Growing up in Arizona, needless to say that I’ve seen my fair share of Spring Training games. I’m not joking but even after he was an established pitcher, he would wait until he signed EVERY single autograph. I hate the Cubs but I will never have one bad word to say about him. NEVER. If by some random chance that he sees this, Greg, I just want to thank you for making a small group of kids think that anyone can become successful in anything as long as we kept our heads down and worked out ass off while being humble and understanding that no one achieves success in life(not just monetarily)without the help of others!!!! We saw you, we listened to you and we never give up and stay focused on the task(s) in front of us. Thank you
Wow what a great comment. We need more of this in the world! I always read the comments and think some people shouldn't even own a computer or let out of their cage, BUT then I am grateful to see and read that there are still decent people in this world that recognize and share powerful and lasting anecdotes while giving props! Thanks my friend you made my morning!
Saying that Greg Maddux "regularly threw one of the slowest fastballs in baseball" was true in the final stages of his career. It was not true for most of it, as his fastball regularly hit up to 95 mph, which was ridiculous in the 90s. His ability to throw GAS should make his control even more impressive.
95 mph wasn’t ridiculous in the 90’s. You had guys like Nolan Ryan for a bit, Clemens, Johnson, Pedro Martinez, and more. 95 isn’t bad at all, but not ridiculous.
@@K.DwizzleThe average fastball in 2007-2008 was under 92 mph. This was measured using statcast right out of the pitcher’s hand. Maddux was registering at mid 90’s in the 80’s, when the gun was reading closer to home plate. To say that it wasn’t insane because of a few other hall of famers (or steroid users) is just wrong.
@@boplic2793I think he maybe didn't have the craziest fastball in baseball, but still a very good one. It's also the case he didn't throw full power on every fastball. Part of his skill that tricked hitters the worst was the ability to throw different speeds of fastball, he could throw 95 one pitch and 92 the next to keep hitters from getting their timing down -- and according to him his actual top velocity was like 97-98 but he only pulled that out when he actually needed it. And that's the main reason he was able to pitch so many complete games -- an underrated aspect of his game, because would you rather have 6 innings of Maddux throwing 98 and 3 of your bullpen or 9 innings of Maddux throwing 95?
One of the best games I ever attended was in 04 when Maddox faced Clemons. Was Houston vs Chicago and only the 3rd or 4th time 2, 300 game winners faced each other and Clemons got mud stomped and got pulled before the 5th inning !
His prank on Kris Bryant at the batting cages was legendary and showed that he still had the stuff that made hitters look foolish, its well worth the watch.
A true pitcher. All these guys do today is throw hard. A major league hitter will eventually catch up to whatever velocity it is no matter how hard its thrown.
I don't use any sort of AI for any of the video making process, I do it all myself, this is just a very young picture of him. Surprisingly there weren't many available.
Greg Maddux was a true artist and surgeon on the pitching mound! Only the great Tony Gwynn had his number! Everyone else looked silly when goin up against Greg in the batters box!!
My mom's favourite pitcher. I still remember when a friend of mine gave me an Atlanta Braves jersey and I went to a sports store on Yonge Street in Toronto and got it crested with "Maddux 31" on the back. She LOVED it. She wore it almost as often as her Blue Jays "Gaston 43" jersey. Anyhoo, Greenlight, you're videos are great and I hope the content keeps on coming!
Growing up in the 90s I was a huge Braves fan and Maddux was my favorite, by far! He was truly an inspiration! He was the ace in a starting rotation full of aces! I grew up in a small Montana town and the Braves were on tv almost every day and I never missed a game. Maddux was different then the average starter. He mastered control and demonstrated how it was more important than velocity. I was a pitcher in little league, high school and went on to receive a scholarship to pitch in college. Elbow and shoulder issues would end my college career early but it was Greg Maddux that inspired me to chase that dream while I could! For me, he is the GOAT of starting pitchers!
I cannot imagine how much time and effort it took to make this video. So much research. So much time piecing together footage. You deserve your own Cy Young!
