im not suprised he wasnt the only guy on the team who ive heard wanted to lose and go home. Overall as well there was no motivation by that team all series.
Even if it prevented his pitchers from moving up to the next low level of the minors, that's still huge. Obviously ya never know where one's ceiling is, but he could have messed with a 5 to 10k raise for some of these guys. Even just 1k a month of huge. Unreal.
Funny thing is: the other team ratted him out when batters told their own coaches about it. The Lakeland coaches then told the Fort Myers coaches. The Twins likely have told everyone about this guy. I can’t see him playing professionally again in any league.
Bender at 10: "I'm just glad that I get to play the game." Bender now to hitter: "I just want to go home, it's fastball inside coming up." lol. Life just gets weirder, not throwing the game because of betting....just because he misses his couch.
This just upsets the hell out of me. The man was making three times what I make playing a game I love. He's living the dream. Or.... He was. I hope he never puts on another uniform for the rest of his life!
Minor leaguers get paid very little. Almost anybody with a half way decent job makes more than them, ESPECIALLY A ball. Players in A ball make around 15k/year. Even the best AAA ball players make around 70-90k. Usually around 70k. There's been all sorts of lawsuits and talks between the players association and MLB to pay Minor leaguers more but it hasn't happened yet. When they hit the majors unless they're generational talent they make league minimum for 3 years which is around 760k. A team can choose to pay them more but there's nothing preventing them from paying very little so of course they'll do they. Minor leaguers and players under team control have very little negotiation rights as well.
@@retrorygaming Did you miss the part where the Twins signed him for $320,000? Well they actually got that wrong. The Twins signed him for $297,000, all of it guaranteed. He will keep all that money for one year of playing. I imagine that is what the OP is referencing.
@velpux Yeah so you love quitters and hate winners,if that little biatch was on my team I would beat the breaks out of the quitter for giving up.I get it you are one of those p^^ ssiesl who think everyone should get a participation trophy.Weak women like you is what is making our young men weaker.Soft girls like you are bad for a strong society Change your tampon it is full of blood.
The best part is I literally live like 12 minutes away from that school... I know exactly where he grew up playing I should go see if his coach is still there
I remember this kid playing for Coastal Carolina and doing one of the craziest batflips I have ever seen like one or two years ago. I had completely forgot his name until this story surfaced
Why just WHY, you acomplished your dream of getting drafted, worked your ass of for years if not decades just to do something so unfathomably dumb to lose it all
He didn’t want to at least wait until getting called up to the show and hopefully making a huge contract before doing that? He could have pulled an Anthony Rendon first😂
When this broke, on Threads, someone asked if this was the person from Albany. Told that he essentially was (from Niskayuna, just outside Albany), he had a story to tell. He finally got comeuppance.
Isn't that alarming if there's minor league betting available? Pete Rose gets a bad rap, but he bet on his team to win which isn't in his control, but losing is far easier to control, just ask the Black Sox.
His next uniform will be a blue vest or maybe an orange apron... or, or, or maybe he could go the paper hat route. There are some excellent career opportunities in the food service industry. If he works hard he might get to sell peanuts during the games next year. Goals, he should have goals.
I think what this shows is that being a baseball player is super rough and demanding. He realized how brutally hard the work was gonna be to constantly fight for an MLB spot, maintaining good enough stats while playing the tough catcher position. So he made the emotional decision to throw his career away. Just my guess.
Too bad he wasn't against the Orioles, everyone would be like "bullcrap you were" because the Orioles offence would still be non-existent (that's coming from an Orioles fan)
Millions of young men dream about being drafted. Look at this guy, totally pathetic. And not afraid to hide it is probably just as worse as what he did. Like you said, mediocre player and now will never play again I would think.
Maybe a cry for help? Guy might have just decided he just dosen't want to play baseball anymore. And this was his way out of it. He had to know this would get him blacklisted.
@@ozzzy3z946 That's not the same thing at all. This is basically betting on baseball to a whole new level. If you banned the 2017 astros you're leaving a whole organization in poverty after making the world series. That's crazy talk.
Why include clips with f-bombs in your attempts to be funny? Are we back in junior high and trying to impress others? I always enjoy this channel and the quality of videos, but including offensive language has never raised the quality of it but only lowered it.There are lots of great sports content creators on UA-cam who have grown up. I'll take my subscription to one of them.
"Great player even better teammate. Great person to have in the dugout"
im not suprised he wasnt the only guy on the team who ive heard wanted to lose and go home. Overall as well there was no motivation by that team all series.
I know right
Now starting for the South Park Cows…..
Now starting for the Afghanistan planes…
I thought this was America!
Randy! Randy! Randy! … your the best around…nothing ever gunna keep ya down
Rendon taking notes
💀
That’s a perfect joke!!! Lol
From a 10 year old at that 😂
☠️☠️
Rendon makes me wanna take up Knitting.
If I was pitching in that game we are throwing hands no questions. You’re fucking with you’re own teammates success in a results driven business
Even if it prevented his pitchers from moving up to the next low level of the minors, that's still huge. Obviously ya never know where one's ceiling is, but he could have messed with a 5 to 10k raise for some of these guys. Even just 1k a month of huge. Unreal.
