Like Gary Sheffield, Albert Pujols has never struck out 100 times in a season. The most strikeouts Albert Pujols has suffered in a season was 93. He did that his rookie year in 2001 & again in 2017. Even though he’s on the downside of a Hall of Fame career, he still puts the ball in play when he’s at the plate. In 2019 at age 39, Albert Pujols hit 23 home runs and drove in 93 runs. On top of that, he struck out 68 times in 131 games.
i dont even care about the strikeouts. i care about the fundamental changes happening to baseball like putting a man on second if its an extra inning game. purists already lost the designated hitter abomination argument, now you are putting men on scoring positions without earning it, the defensive shifts.... its degrading and making the game an abomination. i didnt mind the minor changes to speed up the game like limiting mound visits and making pitchers pitch at least 3 guys before changing, but some of these rule changes are attacking the foundational aspect of the game.
since the 60's only George Brett in 81' and Barry Bonds in 2004, had seasons in which they hit more home runs than strikeouts. Pujols came close one year, hit 49hrs, struck out 51 times.
Angels Pujols problem was never power or strikes his biggest problem was that he lost speed and he always fell victim to a grounded into a double play. If Pujols was on his prime with the Angels like he was with the Cardinals then Trout and Pujols would be easily a top 5 duo of all time with Ruth and Gehrig, Aaron and Matthews, and Mays and McCovey.
@@ApostlePat guy, it's the violence of his swing not the power. Barry Bonds had more power (even before steroids) and only struck out 20 times a season.
@@BennyNegroFromQueens I get the violence of the swing. That’s a terrible point, considering that teams were literally scared to pitch to Barry. You brought up the most walked player in MLB history by a large margin. Also, I don’t know where you got your info, but Barry had a season of 102 strikeouts and never even had a season with 20 strikeouts or less. Do better, “guy.” Lmao
They only talk about the negative narratives in baseball. In their minds there's nothing good with the game now so they just ignore it and only bring it up just to trash the sport even more.
@@JUnior-ot1xu he denied taking steroids though & he was never busted for steroids so basically, he’s being kept out under assumption, which shouldn’t be the case. If that’s how they’re gonna judge who belongs in, might as well keep everyone who was great in that era, out then.
baseball cards not being popular hurts too. I remember collecting topps donruss and upper deck. collecting all those cards made me know every single player. now i just know my astros.
I think there's a lot of exciting players today, especially some of these young guys just breaking in. Star power isn't the problem. Robotic managers, analytics, and a GM trying to appease a small minority of population you'll never win over anyway, is.
@@sinatra222 I disagree with you about Bo Jackson. Deion Sanders wasn't a good baseball player. Bo Jackson had a skill set even greater than Vlad Guerrero, and the only time Bo came close to a full season, he made the AS team and was top 10 in MVP ballot. He just got injured. He wasn't the same after missing the 92' season. However, look at his 3 years prior to that. He had a ton of power, ton of speed, great throwing arm, made plays in the OF some outfielders would never make. Yeah, he struck out a lot for he times, that aside, he was a beast in every other aspect of the game.
@@mikeshoe74 Bo was never nearly the hitter that Vlad Guerrero was, I don't think he ever had the potential to be. That is kind of an insult to Vlad, who hit .300 in 12 consecutive seasons and never struck out 100 times in a season. Bo was a .250 hitter with an abysmal .309 OBP. Though he was certainly a freak athlete who made some legendary plays in the outfield and was entertaining to watch, the advanced metrics rate him as a below-average fielder overall (20 runs below average for his career). Of his eight seasons, he had positive fielding runs in one of them. Despite his blazing speed he wasn't a particularly great baserunner either, he was just ok (72% success rate on stolen base attempts, 1 baserunning run above average for his career). Deion was clearly the better baserunner and defensive player of the two, but he couldn't hit a lick, so Bo wins as the better player. But I'm standing by my comment that he wasn't a "great" player.
Big Faxx...I'm from North Carolina and everybody played baseball back in the day...on the streets and organized baseball .it was like running court with basketball..
No matter what! EVERYONE in the neighborhood played baseball back then .. there was no question about it... being from New York we played in school yards all the time
When Gary Sheffield talks baseball, you listen. He’s absolutely right. Analytics are ruining baseball. Honestly it’s made a lot of players worse. Look at the catcher position in baseball. There are not too many elite defensive catcher in the game right now because most of them have been brainwashed by analytics. It’s absurd.
Somehow. I agree on this. I disagree on this. Maybe it was taking the baseball more sophisticated. But sometimes those things that get more shallower than actual speaking for the most of it.
When that TB coach took Snell out while he was dealing against the Dodgers in the World Series, it was an all time low for modern Analytics driven Baseball.
Same thing with game 7 astros vs nationals and greinke getting pulled. He was pitching the best game 7 I've ever seen live and then they lose because of it.
Shef was probably the last player that was scary at the plate. Spitting, snarling, that bat waving like a pendulum. That huge swing. His intensity at the plate was real. And to only have 82 strike outs at most! He is one of the last players I’ve ever seen like that. I loved seeing him in a yankee uniform just because he was the polar opposite of the clean cut yankee persona.
@@elliswoodyard878 the pitching is not “a lot” tougher lol you’re on meth if you think that pitching got “a lot tougher” in like what a 15-20 year span. Human beings didn’t just start to evolve in hyper speed in the last 2 decades.
