What Happened to Josh Hamilton?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Creator: Matt
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Matt continues his "Player Profile" quest today by diving into the career of former Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton. Let's take a look back at the beginning, the end, and everything in between..
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As a longtime rangers fan, it really sucks to see what happened to him. I loved watching him play as a ranger.
TexasYoshi yeah he was a huge reason why we had those 2010 and 2011 World Series runs. He is still my favorite player.
He woes a apologie to the Angels
TexasYoshi: Lifetime fan here as well, back to the mid-1970's. I really enjoyed watching Josh play for the Rangers also. I didn't really know what had happened to him until watching this video. If true, he short circuited a career that might have taken the Rangers to a third World Series. Hate to hear this type of self-abuse being the downfall of a once great player.
Do you remember the call from may 12 , 2012???
"if you have been watching Ranger's baseball from day 1 in 1971, you have never seen a performance like this one, and it may never be seen again!"
texasyoshi josh is in the Astros AAA team
I’ll never forget how the rangers celebrated with non alcoholic champagne when they won their playoff series so josh could celebrate with them. We all have demons and josh Hamilton will forever be one of my favorite players because he was a real human being who went through real human struggles. A lot of times we see these guys as machines who are emotionless when in reality, most if not all struggle with something
While it was a classy move for them to do that it always aggravated me that the commentators would always mention it!
I’d love to see one on Jose Bautista how he started and finish his career I think he had a roller coaster career and I’d love to see a video
yoboibacon 16 I agree. He had a very interesting career
That would be a good vid to make
yoboibacon 16 he wasn’t very good. Well he was, but could never hit for average
yoboibacon 16 he wasn’t very good. Well he was, but could never hit for average
PED's
Wherever he is now, Hamilton's story of overcoming drug addiction and depression to become an MLB superstar will always be inspiring to me.
Ruined it with the angels. Should of been better
Totally agree. And not just a superstar to me. As a Rangers fan, he was the greatest player I ever witnessed. His base running, instincts, bat , fielding. Man was he a joy to witness. Mike Trout now takes that mantle but Josh could have been better if he never touched those drugs. IMO of course. Cheers
@@charlesp7504 That 10th inning homer against the Cardinals in game 6 could've forever cemented him as a legend had it not been for that Rangers bullpen.
MNSportsJunkie101 Man oh man and that dropped fly ball by Cruz.
MNSportsJunkie101 omg yes I was routing for it and him to be the guy , it should have been his moment his climax to making it all the way to the top , it’ how the story should have been written and played out but hey real like got in the way
As a recovering addict, I appreciate Josh's story and he was my favorite baseball player for several years.
Same here dude. I’ve loved baseball since I was a kid. I read his book in rehab and it gave me a lot of confidence to get clean and stay clean. His story is absolutely an encouragement, and also a warning of what can happen if relapse occurs. I hate to see the direction he went in after losing baseball and his parents. I really hope he finds his way back again. His story will always be a little part of my recovery. And he was my favorite for a long time. Especially knowing what could’ve happened. Ken caminitti died in an alley, doc gooden abused and was never the same pitcher, same with Daryl strawberry. Addiction is a terrible opponent to battle.
@@christopherkimber7679 after hearing how horribly abusive he's been to his ex-wife and children, I don't wanna hear from the guy ever again. Dudes like Strawberry are much better examples of how you can be a force for good in the face of addiction.
@@christopherkimber7679 Hope you’re doing better now. Same with OP.
Struggle is so real I don’t even know if I can move forward. I’m in such a bad predicament. There’s just so many blockages.
Man... to see this guy be at the lowest point of his career, Yankee Stadium showcase, his years in Texas, 2010 AL MVP, to being out of Baseball 😭
Man, how do I feel about Josh Hamilton?? I idolized him. Copied his stance & everything since I was a lefty...and it actually was a perfect stance for me at the time. Dude no matter the downs, is a LEGEND! And if u take him at his best and put him up against the all time greats...he truly belongs there. He was THATTT good! Just hope he's doing well now since being out of the game. With the laced shit going around nowadays, a relapse could end up tragic so I pray for that man. GOD BLESS!!!
