MLB Pitchers I Hated Hitting Against
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“Snapface” hahahaha gotta miss the old days of knocking on doors and calling landlines
The good ole days
Yeah kinda do actually, im only 32
As a Sox fan Daniel Bard could’ve been so good. Ruined his career trying to convert to a starter
Now he's the comeback player of the year.
I have a buddy who played through college here in Texas at a Big 12 school, and he said one game he faced Kerry Wood. He said none of them could hit him, and that he felt like he accomplished something when he fouled one off lol. I thought it was funny when he said Wood pitching that 20 strikeout game made him feel vindicated.
Great to listen to your experiences Matty. Hope the coaching is going well and keep up the great work
Thanks for making these videos, man. Your humbleness and humility make your stories so relatable and hilarious.
“Snapface”, I like this guy.
Love the Lincecum props. Best pitcher I ever saw in person. Great video.
Daniel bard #1 max scherzer #2 never thought I’d hear that except for maybe Daniel bards family
Tim Lincecum was a beast on the mound at his prime. He had a short prime/career but his prime was far better than the average guys. His 4 years of prime (2008-2011) the dude won 2 Cy Young, 3 consecutive year leader in strikeouts, made the all star team 4 times and pitched 2 no hitters. He carried the Giants on his back in 2010 and did what Barry Bonds couldn't do during his time in San Francisco, he won the World Series in 2010 as a starter, 2012 and 2014 as a reliever, still having great numbers late in his career. He's by far my all time favorite pitcher. I find you very lucky for having the chance to play against him in his prime.
I grew up watching the deadly combination of Maddux-Glavine-Smoltz. Braves were practically guaranteed 3 wins in a row, followed by a 50-50 with Wohlers in the 4 hole.
Crazy thing is, the Braves pitchers this year is even better than they were in the 90s. I think because they have a lot more talent spread across a lot more pitchers. Other than John Rocker for a few years, the 90s starters didn't really have a whole lot to fall back on. The current defence is a lot better now as well, so the pitchers have a lot of confidence in the guys behind them on the field, and in the bullpen.
I think it was 2001 and I was at A’s Stadium and they were playing the Yankees and the bullpen is attached to the seats basically. Pre game I was 4ft from the catcher when Roger Clemens was warming up to start. What he says above makes sense. When he released the ball, you heard a phissh sound and the ball was in the glove. The catcher was super nice and talked to us after and showed us a protective plate out of his glove and said each ball moved a lot in that split second. I will never forget it so I get what he’s saying just as an observer
The Hall of Famer Mike Mussina is a cousin of mine. When he was pitching for the Orioles the one year, he had managed to stop by one of my little league practices. I was 12 and he was like, this stud pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles.
He held me there after practice and had me face that deadly knuckleball of his. He thought it was funny, as my eyes were as big and round as saucers. Now, his fastball was only like 87 mph. He could get it up there to like 95 of he put everything behind it. But typically, these filth ball pitcher like Mussina (Maddux and Glavine were also filth ball pitchers), wouldn't typically throw into the 90s.
I swear to God, Mussina was like a freakin' magician. That ball would do the craziest things. And that knuckler would even move all that fast! I think it was only like 78 mph or something ridiculous like that. He'd throw so slow that you think you could hit it, but then it just freaking disappears.
But yeah, I did have fun with him that night. He did eventually feed me some "normal" pitches (his changeup that he put no movement on, which is like a Little League fastball). I got to hit a few off of him as he gave me pointers.
Today's pitchers come at the batters with nothing but heat it seems like.
It’s so great to hear professionals talk about this kind of stuff.
Enjoy ur vids...done well and answers a lot questions the casual fan may have
Great topic Matt! You always think of something that peaks me and my boys interest. My son is playing in the AZ sophomore Fall Classic Sept 26-29. You know anything about that tournament? Supposed to be quite a few college scouts there.
Great honest video... Most difficult act in all of sports is to hit a major picth. ⚾
Great stories, love your honesty. Did you happen to see that at bat between Vladdy Gurerro jr
and Aroldis Chapman (yankee closer who throws 100 plus) ? Unbelievable as Guerrero had never faced him before and came off the bench to pinch hit. Unbelievable at bat and Chapman even texted him later to say great at bat.
Joe F Yeah but he really hung in there. Think he fouled off like 15 pitches.
Just looked up Jimenez on wiki, sounds like you described his two-seam. "Jiménez's two-seam fastball exhibited strong "tailing" action (moving inside on a right-handed batter and away from a left-handed batter), as well as good "sinking" action, though not always by design. His velocity ranged from 89 to 93 mph, though sometimes reaching 94-96 mph. "
Lol the sherzer one was great . Absolutely hilarious. Love the honesty
I hated facing Tim Lincecum. Faced him in college, then short A. His curve ball looked like a fastball heading towards the press box and then it would just drop for a strike
Love all your vids... but this one is special - hearing your perspective reminds me of my little league experience jumping from farm to majors... I got pummeled.