I remember how with the braves how he would throw during spring training hanging curveballs sloppy sliders change ups that didn’t have much of a difference in speed from his fastball, yet as soon as opening day hit he would throw the good stuff and bamboozle opposing hitters
The baseball writers are full of old stuffy dudes, many who have a problem voting guys in on the first year. Now, you get Harold Baines and Tim Raines, but no Clemens, Bonds, Sosa, or ARod.
I really appreciate the HoF as far as it is a museum of the history of baseball. And when players get inducted the village of Cooperstown just oozes baseball. I was lucky enough to be there when Ozzie Smith was inducted in 2002 and it's hard to describe the beautiful baseball atmosphere as you see Joe Morgan, Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra walking down the street, or Duke Snider signing baseballs in the back of a local memorabilia store. At the same time, too many people with strong opinions about who should be in the HoF do not bother to visit it.
Greg Maddox was like a professor on the mound. He could literally tell a batter where he was going to throw it and he still couldn’t do anything with it
Great Video weird thumbnail but it got me here so it's all good. That 90's braves group of pitchers had me practicing every pitch especially Maddux he was just amazing haha and this coming from a Mets Lifer go figure lol
One thing that Greg Maddux was a master of, was a comment made to me as a young pitcher... Good pitchers throw strikes, GREAT pitchers make you swing at pitchers that aren't strikes That's why control & movement Trump velocity
Greg Maddux mastered baseball with a surgeon's precision, proving you don't need velocity to dominate. But imagine if today's pitchers prioritized control over speed... would anyone come close to his genius? ⚾🎯
He actually does have good velocity though. The guy wasn't some soft tosser, especially in his prime. He happens to sacrifice his velocity for the most part.
One sure sign of his greatness is that, as a new free-agent, he left the Cubs, just as he achieved his prime. Atlanta fans should be grateful that Cubs ownership was so blind.
The man singlehandedly responsinible for MLB ending the overhead view of the plate. Maddux pitching, ball misses plate by 6 inches, umpire yells steeeerike!!
We were blessed in the 90s with being able to turn on TBS and catch the Braves insane pitching staff on a daily basis. Maddux was the clear top dog in Atlanta. Smoltz & Glavine would be #1's on any other team.
Maddux threw 94-95 for most of his career when he wanted. That was one of the reasons he was so effective. Being sneaky fast and with his control makes him one of if not the best pitcher to have ever played the game.
Good ol’ Mad Dog. I still contend: the nastiest slurve in the history of baseball. It was unhittable. Exceptional (!) glove and more than a half-decent bat. He was a true baseballer and I say that with love. Wicked smartness - the “thinking man’s” pitcher. Mean as snot on the mound, but never as a personal matter. Just ballin’. Great professional. Kids can learn from that guy.
Slight correction: A "Maddux" is a complete game *shutout* in which the pitcher throws fewer than 100 pitches. (I can remember when another Maddux protege and Cub, Kyle Hendricks, pitched a complete game shutout with only 86 pitches. Kyle didn't have as glorious a prime as Maddux, but his similar approach to pitching with control and changing speeds earned him the same nickname: The Professor.)
Maddux is the Beast!! Not only so, he's a really good dude. My daughter taught his daughter cheer/dance, and he's as nice as person as he is a pitcher. My top three fav easy behind Ryan and Gibson
Nothing about Maddux satisfies me more than his career win total. He won exactly one more game -- 355 to 354 -- than Clemens. Verlander will be 42 this year. He has 262 career wins. He will probably not break the 300 mark. The 300 Club is probably Closed. For all pitchers who played sine 1966 -- the year Maddux was born -- he is the winning-most. Including all pitchers of all time, he ranks 8th. And no one would ever even joke about Maddux using steroids.
Maddux wasn't "unorthodox." He was a guy who didn't throw mid/high 90s, so he learned how to pitch. Learning how to pitch is something all pitchers must learn to do when their stuff isn't as good as it once was. You don't see much of this anymore and this contributes to the fact that starting pitchers today are expected to throw five innings a game topping 95 mph. Pitching used to be a craft. Today, it's radar gun fodder and multiple Tommy John surgeries. Just so happens, Maddux learned his craft better than anyone else -- but look at his early years. In his first two seasons, he pitched about 185 innings total and had an ERA around 5.60. Then he hit stride. HIs game was about "hitting his spots." And he could hit them all at any time. His K to BB ratio was 3+ to 1. So, learning his craft and perfecting his control allowed him to throw a fastball that maybe hit 92 and to locate his strikes in order to win 4 straight Cy Young Awards in the height of the steroid era. His best pitch, he said, was a first-pitch strike. Get that first one over, it's all downhill from there. He never needed Tommy John surgery. He won 15 games or more every year from 1988 through 2004. In 2005, he won 13 but, in 2006, he won 15 again followed by 14 more in 2007. There's never been a better model for pitchers who don't rely on gas alone, but we've not seen anyone like him since he retired.
