any case. many of Jon Bois's videos are leveled poorly imo with music being way louder than dialogue, oftentimes (perhaps intentionally?) to jarring effect.
I actually got to take BP with Dunn when I was playing college baseball. I'll never forget that day -- the wind was blowing in from right field about 20mph, and there wasn't a single one of us that hit a homerun in BP that day, even with aluminum bats. Then Dunn came up and just started crushing them over the scoreboard in RC field with a wood, making us look like fools! He was a good dude too, got some batting gloves from him (even though they were XXL and were a bit too big for me!).
Great video. Adam Dunn was my favorite Reds player when I was younger. Everyone thought he was terrible because his batting average was never particularly high. However, after looking at his his stats today and putting more emphasis walks and slugging, I am convinced Dunn was one of the more underappreciated players in baseball. Dunn posted an OPS slightly above .900 during his eight seasons with a terrible Reds team. The only other Reds player I've seen to produce comparable hitting numbers is Joey Votto.
Dunn's rookie year as a Dayton Dragon was also the first year of this team's existence. Everyone knew of Dunn's home run ability but the funniest thing was his fielding. We would pray that no one would hit to him if the game was close. One time an easy fly ball was hit and Dunn came under it to catch it and the ball completely misses his glove and hits Dunn in the knee. Everyone was laughing and a good time was had by all. We love Dragon's baseball in Dayton.
I think Jon Bois knows when one of his followers is extremely sad. Every time I even contemplate my own mortality Bois is there to save me. Thank God for Saturday College Football.
All of the Cincy players during the Dunn years (Including Griffey JR.) - looked like they were crushing twelve packs in the dugout. And then sometimes they would amaze. When they felt like it.
HR, Walk, or Strike out -- very very true in his career. 500+ ft HR distances -- several of them -- he didn't sneak them over the fence. I think with Dunn, he knew the strike zone very well. Dunn's operation -- 1. He knows when it's a strike 2. But he can't hit it 3. But when he does, it goes out of the park a very long way. 4. Subsequently, he puts up numbers that nobody else can (or even wants to) match.
I’m a total math/stats geek an LOVE your guys videos! I often find myself looking up your stats and checking them for myself. Keep up the great content!
I remember in fantasy baseball leagues you didn't know where to draft Dunn. He had the skills to win an MVP and he also was capable of setting the record for strikeouts in a season.
IDK??? Being a White Sox fan it was painful to watch him transition from a 1st basemen to a DH. He was GOD AWFUL for one of those seasons. If you were to do the math when Dunn spelled Konerko at 1st? Id like to know if he hit or walked more as a "position player"? The ChiSox had the same issues with another NL ex outfeilder turned 1st basemen WITH the same first name. Adam LaRoach. IDK if fans or players realize how difficult it is when your. in the NL and you're a position player, and you get traded or sign with an AL team that expects you to DH 5 outta 6 games a week. Something you've never been a custom to doing for most of your career. I know Jose Abreu doesnt like to DH and has better stats when he plays 1st. PS. White Sox brass, PLEASE never sign another 1st basemen named Adam that played his whole career in the NL and make him your daily DH!
Great graphical and analytic presentation. I enjoyed your video. (After the need to replace my speakers from the Intro being 10x louder than previous sound levels ;P) That is A LOT of data! You guys did your homework and it is appreciated. Adam's career is definitely enigmatic. LOL on commentary of Barry Bonds' history at 1:37.
Adam Dunn was also only on only one playoff team in his entire career, the 2014 Oakland A’s that lost in the wild card game to the Royals. This was the last season of his career, and I believe he was the only position player for the A’s to not appear in the game. He retired soon after, never being able to play in the playoffs.
Good Grief I'm pretty sure Chris wasn't denigrating Dunn in anyway, just noting how such a unique player somehow never got to play in a postseason game, despite the many worse players who somehow managed to get an appearance in the playoffs.
Margaret Mead an alternate universe where humans are immortal and the way they deal with immortality is playing football all the time. And there are three sentient space probes in it.
Adam Dunn is my favorite of all time. Going to the reds games was always exciting when he was playing because I knew there was a good chance he would hit a hr....or strikeout....but he kept it exciting
One of the more interesting baseball stat studies I've seen. They missed a couple things about the 2011 year, though. In previous years, Dunn was DH only a handful of times for the interleague games since he was in the NL. In 2011, he move to the AL and DHed 81 games. Second, he had an appendectomy in April 2011 and never got back into any rhythm until the following year. And with all of this, his salary kept going up. Good for him. Too bad his career wasn't longer. Oh yeah... he weighed close to 300, so running was probably not his favorite thing anyway.
