As a lifelong White Sox fan, Frank Thomas will always be my favorite ball player. When I was about 10 years old, they had an autograph day at Comisky Park and the line for Frank Thomas was halfway around the stadium. I begged my mom to let me stay in line and when I finally got to The Big Hurt I was amazed at how big he was. He took the baseball from me and his hands were so big, it looked like he was holding a golf ball. To a 10 year old me Frank Thomas was a giant!! One of my favorite baseball memories.
I grew up with Frank Thomas. I was a daughter of a huge fan and at the time didn’t appreciate BBall as I do now. Going to Sox games just ain’t the same. And it will always be comisky park to me.
I have no problem with people having the belief that steroid use should exempt you from the HOF. I do however have a problem with people who refuse to acknowledge the greatness of Barry Bonds. If you don’t recognize that Bonds is the only player to rival Babe as the greatest to do ever do it you can’t possibly know what you’re watching when it comes to baseball
NO hank aaron had 755 UNJUICED to me that is the most impressive not babe ruth but yes barry and babe are some of the best to ever do it despite juice with bonds
Research. What happens to players has they age they slow down and it's natural in baseball, however with ped you reduce the aging big time and its not even close. That's why ped is looked at so bad bud. Research before speaking on this subject. It's plain and simple
@@justvibing2497 I never said anything to dispute that. Of course PEDs slow the aging process and why Bonds stats are so inflated but the point being is that even before he started using PEDs he was already a bonafide HOFer and multiple time MVP. You can share your opinion without being condescending and rude
When I was younger I worked as a bartender in a hotel. Frank was staying there and sat at my bar one evening. Super nice. I asked him what's the longest hr he ever hit. He said 525 ft and smiled. A guy sitting two seats down from him straight up asked "yeah did you take any of those roids?". I thought Frank would get pissed. Instead he said " Shit I wish I had known it was a thing. I would have made so much more money"😂
Ya Ted was the best an Hank was like everyone else the rest kinda hitter Hammering Hank is a alltime great but Ted was is an probably will always be will best hitter of all time ❤
@@Yamatha69 you do understand he missed 6 full years to being in the service sector right’? Counting stats teddy would have been part of surely put 521 missing his prime I mean 🤷♂️ I guess
I don't know if it's possible to overstate just how beautiful a swing Junior had. The 3 times that I got to see him play live (twice at the Kingdome, once at Safeco) were fantastic experiences. One was particularly memorable, although the date escapes me. It was either the 97 or 98 season, and my sister had 2 tickets to see the Yankees play the M's in Seattle. Her BF was sent packing a week before, and I was in town visiting. So we went and watched 8 & 1/2 innings of boring baseball. We were about to leave with the M's down 5-2, but there was a walk with 1 out in the bottom. So I figured "let's wait". Then a single. Then another RBI single to right. Another strike out. Now it's bottom of the 9th, the score is 5-3 Yankees in Seattle, runners on the corners, and like magic... it's Griffey up to bat. The cavalier pageantry was breathtaking. And the once lumbering crowd was now electrified with this story unfolding before us. Could he...? On a 2-2 he TATTOOS that ball into deep right. The sound alone told me it was LONG gone, but to see it hit the upper deck was just magical. A hrown man sitting next to my sister actually wept at that moment. Unabashedly cried his eyes out. My sister and I were swept away with the exhiliration of the moment, as were all the rest of the Seattle faithful. Old Lou was at the side of the dugout to greet the Kid after the celebration at home plate. Even though I was on the 2nd deck on the 1st base line, I swear I saw Pinella shake his head & smile at Griffey. My sister & I hugged that emotional old man before we left. He told us he had not seen anything that beautiful in a ballpark since Yastrzemski in the 1968 Red Sox season. I spent the whole next day at the Queen Anne Seattle Library looking up Carl Yastrzemski, since I was only 20 or 21. It reminded me of my dad, talking about his baseball hero, Sandy Koufax, and my grandfather talking about his childhood watching Connie Mack's Athletics in Philly through a knothole in center field. And all of that came rushing back when I saw Ichiro Suzuki play for the M's less than a decade later. It came to me again when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, and I started to see pictures of graves with Sox penants on them, and notes reading "you can rest now, Dad... we did it." THAT is baseball.
I'm sure everyone has a suggestion, but for me, most notably missing is Jim Thome. I think it was 1997 that he was hitting between David Justice and Manny Ramirez. He was ALWAYS up in a big spot and was liable to hit one about 600 feet at any moment. And you had young Manny behind him, cleaning up 160something RBIs, so you had to pitch to Thome. What a nightmare for a pitcher, or an AL east fan.
To me the coolest thing about Frank Thomas is how he always played the game his way. Beyond just his strong stance against steroids, he also refused to be anything other than the type of hitter he knew himself to be. People who only saw his size pushed him to swing more and become more of a three true outcomes hitter, but he never saw the point in swinging at bad pitches. He had that excellent eye for the strike zone, and he was gonna use it. He might've been built like a monster slugger, but he was determined to hit for contact.
Bonds PROBABLY had a great case for cooperstown in 99??? He had 445 HR at that point and 460 SB and 3 MVP awards along with 4 other seasons where he finished top 5 in MVP. He wasn’t probably a hall of gamer at that point. He was a guaranteed lock first ballot hall of famer at that point.
He should've retired in in 1999. Instead he kept playing and juicing (he was probably juicing before then). He might have gotten the benefit of the doubt from HOF voters if he had retired before his head grew to the size of a pumpkin. He doesn't deserve the HOF because he put his eligibility in doubt.
Growing up playing little league in the early 90's these players were my heroes. Managed to still hang on to some of their trading cards too. I found out my 89' Topps Ken Griffey Jr. Rated Rookie is worth $50 now. Reminded me also of some bad trades I made with a buddy, where apparently, he got the better end of the deal haha such a great era of baseball and history.
I’ve been binging your videos lately, I hadn’t realized how greatly the Strike impacted SO many significant trajectories in progress, what a shame Thanks for Frank Thomas 🙏🏻
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te It stinks they never finished the season. Frank would’ve won MVP. Plus everyone always talks about the Expos if the season never got cancelled, but my Sox would’ve also had a huge shot to win the series
Joe DiMaggio. Until his last season, he had more home runs than strikeouts. As a right-hander, he was handicapped by old Yankee Stadium. Yet his advanced stats on the road are on par with Ted Williams on the road. As for Ted, prime Mickey Mantle overlapped aging Ted Williams, yet Ted’s advanced stats in his decline are nearly on par with prime Mantle.
You tend to shout the last 1 or 2 syllables of each and every sentence. You say something and THEN YELL. Then you talk some more and you shout AG-AIN. For those of you who notice this you will never be able to not notice him DO IT!!
That’s called delivery and it’s perfectly consistent across all videos which is all that matters. It’s only jarring if you’re new. Usually people who do that tend to write their own scripts. The more he does it, usually the snappier the writing or more clever the sentence structure/ punchline I’ve noticed. Voiceover is a performance. Measure the entirety of it, not just intonations.