I want to say that i believe Greg Maddox was one of the best pitchers of all time, but if he had to play today with that strikeout box you see on tv now, he wouldn’t have had the same numbers. Umpires are now graded on that box. His catcher was a genius at trying to see what they could get away with. I alway’s wished my Astros would try it, but never did
The summer of 89 I would watch days games of the Cubs on WGN. They had a good team that year. I’m a Tiger fan but we got a lot more televised Cubs and Braves (WTBS) games back then. Watch Cubs during the day and go see a Tiger game in the bleachers at Tigers Stadium for like $3 that summer. The Tigers were horrible that year but I still went to dozens of games. Great times.
At the 7:50 mark is a great example of how to frame a pitch. The catcher took a pitch that was a ball and made it look like a strike by the way he caught it. Modern catchers have no idea how to do that.
By the way, grandpa, today's catchers frame at least as well as catchers did in earlier eras, as today's catchers have the benefit of technology. There are plenty of catchers who are brilliant at framing, such as the 23 year old Mets' receiver, Francisco Alvarez.
Maddux had phenomenal control. Along with that, he had the huge advantage of being given a strike zone about a foot wider than just about every other pitcher. Don't act like he didn't, and like it doesn't exist. A veteran pitcher will get striked called on the exact same pitch an unknown rookie in the other dugout gets called a ball all night. The only pitcher given even close to the same malformed strike zone in the past 30 years is Verlander (in a certain postseason, were pitches in the opposite batters box being called strikes, over and over again? Yup, Verlander got those calls). Like I said, he had phenomenal control. And he used his control to put pitches exactly where they were balls, knowing they'd be called strikes. But Maddux wouldn't have fared as well as if he actually had to throw strikes that were strikes, and his pitches out of the zone were called balls.
I would watch WGN and the Cubs games. For years their announcers would seem to needle that the Cubs let Maddox go, that or give excuses. As a child it was hard to tell.
2nd best in his Era after Pedro. Pretty good. Considering randy Johnson, shilling, and Clemens played then. Kevin brown , mussina, pettite, smoltz, glavine were really good too.
@@why-even-try-brotendofirst you got proof of steroids use? ......didnt think so Second, no he couldn't stop bonds. Don't you know he said bonds was the easiest batter he ever faced. You give him 4 and send him on his way to first
As a former 5’11”, 125 lb, precision pitcher in high school and amateur leagues beyond, Maddux was the absolute best (which drove me INSANE as a lifelong Mets fan).
5'11 125? What did you tie yourself off to when the when the wind blew? You must have been made of paper...I imagine you had to be a control pitcher when you could only throw 12 mph. Greg Maddux was 6'0 170. Even Pedro was 5'11 170.
It’s a shame there aren’t more pitchers with a similar approach like Maddux cause then baseball would be far more fun to watch from a strategic standpoint. The current style says “Throw as hard as you can somewhere in the strike zone and you’ll do good.” Someone like Glasgow is typical of this.
Maddex was an amazing pitcher, but no pitcher exposed how unimportant being able to pitch fast was than Stu Miller. His pitches were so slow major league batters had great difficulty adjusting their swings.
Las Vegas Area 51's are a cool minor league baseball team. I took my son to watch a game and when the game ended the left fielder ran up and gave my son the game ball.
You're kidding? Right? Back then there was only 2 divisions within each league. (NL & AL) And East & West divisions. Implemented in 69 & in 94 the central was added
I had a feeling it might be hard to recognize, but surprisingly, there weren't many good pictures of him to use. This is him from when he was very young.