I’m only 20 years old. I have bin watching baseball and played since I was 5 years old and I can tell you the excitement isn’t even nearly the same from 8-10 years ago. The rivalries aren’t the same, the players aren’t as electric, the personalities are gone. Man a lot has changed. It’s like boom or bust right now. There’s no room for suspense anymore like relying baseball stealing, contact hitting, intentional walking etc. I miss it man.
I do feel like baseball was more exciting when I was younger and I do miss the players I grew up on like manny ramirez, a rod and vlad but there are some really exciting young players rn with acuna, soto, tatis and more and of course there’s still the top guys like trout and mookie. I agree that the game doesn’t feel as exciting as it used to but there’s no denying the talent and personality that some of these young stars have rn
This Week In Baseball (TWIB) Such an excellent part of my childhood. Right there with Inside Stuff, and the George Michaels Sports Machine. Great Memories...Before Social Media
@@professorfleX420 Time to lose some weight and move out your parents basement dude you're almost 40! In the comments trolling like a little kid. Smh grow tf up.
Should have never left The House That Ruth Built. I am a diehard Yankee fan, the changes in baseball certainly suck but watching the Yankees at that soulless little league field has been absolutely devastating.
@@josephrivera6242 Agreed! Both Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are older than the original Yankee Stadium. The Yankees did not NEED a new stadium, but they wanted to make a move into the modern era. Once they got their new stadium, ticket prices, food prices, and merchandise prices skyrocketed. Yankee Stadium used to be a family friendly baseball venue, especially for the blue collar crowd. Those days are long gone!
@@dakidfromknowhere765 Baseball on espn does not get views because baseball fans have moved on from espn. Espn, especially first take, only shits on baseball and brings it up whenever they want to rant agianst it. Most baseball fans watch mlb network and all yall mfs think it is struggling so bad. Ratings this year are rising in the mlb while the nba's ratings are consistently dropping.
@@mnmproductions7403 Seems to me you want to throw shots because I didn't say anything about MLB being on ESPN or the NBA in general. And I also stand by what I said
Nobody cares about running over the catcher. Plays like that are few in between. There just aren't enough players perfecting their craft. Everyone wants to go for the long ball and not play to win. Not many skilled fielders or specialists.
Yea... I bet Posey sat in his locker one day and said to himself “man I got to get them to stop running over the catcher. so I know what I’ll do, I will shatter my lower leg”.
@@apollo8688 coincidentally the next year Salvador Perez got stranded at third base in game 7 of the World Series if they were allowed to run over the catcher still he would of gone for the inside the park homerun and trucked Buster again
@@djbhe Defensively he was still better then Sheffield defensively as a catcher. Roids don't even do as much as you think, talk to bodybuilders an powerlifters on that topic
90's were some fun baseball to watch. Steriods aside, you had the Braves with their killer Pitching lineup, The Mariners with Prime Griffey Jr. & Big Unit, The Yankees figuring it out to become a Dynasty, and then the Home Run chase with Big Mac and Sosa. Even my little old Grandmother who didn't care about sports would tune into the news every night to see who was leading in HR's.
Dude they’re measuring velocity way differently now. Guys were throwing 95 with movement back then too but the guns were registering it at 91-92 because they measured the speed of the ball as it crossed the plate. Now they measure the velocity right out of the pitcher’s hand.
mlb got ruined when they started interleague play. There was a time where the world series was must watch tv , there was a mystique to it. But nowadays two teams who meet up in world series possibly already met in the regular season.
analytics misses a lot of the human elements of baseball. theres something to be said about putting pressure on fielders and pitchers by making contact, especially in big games
I use to be a big baseball fan before the 90's strike. That killed it for me. I remember Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, Ken Griffey Jr. Kirby Puckett Jose Canseco, Steve Sax, etc. After that I just focused more on Michael Jordan in Basketball
Babe Ruth never struck out 100 times in a season. Granted, they only played 154 games back then, but the most he ever struck out was 93 times. He had over 100 walks in thirteen seasons, 130 walks or more in nine seasons. I checked Babe Ruth's strikeout rate for his entire career and compared it to Mike Trout. Ruth struck out 12.51 % of the time. (SO dived by PA) Currently Mike Trout's strikeout rate is 21.47%. In a little more than half as many plate appearances Mike Trout only has 115 less strikeouts than Ruth. (1330 vs Trout's 1215) Of course, even without the influence of sabermetrics the game is very different. Pitching staffs; particularly in the bullpen, are far deeper than in the 1920's, but I don't think that pitching depth by itself explains the increase in strikeouts in today's game. The one thing no one talked about is the suspicious increase in spin rate in a number of pitchers today. It looks like baseball has a new cheating scandal on its hands, they just don't want to say anything about it out loud. It reminds me of the time when people were starting to talk about steroids, but MLB was silent on the matter.
Sheff is on point, I use to love all the big names back in the day...today’s stars put me to 😴😴😴😴. Would rather watch coverage on the drafts for both the NFL and NBA
Gary Sheffield belong in Hall but before Rafael Palmeiro, Palmeiro has 3000 hits 500 Home Runs 3 Golden Gloves and he's 17th all time in RBIs 13 in Home Runs and 12th in total bases, he hit like that all while being a very smart base runner and playing gold glove defense in the field. No one realizes how great Palmeiro was, after Bonds and Clemons he is the third guy that most definitely should be in
What are you talking about? Everyone thought Palmeiro was good. Eventually his numbers would have gotten him into the HOF. However, he got caught using PEDs after he denied it vehemently to congress. Basically making Palmeiro a laughingstock. He never recovered from that.