Never, and as an Angel fan we're paying a high price, $25 Mill a year exactly, to watch a way over-the-hill, slow footed, DP machine rob the organization. Arie Moreno (owner) loves to reward players for what they've done for their past teams.
Pujols should have retired a long time ago. Saying this as someone who had a lot of their fondest childhood memories shaped by him. Absolutely ridiculous hitter from 01-10 though, and especially from 03-09….the picture of consistency you could basically always mark him down for at minimum .325-35-115 in those years.
When Adam Dunn was a Cincinnati Red he not only hit the ball out of the park he actually hit it into another state. It bounced off of Mehring Way,( a street that runs along the south side of the stadium) then rolled down a slope into the waters edge of the Ohio River, which is the state line between Ohio and Kentucky.
You can see a preview of Ricky Henderson on one chart from their 8 runs on 9 Pitches (Fernando Tatis half-inning video). The guy was an INSANE base stealer.
Looking back now, true outcomes guys are so fun to watch, Joey gallo is the ultimate true outcomes guy in the league now, 101 ops+ (just above league average (100)), 91st percentile walk rate 1st percentile K% (all at the time of writing, late July. he’ll prolly hit 25 homers it’s enamoring
I remember having to carefully pitch to him....Pujols was also a damn challenge to pitch to any breaking pitch around the knees was pretty much history.
Adam dunn signed my dying cousins shirt and gave him season tickets. This was when dunn was in town playing for the nationals against the reds. No body on the reds at the time payed any attention to my cousin. Adam dunn came up to him after the game and chatted with him. He will forever be my favorite player.
Babe Ruth has a .342 career batting average, over 500 career double and even 130 career triples. You can't categorize Ruth in the same category as Adam Dunn.
@@quickman1047 He also played his home games in a stadium , in which, baseball historians claim that the long center field robbed him of more home runs than the short porch gave him. However, are you honestly trying to argue that Babe Ruth would be Adam Dunn if he played on today's teams? Really? When Ruth, Foxx, Simmons, Gherig, and Cronin played, strikes were legit. Pitches at the letters or at the knees were called strikes. In the 80's and 90's strike zones changed from player to player which is why overrated ball players, like Harold Baines are getting into the Hall of Fame. Sorry, don't buy it.
@@quickman1047 He also had no control over any of that stuff and was obviously a hitting god regardless of who was on the mound. Funny, Ruth was a pretty sick pitcher himself.
F Je I don’t think they were saying he was as good as babe, I think they were just using him as a comparison as to why his style of playing the game is so extreme. Babe had a 4 true so high because he was amazing at baseball. Adam Dunn has his so high because he didn’t want to run :P
I remember playing MLB 2k13, and playing it with my friend. We would bet on who could hit a homer with Adam Dunn versus a left hander. I lost most of the time.
What about the fact that Adam Dunn literally hit a ball into another state?
On August 10, 2004, at a home game against the LA Dodgers, Dunn launched a 535 foot home run, which is tied as the 4th longest home run in MLB history. This home run left the stadium and bounced from the street into the Ohio River. The Ohio River was declared a border between Ohio and Kentucky, so if anything entered the river, it was in Kentucky. This meant that Adam Dunn had not only hit the longest home run in Great American Ball Park history, but was also the first MLB player to hit a baseball into another state.
Saying that he crushed the ball is an understatement.
Damn
Go Reds
Dayum TIL
Not really true. The border between Kentucky and Ohio is at the low water mark on the Ohio side. That means it extends about 100-500 feet into the river. Not at the shore line. This was settled back in the 80s.
@@cagedtigersteve I’m sorry but your the guy nobody likes in school
"Towards the end of his career he started... exercising and eating well-balance breakfasts". :D
I've always wondered how he managed that. Thanks, Jon, for finally explaining it.
I literally LOLed at that line.
sure he did...
Wheaties with creatine sprinkles.
Push ups sit ups and plenty of juice
I enjoyed the conversation. Everyone in a three-mile radius of my speakers enjoyed the theme music.
So that was you making all that noise!
I’m laughing so hard!!!!
I didn't
Haha same here!
Exercising and eating well balanced breakfasts. The secret of baseball
Roids lmao
the breakfast of champions
So that's what juiced means...
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@@stupidyankee9 I love them Frosted Flakes
*lets make a video where we are super quiet so people have to turn their volume way up and then lets crank that intro music to the max to blow out peoples eardrums and wake up their entire house*
Bob
Yes please work on your sound levels..