Growing up in Arizona, needless to say that I’ve seen my fair share of Spring Training games. I’m not joking but even after he was an established pitcher, he would wait until he signed EVERY single autograph. I hate the Cubs but I will never have one bad word to say about him. NEVER. If by some random chance that he sees this, Greg, I just want to thank you for making a small group of kids think that anyone can become successful in anything as long as we kept our heads down and worked out ass off while being humble and understanding that no one achieves success in life(not just monetarily)without the help of others!!!! We saw you, we listened to you and we never give up and stay focused on the task(s) in front of us.
Thank you
That's awesome to hear!
Wow what a great comment. We need more of this in the world! I always read the comments and think some people shouldn't even own a computer or let out of their cage, BUT then I am grateful to see and read that there are still decent people in this world that recognize and share powerful and lasting anecdotes while giving props! Thanks my friend you made my morning!
The professor should be the blueprint for pitching. The radar gun has destroyed more arms than I can count.
a thousand thumbs up!!!!
Damn I didn't know his nickname was the Professor before Kyle Hendricks but it makes so much sense now!
Agreed, such a cool nickname too
Yeah, think of guys like Kerry Wood and Stephen Strasburg.
Saying that Greg Maddux "regularly threw one of the slowest fastballs in baseball" was true in the final stages of his career. It was not true for most of it, as his fastball regularly hit up to 95 mph, which was ridiculous in the 90s. His ability to throw GAS should make his control even more impressive.
95 mph wasn’t ridiculous in the 90’s. You had guys like Nolan Ryan for a bit, Clemens, Johnson, Pedro Martinez, and more. 95 isn’t bad at all, but not ridiculous.
His FB averaged less than 95. It was closer to low 90s for much of his career, then, mid/high 80s at the back end.
@@K.DwizzleThe average fastball in 2007-2008 was under 92 mph. This was measured using statcast right out of the pitcher’s hand. Maddux was registering at mid 90’s in the 80’s, when the gun was reading closer to home plate. To say that it wasn’t insane because of a few other hall of famers (or steroid users) is just wrong.
@@boplic2793I think he maybe didn't have the craziest fastball in baseball, but still a very good one. It's also the case he didn't throw full power on every fastball. Part of his skill that tricked hitters the worst was the ability to throw different speeds of fastball, he could throw 95 one pitch and 92 the next to keep hitters from getting their timing down -- and according to him his actual top velocity was like 97-98 but he only pulled that out when he actually needed it. And that's the main reason he was able to pitch so many complete games -- an underrated aspect of his game, because would you rather have 6 innings of Maddux throwing 98 and 3 of your bullpen or 9 innings of Maddux throwing 95?
Not to mention Maddux happened to sacrifice his velocity for better control for the most part but the narratives had people thinking he's Ed Lopat.
One of the best games I ever attended was in 04 when Maddox faced Clemons. Was Houston vs Chicago and only the 3rd or 4th time 2, 300 game winners faced each other and Clemons got mud stomped and got pulled before the 5th inning !
His prank on Kris Bryant at the batting cages was legendary and showed that he still had the stuff that made hitters look foolish, its well worth the watch.
“sound guy has a good curve ball” 💀💀💀💀
Haha I love that video
A true pitcher. All these guys do today is throw hard. A major league hitter will eventually catch up to whatever velocity it is no matter how hard its thrown.
Yup, not many like him in the game right now
One thing that was not mentioned is that Greg Maddux while being a major sports star was also a really nice guy.
He was a great guy, funny one too.
That thumbnail i never would have guessed that's maddux
💯 Facts! Because it looks nothing like him.
Haha had no idea it was Maddux clicked to see what AI created athlete was this. Happy to watch this about Maddux though
I don't use any sort of AI for any of the video making process, I do it all myself, this is just a very young picture of him. Surprisingly there weren't many available.
Surprisingly there weren't many good ones available, so I had to use this one from when he was very young
@@3-0Greenlight I thought it was a very young Ryne Sandberg for a moment and I got very confused lol
Greg Maddux was a true artist and surgeon on the pitching mound! Only the great Tony Gwynn had his number! Everyone else looked silly when goin up against Greg in the batters box!!
As a Braves Fan, I remember that. And it was true. Man he made me nervous.