I'm so glad I was fortunate enough to see Bonds play in SF 2002-2005. I was at many of the games during that time, and I don't think I'll see another player like him in my lifetime. He literally would be intentionally walked throughout the games, and if the pitcher gave him anything to hit, it would likely end up in the seats or water. When he came to the plate, everyone in the stadium would stop what they were doing, stand up, and watch in awe. The numbers he put up will probably never be matched. Juiced? Probably. Do I care about that? No. It was sporting entertainment at its finest. It's hard to describe.
Yeah, I am glad I got to see him hit especially those last few years when he was in a class of his own. He was always my secret weapon in fantasy baseball for years, I don't know why people passed him up so often in the 90's.
@biffmarcum5014 Because MLB Media hated him even back in the 1990s, he was also a huge primma donna and not a friendly person to be around. That also didn't help his case...
Vladimir Guerrero SR doesn't have the monster stats of many of these guys but the guy was so scary at the plate because he "could" or at least had the ability to hit a homerun on a perfect pitcher's pitch, he hit more homeruns on pitches out of the zone then I remember anyone being able to and somehow had a fairly high batting average for someone who virtually swung at EVERYTHING lol...
This seems like more of a list of the greatest pure-hitting power-hitters of all-time. Of the guys that were truly the scariest, I'd have to go with Albert Belle, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Mo Vaughn, Mike Piazza, Andres Galarraga, Jim Thome, Gary Sheffield and Adam Dunn to go along with Frank Thomas, Bonds, Babe and Frank Howard. I'd also consider the father/son duo of Cecil and Prince Fielder as well.
Love that Frank Thomas, aka, the Big Hurt was included on here. Despite being from Kansas City, Missouri, and a life long Royals fan, my favorite baseball player in the league was The Big Hurt. Ya see, since I was born in 1986, I was born the year after they won their first World Series--which would also be their ONLY World Series chmpuonship until finally winning again in 2015 when I was then 29-years-old. Further, they didn't even make the playoffs during practically the same stretch until finally winning the wild card in 2014 and making it to game 7 of the World Series where theyd lose in a heart breaker to San Francisco. And so, during the mid-90s to the early 2000s, the Royals were always quite dismal and rarely even had any decent players to get excited to watch. And so that's where the Big Hurt fit in. My dads work buddy had season tickets he rarely used and would give them to us quite often, and i remember early on, by '93 or '94, Frank would hammer us every time he stepped into Kauffman, hitting prodigious homers, showing unnatural plate discipline, and lining doubles from gap to gap anytime he wasn't easily jogging to first for a walk or jogging around all 4 bases after a round tripper. And so i fell in love with Big Frank and it became a habit to see at least one game every time they came to KC, and each time each seemed like he'd send a ball into the fountains. And hell, for good measure, when I was 11, my, my dad, and my 2 older brothers went on a road trip to Chicago and, needless to say, we had to catch a Sox game at Comiskey. And despite it being a cool night for July with the wind blowing in (as i remember we had to stop at a mall to get jackets to wear to the game since we hadnt packed any), the Big Hurt didnt disappoint and hit a moonshot in the only game i ever saw at Comiskey (or whatever it's called now.)
What a great story. Thank you for sharing it! As I got older and learned more and more about the game, I began to really appreciate Thomas' discipline at the plate. His ability to draw walks was incredible. When I was a teenager, I remember going to a Sox game when the Royals were in town. I got a very close look at the Royals starting pitcher and remember thinking to myself he couldn't have been more than 20 years old. I wasn't far off and watched Zack Greinke pitch his rookie season when he was 20-21 yeas old. What a career he ended up having!
I don't mean this as internet hate but a piece of advice would be to change the pitch that you end some of your sentences with. Once you can't help but notice it it becomes a little unsettling and it'd help to vary your cadence a little. Some really awesome batters on that list.
For Babe Ruth's 145 walks, just remember Lou Gehrig was right behind him and they still decided that was the best course of action And he spent 7 years as a pitcher and most of his homers came in his last 13 seasons
He was also hitting 80 MPH fastballs. Hes undoubtably one of the best to ever especially considering how much better than his peers he was but lets keep things in perspective.
Jr had the most beautiful swing known to man. And as for Cabrera. I was a catcher. I can’t even imagine the sweat down the ass crack pitchers felt with runners on base and Miguel stepping up. At that point it’s like looking at the skipper and being like “bring in the bullpen. I don’t want to be here.” That battle of him and arguably the greatest closer Mariano, is still one of the best sports clips ever.
No one absolutely no one compared to Barry bonds in his prime. That stretch from like 2001 to 2004 especially was insane. I don't give a fuck what steroids he was taking I don't give a fuck if people think it's cheating absolutely no one came close to those numbers and they were all fucking juicing. He was hitting slow pitch grapefruits up there. Those numbers are just godly. And much respect to babe Ruth but if you put babe Ruth in today's baseball I don't think he's anywhere near as good. The fact is he was hitting off guys that were throwing 70 and 80 much of the time. And don't get me wrong I understand some of the ballparks were bigger and his bat was bigger and if he had modern training and modern technology people just assumed that he would be just as good, but it is literally impossible to assume that. There is no guarantee that he would be able to rise to the same level with the quality of pictures and scouting and such that we have today. he is very talented so there is a good chance that he would still be a very very very very very very very very very very good hitter butthere are some people that are absolute studs until they reach a certain level of baseball and they just can't adjust no matter how good the technology is no matter how good their training is. I think he would have been a Hall of famer in any era but I do not think he would have had anywhere near as many home runs. And it's literally impossible to know how he would do with modern pitching. It is just night and day better than it used to be. You can almost guarantee that his home runs an average would be down no matter how much he adjusted. And I know that this guy that I'm about to list is not a stud on the level of bonds and pujols and them, and he happens to be my favorite player but you can't tell me that I'm wrong when I say that one of the most feared hitters to face in his prime was Gary Sheffield. He had that absolutely violent swing. He frequently hit 300 with 30 to 40 home runs 100 RBIs 100 bb and usually 50 to 60 k. 3rd baseman were terrified to play against him and he could put the ball out in any part of the field but even the third base coaches would play almost in the outfield area of the third Base line. If he had stayed a little healthier in his career and not missed the equivalent of like two or 3 full seasons in his prime, I think he would have had a legitimate shot at hitting 600 home runs. If Milwaukee and San Diego had not tried to make him a small ball leadoff hitter, he absolutely would have hit 600. Injuries and his first 5 years or so in baseball costume probably cost him 100-125 home runs at least. But his stretch from 99 until 2005 o believe was unreal. 99 he hit 34 home runs 2000 I believe he hit 43 2001 I think he hit like 36 2002 was a little down and he only hit 25 or so but then 2003 he hit 330 with 39 home runs 130ish rbi 2004 and 2005 I think 36 and 35 or 39. He should have been a first ballot Hall of Famer. It's sad what the steroid rumors have done for so many amazing players. I don't give a shit if they were on steroids or not. It was an even playing field because everyone had the chance to take it. Just like everyone has the chance to hire a trainer and weight train. You don't have to do it but it's going to give you an advantage. There's always going to be advantageous. Pictures are going to use substances to make the ball move, hitters are going to take advantage of where they can. Cheating is always been in baseball and it sucks but that's just the way it is. At least with steroids you still have to do the work. You have to eat right you have to work out properly. Steroids give human beings the ability to reach their true potential. the biggest thing that steroids help isn't the strength it's not the distance of the ball it's the healing of injuries and helping guys in their older age that would normally be getting tired towards the end of the season, stay healthier stay in better shape, helps them feel like they did when they were younger. So instead of guys really starting to suffer at the end of the season with fatigue and such because they're older, it helps them basically stay in their prime longer like when they are younger. It's not going to do much for how far you hit the ball. But there were some definite feared hitters in this list bonds being the absolute scariest hands-down bar none no contest
Love the Pujols comparison, "like if Ichiro had the power of Ken Griffey Jr." My favorite trivia about Pujols is that he came into the league the same year as Ichiro, had the same 10-year prime (2001-2010), had the exact same .331 batting average in that prime, but hit 318 more homers while *striking out less.* Despite his power, Pujols was also the game's best contact hitter of his time.