Josh Hamilton was my favorite player of all time. I still have his picture on my wall. What broke my heart was that when he went to the angels he said Arlington was never a baseball city anyway, but when he came back he said he was sorry and was wrong. Wish he could be a hall of famer I love him
he was a complete scumball
Lol
@@norrispg6085 What are you talking about?
@@Matt-br7eu look at his history, observe him and read below
@@norrispg6085 You mean a guy who struggled with addiction overcame adversity to become a better person? Yeah total scumball
I just came across this video.
Regardless of how you feel about Josh's "choices" in life, he was, and always will be, one of the purest hitters and 5 tool players in my generation (I'm 55). And I will stand by that with granite feet. Unfortunately, we only got to see a mere glimpse of what could have been. What he could have done we'll never know. But it is refreshing to see a video about him that highlights the good, and not bad of his career.
Josh...wherever you are and whatever you're doing, I hope you have found peace in your life. You will always be one of my favorite ballplayers for what you did on the field.
And I'm saying this as a long time Rays fan knowing what you did in Texas was supposed to be in a Devil Rays uniform and watching your Rangers team beat us in the postseason 2 years in a row.
Peace brother.
He was one the most obviously talented baseball players I ever saw. I could tell in spring training with the Reds that he was a one in a million talent. His swing was effortless and generated so much power . He could throw and run too. Players with his kind of gifts don't come along very often.
Byung Hyun Kim
Andruw Jones
Javy Lopez
B.J. Upton downfall
Where is Rafael Furcal?
Also a video about the legend Ichiro Suziki
Kim - tried to become a starter despite being a good reliever, then got injured and messed up mechanics.
Jones - got lazy, gained weight. lost speed & changed swing to one of 'Hr-or-nothing'. Hit more Hrs as a result but he lost 5-tool player ability
Javy lopez - gradual decline. He simply got old, especially playing a demanding position of catcher
Rafael Furcal - body betrayed him at end of career which made him slow. Really shouldnt have played SS after leaving braves. Had an attitude problem too - got a DUI - around same time which prob didnt help.
BJ Upton - this I wanna know.
bj upton downfall? career sub - .245 hitter. hit over .275 once, and missed 30+ games that year. another rays draft bust.
if not for the relapses, i definitely think he would’ve been a for sure hall of famer, good guy too
jim tex Good guys don’t beat the living daylights out of their children. Tell me how he’s a good man... how so?
Next to A-Rod, he was the best raw talent I’ve ever seen put on the rangers uniform. The dude could hit for avg and power, great defender, good speed and had a canon for an arm. It was a joy to watch him and hopefully he is doing fine and finds peace.
I had the privilege to meet Josh Hamilton 2 times while he played for Texas . He was a true professional. He was honest, kind , and friendly. I just felt like we had known each other forever. We all make mistakes in our lives, I know I've made mine, but he manned up and got his life back on track and that is how a human being should be measured, not that he fell a few times but that he got up and made it work. He was one of the all time greats. I loved to watch him play the game of baseball. He was a real natural. I hope Josh is doing well today. He'll always be one of my favorite and memorable ball players. Remembered for the good that he did in the game of baseball, not the stumbles he may have encountered. He will always be in our family's prayers. Thank you Mr. Hamilton for the way you played the game.
Josh fought and continues to fight a lot of demons. What an incredible story. Hope he can stay clean.
He was something else. His prime years in Arlington were magical.
Uhh, so what happened to Josh Hamilton? This is more of a recap...