The Shift is the problem. It means that groundballs get hit into a bunch of defenders, so to combat that they increase launch angles and try to hit it out of the park every at bat leading to a lot more strikeouts. Ban the Shift and players can hit groundballs through the infield. They won't always swing for the fences.
This is why most people just watch the highlight reels now, theres no point in watching an entire 3 hour game if theres only 10 minutes of action in it
agree. MLB keeps trying to make the game more exciting in the wrong directions. Some of the rules are to protect players like the catcher rule a few years back. But they just need to let the game be the game.
Baseball fans like home runs that's the problem instead of the fundamentals of the game of stealing bases hitting doubles hitting triples or plain old fashioned Base hits.
Baseball has the same problem as the NBA; too much of a "good thing". NBA is just dunks or 3s and it's boring... Baseball is homeruns or strikeouts. No smallball because the Shift clamps down on smallball.
Best swing ever to my eyes...Now they talking about "launch angle" like man....Gary Sheffield wasn't worried about no "launch angle", he just knew he had to hit the ball as hard as he could to get runs. Yankees are more worried about trying to hit home runs rather than putting the ball in play & score points.
I agree, rules changes can fix it . Stop the shifts, no player can cross his base/position (shortstop can’t play 2B while the 2B is in shallow RF). That would get averages up and reward hitters for contact. Also, scores more runs. Shorten the season to 100 games. Just a thought but each game would mean more. DH is both leagues as well. But for me the most important thing is getting these wild shifts out. With no shifts more base runners, more runs. More hitting with runners on etc. forces action and makes situational hitting more values then a homer in some fashion. Look at the man on 2nd base to start an inning in extra inning games. Scoring jumps. Also the situational hitting is valued more in extras. I can keep going but I love this game and I played college baseball. I watch but it’s a feast or strikeout league and people are not watching as much.
The MLB’s popularity is slowly decreasing. They remind me of the NBA before Larry and Magic entered the league (and later MJ). They dont have stars that’ll make people tune in
People have been constantly predicting the 'death' of Major League Baseball for decades. Way back in the early-'70s the sport was declining in popularity and people thought back then the sport wouldn't survive. 4 decades later we're STILL watching baseball highlights on TV, whether people like it or not. Baseball isn't going to 'die off' no matter how people keep saying it will.
I don't think it is the star issue. I grew up playing every sport, and I am not a supremacist when it comes to one or the other. I want to like baseball, but It is hard to watch now when it is strikeout after strikeout after strikeout. MLB has had 705 more strikeouts than hits so far this season, and it is still only April. This didn't used to happen.
I'm a nxcca from the streets that jus loves sports all kinds . I love watching professionals in every sport they're so better than everyone else lol. Special talents
I’ was there citie field when Gary hit his 500th HR he deserves to be a Hall of farmer . When I was younger from 04 to 09 I wouldn’t miss a yankees or Mets game, now days I don’t even remember the last time I’ve watched a baseball game barely even know who the stars are. MLB needs to switch something up.
I stopped watching the NFL and NBA about two years ago, I stopped watching MLB because of how they have disrespected our country. I’m done with all of them..
Don’t take credit away from pitchers, almost everyone is throwing 95+ with movement and wipeout sliders nowadays. It’s hard to hit that kind of pitching consistently.
Pitchers can't last more than 5 innings today. Starters suck today. It's just that because of the Shift players have to try to hit it out of the park every at bat. HRs are up but so are strikeouts.
They are making the game too hitter friendly.. also, all the hitters are striking out... Contradiction much? I don't even understand the problem they are seeing
Why does ESPN still cover baseball then if half the time people on the network are just bashing the sport constantly? And the same folks who constantly plead for baseball to make changes to improve the game are also the same ones COMPLAINING every time they make changes to the sport.
Roids do not put the ball over center field. But if center field is 409 feet and you hit the ball 395 without juice, those pop ups on juice turn into homeruns.
@@SynBlades nonetheless, steroids do not make the bat hit the ball. That’s my only point. Steroids help you recover much faster, make you stronger, and faster. However, they will never put the bat on the ball.
Sheffield had one of the most violent swings as a hitter. Pitchers were scared of him, for good reason. He was a very proud player, I truly enjoyed watching him.
Gary is a beast. His batting stance is iconic
I loved it. It was so aggressive.
Especially when he played for the Padres!
He used to swing that bat like he was DARING pitchers to throw at him.
YESSIRRRR!!!
Gary and Vladdy sr. had the best stance/swing in the game.
Vladdy jr is takin over today’s game
Sheff should definitely be in the Hall Of Fame. We all practiced his stance as kids lol
Facts
For me it's was Hank Aaron and Ted Williams were to place my hands on the bat knob and stare that ball down (I'm 50 year's old).
Facts
Lol so accurate bro
I practiced Ken Griffey Jr stance.
Like Gary Sheffield, Albert Pujols has never struck out 100 times in a season. The most strikeouts Albert Pujols has suffered in a season was 93. He did that his rookie year in 2001 & again in 2017. Even though he’s on the downside of a Hall of Fame career, he still puts the ball in play when he’s at the plate. In 2019 at age 39, Albert Pujols hit 23 home runs and drove in 93 runs. On top of that, he struck out 68 times in 131 games.
i dont even care about the strikeouts. i care about the fundamental changes happening to baseball like putting a man on second if its an extra inning game. purists already lost the designated hitter abomination argument, now you are putting men on scoring positions without earning it, the defensive shifts.... its degrading and making the game an abomination. i didnt mind the minor changes to speed up the game like limiting mound visits and making pitchers pitch at least 3 guys before changing, but some of these rule changes are attacking the foundational aspect of the game.