Maddux is on record saying Barry Bonds was the easiest guy in the world to pitch to.
Because if his at bat mattered, he just walked him.
@@bartstewart6106 hehehe shhhh shhhh. They don't know that part.
My mom's favourite pitcher. I still remember when a friend of mine gave me an Atlanta Braves jersey and I went to a sports store on Yonge Street in Toronto and got it crested with "Maddux 31" on the back. She LOVED it. She wore it almost as often as her Blue Jays "Gaston 43" jersey. Anyhoo, Greenlight, you're videos are great and I hope the content keeps on coming!
Thank you I appreciate it!
Growing up in the 90s I was a huge Braves fan and Maddux was my favorite, by far! He was truly an inspiration! He was the ace in a starting rotation full of aces! I grew up in a small Montana town and the Braves were on tv almost every day and I never missed a game. Maddux was different then the average starter. He mastered control and demonstrated how it was more important than velocity. I was a pitcher in little league, high school and went on to receive a scholarship to pitch in college. Elbow and shoulder issues would end my college career early but it was Greg Maddux that inspired me to chase that dream while I could! For me, he is the GOAT of starting pitchers!
I cannot imagine how much time and effort it took to make this video. So much research. So much time piecing together footage. You deserve your own Cy Young!
He makes money off of the views which is why he does it. I'm sure...
His voice though is kinda annoying. Kinda valley girlish & exaggerated. No?
Thank you so much!
I remember how with the braves how he would throw during spring training hanging curveballs sloppy sliders change ups that didn’t have much of a difference in speed from his fastball, yet as soon as opening day hit he would throw the good stuff and bamboozle opposing hitters
The fact that he didn't receive 100% of the vote is the exact reason I hardly care about HoF 😂
The baseball writers are full of old stuffy dudes, many who have a problem voting guys in on the first year. Now, you get Harold Baines and Tim Raines, but no Clemens, Bonds, Sosa, or ARod.
It's insane I agree
I really appreciate the HoF as far as it is a museum of the history of baseball. And when players get inducted the village of Cooperstown just oozes baseball. I was lucky enough to be there when Ozzie Smith was inducted in 2002 and it's hard to describe the beautiful baseball atmosphere as you see Joe Morgan, Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra walking down the street, or Duke Snider signing baseballs in the back of a local memorabilia store.
At the same time, too many people with strong opinions about who should be in the HoF do not bother to visit it.
Living in ATL for the 80's and 90's...I got used to Glavine Maddox and Smolts. It's what we did..
Chick's dig the long ball
@@ingibingi2000 Reminds me of that ad where Glavine and Maddux decides to take up hitting home runs.
@@Iamhungey exactly what I was making reference to
Tom Glavine was a beast too
That was a perfect time for Braves baseball
EXCELLENT video. Great clips and I love your commentary on his career as well.
I'm so glad you enjoyed!
It also helps when the strike zone is six feet wide !
Before Ohtani, Maddux was known as one of two premiere home run hitting pitchers. Tom Glavine was the other.
Greg Maddox was like a professor on the mound. He could literally tell a batter where he was going to throw it and he still couldn’t do anything with it
One of the best starting rotation ever. Maddux glavine smoltz. Just a brutal rotation. Loved the 90s braves
Dr. Maddox missed but not often! He knew his opponents Inside and Out!
Maddux, Glavine, Smolts, Avery, those were the days. Stopped watching baseball after they were done.
What i saw was Maddux+ mustache= good pitcher: Maddux- mustache= hall of farmer
Great Video weird thumbnail but it got me here so it's all good. That 90's braves group of pitchers had me practicing every pitch especially Maddux he was just amazing haha and this coming from a Mets Lifer go figure lol
Haha I'm glad you enjoyed!
One thing that Greg Maddux was a master of, was a comment made to me as a young pitcher...
Good pitchers throw strikes, GREAT pitchers make you swing at pitchers that aren't strikes
That's why control & movement Trump velocity
Chicks dig the long ball....
As a long time Braves fan I remember the day Atlanta got him I will never forget that I was ecstatic.
When the Braves signed him I was ecstatic. Was a great player and one that I lived watching every night.