Zakk Wylde I literally just commented the same thing and scrolled down and saw your comment. For real though I learned absolutely nothing from this 7 minute recap
There’s so much it’s hard to sum up however if you want his full story and all the ins and outs I highly recommend reading his book I have reading and I’m addicted to it definitely the best book I’ve ever read
Abused his children
He’s currently being charged w Injury to a Minor which could face up to 10 years if guilty.
Hamilton was born to play baseball. He was one of the most naturally gifted players ever and one of the best prospects coming out of high school ever.
gahhh if Nelson Cruz makes that catch in G6, we would look at Josh's career SO much differently.
What about pujols he would only have one ring..
If you look at the route Cruz took to that ball🤦🏻♂️. He let the ball play him and I’ll always think he should’ve caught it.
He just stinking, blew it. He ran in when the ball was first hit and never got under it. Still makes me sick.....
Illicit Drug policies in a lot of sports leagues are very poorly handled in terms of providing support systems for suspended players. In a lot of leagues, the suspended player is basically banned from all team facilities and has little to no interaction with teammates or the organization. The policies often effectively put the player into forced isolation. Which is almost the worst possible thing to do to someone with drug abuse issues.
The Bigbear That’s exactly how I feel. Leagues could: A. Make more money off of players by eliminating long term suspensions for illicit drug abuse, and B. Ease the process of rehab for the player by offering support and privacy. Baseball, specifically, has a drug problem: Jose Fernandez has drugs in his system at death and we don’t quite know what happened to Tyler Skaggs who was found unresponsive in a hotel room.
Next video: What happened to Jose Bautista
That more age then anything else.
GOT OLD 😂😂
PED's
Rougned Odor happened
Great video. Josh was my favourite player growing up and made me into the baseball fan I am today. Great to hear how he was able to find religion and help him out of his addictions. Wish him the best
For those who are curious, josh is now a rancher and busy being a full time dad when he has custody of his 2 girls
Josh was great even as he fought demons.
A happy ending :)
American Nightmare F
@@jjd903 Really? As an Angel fan I would disagree. He didn't do anything for Anaheim except steal Moreno's money. Moreno had it coming of course, look at Pujols!
That statement aged about as badly as humanly possible. Goodness
Hey man been watching you a little while now and I want to say I appreciate and love how you go into deep death on baseball and your passion for it shows keep going man
I think we need a video on Carl Crawford a lot of people need to know how good he was
Ikr he went from being a huge star in tampa to falling way off in Boston only to sort of re amp his career on the dodgers
There’s a reason why Game 162 is also called “The Self-Destruction of Carl Crawford”
Prime Carl Crawford was a beast
maybe a video on the early TB Rays scouting...Josh, BJ Upton, Toe Nash, Carl Crawford, Elijah Dukes, Delmon Young, Josh Sale, Matt Moore
Kids don’t do drugs
Very well done , the narrative was exceptional.
As a Rangers fan, I always loved watching Josh Hamilton play, and I even read his book and did a report on it. My teacher even gave me a signed Josh Hamilton ball.
That being said, I do find his story inspiring, and it is unfortunate that he fell quite low from his peak as a pro-MLB player. I truly don't know about drug/alcohol addiction; however, I still have the same respect for him as I did when he was a Ranger. He has made some mistakes (like us all) and sadly has his own issues to work out. I am always thankful for the time he was a Ranger.
One of the greatest all around players I've seen n my life. Loved what I saw. Heartbroken over what we could have seen
I want a Josh Hamilton card in mlb the show
I think a video on andrew mccutchen would be interesting. he was a star for a few years but now he's pretty average
Everyone is on steroids - Nick Diaz
Well yeah he's 32 now. Most players aren't at their best at that age and even then he was having a pretty good year before getting injured.
I thought you'd tell us what happened to Josh after he retired. Everything you covered is common knowledge to anyone who followed Josh as a player.
I was telling someone about Hamelton just a few days ago. I said he was almost the JJ Watt of the Rangers. Ill never forget that home run derby.