Learn how to adjust volume yourself
red this 30 secs before the outtro, i thank thee
Jarhead402011 this comment fucked me up I love it 😂
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When I first watched this years ago I knew little to nothing about baseball and genuinely believed Barry Bonds started clobbering home runs because he exercised and ate well balanced breakfasts
maybe it depends on how you define a "well balanced breakfast"
Well as the saying goes, everyone during that era was doping, but there's still only one Barry Bonds. He was putting up record-breaking seasons before the drugs and after, he still stood above everyone else in the game. Still GOAT material imo
@@jayiyengar9136 everyone wasn’t doping and Bonds was far better relative to his peers when he was taking rods compared to when he wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong he’s still an all time great without them and I think he should be in the Hall, but without roids he wouldn’t be GOAT level. He simply cheated
Bro same
You have to be such a Braindead dork to think boosted testosterone makes you great at baseball. Do you even have a clue you can’t bench 145 dipshits how many people take testosterone and are not elite athletes lmfao. Bunch of Braindead dorks.
Joey Gallo is the new Adam Dunn, except on a whole other level.
He has 1406 career plate appearances as of May 11, 2019. In that period he has 100 home runs, 199 walks, 528 strikeouts and 11 hit by pitches. This adds up to 838 four true outcomes.
Adam Dunn’s four true outcomes percentage was 50.9.
Joey Gallo’s four true outcomes percentage is 59.6.
Gallo is the new king.
Gallo can actually run and play defense though
First player EVER with 100 homers before 100 singles
That's a tiny sample size compared to Dunn though. He has to keep up that pace for a good while before it's a fair comparison
@Sefton Cookie jerry callow, with a C, not jerry gallow, jerry gallow's dead - Joe Pesci
The balls nowadays are juiced obv
This music sounds like what I would listen to in the year 5842 while looking at data in how to travel to alternate dimensions.
Lmao
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sounds like something straight out of Mass Effect 1
Welcome to chillwave
@@coolguy02536 yep the mass effect Galaxy map is exactly what I was thinking.
The Dude CARRIED 3 of my fantasy teams. I refuse to say anything bad about him.
Those teams must have been from his early years
What about the real teams he played with loser
@@calvinrivera49 Looks like someone lost a lotta money on fantasy..
@Shareef Taylor I’m gonna take a wild guess that 2011 was NOT one of those years?
1:37 "he started excising and eating well balanced breakfasts" lmao
Lol Steriod frosted wheaties.
Freakin hilarious
That shit made me actually laugh out loud.
Legit laughed out loud at how sincere he sounded when he said it
Mad funny I did a double take when I heard that
I played with Adam Dunn in 99 and 2000 in the minors and he was as likeable as anyone could be. He was the greatest big man athlete I had ever seen and will ever see and I met a few. 6'7 250lbs and could run. I saw him more than once truck a catcher at home and get up and walk away. He never taunted or showed that much emotion. Heres the problem with success. People get complacent and I think he got complacent. Hes still one of the greatest players I ever played with but I never made it to the bigs like he did.
Adam Dunn was my favorite player growing up in Cincinnati. I cried when I accidently broke his bobble head the night I got it. He, to me, really was a hero, because he gave me an early love for baseball that I still have today.
1:40 "he started exercising and eating a well balanced breakfast"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂now THAT was funny! Well done!
I thought the same dang thing. It's subtle but brilliant
@@noahwolfgang6882 I'm assuming that means "he started doing steroids" but I know nothing about baseball
@@grandbean9031 that is exactly what it means, bonds notoriously juiced and put up some of the best numbers in hitting of all time
@@TeamHiggins2 Thanks, I was still not sure if I was right or not.
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Cleveland Indians radio play by play guy Tom Hamilton once said, "Adam Dunn fields ground balls like they're live grenades." My all time favorite quote by Hammy.
Tom is the best!!!!
As a twins fan, I gotta say that is a great quote 😂😂😂😂😂
During a recent Clemson football game one of the commentary guys described a inaccurate pass as "if it was a hand grenade no one would have died" lmao. I am a Clemson fan and still had to laugh at that.
Huge fan of Hammy
As a reds fan, I always said Adam Dunn either hit a home run, struckout, or walked, just by watching him on a day to day basis. Cool to see that my idea actually is confirmed in statistics
Horton Im a Nats fan and I agree.
I am I Reds fan too...sadly
Horton: basically nobody but the pitcher and catcher needed to wear a glove when Dunn was batting.
Horton you should have seen him on the White Sox.
Reds fan here. I was talking to my wife one Opening Day and told her, "With Adam Dunn, it's usually a HR or a K." That Opening Day, he went 2-4, 2HRs 2Ks.