@ESPNis Racist true, but he also has spent about half his playing time in LA as a DH. No spot for that in the NL.
well all the pitches cheat today. the game isnt the same. its not a level playing field.
since the 60's only George Brett in 81' and Barry Bonds in 2004, had seasons in which they hit more home runs than strikeouts. Pujols came close one year, hit 49hrs, struck out 51 times.
Angels Pujols problem was never power or strikes his biggest problem was that he lost speed and he always fell victim to a grounded into a double play. If Pujols was on his prime with the Angels like he was with the Cardinals then Trout and Pujols would be easily a top 5 duo of all time with Ruth and Gehrig, Aaron and Matthews, and Mays and McCovey.
Only 90s kids remember playing wiffle ball and using Sheffields batting stance
83 strikeouts in a season batting 292%... sounds like alot of pop ups or groundouts.
I played softball on that stance
Lol word
Me!
I used The Kid's stance
Gary had the most violent swing I ever seen 83 strike outs in a season is his high. BRAVO
That’s what I was thinking. A guy with that much power only striking out 83 times as a career high in a season is WILD. S/o Mr. Sheffield
Amazing isn’t it and is member of the 500 homer club...
@@ApostlePat guy, it's the violence of his swing not the power. Barry Bonds had more power (even before steroids) and only struck out 20 times a season.
@@BennyNegroFromQueens I get the violence of the swing. That’s a terrible point, considering that teams were literally scared to pitch to Barry. You brought up the most walked player in MLB history by a large margin. Also, I don’t know where you got your info, but Barry had a season of 102 strikeouts and never even had a season with 20 strikeouts or less. Do better, “guy.” Lmao
@@BennyNegroFromQueens Barry bonds is a joke
gary had a stance and a swing that made you feel he could literally hit the ball to the moon.
I agree 💯💯
he was the most aggressive looking player i can remember... that bat wiggle was full of fury and mean intentions
Agreed
Big FACTS 💯💯💯
Hall of fame
Striking out used to be upsetting and embarrassing for players. More importantly, Gary is an easy HoF.
well now the hitters off the juice and the pitches can still cheat. this is the results.
Yeah baby ! 😂
@Gshi _ when you strikeout, that’s an L.
Baseball on ESPN?!?!?!? Wow it really is 4/20
They only talk about the negative narratives in baseball. In their minds there's nothing good with the game now so they just ignore it and only bring it up just to trash the sport even more.
Because ESPN represents young people, and baseball just old man watching.
@@LD70701 not true
U sound really dumb and I always say people who hate baseball probably don't have the patience to sit though a 2 hour movie or play chess
I though baseball was on hiatus...lol
I’m glad SAS said it but I for the life of me, don’t get how Sheffield isn’t in the HOF yet.
He isn’t in the HOF because he took steroids
@@JUnior-ot1xu he denied taking steroids though & he was never busted for steroids so basically, he’s being kept out under assumption, which shouldn’t be the case. If that’s how they’re gonna judge who belongs in, might as well keep everyone who was great in that era, out then.
@@gregorydunston2952 look at the HOF class this year their is none they don’t let them in Sheffield isn’t the only one
@@gregorydunston2952 they are out. see mcgwire, bonds and clemens.
To out spoken about the Yankees
I like when SAS and Max agree on things. They end up having a solid conversation
That’s the most stoner thing to say hahahaha
I was shocked too. But then again SAS concedes to max when baseball is the topic. He's a smart guy.
About my favorite team. The Knicks. 😂
baseball cards not being popular hurts too. I remember collecting topps donruss and upper deck.
collecting all those cards made me know every single player. now i just know my astros.
Some get even more info now playing DFS baseball! Baseball has and will always have up and down decades.
Great point!
The chitters???
word is they are getting popular again!
I remember collecting cards back in the late 80s and 90s and buying the beckett just to check the prices lol good times
Sheffield stepped in the box like he was furious that the pitcher would dare to pitch to him.
Sheff was so exciting to watch. Players like him, Griffey Jr., and Bo Jackson are few and far in today's game.
Bo Jackson was a tremendous athlete, he wasn't a great Major League baseball player.
I think there's a lot of exciting players today, especially some of these young guys just breaking in. Star power isn't the problem. Robotic managers, analytics, and a GM trying to appease a small minority of population you'll never win over anyway, is.
@@sinatra222 I disagree with you about Bo Jackson. Deion Sanders wasn't a good baseball player. Bo Jackson had a skill set even greater than Vlad Guerrero, and the only time Bo came close to a full season, he made the AS team and was top 10 in MVP ballot. He just got injured. He wasn't the same after missing the 92' season. However, look at his 3 years prior to that. He had a ton of power, ton of speed, great throwing arm, made plays in the OF some outfielders would never make. Yeah, he struck out a lot for he times, that aside, he was a beast in every other aspect of the game.
@@mikeshoe74 Bo was never nearly the hitter that Vlad Guerrero was, I don't think he ever had the potential to be. That is kind of an insult to Vlad, who hit .300 in 12 consecutive seasons and never struck out 100 times in a season.