Greg Maddux mastered baseball with a surgeon's precision, proving you don't need velocity to dominate. But imagine if today's pitchers prioritized control over speed... would anyone come close to his genius? ⚾🎯
He actually does have good velocity though. The guy wasn't some soft tosser, especially in his prime. He happens to sacrifice his velocity for the most part.
Gonna be tough!
One sure sign of his greatness is that, as a new free-agent, he left the Cubs, just as he achieved his prime. Atlanta fans should be grateful that Cubs ownership was so blind.
A typical Cubdumb move !
the giants broke my heart in 89 and i forever hate them to this day
He did get some generous calls throughout his career,
The man singlehandedly responsinible for MLB ending the overhead view of the plate. Maddux pitching, ball misses plate by 6 inches, umpire yells steeeerike!!
He could never strike Tony Gwynn out either. Ground outs flyouts or hits, Tony never had to take a seat on the bench after being fooled by Maddox
My favorite pitcher of all time
We were blessed in the 90s with being able to turn on TBS and catch the Braves insane pitching staff on a daily basis.
Maddux was the clear top dog in Atlanta.
Smoltz & Glavine would be #1's on any other team.
Maddux threw 94-95 for most of his career when he wanted. That was one of the reasons he was so effective. Being sneaky fast and with his control makes him one of if not the best pitcher to have ever played the game.
Good ol’ Mad Dog. I still contend: the nastiest slurve in the history of baseball. It was unhittable. Exceptional (!) glove and more than a half-decent bat. He was a true baseballer and I say that with love. Wicked smartness - the “thinking man’s” pitcher. Mean as snot on the mound, but never as a personal matter. Just ballin’. Great professional. Kids can learn from that guy.
Slight correction: A "Maddux" is a complete game *shutout* in which the pitcher throws fewer than 100 pitches. (I can remember when another Maddux protege and Cub, Kyle Hendricks, pitched a complete game shutout with only 86 pitches. Kyle didn't have as glorious a prime as Maddux, but his similar approach to pitching with control and changing speeds earned him the same nickname: The Professor.)
My mistake, I thought I mentioned that it was a complete game under 100 pitches.
Watched Maddux with the cubs and he normally lived around 91-92 mph. His kind of movement & location at low 90's = dominance.
It was impressive
Maddux is the Beast!! Not only so, he's a really good dude. My daughter taught his daughter cheer/dance, and he's as nice as person as he is a pitcher. My top three fav easy behind Ryan and Gibson
Nothing about Maddux satisfies me more than his career win total. He won exactly one more game -- 355 to 354 -- than Clemens.
Verlander will be 42 this year. He has 262 career wins. He will probably not break the 300 mark.
The 300 Club is probably Closed.
For all pitchers who played sine 1966 -- the year Maddux was born -- he is the winning-most. Including all pitchers of all time, he ranks 8th.
And no one would ever even joke about Maddux using steroids.
It's going to be hard to see anyone every top 300 again,
great videos man hopefully you do one on Ken Griffey Jr soon. and Ryne Sandberg
also George Brett
I'm definitely down to do one on Griffey!
@@3-0Greenlight thanks your the goat
Maddux wasn't "unorthodox." He was a guy who didn't throw mid/high 90s, so he learned how to pitch.
Learning how to pitch is something all pitchers must learn to do when their stuff isn't as good as it once was. You don't see much of this anymore and this contributes to the fact that starting pitchers today are expected to throw five innings a game topping 95 mph.
Pitching used to be a craft. Today, it's radar gun fodder and multiple Tommy John surgeries.
Just so happens, Maddux learned his craft better than anyone else -- but look at his early years. In his first two seasons, he pitched about 185 innings total and had an ERA around 5.60.
Then he hit stride.
HIs game was about "hitting his spots." And he could hit them all at any time. His K to BB ratio was 3+ to 1.
So, learning his craft and perfecting his control allowed him to throw a fastball that maybe hit 92 and to locate his strikes in order to win 4 straight Cy Young Awards in the height of the steroid era.
His best pitch, he said, was a first-pitch strike. Get that first one over, it's all downhill from there.
He never needed Tommy John surgery. He won 15 games or more every year from 1988 through 2004. In 2005, he won 13 but, in 2006, he won 15 again followed by 14 more in 2007.