And you don't even mention the adventure that was watching Dunn play in the field.
He's the man who truly brought excitement back to the routine fly ball.
Dunn managed to generate almost as much negative defensive value as he did positive offensive value. The man truly was an enigma of a ballplayer and it's one of the biggest reasons why he's one of my favorite players of all time.
Yeah but Adam Dunn hated baseball, just did it as a job
I remember when he was on the nats. I was listening to the car radio. "A routine flyball... and dunn cant make it to the ball"
I don't get it
Writefag Greens it’s because Dun hates to run and can’t play defense
@@emichael7299 His first 6yrs in the Majors he was always a top 5 in defense for LF tho...
According to what metric?
subg88 liters
5:27 Gimme a moment... I'm just trying to wrap my head around how a guy was able to record a 170% slugging average
I'm Brazilian and I thought I knew the game of baseball quite well - for a Brazilian. Now my girlfriend thinks I'm a complete crazy dude for my reaction to that statistical outlier. By the way, I've unsuccesfully tried to explain to her the concept of slugging...
Not only a ridiculously high number, but against arguably the most dominant pitcher in the past decade.
@@PongGod dude had a pure soul read on him.
It’s out of 400%
I realize this is an old post, but I loved Adam Dunn and didn't start posting on TH-cam until this year. I think part of the reason Dunn hit Kershaw pretty well is that Kershaw likes to keep the ball down in the zone and Dunn liked the ball in the lower part of the strike zone. Dunn seemed to struggle against the pitchers who could elevate their fastballs in the zone and/or had really wicked sliders/breaking stuff. But he could hit it a long way if you (as a pitcher) missed your spot.
Did I miss you guys talk about the fact he hit exactly 40 homeruns 5 years in a row. One year being with two different teams. Who does that?!
Adam Dunn
So every time he hit that 40 he was Dunn.
@@ezeqeel8352 underappreciated joke
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@@ezeqeel8352 Dunn and Dunn
He signed my Emperors New Groove DVD years ago when he played for the Dayton Dragons. I asked him to sign my bat but he said he would only sign that DVD case.
LMAO that's hilarious 😂😂 but here's my question, why would you have a DVD with you at a ball game? 😂
christian The better question is why wouldn't I bring it with me?
Hunter Jenkins LMFAOOOO
Hunter Jenkins did he tell you to pull the lever ??
Awesome movie. I quoted that for at least a decade
The other strange is Adam Dunn went over 1000 at bats without a Sacrifice Fly. Dunn went the entire 2004 season without a Sac Fly. How is this possible???
Chip Southworth I have no idea that shit is amazing
Just to show you what he really cared about, home runs and that's it
Well, you'd at least occasionally expect him to swing for the fences, but come up 20' short...
that was exactly my thinking. damn this is some weird shit. i need to take a shower.
because he either hit a dinger, k'd or walked lol
I don’t have a ton of great memories from the Reds at the time Dunn was on the team, but one that has always stuck is Dunn hitting a walkoff grand slam to win by one run. Legend.
No wonder Dunn has like 44 contact versus lefties in mlb 2k13, and 99 power. Jesus lmao
YoungSleepy dude you just brought back so many memories 😂 you remember how David price was like a god on that game
YoungSleepy miss that game so much
@@dannygreen6883 facts. He verlander and kershaw were awesome. Plus young Aroldis Chapman as well.
@@robbyatwood7734 its still fun till this day. Luckily my vopy still works.
YoungSleepy yeah I play it from time to time. If only they’d do roster updates lol
Adam Dunn never played in a post season game. He was only eligible for one: the 2014 American League Wild Card game as a member of the Oakland A’s. The A’s lost to the Kansas City Royals in extra innings. Dunn did not start the game, but was available for pinch hitting duties. Even though there were plenty of pinch hitting opportunities, A’s manager Bob Melvin never put him in. When asked by a reporter after the game why Dunn was not used as a pinch hitter, Melvin looked bewildered and gave a rambling nonsensical answer. I think Melvin genuinely forgot that Dunn was even on the team. (Dunn was acquired that September and did nothing to contribute down the stretch.) Adam Dunn announced his retirement shortly after the completion of that game.
“He started exercising and eating a well balanced breakfast” lol Barry loved his breakfast
He loved them Balc-O's
Loved his roids too 😂
I went on a Wrigley Field tour about 10 years ago. One of the visitor's clubhouse attendants told our group that Adam Dunn would eat 10 McDonald's cheeseburgers before every game.
wish I had that strong of a stomach
And 11 McDonald's Cheeseburgers on off days.
