Best Hitting Pitchers in Baseball
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Harold Reynolds and Pedro Martinez talk about the best hitting pitchers in baseball. Pedro explains what he would do if Babe Ruth stepped up to the plate and called his shot against him.
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"I'd drop him" Pedro is a savage lmao
All their eyes when he said that lmao
Gotta love Pedro. I would love to see a simulation of him taking the Bambino out for calling the shot to left. Too good.
Bartolo Colon is the greatest.
SlayBoy Jr. BIG SEXY!!!
the goat
@@kseries1981ohtani is better
Zambrano was amazing with the bat, too bad he couldn't keep his head on straight.
PEDRO is the best on your show
I'd pay good money to see all those pitchers the guys mentioned in a home run derby, plus Syndergaard, Bartolo, and Travis Wood.
Michael Deitch Michael lorenzen can really hit
Michael Deitch bartolo colon are u serious he would MAYBE hit one home run
Got to get Greg Maddux in there too. After all, chicks dig the long ball
Add Ohtani to the mix, it wouldn’t be a contest
Harold just leaves after Pedro says bum vs babe lol
my top 5:
1. Shohei Ohtani
2. Zack Greinke
3. Madison Bumgarner
4. Michael Lorenzen
5. Carlos Zambrano
just so you know, Babe Ruth i consider a position player as he also played a lot on the field. Ohtani might be playing in RF every now and then, but he is a pitcher who hits, not a hitter who pitches
babe ruth did not play a lot on the field, he totaled less than a full season on defense in the 6 years he pitched.
And then there was Ohtani! :D
Yup
Good point. If they had this conversation today they wouldn't need to have this conversation.
Corey Savage yea a 2 way
He trash tho
@@noahr8702 dumbass
Then Shohei came along.
Now degroms hitting over 400 with an era under 1
Now it's 2020 and we may unfortunetly never have this convo ever again
Ohtani?
@@IkilledColMustard I posted this after his awful 2019, can’t believe I was so blind and wrong. Pretty incredible
If this video was made this year, I’d say DeGrom, Ohtani and probably still Greinke even tho he’s in the AL now
degrom and greinke are not even near the same level as ohtani lmao
Most silver slugger awards all time by pitcher is 5, Mike Hampton!! ....and he won them consecutively from 99-03! With a .328 batting average, 7 hr 16 rbi in 2001!!!! Zambrano hitting 450 ft bombs from both sides of the plate is crazy too. Hampton best hitter overall, Zambrano best deep ball hitter! ......& I forgot Dontrelle Willis used to SMASH the ball from the left side!!!!!
Mike Hampton!
Bartolo Colon!!
Nl pitchers and al pitchers are taught different coming up like zambrano ,bumgarner ,peavy all had years with more then 1 homerun but ive been suprised by al pitchers hitting sabathia, cliff lee
if only they knew about shohei ohtani right here
Edison vs. Woodbridge
Woodbridge park
Yovani Gallardo #1
Harold got them.. GO Babe.
If the Babe didn't start as a pitcher he would have had like 780 home runs
His first 5 1/2 years was in the dead ball era, consider that as well. Maybe over 800 dingers.
How do you know that? Chances are you've never seen Babe Ruth play. That's why it puzzles me when I see people under the age of 90 wearing his jersey.
@@Essays4College They are just talking in terms of how much more time and at bats he would have gotten
The rule switch for NL is unfortunately all about pitcher injuries. Don't expose a guy to the chance. Same reason everyone is putting position players in as closers now. Ohtani is a great story either way.
I had to check the date on this when they didn't mention Shohei.
Yovani Gallardo?
where is Ohtani?
and now we have shoehei
who else notices that grienke flips his bat every time he hits
FDM Thunder the guy said it lmfao you're dumb
Funny how madbum always yells at guys for staring at homers yet he always does it when he gets one
Agree with that top 3
Racist, no love for Ohtani because he is Asian.
Don Drysdale.
Dodgers used him as a pinch hitter sometimes.
Hell, one year Drysdale had the best batting average on the team; he was over .300. Of course, that was one of those Dodger teams that couldn't hit at all.
rivalry
Why does it say "no pepper alloweed"?
it's from the movie major league when rick vaughn was pitching for the first time a camp. It means no pitching with velcocity
@@anthonykouma4866 pepper is game played where you hit the ball hard at people from close distances. Many baseball fields have signs that say no pepper.