"...unless it was a really bad dream." 😂😂
This is hilarious, good job!
DAnny Bard: At the midpoint of the 2004 season, Baseball America named Danny Bard the top freshman pitcher in the U.S. and gave him Freshman All-America honors. For the entire season, Bard was named to Baseball America's All-Freshman second team and was named as Freshman All-America by Collegiate Baseball. He was Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Freshman of the Year and earned first-team all-conference honors. In 16 games pitched, Bard was 8-4 with a 3.88 ERA; his eight wins tied the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill freshman record.
For the 2005 season, Bard was named preseason first-team All-America by Baseball America and was named preseason third-team All-America by Collegiate Baseball and by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Bard went 7-5 with a 4.22 ERA in 16 starts and was third in the ACC in opponents' batting average at .219. He was named to the Roger Clemens AwardWatch List.
Mike Trout also listed Sherzer as his most annoying pitcher to face. He mentioned in an interview he was happy Max went to the Nationals so he won’t really have to face him anymore lol.
Even watching Scherzer on TV, he's scary. I wonder what it'd be like to face Chris Sale. Sale looks angry all the time, then he's throwing 99+ fastball with a sweeping slider. Sale scares me from TV.
I bet Bard felt he had your number and that confidence was in his favor.
Wonderful stories. Thank you.
Just curious if you intentionally have the Wake Forest jersey reflected off the SD Jersey? That's great imagery.
I've never noticed that before, it's a really cool image
Yeah. Just like he intentionally has a window reflecting off the other one............ .......... ............
Ive seen you rehash some topics over the past year, I'd like to know if there was any rookie/player hazing stories
Scherzer is terrifying , especially with his different colored eyes. The guy really is psychotic on the mound.
7× All-Star (2013-2019)
3× Cy Young Award (2013, 2016, 2017)
4× wins leader (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018)
3× NL strikeout leader (2016-2018)
Pitched two no-hitters in 2015 (June 20 and October 3)
Pitched two immaculate innings (May 14, 2017, and June 5, 2018)
MLB records
Tied MLB record for strikeouts (20) in a 9-inning game (May 11, 2016)
Tied MLB record for 250 strikeouts in 5 straight seasons
Mr. Mark future hof
@@MAgaSUXX add World Series champ to that list.
With this Bard guy, hindsight being 20/20, take the pitches & hope to get walked or drop down a few bunts. But what do i know, i'm just a dude sitting at my back porch having a smoke.
Hey Matt, did you ever play in a nationally televised game and if so, how is it different than a regular game, from a players point of view?
Jonathan Wong all pro games are I’m tv idiot
To put your Daniel Bard experience in perspective, there's always this: "Brooklyn Dodger Clem Labine had uncanny success against Stan Musial, retiring the Hall of Famer 49 straight times". Sheesh . . .
QED clem is considered pretty good though, one i think of is brian matusz of the orioles owned david ortiz
Mad Max is one of my favorite Nats. BTW, you touched your hat four times.
This took a lot longer to find than I'm willing to admit. April 11, 2007, you were on the Lake Elsinore Storm facing Daniel Bard and his Lancaster JetHawks. He lasted 1.2 innings and got one strikeout and faced 14 batters. Nevertheless with that terrible start only let 5 runs by and Lancaster won 9-6.
You popped out the first at bat then struck out the second, which was in the second inning
wow
As a right-handed batter, I bet it's tougher facing a right-handed pitcher who pitches from the first base side of the rubber. The pitcher can point his feet at the inside corner and get the 2 seamer in a little further. It could be countered with a curveball or slider and it would be more difficult to see the rotation as it actually is coming more at you and then breaking away. Give some insight on this.
some pitchers you just 'see' better for whatever reason. I never played past 15yr old Little League (football was king for me) but 25 years later I can still remember some of the kids I hit better than I should have.
one of these days some egg head is going to break this all down using pitch release height , speed, angle and rpm to determine why some hitter 'see' some pitchers better than others and we will not be the better for it.
I'm surprised yo didn't mention the fact Scherzer can throw from different arm angles. Does that not make much difference?
Koufax was OWNED by Bob Uecker. .360+ lifetime or something like that. There was a junkballer that followed me from little kid ball into single A, made me look like a guy swatting flys with a dowel.
Scott Swineford Line Mountain?
Hey Matt, did you ever feel anxiety before a game and how did you overcome it?
Snap face . Lmaooo you get a like for that one
I agree with you on U. Jimenez! I bet against him and watched the whole game. He was so filthy I never bet against him ever. Even when he was with the O’s and they were not good, I’d still never bet against him.