That'll slow your reaction time.
Imagine how much better he would have been had we waited until after the game to eat.
"Where am I gonna get 50 hotdogs"??? th-cam.com/video/w-hpRGXclIo/w-d-xo.html
"He started exercising and eating a well balanced breakfast" ..... LMAO
Joey Gallo is today's Adam Dunn.
yeah, batting 206 with a 37% strike out rate, that sounds fun
Ryan Crouch no Chris Davis is the new Adam Dunn
@@body7100 Touché. Lol
Eh. Kinda. Joey is much more athletic, he can play cf. Adam Dunn is fat.
@@bluesfan6862 Joey is a hero
Terrific video. This is one reason why TH-cam is so powerful; bringing out of obscurity one of the best (arguably, or not) players of all time. Well done Boys.
This channel is phenomenal.
it's quite amazing, haven't worked the entire day, just this xD
Joey Gallo literally set a higher record for "four true outcomes" last season. 532 PA, 41 HR, 75 BB, 196 K, 8 HBP = 60.1% THE NEW GOD.
I realize he hasn't joined the club yet because he doesn't have 200 dingers, but there's almost no doubt he will get there.
Up until like a couple of days ago he had more home runs than singles in his career.
A Well Built Taco That is actually insane.
Alright I'm new but does HBP mean hit by pitch and if that means to literally be hit by the pitch how has that happened over half of the time?
Zed HBP does mean hit by pitch, but it only happened 8 times. The 60.1% refers to the total number of HBP, BB, SO, and HR.
"So if you think about it, Dunn's a hero. He forced baseball teams to pay guys a total of nearly seven million bucks to just stand there. He's a creator of pointless labor. There's nothing more heroic than that."
Happy International Workers' Day! ☭
Ｙｕｎｇ Ｖｕｌｐｉｘ And THAT'S how you redistribute wealth in the Majors, son!
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Ｙｕｎｇ Ｖｕｌｐｉｘ if Jon Bois lead a communist insurrection we'd have the red flag flying over the white house within a week
So you're comparing Adam Dunn's refusal to hit ground balls to Francisco d'Anconia paying people to work in the San Sebastian Mines where he knew there was no valuable ore to mine?
@itheuser First Not true, I saw him run once. He got a walk and then the next batter up got a double so he had to hustle to get to third base
I don't think there is a more underrated player in MLB history than Adam Dunn. They guy wasn't particularly good in the field. He did not hit for a high average. Couldn't run the bases that well either. But given all of his weaknesses, his career OPS of .852 ranked 159th all time, which would put him just a bit behind hall of fame numbers for a corner outfielder.
I agree 100% and I will say this about his fielding. I agree he was definitely no Gold Glover, but he would make the occasional really nice play. He wasn't any worse in the field than a lot of players I've seen. The pitching staffs in Cincinnati and Washington were pretty awful as well...he'd have made fewer errors with a better pitching staff.
And I don't think anyone in baseball history (I'm excluding the juicers here) hit HRs the way Adam Dunn did. Not just the number and frequency, but how he hit them. He just didn't hit many wall-scrapers.
@@joelspencer9233 He got a lot of flak for his fielding but it really wasn't that bad. He played in a notorious hitter's ballpark on a team that sucked and he was also a very large man. On paper it wasn't good, but there were a lot of exterior causes to that other than just "he sucked". Although he still wasn't great.
He's in the Reds HoF for a reason. Everyone in Cincinnati loves him.
He’s nowhere near a HOF level player in terms of actual production but I actually heard a compelling argument for him being a HOFer based on how influential he is. Idk I stopped watching baseball obsessively after the 2011 season and the fact that everyone is trying to be Adam Dunn now prevents me from starting up again. I couldn’t stand Adam Dunn (as a player I mean. I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy). I don’t mind guys who hit for power, walk a lot and strikeout a lot if they also are just good hitters in general: my favorite player Jim Edmonds was a good example of this. A more modern example is Mike Trout. But guys who hit like .220 are just lame I’m sorry. I don’t care how much power they have.
@@RandyRhoadsRules3 Dunn was, at least offensively, better than the majority of guys who emulate his approach. During his prime (2001-2010) he averaged a slash line of .251/.381/.521. Joey Gallo wishes he was that good at the plate, as he's averaged .206/.333/.489 since he debuted in 2015. Gallo's a FAR better defender though, but from a purely offensive approach, give me prime Dunn over Gallo any day.
@@squirrelguy2195 Yeah Dunn was a better hitter than Gallo for sure. I can’t take Gallo seriously as a hitter that average is just disgusting.