Funny thing is: the other team ratted him out when batters told their own coaches about it. The Lakeland coaches then told the Fort Myers coaches. The Twins likely have told everyone about this guy. I can’t see him playing professionally again in any league.
there are 1000 other catchers behind him ready to take his place
Hope that Coastal Carolina degree pays off because that’s a career ender right here
Assuming he got a degree, that is. Most college players get drafted after their junior year and he's 21 now.
Bender at 10: "I'm just glad that I get to play the game."
Bender now to hitter: "I just want to go home, it's fastball inside coming up."
lol. Life just gets weirder, not throwing the game because of betting....just because he misses his couch.
"BREAKING: 6th Rd Pick Ruins Career to Go Home"
Man, he can stay home
He took put the fries in the bag to seriously
😂🤣
And in a surprise to no one, he got cut. In a positive development for him, he’s going to have a lot of time to sit home
I live right near coastal and I see this kid about 30 times a day in a commercial for a local bank on MLB tv lmao
This just upsets the hell out of me. The man was making three times what I make playing a game I love. He's living the dream. Or.... He was. I hope he never puts on another uniform for the rest of his life!
Minor leaguers get paid very little. Almost anybody with a half way decent job makes more than them, ESPECIALLY A ball. Players in A ball make around 15k/year. Even the best AAA ball players make around 70-90k. Usually around 70k. There's been all sorts of lawsuits and talks between the players association and MLB to pay Minor leaguers more but it hasn't happened yet. When they hit the majors unless they're generational talent they make league minimum for 3 years which is around 760k. A team can choose to pay them more but there's nothing preventing them from paying very little so of course they'll do they. Minor leaguers and players under team control have very little negotiation rights as well.
@@retrorygaming Did you miss the part where the Twins signed him for $320,000? Well they actually got that wrong. The Twins signed him for $297,000, all of it guaranteed. He will keep all that money for one year of playing. I imagine that is what the OP is referencing.
@@John-tx1wk fair point. Didn't think about that.
Damn.. he’s gonna have to get a 9-5 now
Also.. he really let that little boy down
Also shame walked those LL coaches who vouched for 10 year old him.
Come on he just wanted to finish Astro Bot. He didn’t want any spoilers 🤣🤣🤣
Dude just really wanted to play Space Marine 2
Oh my god. The place where bender was practicing in the decade old footage, I live near there and go to summer camp there. What an insane coincidence.
I wonder with the his last name....if he told his teammates to "bite his shiny metal a**" before he left. 🤖
That is statistically NOT an insane coincidence. It's honestly barely even merits a "hm, that's interesting."
You reside in the Capital District? Someone else was telling stories about him on Threads.
@@AEMoreira81 yeah. Who was talking about him? It wasn’t me.
I hope this guy makes it to the bigs, friggin hilarious
He doesn't deserve it
He dosent deserve it I hope he never plays pro ball again
He should be banned from competing in any organized league
@@wsmokr boo you hate fun
@velpux Yeah so you love quitters and hate winners,if that little biatch was on my team I would beat the breaks out of the quitter for giving up.I get it you are one of those p^^ ssiesl who think everyone should get a participation trophy.Weak women like you is what is making our young men weaker.Soft girls like you are bad for a strong society Change your tampon it is full of blood.
The best part is I literally live like 12 minutes away from that school... I know exactly where he grew up playing I should go see if his coach is still there
Do it
They might offer a I don’t know him anymore comment. Shame shame shame on him!
When you said Carlos Correa would be proud. I thought to myself actually Anthony Rendon would be proud
Rendon doesn’t play often enough though!
He is 21 years old? I will be 59 and I look younger then him
I remember this kid playing for Coastal Carolina and doing one of the craziest batflips I have ever seen like one or two years ago. I had completely forgot his name until this story surfaced
Bat Flippimg skills should help his Burger Flipping Career.
Why just WHY, you acomplished your dream of getting drafted, worked your ass of for years if not decades just to do something so unfathomably dumb to lose it all
Has to be some kind of mental breakdown. He wanted out & didn't know how... maybe it was never HIS dream.
@@JustMeELC still worked his ass of for years to get to that point
Not even going to lie, this is great for the game of baseball.
How??This is terrible for any sport,if he was my teammate I would beat the breaks out of this quitter
Bender’s done with baseball and maybe a little homesick. Awwww. Little fella. 😢
Gotta be some kind of mental breakdown
He didn’t want to at least wait until getting called up to the show and hopefully making a huge contract before doing that? He could have pulled an Anthony Rendon first😂
dude had played 20 games with the team... Also threw his entire career away to go home early
Holy crap, buddy’s from my hometown. That’s a shame.
Only the Best from that town
at least Crash Davis pulled this shit to prove a point
I think something happened to this kid. There's no way you go from being a great teammate to Jeff Kent without the talent overnight.
He went to my high school
As a fan of kicking rocks this guy is an embarrassment.
When this broke, on Threads, someone asked if this was the person from Albany. Told that he essentially was (from Niskayuna, just outside Albany), he had a story to tell. He finally got comeuppance.