I would like to thank you for this video. I recently started to PC Josh Hamilton because I found many different cards of his in Fairfield Pharmacy boxes! It made me want to PC him. After watching this video it made me want to PC him even more! Thank you again for this update!
I am fascinated by stories of players having short periods of out-of-nowhere greatness that ends as abruptly as it began.
I’d appreciate some videos on players like Chris Davis, Brady Anderson, Jacoby Ellsbury, Pablo Sandoval.... and probably a whole host of other players i can’t think of at the moment lol.
Thanks for these videos. I just started watching baseball more closely after being out of the loop for a few years and Tim Lincecum and Josh Hamilton were literally the first two names that I started wondering about as far as "whatever happened to..."
Josh is one of my all time favorite players great video great to focus on the positivity
I’ve been waiting for this
You left out that Hamilton is joining the Rangers HOF on August 17th!
Concise and informative, well done!
I love you Josh! You were the best hitter I’ve ever seen (other than Manny Ramirez & Chipper Jones). Thank you for everything you did for all of us!!
what happened to matt harvey, he’s still playing but he’s just awful now
Not anymore just dfa'd
he has a video on him called the matt harvey story
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome is what happened to Harvey
Blue Injury
Injury
i'm checking your channel out because you went to spring training with the Tree. nice content!
Thanks! This video’s on the older side, we’ve ramped up our quality level of late so definitely check out our more recent stuff. Appreciate it!
He now has abused his daughter.....it is a sad story to a great player and person. Hope we all can learn from the mistakes.....
Good video. His 2010 season is one of my favorites ever.
Josh Hamilton's homerun derby was one of the moments I can point to that made me love baseball. One of the most impressive things I've ever seen
The josh Hamilton book beyond belief really is an amazing book to read. And it really goes in to depth about how the injuries really led the drug and alcohol use and it became a vicious cycle unfortunately. Really a great book tho if anyone is interested. It’s a full auto biography
wow, I had completely forgotten about that incident where the fan died trying to catch Josh's toss into the stands. That would have absolutely torn me up if I were in Josh's shoes; I feel for the guy. R.I.P unnamed Rangers fan
His name was Shannon Stone. He was a firefighter attending the game with his six-year-old son, Cooper. Cooper would go on to throw the ceremonial first pitch at Game 1 of the 2011 ALDS.
Props bro for having a channel and trying to mike this work for you put you gotta work on yall editing. Keep grinding it out.
Hamilton's homerun derby performance was by far the best performance in a homerun derby. He was hitting bombs up to 520ft. He had a ton of homeruns that were over 500ft. He wasn't just hitting homeruns that were barley going over the fence. He is a hall of famer in my opinion.
I remember when he came within a top spin double of the first 5 HR game in MLB history.
It was in May of 2012 against the Baltimore Orioles. He had 8 RBI and went 5-5 that night. The TV commentator Tom Grieve said that all they needed to complete that night would have been some lightning the night sky and a little blood on his uniform.
That night Hamilton resembled Roy Hobbs from "the Natural"
Still disappoints me how instead of helping Josh recover from his relapse, the Angels decided to trade him and the Rangers took him back with open arms. Not a Rangers fan but that organization has my respect. ✊
Well to be fair, the relapse wasn’t the only reason they traded him. He was being paid 20+ million a year and just sucked.
Josh was a Mike Trout-level talent and could have been one of the greatest off all times. What a shame.
You should do jaccoby Ellsberry cuz of how his career has dropped through out the years
He had like 3 good years lmao
Well constructed and quick details. Liked and sub.
Thank you!
Josh is one of those players that made you watch the game. We went to church with him and he met my wife and I at the entrance gate of the neighborhood they lived in just to sign some of his books for us. Super guy with an addiction. Nobody wants to be addicted, but almost everyone has some type of it.
No judgement or condemnation here, just grace and a sigh of what could have been.
Thanks Josh!