"For a brief moment, they turn baseball into golf" lmao
this was good, but not Pretty Good
Tej Seth it’s got Jon
You don’t get it
Good, but not quite Pretty Good
Honestly Pretty Good and Chart Party can’t be replaced
ReesDaKing I get the joke I was saying atleast we got Jon
Legend has it that Adam Dunn was also a very good basketball player capable of dunking, and was recruited by Mack Brown (as a quarterback, not a safety)
Hi, the music is a lot louder than the rest of the show, if some leveling or other audio magic could be applied for future eps it would be very nice please
Intro audio just BAM!!!!!!!!
^^^^This
Agreed. I always have to put my laptop really close to my face to listen to Jon's videos without headphones.
fuck you
youtube isn't fixing audio levels in any case. many of Jon Bois's videos are leveled poorly imo with music being way louder than dialogue, oftentimes (perhaps intentionally?) to jarring effect.
“2011 happened”
Me, a rangers fan: no...
Me, a cardinals fan: 🥰
*vietnam flashbacks*
I actually got to take BP with Dunn when I was playing college baseball. I'll never forget that day -- the wind was blowing in from right field about 20mph, and there wasn't a single one of us that hit a homerun in BP that day, even with aluminum bats. Then Dunn came up and just started crushing them over the scoreboard in RC field with a wood, making us look like fools! He was a good dude too, got some batting gloves from him (even though they were XXL and were a bit too big for me!).
Dunn also played a lot of his career batting behind Griffey JR.
Just the White Sox Junior didn't play with Chicago for that long.
@@bigcee8393 Wrong, He played 8 seasons with Griffey in Cincy and had 5 seasons w/40+ Homer's there
Griffey never saw the field
Stop making white Sox fans look like idiots
What they said about Barry Bonds made me laugh out loud in my class😂
Great video. Adam Dunn was my favorite Reds player when I was younger. Everyone thought he was terrible because his batting average was never particularly high. However, after looking at his his stats today and putting more emphasis walks and slugging, I am convinced Dunn was one of the more underappreciated players in baseball. Dunn posted an OPS slightly above .900 during his eight seasons with a terrible Reds team. The only other Reds player I've seen to produce comparable hitting numbers is Joey Votto.
Dunn's rookie year as a Dayton Dragon was also the first year of this team's existence. Everyone knew of Dunn's home run ability but the funniest thing was his fielding. We would pray that no one would hit to him if the game was close. One time an easy fly ball was hit and Dunn came under it to catch it and the ball completely misses his glove and hits Dunn in the knee. Everyone was laughing and a good time was had by all. We love Dragon's baseball in Dayton.
Is there a John Bois podcast? Because I would watch the hell out of that.
KENZO productions you don’t watch podcasts
Cameron McGuire thank you for letting me know.
Good to see Jon rockin' fashionable attire, there. Gonna have to confirm it on his channel. ;)
yeah, its pretty good
Kaiden Clark How do you know he wears perfume?
I think Jon Bois knows when one of his followers is extremely sad. Every time I even contemplate my own mortality Bois is there to save me.
Thank God for Saturday College Football.
I had an existential crisis the other day and then saw Bois had dropped his saddest punt video. It got me through.
why do you keep putting people who arent jon bois on screen, i dont get it
Jon's the guy on the left. It's just been so long you forgot what he looked like.
This breakdown is incredibly well Dunn.
I love those videos with quiet talk and loud ass music.
HES BACK
Can y'all just make a playlist with every Jon Bois video so I know I didn't miss anything
Ah, that good old unmixed audio is just music to my ears
All of the Cincy players during the Dunn years (Including Griffey JR.) - looked like they were crushing twelve packs in the dugout. And then sometimes they would amaze. When they felt like it.
He played for the White Sox, my favorite team. And we really did want to win in 2011. He came around a little in 2012 but never was the same.
Jeff Francouer is infact slugging 462 against Clayton Kershaw
I literally stop whatever I'm doing when I see that a video bearing the visage of Jon Bois has been uploaded to the World Wide Web.
Godspeed
HR, Walk, or Strike out -- very very true in his career.
500+ ft HR distances -- several of them -- he didn't sneak them over the fence.
I think with Dunn, he knew the strike zone very well.
Dunn's operation --
1. He knows when it's a strike
2. But he can't hit it
3. But when he does, it goes out of the park a very long way.
4. Subsequently, he puts up numbers that nobody else can (or even wants to) match.
This channel should be the most subscribed sports channel on TH-cam, the voice overs and quality is immaculate
I’m a total math/stats geek an LOVE your guys videos! I often find myself looking up your stats and checking them for myself. Keep up the great content!