There's never been a better model for pitchers who don't rely on gas alone, but we've not seen anyone like him since he retired.
I think one of the most impressive things about him was his durability, as you mention he never got injured. I think he went on the DL once.
As a Cubs fan, seeing him leave still hurts. He was/is great.
I want to say that i believe Greg Maddox was one of the best pitchers of all time, but if he had to play today with that strikeout box you see on tv now, he wouldn’t have had the same numbers. Umpires are now graded on that box. His catcher was a genius at trying to see what they could get away with. I alway’s wished my Astros would try it, but never did
I loved watching him pitch.
Seeing Greg with a mustache is wild! Go Braves!
the mustache and glasses were a cool look!
Good video. It's obvious you put in the work. Keep plugging man.
Glad you enjoy the vids!
The summer of 89 I would watch days games of the Cubs on WGN. They had a good team that year. I’m a Tiger fan but we got a lot more televised Cubs and Braves (WTBS) games back then. Watch Cubs during the day and go see a Tiger game in the bleachers at Tigers Stadium for like $3 that summer. The Tigers were horrible that year but I still went to dozens of games. Great times.
That Cleveland Indians line up, was insane!
Insane to have Jim Thome and Manny bat that low
His stats were amazing. 17 straight seasons of 15+ wins. Multiple 19 win seasons, and 190+ SO seasons.
It's incredible
At the 7:50 mark is a great example of how to frame a pitch. The catcher took a pitch that was a ball and made it look like a strike by the way he caught it. Modern catchers have no idea how to do that.
Also, the ump was blind.
By the way, grandpa, today's catchers frame at least as well as catchers did in earlier eras, as today's catchers have the benefit of technology. There are plenty of catchers who are brilliant at framing, such as the 23 year old Mets' receiver, Francisco Alvarez.
He did do an excellent job there.
What a great PIECE!! Outstanding rare footage!! 👏👏👏👏👍👍
Glad you enjoyed!
Tony Gwinn couldn't stop laughing throughout this whole video.
Maddux had phenomenal control. Along with that, he had the huge advantage of being given a strike zone about a foot wider than just about every other pitcher. Don't act like he didn't, and like it doesn't exist. A veteran pitcher will get striked called on the exact same pitch an unknown rookie in the other dugout gets called a ball all night. The only pitcher given even close to the same malformed strike zone in the past 30 years is Verlander (in a certain postseason, were pitches in the opposite batters box being called strikes, over and over again? Yup, Verlander got those calls).
Like I said, he had phenomenal control. And he used his control to put pitches exactly where they were balls, knowing they'd be called strikes. But Maddux wouldn't have fared as well as if he actually had to throw strikes that were strikes, and his pitches out of the zone were called balls.
BEST CONTROL PITCHER...EVER
BEST AT CHANGING SPEEDS..... EVER
BEST I EVER SEEN!!!
I would watch WGN and the Cubs games. For years their announcers would seem to needle that the Cubs let Maddox go, that or give excuses. As a child it was hard to tell.
2nd best in his Era after Pedro. Pretty good. Considering randy Johnson, shilling, and Clemens played then. Kevin brown , mussina, pettite, smoltz, glavine were really good too.
I'm going Maddux 1 due to that insane prime. Literally every game was under 2 hours in the mid 90s
Don't forget Steve Nebraska
Pedro,great joke😅😆😂😄🤭👉
Maybe if Pedro wasn't a glass cannon.
@@alexjones6190 What? Pedro had the best prime ever by far. Maddux only had him longevity. You have this totally backwards.
Probably one of the smartest pitchers the MLB has ever seen.
I still have nightmares about Maddux from when I was a kid(I'm a Giants fan)
He was the only one with the ability to stop steroid Barry Bonds.
@@why-even-try-brotendofirst you got proof of steroids use? ......didnt think so
Second, no he couldn't stop bonds. Don't you know he said bonds was the easiest batter he ever faced. You give him 4 and send him on his way to first
That's understandable
Maddux with that mustache looking like real life Uncle Rico!
As a former 5’11”, 125 lb, precision pitcher in high school and amateur leagues beyond, Maddux was the absolute best (which drove me INSANE as a lifelong Mets fan).