Cool video! I’d like to see full at-bat breakdowns on why these guys were the best 😅. Big Frank was so patient at the plate you can only see it to believe it 👏
I'd love to see another video of this type about scariest pitchers. Just as hitters can be intimidating, so too can certain pitchers. I remember speaking with a former player once at a volunteering event, and he said the scariest pitcher he ever faced was Jim Palmer. Palmer, he said, had a deceptively slow windup, which fooled him into thinking the pitch was coming slowly; the next thing he knew, the umpire was screaming "STRIKE" and the ball was in the catcher's mit without ever showing itself leaving Palmer's hand.
Fairly good choices for the list but I'd have to include 4 players at least in the honorable mentions. Stan Musial, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Ralph Kiner. The first 3 are baseball immortals and their stats speak for themselves but, in the late 40s and early 50s I'd argue there wasn't a scarier hitter in the NL (except maybe Musial) than Kiner. He led the NL in home runs each of his 1st 7 seasons. His career didn't last long so his counting stats aren't impressive (well 369 HR is impressive considering he only played 10 full seasons).
Point of order, Pujols played at Maple Woods Community College in the suburbs of Kansas City MISSOURI. He was 2 years ahead of me in high school, but I saw him live several times in district play his junior and senior years with the Fort Osage Indians from Independence, MO who were big rivals of the Liberty, MO Blue Jays I repped in football and debate/forensics from 1998-2000 (Albert graduated in 1998). That senior HS year of his was freaking nutty, he was IBB'd 55 out of 88 plate appearances, in those 33 times he actually got pitches to hit he destroyed 8 Homer's and 7 other extra base hits.
Had griffey stayed healthy, hed have easily crushed the HR record. That being said, NOBODY touches ted williams. True goat of all time. Not a man or ethnicity who laced up cleats touching that white boy. Absolute beast, and left the league for 6 years to serve his country.
@@brasstacksboxing409 lol dude if Ruth didn’t pitch he would probably have 1000 Griffey ain’t keeping up with that. Also Griffey has more at bats than Ruth , less walks and hrs
I wish people wouldn't keep putting Barroid Bonds in the same con- versations with guys who played the game straight and clean !! And don't tell me he was great without the "junk"; if he didn't need the crap, he wouldn't have used it!
I think it had as much to do with his posture at the plate, but I always found Gary Sheffield to be an insanely intimidating hitter, with that bat waggle and the way that he would stand on top of the plate, it always felt like he was just going to CRUSH every single pitch, even the ones he’d take.
I had a autographed baseball signed by Barry Bonds when he was with Pittsburgh Pirates, they just couldn't beat the damn Braves smh great team at that time in fact last time the Pirates was really good. Bonds, Van Slyke, Bonilla, Bream, Lind, Bell, King, Diaz, Lavaliere, Drebek, Walk, Balinda, good ol days of pirate baseball
Out of all the stats Babe Ruth made the one that is the most wild to me is that after Babe hit his 138th home run he set the record so every home run he hit moving forward was the all-time record. Dorktown had a funny way of putting it - that Ruth “dragged” the home run record to 95% of what it is now.
I did a missionary trip to George Barrios, to the exact dugout with Pujols’ name painted on it. Hit a home run that hit the church in right field that he attended.
Mickey Mantle 18 world series homeruns countless triples and runs batted in,,,,Mantle played hurt but showed up in the world Series like no other player since or now.holds record for homeruns hit in world series
Frank Thomas had elite power yet chose to go for more of a pure hitting approach with a high batting average and plenty of doubles but perhaps sacrificing some HRs... in the shortened season of 1994 Thomas had an OPS+ of 212, prior to 2001 Bonds best OPS+ was 206 and Pujol's best season was 192... fax!!!
Barry Bonds was by far the scariest hitter in baseball history. Without roids he was every bit as good as Aaron or Mays. After 2000 he either walked or hit a moon shot.
He wasn't though. He would have been very good, but below the Top Tier. Barry would have been more Carlos Beltran than Historical Best Ever Discussion. People think he started later than he did when he obviously started when he had to rebound after a disasterous 1989. He started getting bigger from there and it wasn't until he overdid it that people publicly raised eyebrows. Everybody wants to act like his first MVP isn't tainted as if that makes up for his later tainted records in an attempt to get him in the Hall.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Barry Bonds was absolutely in Wiilie Mays and Hank Aaron territory. Through his age 33 season, before he hit the juice, Bonds had 3 MVP awards, 441 HRs, 8 Gold Gloves and 100 WAR. Mays and Aaron only had one MVP a piece by age 33. Bonds was easily already top tier greatest players by historical standards by 1998. It is difficult to feel bad for Bonds because he was such a jerk, but Bonds was putting up MVP numbers and getting completely overshadowed by McGwire, Sosa, who he absolutely knew were juicing while the MLB looked the other way.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 I looked up Carlos Beltran's stats through age 33 and he is not even in the same league as Barry Bonds. Not to detract from Beltran, who was a very, very good ball player, but no MVPs and about half the wins above replacement as Bonds.
Mays also lost 2 prime years to military service. Candlestick was not the toughest hitting park in that area, the Astrodome was. To get an idea of the difference between the Astrodome and other parks, the year McGwire and Sosa were chasing Maris record Jeff Bagwell actually had more homeruns than either of them on the road, yet Bagwell only finished with 47 because it was extremely hard to hit homeruns in the Astrodome. He did set the Astro record for homeruns at home that year at 19, but not near enough to keep pace with McGwire and Sosa.
Bonds the only guy I ever saw swinging for the fences every swing, but also while not swing for fences. Just his regular swing was so good , because he didn't swing at garbage. Also 40 years earlier he couldn't have worn all the gear protecting his right arm. He'd get blown off plate crowding it like that. No way Bob Gibson let's that happen lol
Scariest Hitters in Baseball History... Barry Bonds(his scariest years was when other guys talked about in this careers were over and shadows of themselves). He had a small strike zone and swing that made the most of that strike zone. Whatever you think of Bonds, there has been no one since Babe Ruth to create so much fear in manager/pitcher than Bonds. Frank Robinson- two triple crowns, one in each league and he did during one of the ultimate pitchers era.
There's one guy that is due at least an honorable mention... if not full inclusion. When you own the record for most runs scored in a career beating out guys named Cobb, Bonds and Aaron you deserve consideration. Sure, he didn't have the same massive HR power, but he was as intimidating as anyone in his prime. All-time steals leader Ricky Henderson could hit for power, but he didn't need to. Any walk or base hit was as good as a triple in his prime and pitchers knew there was little they could do to prevent it.