Who here doesn’t even watch baseball?
The Pillow Mafia i don't even know the rule. watched the whole video. didn't understand a thing. so is he good or not ?
Bbbbbaaaasssseee bbbbaalllll?
All the losers.
I watch Baseball
I'm only here because Porter residents try to crucify me every time I tell them idk who Adam Dunn is.
this is the best video about a single baseball player since your Franceour spotlight
The Lonnie Smith episode was really good too imo
that it was, but it was also well before the Frenchy episode
I liked the lonnie smith one
so did I, it was a great video; Jon does a lot of great videos
BOIIIIIIISSSSSS
WHAT HE SAID!
Bring back chart party
the man
the myth
the legend
o shit whaddup!
I like bois
I remember in fantasy baseball leagues you didn't know where to draft Dunn. He had the skills to win an MVP and he also was capable of setting the record for strikeouts in a season.
Your soothing voice, the cool background music, and the mildly boring statistics are weirdly relaxing and entertaining.
He was one of my favorite players growing up watching the Nationals
Adam Dunn is the first, last and only dude BORN to play DH....
Idk Man. David Ortiz fits the bill.
Edgar Martinez?
IDK??? Being a White Sox fan it was painful to watch him transition from a 1st basemen to a DH. He was GOD AWFUL for one of those seasons. If you were to do the math when Dunn spelled Konerko at 1st? Id like to know if he hit or walked more as a "position player"? The ChiSox had the same issues with another NL ex outfeilder turned 1st basemen WITH the same first name. Adam LaRoach. IDK if fans or players realize how difficult it is when your. in the NL and you're a position player, and you get traded or sign with an AL team that expects you to DH 5 outta 6 games a week. Something you've never been a custom to doing for most of your career. I know Jose Abreu doesnt like to DH and has better stats when he plays 1st. PS. White Sox brass, PLEASE never sign another 1st basemen named Adam that played his whole career in the NL and make him your daily DH!
Billy Butler?
Garrett Berry Billy Butler was a White Sox KILLER!
Adam Dunn is sneakily hall of game worthy. His strike out numbers were only a generation behind what guys put up now, that 40/100/150 stat says a lot
Great graphical and analytic presentation. I enjoyed your video. (After the need to replace my speakers from the Intro being 10x louder than previous sound levels ;P)
That is A LOT of data! You guys did your homework and it is appreciated. Adam's career is definitely enigmatic.
LOL on commentary of Barry Bonds' history at 1:37.
I came across this video randomly and I have zero understanding of baseball, but I subscribed anyway because I love the way you guys talk.
Adam Dunn was also only on only one playoff team in his entire career, the 2014 Oakland A’s that lost in the wild card game to the Royals. This was the last season of his career, and I believe he was the only position player for the A’s to not appear in the game. He retired soon after, never being able to play in the playoffs.
Chris and neither did you...
Good Grief I'm pretty sure Chris wasn't denigrating Dunn in anyway, just noting how such a unique player somehow never got to play in a postseason game, despite the many worse players who somehow managed to get an appearance in the playoffs.
The staffs on the Reds' and Nationals' teams that he played for were awful.
Everybody should read 17776.
YES. I have been recommending 17776 to all my friends and co-workers. Let's get this comment to the top where it belongs.
MrKheywood91 What is 17776 about?
Honestly as someone who has read it. I'm still not exactly sure.
Margaret Mead an alternate universe where humans are immortal and the way they deal with immortality is playing football all the time. And there are three sentient space probes in it.
Margaret Mead I know that sounds super weird but trust me.
Relief pitchers should be able to enter with capes.
Adam Dunn is my favorite of all time. Going to the reds games was always exciting when he was playing because I knew there was a good chance he would hit a hr....or strikeout....but he kept it exciting
I have puzzled over Dunn for years. THANK YOU for shining light on the darkness.
"began eating a well-balanced breakfast" rotfl bravo
The 'Balco breakfast' at Denny's. Only $7.99. Coffee not included.
One of the more interesting baseball stat studies I've seen. They missed a couple things about the 2011 year, though. In previous years, Dunn was DH only a handful of times for the interleague games since he was in the NL. In 2011, he move to the AL and DHed 81 games. Second, he had an appendectomy in April 2011 and never got back into any rhythm until the following year. And with all of this, his salary kept going up. Good for him. Too bad his career wasn't longer. Oh yeah... he weighed close to 300, so running was probably not his favorite thing anyway.