Josh Hamilton came by at my restaurant Souper Salad on a Sunday in 2016 while I was working with his daughter. I was kinda nervous since I can tell that was him. He seems ok at the time and chill but the day after, the news shown that he was going through surgery.
And then fast forward to the future, he assaulted his own daughter…gets arrested for it
I truly hope he is well in his life and wish him well. God bless
I grew up watching the rangers cuz of my dad and josh hamilton was my favorite player. I remember watching that O's game almost like it was yesterday. Josh and Nelly Cruz were my dudes back in the day
This man was the greatest athlete in my highschool’s, Athens Drive, history and I know his nephew Cody
Broughton>Athens
You sir have gained a subscriber. I like your positive attitude!
Thanks Timothy! ❤️
It was a privilege to see him in 2010 post season.
I like these what happened you should make this a series
Owen The Savage I think I’m going to! I love making them.
Thank you matt
Pfffttt..... yea that's real original
“Josh made it back home in Texas and the fans welcomed him with open arms. You could tell he was immediately more comfortable than playing in Los Angeles, which just felt right”
I mean... you can say it “felt right” for him, but damn, as an Angels fan, I gotta tell you, having to pay him $20.71 million in 2015 to play for a division rival (and make the playoffs), and then $52.82 million in 2016 and 2017, that didn’t feel right. It’s the Angels fault for giving him that contract and then trading him, but I wonder if he feels some kind of guilt for making all that money to do absolutely nothing. Especially considering he’s a Christian man. Hopefully he has made some considerably large donations to charity or something. Obviously the Angels are partly to blame for the way they handled that situation, but he essentially got an absurd amount of guaranteed money, didn’t perform, relapsed with his drug problems, blamed the Angels for not giving him the support system he needed, then went back to the Rangers and played better. When you know the whole story, it’s kinda tough to hear people say stuff like, “aww look at Hamilton happy and doing well in Texas again. What a feel-good story.”
He did not handle his situation in ANAHEIM (not LA by the way) well, and his contract was a major albatross around the Angels neck for many years.
And for those who would like to see Trout in the playoffs and think it’s a shame he hasn’t been there, think about what the Angels could have done with either 1. even a fraction of the performance of Hamilton they paid for, or 2. an extra $73 million over 3 years to get a better team around Trout.
In those 3 years, Trout put up a 10.5 WAR, 6.7 WAR in a season where he missed 2 months from injury, and a 10.2 WAR season.
one of the most down to earth humans i've ever seen. He would autographs for a hour before games and was one of my favorites
You should also think about doing videos on Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry.
Interesting recap of Hamilton's career. Oddly, what I remember most about him was a loooong stretch he went through where he'd come to bat, swing three times and strike out. This went on an on and on. He was with the Rangers then, and I think he blamed it on trying to quit chewing tobacco, or something to that effect.
Great view...and awesome video!💪😎👍
i met josh hamilton back when he was making his was back to the majors he played the staten island yankees he signed a broken bat for me i still have it hanging in my room today i always followed him after that
Man, just one name comes in my head watching this series: Yu Darvish
More like YU GARBAGE
Hamilton will always be spoken of more as missed potential than anything else.
Josh would be a great one to make an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on. Dude was another tragic tale of professional sports.
What do you expect when everything he tried turned out.negative. I can’t imagine throwing a ball to a fan and the fan falling and dying. I think some people are cursed through no bad thing they’ve done on there own and it’s very sad.
I remember in a random CBS sports fantasy chat under Hamilton’s player profile a user said they knew people in the Angels clubhouse and that Hamilton was using big time. I didn’t think of this until this video but when you consider that another Angels pitcher tragically died via overdose; it makes you wonder how big of an issue this really was and how it’s impacted that franchise since.
That late 2000's early 2010's Rangers team was stacked but I can't see of any of them going to Cooperstown. I might be missing someone but still
As an A"s fan i saw a lot of him..he was something special for sure..
*sigh* I miss when Bobby Flay played baseball.