Miguel Cabrera is worthy of more than an honorable mention. Arguably the greatest right handed hitter of his generation. Also your inflection at the end of every other sentence is so annoying I could barely get through the video.
As a #Reds fan who really started watching the team in the early to mid-2000s, #AlbertPujols always struck me as a badass and killed my team’s pitching.
Do you remember how much of a monster Bonds was during this period? It was freakin insane. Yea I know juice, whatever, dude couldn't be pitched to. He was a HOFer before the juice and was the best hitter we've ever seen after it.
Barry Bonds actual ability was highlighted in Pittsburgh where he defined the fact that he was a choker. Going to SF and the use of drugs gets him these stats.
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I'm 51 years old The pitchers were most scared of #1 Barry Bonds #2 Big Papi Ortiz There were many great hitters but they weren't feared For example Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were great hitters but pitchers weren't scared to pitch to them
I Know Neither Tony Gwyn Or Ichiro Were Power Hitters But They Were Definitely Feared Along With Rod Carew, Pete Rose And Certainly A Few Others I've Certainly Ommited.
You said Pujols didn’t get walked a lot, but that was only at the end of his career. He had 6 straight seasons in his prime with more than 90 walks and 4 over 100
As a die-hard Oakland A's fan I grew up Idolizing Big Mac. Hitting 50 plus a couple of years I always knew he would break Roger Marris single season HR record. The time Big Unit challenged Mac with a 102 mph only for Mac to send it back out at 105 mph into the upper deck, later saying that the bat smelled like burnt wood 34 HR in and half way in 1997 season was when the St. Louis Cards picked up Big Mac, La Russa baseball. MLB should be kissing Big Mac A$$ for bringing fans back to ballparks and must see tv after the 94 strike. I can careless if Big Mac used PED's or that he didn't make the 600 HR club but when talking about feared hitters put some respect on Big Mac's name, His HR blast's were legendary measuring tape long balls. P.S Bonds never failed any drug test and never was found guilty of PED's or said he used any steroids so all that negative Nancy talk kill that noise. Assumption is the mother of all F**k-ups. Ooh Charlie Hustle should be on the top of this list, Rest In Paradise Mr. Pete Rose.
I am very surprised that Albert Belle is not this list. You can say what you want about the corked bat incident. That dude was a freak show. He was a slugger that a pitcher didn't want to a 500ft mistake to left center into the upper deck. If it wasn't for his degenerative hip problem that cut his career short. There is no doubt he would be in the 500 homerun club or possibly 600 homerun club. But his lack of popularity with the media won't do him any favors , if he gets any hall of fame votes. Albert Belle in his prime was the best player to me in my opinion.
Ichiro...againsts the A's early in his career I watched a Pitched throw a fastball right past his Ear. Ichiro looked Mad...he sent a Line Drive back at the Pitcher the next play.
As a lifelong White Sox fan, Frank Thomas will always be my favorite ball player. When I was about 10 years old, they had an autograph day at Comisky Park and the line for Frank Thomas was halfway around the stadium. I begged my mom to let me stay in line and when I finally got to The Big Hurt I was amazed at how big he was. He took the baseball from me and his hands were so big, it looked like he was holding a golf ball. To a 10 year old me Frank Thomas was a giant!! One of my favorite baseball memories.
South Side Frank I was 10 in 99 I grew up and still a Sox fan I grew up 25 mins from comisky
I remember the dollar kid ticket Sundays too, nvr got big hurts auto. Got konerko, buhrle , CARLOS LEE, JOSE VALENTIN, good times
@@samuelkubiak5782 some good ball players there.
I grew up with Frank Thomas. I was a daughter of a huge fan and at the time didn’t appreciate BBall as I do now. Going to Sox games just ain’t the same. And it will always be comisky park to me.
I have no problem with people having the belief that steroid use should exempt you from the HOF. I do however have a problem with people who refuse to acknowledge the greatness of Barry Bonds. If you don’t recognize that Bonds is the only player to rival Babe as the greatest to do ever do it you can’t possibly know what you’re watching when it comes to baseball
NO hank aaron had 755 UNJUICED to me that is the most impressive not babe ruth but yes barry and babe are some of the best to ever do it despite juice with bonds
@@mattdattyy🥱🥱🥱
Research. What happens to players has they age they slow down and it's natural in baseball, however with ped you reduce the aging big time and its not even close. That's why ped is looked at so bad bud. Research before speaking on this subject. It's plain and simple
@@mattdattyybabe is extremely overrated
@@justvibing2497 I never said anything to dispute that. Of course PEDs slow the aging process and why Bonds stats are so inflated but the point being is that even before he started using PEDs he was already a bonafide HOFer and multiple time MVP. You can share your opinion without being condescending and rude
When I was younger I worked as a bartender in a hotel. Frank was staying there and sat at my bar one evening. Super nice. I asked him what's the longest hr he ever hit. He said 525 ft and smiled. A guy sitting two seats down from him straight up asked "yeah did you take any of those roids?". I thought Frank would get pissed. Instead he said " Shit I wish I had known it was a thing. I would have made so much more money"😂
Hank Aaron being left off this list should be a crime. Not even an honorable mention? For shame.
Yea, hall of fame pitchers used to call him "Bad Henry"
I agree my pick is plujos but hank is easily 2nd best to me either him or Ted Williams but they are different types of Hitters
Ya Ted was the best an Hank was like everyone else the rest kinda hitter
Hammering Hank is a alltime great but Ted was is an probably will always be will best hitter of all time ❤
@@EthanNiedorowskiI’m taking his home run record over any ted Williams record🤣
@@Yamatha69 you do understand he missed 6 full years to being in the service sector right’? Counting stats teddy would have been part of surely put 521 missing his prime
I mean 🤷♂️ I guess
I don't know if it's possible to overstate just how beautiful a swing Junior had. The 3 times that I got to see him play live (twice at the Kingdome, once at Safeco) were fantastic experiences.
One was particularly memorable, although the date escapes me. It was either the 97 or 98 season, and my sister had 2 tickets to see the Yankees play the M's in Seattle. Her BF was sent packing a week before, and I was in town visiting. So we went and watched 8 & 1/2 innings of boring baseball. We were about to leave with the M's down 5-2, but there was a walk with 1 out in the bottom. So I figured "let's wait". Then a single. Then another RBI single to right.
Another strike out.
Now it's bottom of the 9th, the score is 5-3 Yankees in Seattle, runners on the corners, and like magic... it's Griffey up to bat.
The cavalier pageantry was breathtaking. And the once lumbering crowd was now electrified with this story unfolding before us.
Could he...?
On a 2-2 he TATTOOS that ball into deep right. The sound alone told me it was LONG gone, but to see it hit the upper deck was just magical.
A hrown man sitting next to my sister actually wept at that moment. Unabashedly cried his eyes out.
My sister and I were swept away with the exhiliration of the moment, as were all the rest of the Seattle faithful.
Old Lou was at the side of the dugout to greet the Kid after the celebration at home plate. Even though I was on the 2nd deck on the 1st base line, I swear I saw Pinella shake his head & smile at Griffey.
My sister & I hugged that emotional old man before we left. He told us he had not seen anything that beautiful in a ballpark since Yastrzemski in the 1968 Red Sox season.