@@StaySqueezy12
I'm not sure, but my guess is that they don't want players chewing up the grass.
Shohei
Mike Hampton could straight rake.
Yep BR best hitting pitcher ever!
Kerry Wood was good with the bat too
Dominic Scutaro He could definitely hit. Pretty sure they used him as a PH sometimes and i think they used him in the outfield once or twice
Shame about his arm.
Mike Hampton anyone?
Ohtani is the best hitting pitcher in MLB
Not 2 years ago when this was recorded.
What about Ohtani
Came into TJ surgey as a pitcher, comes out as a DH vs. AL. I respect that.
And then Oh!tani is came
They forgot bartolo
If Felix hernandez would hit oohhh the power
wow, pedro has gained so much weight since this
and now Michael Lorenzen
Clearly Al Leiter is the best hitting pitcher of all time! That is a matter of fact!
Better than Ohtani
Now in 2018 shoe othani
lol Ohtani now
giants stadium MLB
Bambino!!!!
Ohtani
home family Edison home Woodbridge
family Woodbridge
lol. Babe would definitely strikeout on 3 pitches vs Pedro. if Babe were to play in todays gsmr, he would hit about .100
Campbell Doyon thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard
Campbell Doyon Facts. With so many pitches in today's game and guys throwing over 90mph he couldn't beat anyone.
wow u guys are a bunch of geniuses to figure that one out. If babe Ruth was born in modern times he would still be one of the best to play. thats how u have to approach those scenerios when comparing eras
Zakeron Williams I personally don't believe that. Today's game involves way more strategy with pitch selection. Sliders, Changeups, and fastball combinations would kill him.
Gavin Ryan I think your seriously underestimating the natural talent that Ruth and players of yesteryear had. I understand and to a certain degree I agree with you but I believe he would have had a hall of fame career if he was playing in modern times. Just as pitching has advanced so has hitting technique and physical training.
Greinke hit no homeruns last year
hits != hr
just because you don’t hit home runs doesn’t mean you aren’t a good hitter.
No more DH please
The best hitting pitchers still suck at hitting
Wait till they see Ohtani
Ohtani’s not a better hitter than Babe Ruth was lol
1:55 Racist Doug Drabek?
Jenny Titus, why did you have to say Racist?
Pedro Whos your Daddy??
I hate the DH.
Pedro's list was terrible. It should be 1>Bumgarner 2.Mike Leake 3.Grienke
Actually.. Ohtani surpass Babe.....
No tf he hasn’t 😂 not offensively
The DH should be an option in both leagues. The skill sets needed to be a successful hitter and pitcher are SO different, it's rare to see a pitcher who is even a below average hitter. It also increases the risk of your star pitcher getting injured. This is just more proof that many so called "experts" on baseball are morons.
CanadaMMA a baseball player should be able to do both
With respect David, I disagree. Greg Maddux is arguably the best pitcher in the past 25 years and he had a career slashline of .171/.191/.205. Why not let him just pitch and have a DH step in for him? It not only makes the game more exciting, but it protects pitchers from possibly getting injured while batting. This goes double for American League pitchers in interleague games and the playoffs, because they aren't used to it.
I don't understand why so many people are set on letting a crappy batter hack away, and risk losing a star pitcher to a freak accident. I don't know, maybe someone could explain it to me?
CanadaMMA because they just like tradition for the sake of tradition, it's dumb
Why not get specialist fielders who never bat or pitch?
Why not allow every man on base a pinch runner?
Why not have batting squads that specialise against lefties and righties respectively?
-Hypothetically, wouldn't all those things increase the likelihood of scoring runs, and spectacular fielding?
If one was a good pitcher and also a good batter then he would be the envy of every team. You see this in cricket, where good all-rounders are often the focal point of the team because they're so highly valued.
The catcher's skill set isn't so drastically different from other positions however. At least not when you compare them to a pitcher. There is a reason that a lot of players move from catcher to other positions during their career, like 1st or 3rd... or are completely converted once they hit the big leagues.
Pitchers are FAR more specialized because no single player on the team has more impact in your success than the guy on the mound. Offense involves the whole team, defense involves the whole team. Pitching is one dude vs nine other guys.
Yovani Gallardo?
WarriorKitty91 it’s funny that you say because I play with his son so yo coaches and after every practice he throws the ball up and tries to hit it over a 300 ft field and still hasn’t done it 💀