Kyle Schwarber is the next three true outcomes king
“Started exercising and eating a well balanced breakfast” 😂 💀
lmfao
"....towards the end of his career he started exercising and eating a well balanced breakfast."😂😂😂😂😂 I F word LOVE you guys!!!!
Unless Pujols starts taking "the cream" or "the clear" right now...he will never reach Bonds
Or do like bonds and take a lot of steroids
Never, and as an Angel fan we're paying a high price, $25 Mill a year exactly, to watch a way over-the-hill, slow footed, DP machine rob the organization. Arie Moreno (owner) loves to reward players for what they've done for their past teams.
Pujols should have retired a long time ago. Saying this as someone who had a lot of their fondest childhood memories shaped by him. Absolutely ridiculous hitter from 01-10 though, and especially from 03-09….the picture of consistency you could basically always mark him down for at minimum .325-35-115 in those years.
He just needs to eat a more balanced breakfast.
When Adam Dunn was a Cincinnati Red he not only hit the ball out of the park he actually hit it into another state. It bounced off of Mehring Way,( a street that runs along the south side of the stadium) then rolled down a slope into the waters edge of the Ohio River, which is the state line between Ohio and Kentucky.
You can see a preview of Ricky Henderson on one chart from their 8 runs on 9 Pitches (Fernando Tatis half-inning video). The guy was an INSANE base stealer.
This is a very well made video. The subject matter is interesting, but the editing, the music and general presentation is first class.
Looking back now, true outcomes guys are so fun to watch, Joey gallo is the ultimate true outcomes guy in the league now, 101 ops+ (just above league average (100)), 91st percentile walk rate 1st percentile K% (all at the time of writing, late July. he’ll prolly hit 25 homers it’s enamoring
Adam Dunn was my favorite player when I was young
Adam Dunn is a weird beast.
Thing is, in video games, he was a MONSTER. But he was just like real life: Jack, K, or Walk.
I remember having to carefully pitch to him....Pujols was also a damn challenge to pitch to any breaking pitch around the knees was pretty much history.
Edwin Ricardo Perez it's still annoying to this day. ..
@@KuroShiiiiro yep, don't give him a fast ball in mvp 2004 or 2005 baseball or it's gone lol, same for like mlb 2k6 through 2k9 lol
Drunk penguins and blindfolded sloths hit very well
-43 DRS is hilariously poor, and its insane that nobody even tried to find a way to do anything about that. Shoutout to Foolish Baseball
I usually hate photoshopped thumbnails, but yours is great!
Adam dunn signed my dying cousins shirt and gave him season tickets. This was when dunn was in town playing for the nationals against the reds. No body on the reds at the time payed any attention to my cousin. Adam dunn came up to him after the game and chatted with him. He will forever be my favorite player.
Chris Davis: “Hold my drink.”
"exerciseing and eating well balanced breakfast"
LOLOLOLLL
Babe Ruth has a .342 career batting average, over 500 career double and even 130 career triples. You can't categorize Ruth in the same category as Adam Dunn.
F Je He also played in a segregated league with pitching that wasn’t even close to as good a today’s.
@@quickman1047 He also played his home games in a stadium , in which, baseball historians claim that the long center field robbed him of more home runs than the short porch gave him. However, are you honestly trying to argue that Babe Ruth would be Adam Dunn if he played on today's teams? Really? When Ruth, Foxx, Simmons, Gherig, and Cronin played, strikes were legit. Pitches at the letters or at the knees were called strikes. In the 80's and 90's strike zones changed from player to player which is why overrated ball players, like Harold Baines are getting into the Hall of Fame. Sorry, don't buy it.
@@quickman1047 He also had no control over any of that stuff and was obviously a hitting god regardless of who was on the mound. Funny, Ruth was a pretty sick pitcher himself.
@@kvltizt truth
F Je I don’t think they were saying he was as good as babe, I think they were just using him as a comparison as to why his style of playing the game is so extreme. Babe had a 4 true so high because he was amazing at baseball. Adam Dunn has his so high because he didn’t want to run :P
Barry Bonds "Started exercising and eating a well-rounded breakfast". LMAO!
This channel is always well put together and thought out, thanks for the content . I don’t even like baseball and this was very interesting
I remember playing MLB 2k13, and playing it with my friend. We would bet on who could hit a homer with Adam Dunn versus a left hander. I lost most of the time.
He’s one of the only guys I’ve ever scene hit it to the outfield and get thrown out at first.
I still remember... "The Nationals fortune rest on the broad shoulders of slugger Adam Dunn"
Great times...
After all these years, my name was mentioned in a TH-cam video. It's a good day.
Started exercising and eating well-balanced breakfasts! LMAO Good delivery, guys.