I spent the whole next day at the Queen Anne Seattle Library looking up Carl Yastrzemski, since I was only 20 or 21. It reminded me of my dad, talking about his baseball hero, Sandy Koufax, and my grandfather talking about his childhood watching Connie Mack's Athletics in Philly through a knothole in center field.
And all of that came rushing back when I saw Ichiro Suzuki play for the M's less than a decade later.
It came to me again when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, and I started to see pictures of graves with Sox penants on them, and notes reading "you can rest now, Dad... we did it."
THAT is baseball.
I'm sure everyone has a suggestion, but for me, most notably missing is Jim Thome. I think it was 1997 that he was hitting between David Justice and Manny Ramirez. He was ALWAYS up in a big spot and was liable to hit one about 600 feet at any moment. And you had young Manny behind him, cleaning up 160something RBIs, so you had to pitch to Thome. What a nightmare for a pitcher, or an AL east fan.
It’s so sad that Delgado is forgotten for the most part. Dude was a monster.
ya, you even forgot his name, lol
@@jeffcollins1097Carlos. 😆😆😆😆😆😆
"Del-got IT"
To me the coolest thing about Frank Thomas is how he always played the game his way. Beyond just his strong stance against steroids, he also refused to be anything other than the type of hitter he knew himself to be. People who only saw his size pushed him to swing more and become more of a three true outcomes hitter, but he never saw the point in swinging at bad pitches. He had that excellent eye for the strike zone, and he was gonna use it. He might've been built like a monster slugger, but he was determined to hit for contact.
He also hit 500+ homers and has a career slugging percentage of .555, so he had a little bit of power too
Well said.
I’m so proud I got to watch Pujols live for so many years in STL. He did some amazing things on the field.
Cubs fan who had the opposite reaction…
@@IOWAHAWKEYES2020Reds fan. same here.
It’s just better to assume his career ended after 2011 😂
Bonds PROBABLY had a great case for cooperstown in 99??? He had 445 HR at that point and 460 SB and 3 MVP awards along with 4 other seasons where he finished top 5 in MVP. He wasn’t probably a hall of gamer at that point. He was a guaranteed lock first ballot hall of famer at that point.
Total Arrogance Destroyed Him.
8 gold gloves too!
Bro wrote a paragraph
He should've retired in in 1999. Instead he kept playing and juicing (he was probably juicing before then). He might have gotten the benefit of the doubt from HOF voters if he had retired before his head grew to the size of a pumpkin. He doesn't deserve the HOF because he put his eligibility in doubt.
@@Marco-m7xhe still should be in the HOF, even if u wanna take away the years where he had roids he’s still an all time great
Growing up playing little league in the early 90's these players were my heroes. Managed to still hang on to some of their trading cards too. I found out my 89' Topps Ken Griffey Jr. Rated Rookie is worth $50 now. Reminded me also of some bad trades I made with a buddy, where apparently, he got the better end of the deal haha such a great era of baseball and history.
I’ve been binging your videos lately, I hadn’t realized how greatly the Strike impacted SO many significant trajectories in progress, what a shame
Thanks for Frank Thomas 🙏🏻
Thank you for adding Frank Thomas as a White Sox fan. He was such an underrated home run hitter.
1994 Frank Thomas was something...
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te It stinks they never finished the season. Frank would’ve won MVP. Plus everyone always talks about the Expos if the season never got cancelled, but my Sox would’ve also had a huge shot to win the series
Joe DiMaggio. Until his last season, he had more home runs than strikeouts. As a right-hander, he was handicapped by old Yankee Stadium. Yet his advanced stats on the road are on par with Ted Williams on the road.
As for Ted, prime Mickey Mantle overlapped aging Ted Williams, yet Ted’s advanced stats in his decline are nearly on par with prime Mantle.
DiMaggio has some really crazy numbers
@s.s.chapter2219Ted also lost most of 2 seasons to the Korean War on top of the 3 to WW2.
Steroids don’t improve eyesight and skill… 3:48
But the do improve batted ball distance…
And bat speed.
Raise your hand if you think Bonds would've hit 72 home runs without the steroids.
Thought so.
@@patrickgoodman4576not by enough to matter all that much
@@laartworkI’m thinking like 69 without them
No amount of steroids can replace the fact that you have to keep your eye on the ball.
Big Hurt is so under valued. He totally commanded the plate and power was scary.
Thomas was always fun to watch, especially during homerun derbys lol
You tend to shout the last 1 or 2 syllables of each and every sentence. You say something and THEN YELL. Then you talk some more and you shout AG-AIN. For those of you who notice this you will never be able to not notice him DO IT!!
Actually great advice.
Doesn’t bother me. It’s just his style.
Better then an AI voice
That’s called delivery and it’s perfectly consistent across all videos which is all that matters. It’s only jarring if you’re new. Usually people who do that tend to write their own scripts. The more he does it, usually the snappier the writing or more clever the sentence structure/ punchline I’ve noticed. Voiceover is a performance. Measure the entirety of it, not just intonations.
Thank you for NOTICING
I could argue that Canseco was a much scarier hitter than McGwre. That swing of his was absolutely terrifying!
I'm so glad I was fortunate enough to see Bonds play in SF 2002-2005. I was at many of the games during that time, and I don't think I'll see another player like him in my lifetime. He literally would be intentionally walked throughout the games, and if the pitcher gave him anything to hit, it would likely end up in the seats or water. When he came to the plate, everyone in the stadium would stop what they were doing, stand up, and watch in awe. The numbers he put up will probably never be matched. Juiced? Probably. Do I care about that? No. It was sporting entertainment at its finest. It's hard to describe.
Barry Bonds peaked in 1993 and around 2000-2004...
Yeah, I am glad I got to see him hit especially those last few years when he was in a class of his own. He was always my secret weapon in fantasy baseball for years, I don't know why people passed him up so often in the 90's.
@biffmarcum5014 Because MLB Media hated him even back in the 1990s, he was also a huge primma donna and not a friendly person to be around. That also didn't help his case...
@@JasonHoward-d3c no probably you don’t put up those numbers without juice I’m sorry
Vladimir Guerrero SR doesn't have the monster stats of many of these guys but the guy was so scary at the plate because he "could" or at least had the ability to hit a homerun on a perfect pitcher's pitch, he hit more homeruns on pitches out of the zone then I remember anyone being able to and somehow had a fairly high batting average for someone who virtually swung at EVERYTHING lol...
That’s literally how I feel watching Bo Bichette
This seems like more of a list of the greatest pure-hitting power-hitters of all-time. Of the guys that were truly the scariest, I'd have to go with Albert Belle, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Mo Vaughn, Mike Piazza, Andres Galarraga, Jim Thome, Gary Sheffield and Adam Dunn to go along with Frank Thomas, Bonds, Babe and Frank Howard. I'd also consider the father/son duo of Cecil and Prince Fielder as well.
Willie McCovey could have easily been included on any list of "Scariest Hitters." Dave Kingman aka "Kong" too!
damn right! there was a point where willie mccovey was easily the most feared hitter in mlb
Man, Ken griffey Jr swing is so satisfying to watch
Prettiest swing ever.