Bo was a .250 hitter with an abysmal .309 OBP. Though he was certainly a freak athlete who made some legendary plays in the outfield and was entertaining to watch, the advanced metrics rate him as a below-average fielder overall (20 runs below average for his career). Of his eight seasons, he had positive fielding runs in one of them.
Despite his blazing speed he wasn't a particularly great baserunner either, he was just ok (72% success rate on stolen base attempts, 1 baserunning run above average for his career).
Deion was clearly the better baserunner and defensive player of the two, but he couldn't hit a lick, so Bo wins as the better player. But I'm standing by my comment that he wasn't a "great" player.
"it felt wrong not to swing"
- Joakim Phoenix character in Signs
Love the reference!
Back when everyone I knew, loved and played baseball... the 90’s. Little league was a big thing in Atlanta. Thanks to players like Gary Sheffield.
Big Faxx...I'm from North Carolina and everybody played baseball back in the day...on the streets and organized baseball .it was like running court with basketball..
Bro, I'm a little league player from Atlanta. I played for Ben Hill Tigers. What part of town you from? I'm 43 so I don't know what your age is.
No matter what! EVERYONE in the neighborhood played baseball back then .. there was no question about it... being from New York we played in school yards all the time
@@alifrombenhill3374 I’m from College Park, played at North Clayton, right off Old National Hwy. About 3 years younger than you my brother.
But Sheffield played with Atlanta back in 02, 03 just saying.
Gary has a point. I don’t watch it anymore either. And I used to love it back in the day
Congrats 🎈🍾
I don’t either I love playing baseball but watching no period. I don’t even have a favorite team 😞🤔👀
I only watch october baseball, I like the games but regular season games are meaningless
Jessica Mendoza waxing about 'launch angle' Gak!
I still watch baseball on occasion but it doesn't get me excited as it did in the 1980's and 1990's.
I haven't sat down and watched a baseball game since Chipper Jones was the face of the Braves.
@nicelemon2 Fair enough, I got my Braves and Atlanta United though so I'm content.
you should watch again for Acuna
@@strikeout77777 I'm slowly getting back into it. He's great though.
Probably best if you didn’t watch since braces choked super hard last October
Chipper Jones and Ryan Klesko. What an era
Great point about the Yankees strikeouts.
Indeed it was.
When Gary Sheffield talks baseball, you listen. He’s absolutely right. Analytics are ruining baseball. Honestly it’s made a lot of players worse. Look at the catcher position in baseball. There are not too many elite defensive catcher in the game right now because most of them have been brainwashed by analytics. It’s absurd.
its made players too precise of a specialty player. analytics are always good, but just like anything else, in moderation.
@@universe-ie2mk analytics are not always good. I argue that it makes most players worse.
Somehow. I agree on this. I disagree on this. Maybe it was taking the baseball more sophisticated. But sometimes those things that get more shallower than actual speaking for the most of it.
Lmfao
Loved Gary on the dodgers. His stance was so iconic. Great player
He was great for the Marlins as well
The element of true competition at its core is lost in all sports
especially in the nba. smh.
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Preeeeeeeeach!!!!!!
Wrong, idiot!
FAKTUALITEEZ.....
Gary Sheffield is one of my favorite Yankees player growing up watching.
When that TB coach took Snell out while he was dealing against the Dodgers in the World Series, it was an all time low for modern Analytics driven Baseball.
Absolutely.
That was disgusting
Same thing with game 7 astros vs nationals and greinke getting pulled. He was pitching the best game 7 I've ever seen live and then they lose because of it.
Sheff most definitely a hall of famer
Shef was probably the last player that was scary at the plate. Spitting, snarling, that bat waving like a pendulum. That huge swing. His intensity at the plate was real. And to only have 82 strike outs at most! He is one of the last players I’ve ever seen like that. I loved seeing him in a yankee uniform just because he was the polar opposite of the clean cut yankee persona.
I'm talking about over 600 AB's. That's elite
when you described the way he waived the bat it made me get goosebumps shef was a issue 🙌
David ortiz had quite the presence at the plate as well
@@tylerspringstube4868I agree w/ that. Big Papi was great.
@@tommyz1082 except when he played my Tigers 😭 he destroyed us repeatedly
The pitching is tougher and you are constantly seeing different arms that’s a good reason why strikeouts are up as well
I definitely agree pitching is a lot tougher but I think guys going for HRs skews the numbers
@@elliswoodyard878 the pitching is not “a lot” tougher lol you’re on meth if you think that pitching got “a lot tougher” in like what a 15-20 year span. Human beings didn’t just start to evolve in hyper speed in the last 2 decades.
I hate the fact that they don't steal bases anymore.
I’m only 20 years old. I have bin watching baseball and played since I was 5 years old and I can tell you the excitement isn’t even nearly the same from 8-10 years ago. The rivalries aren’t the same, the players aren’t as electric, the personalities are gone. Man a lot has changed. It’s like boom or bust right now. There’s no room for suspense anymore like relying baseball stealing, contact hitting, intentional walking etc. I miss it man.
I do feel like baseball was more exciting when I was younger and I do miss the players I grew up on like manny ramirez, a rod and vlad but there are some really exciting young players rn with acuna, soto, tatis and more and of course there’s still the top guys like trout and mookie. I agree that the game doesn’t feel as exciting as it used to but there’s no denying the talent and personality that some of these young stars have rn
@@Jdh120396 no
More like 15-20 yrs ago.