First
Good job
"bro fell off"
So you don't have to be passionate about sports to become a professional athlete....😂
Alright, Anthony Rendon
@@iTalkStudios 😂😂😂
Ok to be fair if you watch college baseball yk Derek bender was money in college
What does that have to do with the video subject?
To be fair about what? How does that change anything about this?
@@archie15900 saying no once cares that he got drafted
Blawg got the Houston Astros mentality.
that joke made as much sense as the Rangers season this year.
Isn't that alarming if there's minor league betting available? Pete Rose gets a bad rap, but he bet on his team to win which isn't in his control, but losing is far easier to control, just ask the Black Sox.
It would be weird to have minor league betting, especially in A ball where the focus is more on development than anything else. Winning is just gravy.
Lets be honest it was a Tigers and the Twins farm clubs both thems usually cant hit the broad side of an AT-AT
The Angels should trade for him 😂😂
this actually happens alot more often than you think. players just get bored and want to get the game over with
Individual games, sure; if it's like 15-2 everyone just wants to go. This was throwing a game and a season in literally the second inning.
...next Dodgers legend....😁
Shiii ill become a catcher for the twins
His next uniform will be a blue vest or maybe an orange apron... or, or, or maybe he could go the paper hat route. There are some excellent career opportunities in the food service industry. If he works hard he might get to sell peanuts during the games next year.
Goals, he should have goals.
I think what this shows is that being a baseball player is super rough and demanding. He realized how brutally hard the work was gonna be to constantly fight for an MLB spot, maintaining good enough stats while playing the tough catcher position. So he made the emotional decision to throw his career away. Just my guess.
I heard rumors McDonald's is gonna pick him up at a discount
Wonder if dude just realized he didn’t have what it takes and decided to end it in a blaze of glory.
He probably doesn't but the 19 games he played is a really small sample size.
Absolutely pathetic....guy should have just quit playing ball if he felt like that
Too bad he wasn't against the Orioles, everyone would be like "bullcrap you were" because the Orioles offence would still be non-existent (that's coming from an Orioles fan)
He should be required to give his signing bonus back.
The White Sox need him now!
Dude ripped off that South Park episode.
He’ll latch on with an indy team somewhere fizzle out and manage a convenience store
Time to look for another line of work.
He had more integrity as a ten year old than he has as a 21 year old. He will be in single A ball for the next few years if he isn’t cut.
He was cut.
Might be the first time since the Black Sox a player's own team has wanted to hit him with a pitch.
He should be banned for life.
Millions of young men dream about being drafted. Look at this guy, totally pathetic. And not afraid to hide it is probably just as worse as what he did. Like you said, mediocre player and now will never play again I would think.
A gamer? A big-time loser.
He'll probably never play pro ball again
Dude, he looks 45 😬
Dudes coach was Dpizza
Close the door, This is the hardest thing a manager has to do, the organization is making a change......
I played a season with lakeland
On todays episode on why and the fuck would you ever do this is todays piece
south park did it!!
Florida league made it
He should have to give his money back and then plus a lot
Curveball, don't swing. Michael swings anyways.
Just like arod!
That's crazy. Why even try to pursue baseball if you go and do things like that? Guess he won't be now though lmaoo
Unless he’s the second coming of Barry bonds i doubt he’ll see any mlb affiliated ball again
The man is depressed - requiring assistance.
Doing that to your teammates is such a POS move. Surprised he didn't get stomped
“Personal Best” = meh, good try
Thats what seperates minor leagues from the majors
This is just sad actually. Like what happened that he'd get to this point, from where he began.
Mental health
Yeah...team player my a**....if he wanted to go home so bad....GO....but to take down your team to do it....bottom of the barrel.
He was copying kevin costner in bull durham
Yea no he ain't ever gonna play in the mlb
Maybe a cry for help? Guy might have just decided he just dosen't want to play baseball anymore. And this was his way out of it. He had to know this would get him blacklisted.
I bet Correa taught him that
Or Rendon.
He should be banned from baseball.
Yep
I honestly don’t think a ban is necessary. No organization is gonna be interested in him at all
@Wolf-wc1js If he was a very high-level prospect, 1 team would take the chance. A ban is the right move imo
The Astros players cheated to win a World Series. Banned? They were rewarded with enormous contracts. He IS today's MLB
@@ozzzy3z946 That's not the same thing at all. This is basically betting on baseball to a whole new level. If you banned the 2017 astros you're leaving a whole organization in poverty after making the world series. That's crazy talk.
learn the rules. its not cheating.
Or do you just not know what cheating even means?
He still got paid money that would be life changing for me, screw him, what a loser
Why include clips with f-bombs in your attempts to be funny? Are we back in junior high and trying to impress others? I always enjoy this channel and the quality of videos, but including offensive language has never raised the quality of it but only lowered it.There are lots of great sports content creators on UA-cam who have grown up. I'll take my subscription to one of them.
Xd
So this is unforgivable but racial slurs are just innocent mistakes.
Huh
What are you talking about?
Let's not kill the guy, maybe he has a nice home
this guy clearly never wants to play professional baseball ever again
The real joke is this channel