Love that Frank Thomas, aka, the Big Hurt was included on here. Despite being from Kansas City, Missouri, and a life long Royals fan, my favorite baseball player in the league was The Big Hurt. Ya see, since I was born in 1986, I was born the year after they won their first World Series--which would also be their ONLY World Series chmpuonship until finally winning again in 2015 when I was then 29-years-old. Further, they didn't even make the playoffs during practically the same stretch until finally winning the wild card in 2014 and making it to game 7 of the World Series where theyd lose in a heart breaker to San Francisco. And so, during the mid-90s to the early 2000s, the Royals were always quite dismal and rarely even had any decent players to get excited to watch.
And so that's where the Big Hurt fit in. My dads work buddy had season tickets he rarely used and would give them to us quite often, and i remember early on, by '93 or '94, Frank would hammer us every time he stepped into Kauffman, hitting prodigious homers, showing unnatural plate discipline, and lining doubles from gap to gap anytime he wasn't easily jogging to first for a walk or jogging around all 4 bases after a round tripper. And so i fell in love with Big Frank and it became a habit to see at least one game every time they came to KC, and each time each seemed like he'd send a ball into the fountains.
And hell, for good measure, when I was 11, my, my dad, and my 2 older brothers went on a road trip to Chicago and, needless to say, we had to catch a Sox game at Comiskey. And despite it being a cool night for July with the wind blowing in (as i remember we had to stop at a mall to get jackets to wear to the game since we hadnt packed any), the Big Hurt didnt disappoint and hit a moonshot in the only game i ever saw at Comiskey (or whatever it's called now.)
What a great story. Thank you for sharing it! As I got older and learned more and more about the game, I began to really appreciate Thomas' discipline at the plate. His ability to draw walks was incredible.
When I was a teenager, I remember going to a Sox game when the Royals were in town. I got a very close look at the Royals starting pitcher and remember thinking to myself he couldn't have been more than 20 years old. I wasn't far off and watched Zack Greinke pitch his rookie season when he was 20-21 yeas old. What a career he ended up having!
This was awesome content especially the Big Hurt with Frank Thomas…total UNIT 💪🏼💪🏼
I don't mean this as internet hate but a piece of advice would be to change the pitch that you end some of your sentences with. Once you can't help but notice it it becomes a little unsettling and it'd help to vary your cadence a little. Some really awesome batters on that list.
For Babe Ruth's 145 walks, just remember Lou Gehrig was right behind him and they still decided that was the best course of action
And he spent 7 years as a pitcher and most of his homers came in his last 13 seasons
He was also hitting 80 MPH fastballs. Hes undoubtably one of the best to ever especially considering how much better than his peers he was but lets keep things in perspective.
@@Nickalzz that is a myth, people were still throwing hard at that time, also they were hitting in much larger ball parks than today
Garage
@@nathaniellippert9238 lmfao bs parks were smaller. Ruth had a small porch his whole career!!!
@@tpsin713 true but then it shot out to 490 in center
Edgar Martinez had a higher career OPS than Griffey, Cabrera, and Pujols and has an award for hitting named after him.
Edgar does seem to get ignored a lot. He almost didnt get into the hall of fame, which made me angry.
the reason he gets overshadowed a lot is because he was a dh who didnt really hit for power when at the time you had guys like mcgwire and thomas
Jr had the most beautiful swing known to man. And as for Cabrera. I was a catcher. I can’t even imagine the sweat down the ass crack pitchers felt with runners on base and Miguel stepping up. At that point it’s like looking at the skipper and being like “bring in the bullpen. I don’t want to be here.” That battle of him and arguably the greatest closer Mariano, is still one of the best sports clips ever.
Harmon Killebrew - Never hit for a high batting .Avg but he was without a doubt one of the games most feared hitters from 1959-1972....
100%. My dad said that guy had huge forearms. Big, burley guy
No one absolutely no one compared to Barry bonds in his prime. That stretch from like 2001 to 2004 especially was insane. I don't give a fuck what steroids he was taking I don't give a fuck if people think it's cheating absolutely no one came close to those numbers and they were all fucking juicing. He was hitting slow pitch grapefruits up there. Those numbers are just godly. And much respect to babe Ruth but if you put babe Ruth in today's baseball I don't think he's anywhere near as good. The fact is he was hitting off guys that were throwing 70 and 80 much of the time. And don't get me wrong I understand some of the ballparks were bigger and his bat was bigger and if he had modern training and modern technology people just assumed that he would be just as good, but it is literally impossible to assume that. There is no guarantee that he would be able to rise to the same level with the quality of pictures and scouting and such that we have today. he is very talented so there is a good chance that he would still be a very very very very very very very very very very good hitter butthere are some people that are absolute studs until they reach a certain level of baseball and they just can't adjust no matter how good the technology is no matter how good their training is. I think he would have been a Hall of famer in any era but I do not think he would have had anywhere near as many home runs. And it's literally impossible to know how he would do with modern pitching. It is just night and day better than it used to be. You can almost guarantee that his home runs an average would be down no matter how much he adjusted. And I know that this guy that I'm about to list is not a stud on the level of bonds and pujols and them, and he happens to be my favorite player but you can't tell me that I'm wrong when I say that one of the most feared hitters to face in his prime was Gary Sheffield. He had that absolutely violent swing. He frequently hit 300 with 30 to 40 home runs 100 RBIs 100 bb and usually 50 to 60 k. 3rd baseman were terrified to play against him and he could put the ball out in any part of the field but even the third base coaches would play almost in the outfield area of the third Base line. If he had stayed a little healthier in his career and not missed the equivalent of like two or 3 full seasons in his prime, I think he would have had a legitimate shot at hitting 600 home runs. If Milwaukee and San Diego had not tried to make him a small ball leadoff hitter, he absolutely would have hit 600. Injuries and his first 5 years or so in baseball costume probably cost him 100-125 home runs at least. But his stretch from 99 until 2005 o believe was unreal. 99 he hit 34 home runs 2000 I believe he hit 43 2001 I think he hit like 36 2002 was a little down and he only hit 25 or so but then 2003 he hit 330 with 39 home runs 130ish rbi 2004 and 2005 I think 36 and 35 or 39. He should have been a first ballot Hall of Famer. It's sad what the steroid rumors have done for so many amazing players. I don't give a shit if they were on steroids or not. It was an even playing field because everyone had the chance to take it. Just like everyone has the chance to hire a trainer and weight train. You don't have to do it but it's going to give you an advantage. There's always going to be advantageous. Pictures are going to use substances to make the ball move, hitters are going to take advantage of where they can. Cheating is always been in baseball and it sucks but that's just the way it is. At least with steroids you still have to do the work. You have to eat right you have to work out properly. Steroids give human beings the ability to reach their true potential. the biggest thing that steroids help isn't the strength it's not the distance of the ball it's the healing of injuries and helping guys in their older age that would normally be getting tired towards the end of the season, stay healthier stay in better shape, helps them feel like they did when they were younger. So instead of guys really starting to suffer at the end of the season with fatigue and such because they're older, it helps them basically stay in their prime longer like when they are younger. It's not going to do much for how far you hit the ball. But there were some definite feared hitters in this list bonds being the absolute scariest hands-down bar none no contest
They weren't all juicing. He showed what a great horse could do while juicing. Imagine if Frank Thomas juiced. 90 hr and .400 batting average
Love the Pujols comparison, "like if Ichiro had the power of Ken Griffey Jr." My favorite trivia about Pujols is that he came into the league the same year as Ichiro, had the same 10-year prime (2001-2010), had the exact same .331 batting average in that prime, but hit 318 more homers while *striking out less.* Despite his power, Pujols was also the game's best contact hitter of his time.