It is literally the opposite of what you just said what’s going on? You trippin man
Stephen A putting these guys on blast 🤣 name by name
This Week In Baseball (TWIB) Such an excellent part of my childhood. Right there with Inside Stuff, and the George Michaels Sports Machine. Great Memories...Before Social Media
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Well time moves on buddy
@@professorfleX420 Time to lose some weight and move out your parents basement dude you're almost 40! In the comments trolling like a little kid. Smh grow tf up.
The 80's baby. I couldn't wait for Saturday to come to watch TWIB.
Sheff isn't a Hall of Famer??? That's Crazy! side note, Max was on point on this topic.
Sheffield should DEFINITELY be inducted into the hof
True I used to love watching the Yankees as a long time NYer but now its not as exciting. I don't feel the same nostalgia and adrenaline 😔
Should have never left The House That Ruth Built. I am a diehard Yankee fan, the changes in baseball certainly suck but watching the Yankees at that soulless little league field has been absolutely devastating.
@@josephrivera6242 Agreed! Both Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are older than the original Yankee Stadium. The Yankees did not NEED a new stadium, but they wanted to make a move into the modern era. Once they got their new stadium, ticket prices, food prices, and merchandise prices skyrocketed. Yankee Stadium used to be a family friendly baseball venue, especially for the blue collar crowd. Those days are long gone!
Gary himself said he would’ve been a straight contact hitter if he wasn’t every at-bat trying to hit the ball into another orbit 👏🏻👌🏼
I saw him and Ray Lankford hit 2 home runs each at Dodgers stadium in 1999
I really think Max is so crazy he could've named every stat that Stephen A. Smith was reading on paper by his memory.
These ESPN hot take artists never ever talk about baseball unless a former player or someone comes up with a hot take of their own. 😂
Well they just gave you reasons while they don't. It is not viewer friendly at all.
there’s a reason they talk about the same stuff but in different ways
Believe it or not, baseball is not as popular as it used to be.
@@dakidfromknowhere765 Baseball on espn does not get views because baseball fans have moved on from espn. Espn, especially first take, only shits on baseball and brings it up whenever they want to rant agianst it. Most baseball fans watch mlb network and all yall mfs think it is struggling so bad. Ratings this year are rising in the mlb while the nba's ratings are consistently dropping.
@@mnmproductions7403 Seems to me you want to throw shots because I didn't say anything about MLB being on ESPN or the NBA in general. And I also stand by what I said
All i think of is arron judge when sheff spoke
My Yankees swing and miss team it’s hard watching em right now, if they don’t hit the long ball we just avg team. Someone come save my soul
Don't you guys have friends, or played too much evil empire to have one
I mean they are called the Bronx Bombers right haha
@@_will795 Touche 😂😂😂
I was never a MLB fan I reather go to a real game then watch on TV.This man is speaking facts he no what the league use to be like 🤔🤔🤔🤭💯
Cuz they can’t juice up anymore
Baseball on TV is a great cure for insomnia
@@johancorrales6537 👍
Me neither
One of my favorite players. Dude hit the ball so hard every time it was crazy
He’s so right. I tried to watch the Braves-Yankees game last night and it was so brutally boring
Remember 10 years ago when you could run over the catcher.Then Buster Posey had to go break his leg & they put a stop to that
@Cedrick Carson ya he's still in SF to a giant through and through. And he plays such a demanding position
Nobody cares about running over the catcher. Plays like that are few in between. There just aren't enough players perfecting their craft. Everyone wants to go for the long ball and not play to win. Not many skilled fielders or specialists.
That needed removal.
Yea... I bet Posey sat in his locker one day and said to himself “man I got to get them to stop running over the catcher. so I know what I’ll do, I will shatter my lower leg”.
@@apollo8688 coincidentally the next year Salvador Perez got stranded at third base in game 7 of the World Series if they were allowed to run over the catcher still he would of gone for the inside the park homerun and trucked Buster again
Gary sheff and his unusual batting stance. Remember that!
Sheffield impacted every kid playing in that era he was baseball a hitter’s hitter at the plate
"The future is now old man"
Dewey
Biggio Bagwell and Pudge Rodriguez all had “suspicions” all are in the HOF and I could argue Sheffield was better or just as good as those guys.
Pudge definitely did roids. One season he was big and the next he lost so much weight when he stop taking the roids.
they were all on roids. baseball was 100 times better as well.
@@djbhe Defensively he was still better then Sheffield defensively as a catcher. Roids don't even do as much as you think, talk to bodybuilders an powerlifters on that topic
90's were some fun baseball to watch. Steriods aside, you had the Braves with their killer Pitching lineup, The Mariners with Prime Griffey Jr. & Big Unit, The Yankees figuring it out to become a Dynasty, and then the Home Run chase with Big Mac and Sosa. Even my little old Grandmother who didn't care about sports would tune into the news every night to see who was leading in HR's.
Call me when MLB adds a pitch clock
Gary is definitely a HOF for sure. Just the speed of his bat jiggle was enough to scare most. Legend!!! Legendary attitude!!!
I played with Gary on the same team from 8 to 15 years old. He performed in little league as he did in the Pros. Slugger
Sheffield was one of my favorite players and the mid 90s to 2010s was a great era for baseball today but so much
A big factor that they didn’t talk about is how dominant pitchers have become. 95 mph with movement is pretty much the standard now.