5'11 125? What did you tie yourself off to when the when the wind blew? You must have been made of paper...I imagine you had to be a control pitcher when you could only throw 12 mph. Greg Maddux was 6'0 170. Even Pedro was 5'11 170.
A good guy to look up to!
Whoever pitched, you know what I mean: This accuracy is impossible. Its still beyond me, 25 years later... Best pitcher ever.
Greg Maddux was baseball's equivalent to basketball's Larry Bird. He didn't "look" special, but he was.
damn i missed too many episodes happy new year toronto guy
No worries! Happy new year to you too!
Every comment posted in the first day I'll make sure to respond to!
brilliant player
It would be like if a great MLB pitcher had an unusually large zone and given the benefit of the doubt on every pitch he threw.
Great regular season pitcher.
Maddux and Nolan Ryan were amongst my favorite pitchers of All Time!
Same here. Opposite but equally great.
It’s a shame there aren’t more pitchers with a similar approach like Maddux cause then baseball would be far more fun to watch from a strategic standpoint. The current style says “Throw as hard as you can somewhere in the strike zone and you’ll do good.” Someone like Glasgow is typical of this.
And it's a little wonder starting pitchers has gotten more prone to injury than before.
@ Exactly. Hopefully the epidemic of TJ will convince a new generation to do otherwise.
I agree
Yogi said "90% of the game is half mental".
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Thank you!
Maddox didn’t throw a slow fastball.. he threw 93-94 in his prime. Still though good video
Sorry about that, I thought he threw a bit slower. Glad you still enjoyed!
I was so disappointed that he turned down the Yankees, but I understood why, he didn't like the owner
Maddex was an amazing pitcher, but no pitcher exposed how unimportant being able to pitch fast was than Stu Miller. His pitches were so slow major league batters had great difficulty adjusting their swings.
Great during regular season record……teams got to him in playoff and series games.
Bro has the most depressing cadence ever
He was great but that 90's Braves strike zone was absurd.
Yeah that's the reason for his incredible career statistics 🙄
@@jonnyblayze5149 Tbh it helped.
Haters
I will bet you never saw him pitch only heard stuff on the internet. Pitchers now get more pitches than hed
@@Iamhungey not even close. They didnt get an extreme number of pitches outside the zone called for strikes.....they were just that good.
I’m not a baseball fan but this was interesting.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I wonder if he has considered being a Pitching coach, doing pitching camps, etc…
He has coached a fair bit since retiring!
Las Vegas Area 51's are a cool minor league baseball team. I took my son to watch a game and when the game ended the left fielder ran up and gave my son the game ball.
That's awesome!
The braves also had steve avery dude
Well, this is something. Enjoyable.
Glad you enjoyed!
If umpires didn't give him that 2-foot-outside strike 3 call? Maddux would have been a .500 pitcher. Maybe.
Haha He did have some generous calls throughout his career
they all knew he got all the "calls"
He could throw harder but control was his focus.
He was: The quiet assassin
True
Didn't know interleague play didn't start till 97. Thought it was in 70s.
You're kidding? Right? Back then there was only 2 divisions within each league. (NL & AL) And East & West divisions. Implemented in 69 & in 94 the central was added
Ya kinda crazy honestly, now every team plays every team
The professor
2nd and 3rd isn't a force play play at home. 14:40
My mistake!
@@3-0Greenlight Great content! Keep it up
That person on the cover of this video looks nothing like Greg Maddux at any point in his entire life! 😂
I had a feeling it might be hard to recognize, but surprisingly, there weren't many good pictures of him to use. This is him from when he was very young.
maddox rookie season he was relying on throwing 90+ fastballs. in 89' he went to more movement not speed
You're right, worked well!
Your blurb line doesn't make any sense. Can anyone explain it?
I always just called him God.
Gregg and Zack Hample are carbon copy 😂😂
Haha
somebody believe in him they traded him to the Cubs
hi greenlight
Hello!
Come to think of it have you ever heard of Maddox throwing a wild pitch?
Meanwhile in Dallas, Deon Sanders Ring Chasing between the 90s Cowboys and Niners. How Brave you are Deon
Disagree. They won those rings with a lot of help from him.