Top 5 player of all time imo
What about Albert Belle? For a 8-year period ... there was no hitter more intimidating.
Guy was a psychopath
Cool video! I’d like to see full at-bat breakdowns on why these guys were the best 😅. Big Frank was so patient at the plate you can only see it to believe it 👏
I'd love to see another video of this type about scariest pitchers. Just as hitters can be intimidating, so too can certain pitchers.
I remember speaking with a former player once at a volunteering event, and he said the scariest pitcher he ever faced was Jim Palmer. Palmer, he said, had a deceptively slow windup, which fooled him into thinking the pitch was coming slowly; the next thing he knew, the umpire was screaming "STRIKE" and the ball was in the catcher's mit without ever showing itself leaving Palmer's hand.
Randy Johnson Would Top That List.
Love Big Papi And Griffey Jr Saying It's Like Getting Slapped After His Pitches.
@@Marco-m7xid also have Clemens, Gibson, Martinez, Aroldis Chapman and Nolan Ryan
Fairly good choices for the list but I'd have to include 4 players at least in the honorable mentions. Stan Musial, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Ralph Kiner. The first 3 are baseball immortals and their stats speak for themselves but, in the late 40s and early 50s I'd argue there wasn't a scarier hitter in the NL (except maybe Musial) than Kiner. He led the NL in home runs each of his 1st 7 seasons. His career didn't last long so his counting stats aren't impressive (well 369 HR is impressive considering he only played 10 full seasons).
Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Aaron Judge and Barry Bonds.
Manny Ramirez Statistics And Reputation Were Scary Not His Presence.
Unless You Thought Of The Predator when You Saw Him.
Judge doesn't belong in this group..
Manny is the most underrated hitter of all time.
@@wilmars9146yes he does lol, a 6’7 280lbs man who hit 60 homers and hit over .300 is terrifying
@@sir.muffiniii7011 Is Judge on steroids ?
You didn't talk about Stan Musial who in a double header hit 4 consecutive home runs !!! Those were the days I listened the games on the radio
How old r u😭
@@sir.muffiniii7011I am 76 and I listened to the Cardinal games on radio and once in awhile the KC games
@@waynegood9233 damn u lucky u got to witness all those legends
R.I.P WILLIE MAYS 🖤
Frank Thomas is an absolute unit.
Point of order, Pujols played at Maple Woods Community College in the suburbs of Kansas City MISSOURI. He was 2 years ahead of me in high school, but I saw him live several times in district play his junior and senior years with the Fort Osage Indians from Independence, MO who were big rivals of the Liberty, MO Blue Jays I repped in football and debate/forensics from 1998-2000 (Albert graduated in 1998).
That senior HS year of his was freaking nutty, he was IBB'd 55 out of 88 plate appearances, in those 33 times he actually got pitches to hit he destroyed 8 Homer's and 7 other extra base hits.
Miggy deserved more video time. Dude played in Comerica park which is massive and took away at least 60 homers, dead center was 420 feet
420's small for old-school baseball standards
7:36 25 Y/O Highschool Senior.
Had griffey stayed healthy, hed have easily crushed the HR record. That being said, NOBODY touches ted williams. True goat of all time. Not a man or ethnicity who laced up cleats touching that white boy. Absolute beast, and left the league for 6 years to serve his country.
@@brasstacksboxing409 lol dude if Ruth didn’t pitch he would probably have 1000 Griffey ain’t keeping up with that. Also Griffey has more at bats than Ruth , less walks and hrs
Great video, Thanks !!!
3:44 muscle and cranium
I wish people wouldn't
keep putting Barroid Bonds in the same con-
versations with guys
who played the game
straight and clean !!
And don't tell me he was
great without the "junk";
if he didn't need the crap,
he wouldn't have used it!
I think it had as much to do with his posture at the plate, but I always found Gary Sheffield to be an insanely intimidating hitter, with that bat waggle and the way that he would stand on top of the plate, it always felt like he was just going to CRUSH every single pitch, even the ones he’d take.
Love the asterisks, even on the intentional walks 👍
I had a autographed baseball signed by Barry Bonds when he was with Pittsburgh Pirates, they just couldn't beat the damn Braves smh great team at that time in fact last time the Pirates was really good. Bonds, Van Slyke, Bonilla, Bream, Lind, Bell, King, Diaz, Lavaliere, Drebek, Walk, Balinda, good ol days of pirate baseball
Very nice!
Out of all the stats Babe Ruth made the one that is the most wild to me is that after Babe hit his 138th home run he set the record so every home run he hit moving forward was the all-time record. Dorktown had a funny way of putting it - that Ruth “dragged” the home run record to 95% of what it is now.
Yordan Alvarez is also terrifying, he’s the only batter that I feel like is an automatic hit when he’s at the plate.
Watching the ALDS this year as a Twins fan, my heart always sank every time he came to the plate because it felt nearly certain he would get a hit.
He’s gonna be a better version of David Ortiz
@@northstarjakobs as a Rangers fan, I see him way more than I’m comfortable with.
His 2021 season sucked tho
@@sKarr6988 ah yes a 136 OPS+ is bad
Imagine telling your nephew how good Barry Bonds was only to put on a Giants game and watch him get walked the whole game 😂😂😂
Bonds swing was absolute perfection
I agree with the video but Big Papi & Hank Aaron should also be mentioned
I did a missionary trip to George Barrios, to the exact dugout with Pujols’ name painted on it. Hit a home run that hit the church in right field that he attended.
Carlos Delgado is the most underrated player in history and should be a hall of famer. Change my mind
The player shown @13:57 and 22:09 is Orlando Cepeda. Cepeda was #30. Mays was #24. That is clearly a 3 visible on the back of that GIANTS jersey.
Mickey Mantle 18 world series homeruns countless triples and runs batted in,,,,Mantle played hurt but showed up in the world Series like no other player since or now.holds record for homeruns hit in world series
Frank Thomas had elite power yet chose to go for more of a pure hitting approach with a high batting average and plenty of doubles but perhaps sacrificing some HRs... in the shortened season of 1994 Thomas had an OPS+ of 212, prior to 2001 Bonds best OPS+ was 206 and Pujol's best season was 192... fax!!!
And he still hit 500+ homers
Barry Bonds was by far the scariest hitter in baseball history. Without roids he was every bit as good as Aaron or Mays. After 2000 he either walked or hit a moon shot.
He wasn't though. He would have been very good, but below the Top Tier. Barry would have been more Carlos Beltran than Historical Best Ever Discussion. People think he started later than he did when he obviously started when he had to rebound after a disasterous 1989. He started getting bigger from there and it wasn't until he overdid it that people publicly raised eyebrows. Everybody wants to act like his first MVP isn't tainted as if that makes up for his later tainted records in an attempt to get him in the Hall.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Barry Bonds was absolutely in Wiilie Mays and Hank Aaron territory. Through his age 33 season, before he hit the juice, Bonds had 3 MVP awards, 441 HRs, 8 Gold Gloves and 100 WAR. Mays and Aaron only had one MVP a piece by age 33. Bonds was easily already top tier greatest players by historical standards by 1998. It is difficult to feel bad for Bonds because he was such a jerk, but Bonds was putting up MVP numbers and getting completely overshadowed by McGwire, Sosa, who he absolutely knew were juicing while the MLB looked the other way.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 I looked up Carlos Beltran's stats through age 33 and he is not even in the same league as Barry Bonds. Not to detract from Beltran, who was a very, very good ball player, but no MVPs and about half the wins above replacement as Bonds.