Dude they’re measuring velocity way differently now. Guys were throwing 95 with movement back then too but the guns were registering it at 91-92 because they measured the speed of the ball as it crossed the plate. Now they measure the velocity right out of the pitcher’s hand.
“They’re making it more hitter friendly” today’s game or the roids from the early 2000’s
Yessir.
Roids
Today's players are juicing too. They just can't make contact.
Neither. 80’s baseball was the best.
Steroids & analytics ruined the game. I can’t watch anymore.
Somebody is sensitive lmao. He's right Analytics killed sports
Sheff should have Popeye forearms with that batting motion he had ⚾️
mlb got ruined when they started interleague play. There was a time where the world series was must watch tv , there was a mystique to it. But nowadays two teams who meet up in world series possibly already met in the regular season.
analytics misses a lot of the human elements of baseball. theres something to be said about putting pressure on fielders and pitchers by making contact, especially in big games
Sheff was one of my favorite players all-time he definitely should be in the Hall he never tested positive for anything
I use to be a big baseball fan before the 90's strike. That killed it for me. I remember Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, Ken Griffey Jr. Kirby Puckett Jose Canseco, Steve Sax, etc. After that I just focused more on Michael Jordan in Basketball
Same here never went back after that
My Oldest Brother who was signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks Sprained His wrist trying to imitate Gary Sheffield Batting Stance 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My favorite baseball players of all time
Ken Griffey Jr.
Chipper Jones
Gary Sheffield
Rickey Henderson for me.
Man when Shef was at bat you knew it was going airborne
Wow, didn't know Sheff isn't in the Hall of Fame
Sheff is my all time favorite player . Ultimate swagger of any player EVER. The swag you have to have to do that stance says all you need to know
Babe Ruth never struck out 100 times in a season. Granted, they only played 154 games back then, but the most he ever struck out was 93 times. He had over 100 walks in thirteen seasons, 130 walks or more in nine seasons. I checked Babe Ruth's strikeout rate for his entire career and compared it to Mike Trout. Ruth struck out 12.51 % of the time. (SO dived by PA) Currently Mike Trout's strikeout rate is 21.47%. In a little more than half as many plate appearances Mike Trout only has 115 less strikeouts than Ruth. (1330 vs Trout's 1215)
Of course, even without the influence of sabermetrics the game is very different. Pitching staffs; particularly in the bullpen, are far deeper than in the 1920's, but I don't think that pitching depth by itself explains the increase in strikeouts in today's game. The one thing no one talked about is the suspicious increase in spin rate in a number of pitchers today. It looks like baseball has a new cheating scandal on its hands, they just don't want to say anything about it out loud. It reminds me of the time when people were starting to talk about steroids, but MLB was silent on the matter.
More baseball topics please. ⚾
Sheff is on point, I use to love all the big names back in the day...today’s stars put me to 😴😴😴😴. Would rather watch coverage on the drafts for both the NFL and NBA
The MLB Game of the Week on Saturdays used to have similar ratings to MNF. Hard to believe but true.
Gary Sheffield belong in Hall but before Rafael Palmeiro, Palmeiro has 3000 hits 500 Home Runs 3 Golden Gloves and he's 17th all time in RBIs 13 in Home Runs and 12th in total bases, he hit like that all while being a very smart base runner and playing gold glove defense in the field. No one realizes how great Palmeiro was, after Bonds and Clemons he is the third guy that most definitely should be in
What are you talking about? Everyone thought Palmeiro was good. Eventually his numbers would have gotten him into the HOF. However, he got caught using PEDs after he denied it vehemently to congress. Basically making Palmeiro a laughingstock. He never recovered from that.
The Shift is the problem. It means that groundballs get hit into a bunch of defenders, so to combat that they increase launch angles and try to hit it out of the park every at bat leading to a lot more strikeouts. Ban the Shift and players can hit groundballs through the infield. They won't always swing for the fences.
Most people at baseball game are on their phone most of the time.
This is why most people just watch the highlight reels now, theres no point in watching an entire 3 hour game if theres only 10 minutes of action in it
agree. MLB keeps trying to make the game more exciting in the wrong directions. Some of the rules are to protect players like the catcher rule a few years back. But they just need to let the game be the game.
Its interesting how stats, analytics and math are having a big impact on so many sports.
Max is more of a man then Steven A because he actually admitted he was wrong about something without having to be forced by ESPN
No one cares tbh
@@teeripk9469 And yet u still make time to comment I'm touched
Steven has always admitted when he was wrong.....dude relaz it's 4/20 smoke one.
@@IsmokeHiphopLive I didn't realize it was that serious but I'll definitely smoke anyway thanks
Baseball fans like home runs that's the problem instead of the fundamentals of the game of stealing bases hitting doubles hitting triples or plain old fashioned Base hits.
Baseball has the same problem as the NBA; too much of a "good thing". NBA is just dunks or 3s and it's boring... Baseball is homeruns or strikeouts. No smallball because the Shift clamps down on smallball.
With the new extra inning rule - you can pitch a perfect game and lose! - runner on 2nd in extra innings advances on two sacrifices!
Can’t even tell you the last time I saw a baseball game lol
I have been watching all the OLD games here on TH-cam. playoff and world series games. from the 70's, 80's, and 90's. but mostly 1970's and 80's.
Best swing ever to my eyes...Now they talking about "launch angle" like man....Gary Sheffield wasn't worried about no "launch angle", he just knew he had to hit the ball as hard as he could to get runs. Yankees are more worried about trying to hit home runs rather than putting the ball in play & score points.