@stark raving sports- it would be cool to show some reds hilights. He had a great year there, and baseball fans that appreciate the narrative want to see the visuals that match.
Matt tried to find clips of him playing in Cincinnati, but could literally only find one or two of them
I was at the 4 homer game, it was unlike anything I've ever seen or ever will again
I wish you would have mentioned the fact of how and why he got in to drugs and alcohol. He got into a car wreck with his parents and they went home to heal. His whole life he was around his parents until the wreck. With his parents being gone for the first time, and baseball being taken away from him due to injury he got caught up in the wrong crowd.
I served Josh Hamilton, his wife and a few older ladies dinner a few years before he disappeared.. he got very shy and weird when I recognized him. Some people just don’t like all that comes with being a famous baseball player. I have met tons of ball players and a handful in this exact situation.. this one was awkward.. the old ladies paid.
One of those few that you know would have been the greatest to ever do it, had he been able to stay on a good path. Probably the most gifted ballplayer ever
Update: He's facing up to 10 years in prison after harming his eldest daughter
Crazy... he actually visited my church after fighting off his addiction the first time.. was sad when he fell off again.
Reading his book "beyond belief" my favourite story he told in the book it that he claims he took a teailer out into the middle of a field in the summer, he was done with life, so he took as much crack as he had on hand and woke up in a hospital, the doctor told him over a day later they found the trailer and found him, the doctor was so in shock of how he was alive because he took enough crack cocaine to kill an ellephant
he was my favorite player growing up
As a Rays fan since the beginning it was awesome seeing him come back. It just sucked that he absolutely murdered my rays along the way. I remember going to a few playoff games we lost to Cliff Lee, Josh Hamilton and Nelson Cruz.. ffs
I hate seeing people casting judgement on Josh. Yes he fell several times, but he always picked himself back up again. Success is picking yourself back up one more time than you fall. Josh has great talent and is a really nice guy. I couldn't be more proud of him.
Always looked like he was swinging a whiffle bat. Such a smooth swing.
Gotta be one of the saddest stories in baseball. I know that his downfall was because of his own bad decisions, but he could have been one of the greats.
I remember me and my cousin watch the home run derby it was crazy cause we try next day react it on The Show, and his story what also made it sweet event
Let's see one on Felix Hernandez. He used to be a beast and a top pitcher in baseball, but his career has pretty much cratered at this point.
W. Great memories watching this guy tee off years ago
If you’re going to make videos about what happened to a specific player, perhaps you should include info on where they are at now?
Do Chris Davis. Seriously. Wtf happened to his swing?
Kobe Teeth it wasn’t his swing, it was that he didn’t have roids anymore lol
Just look at their age
Josh Hamilton, Chase Utley, Chris Davis
The decline starts at around 32, some even earlier like 30 😄😁
LurkerDood Nelson Cruz and Edwin encarnación just laughed at this
@@hennytherealist4941 Yea, there are outliers in every sport but the majority of baseball Stars start their decline at around 32
Chris Davis has vision issues. He had his eyes fixed at one time in his career and he broke out. I bet there’s something going on there again. Probably diet related
nothing says more about the guy as when he slipped in his flip flops on a wet deck while fishing, hobbled away, skipped a couple of games and then claimed to have injured himself in the last game in which he played before he fell on the deck
To think he was that close to flushing it away before his career even began. His peak shows what he was capable of and makes you wonder what could have been had he been clean and have a full career.
Yeah This aged real well I think more people are now going to remember him for abusing his daughter then his Baseball career he now has a felony on his record for child abuse and could face up to 10 years in prison brilliant absolutely brilliant Just because you're a good baseball player doesn't mean you're a great human being and Josh Hamilton Is the poster child for That statement
Misleading title. I thought I'd hear where he was now.
To hell with what he could have done. He could have died in some back alley. Dude rose above it. He was entertaining as all hell to watch and clearly had the fire to play the game. Hope he continues to live above it.