Mays also lost 2 prime years to military service. Candlestick was not the toughest hitting park in that area, the Astrodome was. To get an idea of the difference between the Astrodome and other parks, the year McGwire and Sosa were chasing Maris record Jeff Bagwell actually had more homeruns than either of them on the road, yet Bagwell only finished with 47 because it was extremely hard to hit homeruns in the Astrodome. He did set the Astro record for homeruns at home that year at 19, but not near enough to keep pace with McGwire and Sosa.
Underrated and overlooked: Todd Helton and Larry Walker both should have been on this list.
I think I know what team you were watching
@@laartwork😭😭😭
Every sentence has the exact same rhythm and the same up/down inflection pattern. Very annoying.
He seems to be addicted to it lmao
Whoa whoa…Jim Thome was one of the most prolific home run hitters of my lifetime.
Bonds the only guy I ever saw swinging for the fences every swing, but also while not swing for fences. Just his regular swing was so good , because he didn't swing at garbage. Also 40 years earlier he couldn't have worn all the gear protecting his right arm. He'd get blown off plate crowding it like that. No way Bob Gibson let's that happen lol
would have been great to see how the greats would have dealt with barry lol. 100% gibson would have gone high and tight on him lol
Never stopped frank robinson
Then Barry would’ve taken it, he’s that guy
Frank Thomas was smart as a big man to focus on baseball. Way longer career.
Frank definitely, no one intimidated pitchers like that. He would swing a steal rod in the batters box. Frank rules 💪
Where is Manny Ramirez??
He missed a bunch of ppl smh
Ooooh that damn strike. For Ken Giffey JR. Greatest to Play the sport. Father time is undepefeated
Quick buy us some golf shoes! Otherwise we’ll never get out of this place alive! What’s the score here? What’s next?- Raul Duke
Scariest Hitters in Baseball History... Barry Bonds(his scariest years was when other guys talked about in this careers were over and shadows of themselves). He had a small strike zone and swing that made the most of that strike zone. Whatever you think of Bonds, there has been no one since Babe Ruth to create so much fear in manager/pitcher than Bonds.
Frank Robinson- two triple crowns, one in each league and he did during one of the ultimate pitchers era.
There's one guy that is due at least an honorable mention... if not full inclusion. When you own the record for most runs scored in a career beating out guys named Cobb, Bonds and Aaron you deserve consideration. Sure, he didn't have the same massive HR power, but he was as intimidating as anyone in his prime.
All-time steals leader Ricky Henderson could hit for power, but he didn't need to. Any walk or base hit was as good as a triple in his prime and pitchers knew there was little they could do to prevent it.
Not even an Honorable Mention for Jim Thome?! That’s a shame.
Miguel Cabrera is worthy of more than an honorable mention. Arguably the greatest right handed hitter of his generation. Also your inflection at the end of every other sentence is so annoying I could barely get through the video.
Frank Thomas was a legit power machine without PEDs.
As a #Reds fan who really started watching the team in the early to mid-2000s, #AlbertPujols always struck me as a badass and killed my team’s pitching.
Do you remember how much of a monster Bonds was during this period? It was freakin insane. Yea I know juice, whatever, dude couldn't be pitched to. He was a HOFer before the juice and was the best hitter we've ever seen after it.
no stanton or hank aaron?????
16:19 - we're saying batting average is a completely useless stat? Thats crazy
I'm surprised that Big Papi aka David Ortiz wasn't mentioned on this video
Gary Sheffield
His Bat Going Bonkers While At Bat Was Scary 😂😂.
Gary Sheffield. Manny, Vlad, Papi, ARod, Palmeiro, Canseco, Juan Gone…you can put 25 players on this list
Yep, Albert Belle too in my opinion.
Epic drop!
Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig didn't make this list? Not legit.
Barry Bonds actual ability was highlighted in Pittsburgh where he defined the fact that he was a choker. Going to SF and the use of drugs gets him these stats.
Who’s Yordaddy?
Been subscribed a little while, I don't mind much but it is really really noticeable and alot of comments always mention it. Will probably improve views and subs if you adjust it
If you're talking about scary hitters, Albert Belle should be in there. He averaged 40 hrs per 162 games.
Bonds is still the greatest all around player in history followed by Willie Mays
What about Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Jim Thome, and Fred McGriff?
Yeah, as soon as I saw Hammerin' Hank and the Mick weren't on this list I knew it was crap.
Don’t listen to the haters great vid
I still am in disbelief that Albert had his final season play out like that.
Once you find out about the special baseballs used in his and Judges games, whether intentional or not, for me took the shine off.
@@laartwork700 homers is 700 homers
I'm 51 years old
The pitchers were most scared of
#1 Barry Bonds
#2 Big Papi Ortiz
There were many great hitters but they weren't feared
For example
Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were great hitters but pitchers weren't scared to pitch to them
I Know Neither Tony Gwyn Or Ichiro Were Power Hitters But They Were Definitely Feared Along With Rod Carew, Pete Rose And Certainly A Few Others I've Certainly Ommited.
Damn I forgot or never realized all the golden gloves Barry had.
You said Pujols didn’t get walked a lot, but that was only at the end of his career. He had 6 straight seasons in his prime with more than 90 walks and 4 over 100
As a die-hard Oakland A's fan I grew up Idolizing Big Mac. Hitting 50 plus a couple of years I always knew he would break Roger Marris single season HR record. The time Big Unit challenged Mac with a 102 mph only for Mac to send it back out at 105 mph into the upper deck, later saying that the bat smelled like burnt wood 34 HR in and half way in 1997 season was when the St. Louis Cards picked up Big Mac, La Russa baseball. MLB should be kissing Big Mac A$$ for bringing fans back to ballparks and must see tv after the 94 strike. I can careless if Big Mac used PED's or that he didn't make the 600 HR club but when talking about feared hitters put some respect on Big Mac's name, His HR blast's were legendary measuring tape long balls. P.S Bonds never failed any drug test and never was found guilty of PED's or said he used any steroids so all that negative Nancy talk kill that noise. Assumption is the mother of all F**k-ups. Ooh Charlie Hustle should be on the top of this list, Rest In Paradise Mr. Pete Rose.
I am very surprised that Albert Belle is not this list. You can say what you want about the corked bat incident. That dude was a freak show. He was a slugger that a pitcher didn't want to a 500ft mistake to left center into the upper deck. If it wasn't for his degenerative hip problem that cut his career short. There is no doubt he would be in the 500 homerun club or possibly 600 homerun club. But his lack of popularity with the media won't do him any favors , if he gets any hall of fame votes. Albert Belle in his prime was the best player to me in my opinion.
Ichiro...againsts the A's early in his career I watched a Pitched throw a fastball right past his Ear. Ichiro looked Mad...he sent a Line Drive back at the Pitcher the next play.