I agree, rules changes can fix it . Stop the shifts, no player can cross his base/position (shortstop can’t play 2B while the 2B is in shallow RF). That would get averages up and reward hitters for contact. Also, scores more runs. Shorten the season to 100 games. Just a thought but each game would mean more. DH is both leagues as well. But for me the most important thing is getting these wild shifts out. With no shifts more base runners, more runs. More hitting with runners on etc. forces action and makes situational hitting more values then a homer in some fashion. Look at the man on 2nd base to start an inning in extra inning games. Scoring jumps. Also the situational hitting is valued more in extras. I can keep going but I love this game and I played college baseball. I watch but it’s a feast or strikeout league and people are not watching as much.
i agree Sheffield numbers were enough to definitely be in..
I gotta teach myself korean if I wanna watch first take silently while I'm supposed to be working :(
The MLB’s popularity is slowly decreasing. They remind me of the NBA before Larry and Magic entered the league (and later MJ). They dont have stars that’ll make people tune in
Yea, but I also think the sport in general is kinda boring. One of those sports that is more fun to play than to watch.
People have been constantly predicting the 'death' of Major League Baseball for decades. Way back in the early-'70s the sport was declining in popularity and people thought back then the sport wouldn't survive. 4 decades later we're STILL watching baseball highlights on TV, whether people like it or not. Baseball isn't going to 'die off' no matter how people keep saying it will.
No, just because boring of baseball. I don't have time to wait them throw ball.
@@ckendall67 no baseball player on the top 100 popular atheles hahaha
I don't think it is the star issue. I grew up playing every sport, and I am not a supremacist when it comes to one or the other. I want to like baseball, but It is hard to watch now when it is strikeout after strikeout after strikeout. MLB has had 705 more strikeouts than hits so far this season, and it is still only April. This didn't used to happen.
I'm a nxcca from the streets that jus loves sports all kinds . I love watching professionals in every sport they're so better than everyone else lol. Special talents
I’ was there citie field when Gary hit his 500th HR he deserves to be a Hall of farmer . When I was younger from 04 to 09 I wouldn’t miss a yankees or Mets game, now days I don’t even remember the last time I’ve watched a baseball game barely even know who the stars are. MLB needs to switch something up.
Surprised that first take isn’t talking about the Yankees bad start to the season.
162 games and were only in the first month, no need to care about anyone’s record at this stage of the season tbh...
Pitching has gotten so much better since he played too tho. We 100 MHP every night now.
But are they better no lol it’s actually worse just cause you throw faster
They throw 100 but can barley make it through 4 innings
Velocity doesn't equal being good.
Mike Dikisasrd "but can barely make it passed 4 innings" just say you don't watch baseball
NAH, Throwing 100 mph is not pitching, that's just throwing, and can't go longer than 3-4 innings!
Big Facts by G.Sheff
I stopped watching the NFL and NBA about two years ago, I stopped watching MLB because of how they have disrespected our country. I’m done with all of them..
Don’t take credit away from pitchers, almost everyone is throwing 95+ with movement and wipeout sliders nowadays. It’s hard to hit that kind of pitching consistently.
True. And when they barrel up on say a cutter, it’s going to be a home run
Pitchers can't last more than 5 innings today. Starters suck today. It's just that because of the Shift players have to try to hit it out of the park every at bat. HRs are up but so are strikeouts.
They are making the game too hitter friendly.. also, all the hitters are striking out... Contradiction much? I don't even understand the problem they are seeing
G.S did say they are making it hitter friendly without success lol
Why does ESPN still cover baseball then if half the time people on the network are just bashing the sport constantly? And the same folks who constantly plead for baseball to make changes to improve the game are also the same ones COMPLAINING every time they make changes to the sport.
No one cares about, just want to bash it.
@@LD70701 so no one cares about it, yet twice as many people watched the World Series than the Finals
Watching the KBO last year made me realize how much more fun the game is when the ball is in play.
509 Home Runs.
Listed in the Mitchell Report.
But we all know that roids do not put the bat on the ball.
Put this man in the Hall!
"We" (plural) speak for yourself Champ not for others
@@trevmac8362 he's not wrong, roids don't help you make contact. They help you build muscle and hit for power.
@@Akeela.4 They help with quickness and bat speed
Roids do not put the ball over center field. But if center field is 409 feet and you hit the ball 395 without juice, those pop ups on juice turn into homeruns.
@@SynBlades nonetheless, steroids do not make the bat hit the ball. That’s my only point. Steroids help you recover much faster, make you stronger, and faster. However, they will never put the bat on the ball.
That’s crazy he’s not in the hall... I just assumed he was
They think peds
Sheffield had one of the most violent swings as a hitter. Pitchers were scared of him, for good reason. He was a very proud player, I truly enjoyed watching him.
The best hitters of all time NEVER struck out over 100 times. These dues are striking out like 200 times a season.
I grew up during the steroid era aka the best era. There will never be a more exciting/better era in Baseball.
I’m not a baseball fan now. But back in the mid 90s to 2000s it was way more exciting from a casual fan prospective
SAS "teams":
Yankees
Steelers
Alabama
Knicks/Lakers
Of course he doesn't follow Hockey.
Dude is the biggest fraud on tv.
That's not fair SAS. Good pitching has always beat good hitting since the dawn of time
@Chip Crayton exactly it's the hitting coaches
I use Gary Sheffield’s batting stance in MLB the show 21. If you know you know