Tell that to Edwin encarnacion
Scherzer is wicked for sure
i'd be curious to know if you ever faced a knuckleballer, seeing that ball slowly float towards you, why isn't everyone just smacking those things out of the ballpark?
There was this kid in H.S., who would throw low to mid 40 mph. My guesstimate, but it was slow. We faced him a couple times a year. I would be chomping at the bit. I was going to crush this ball for a HR, every at bat. For 4 years, I never did hit a HR off of him! Everybody struggled against him because we were to aggressive and undisciplined at the plate. He pitched soooooo slow!!!
You played with two guys who had their battles with alcohol- Matt Bush and David Freese. Do you remember times when you went to dinner with them after games, and they had too much to drink? Not trying to bring up a bad topic, but both guys battled their demons!
Sounds like a whole lotta none of your business
@@Willdabeastt10 Idiot
Lawomenshoops please tell me you didn’t think that question through??
I don't think it's a stupid question at all, but I really doubt this dude would go against the code and talk shit about people and things that he has no right or reason to. You'd have to find a real POS ex player for that kind of stuff
Random question I have a bad habbit of hitting catcher in head with bat when I swing, am I doing something wrong? This is serious, I usually knick or hit him.....
😱 wow...that's awful...and scary!
Ya I know I have a wide swing, tried adjusting in batter box and everything.
On the backswing?
Like as im swinging at the ball. Maybe the catcher needs to step back.
@@Chino-Kafu hmm, I dont think I can give you a straight answer without seeing it, but it sounds like it's helping your on base percentage 😂😂
It sounds like you might have bat drag but like I said I cant really say.
czcams.com/video/m5HVJF5gH9k/video.html (Matt's video on it)
Did you ever face Kershaw? I know you were in the same division but did you even play the Dodgers when you were in the bigs?
He got his first hit against the Dodgers off Maddux not sure about the Kershaw part.
Hey Matt,
I read somewhere that 53% of all Major League Baseball players are from CA, TX, and FL. Does that sounds accurate to you?
Also, what’s the biggest difference between minor league and major league managers?
Not quite, but a large percentage of players from the US come from the sunbelt: (CA, AZ, TX, FL, etc). Maybe 53% of players from the US.
AWESOME....
Austin Romines MLB pitcher he love to face:
-Chris Sale
I think this is the Bard game. Matt leads off with a pop-out to first, next six guys reach, then a sac fly and a flyout to end the inning. Matt leads off next inning with getting called out on strikes. lol. www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2007_04_11_lesafa_lncafa_1&t=g_log&sid=milb
Matt, i see your PlayStation controllers back there. whatcha been playing?
Steve C I wish I had time! Those are my son’s. He likes MLB the Show and Marvel Legos lol
How about Justin Verlander?
Without watching this yet, i'm predicting he mentions Felix Hernandez.
Seems like everyone throws faster...hits harder and are generally better athletes. I would be afraid to have someone throw a 100 mph ball at me!
Lol getting a homerun that you called your shot with robbed would suck
You look like brett lawrie
Did you ever get to play with Maddux?
Pretty sure his first hit was against maddux
@@richardeberhart451 Yes it was he also has a story of him
Prime Timmy made MLB hitters look like little league
literally swinging and missing at pitches by a foot Kelly Leak style
He still had that stupid movement later in his career but was unable to locate his (now diminished) fastball so hitters just sat on it.
I find it hilarious that people are asking you who the pitchers you hated to hit against were. Do they know you only had 57 at bats? Do they know you were only in MLB a month?
I'm not disrespectful of you ir or your career, I just don't think asking someone with a sub 200 batting average what pitchers gave them trouble is very informative. Cheers
That many at bats isn’t enough to determine if someone is good or not. Vlad jr is an absolute stud and Matt’s first 57 at bats were far better than vlad jrs. Not saying Matt was going to be better, that’s just perspective on how it doesn’t mean too much. Keep in mind they were also trying to change his swing right as he got into the big leagues, so it means even less now.
@@glgoonery7201 I merely meant that 57 means he didn't see that mean pitchers.
do they know that he spent 7 years in the minors and went to one of the best college baseball programs in the country (Daniel Bard went to a rival school)? Do they know he played in the Cape Cod league with the best prospects (that's where he faced Linecum)? But yeah, you're right. He only had a total of 57 at bats in his life.
@@rickgene I didn't say in his life and if you think the person asking the question was referring to Matt's college and minor league experience you are a tool. How many of those pitchers did he mention?
@@rickgene The video title is what?
Snapface haaaaaa
Hey Matt I was at a blue jays and Yankee game about a week ago and me being a fan was yelling for Bo Bichette and Teoscar Hernandez to get a signature but they would look over and walk away do teams have rules about signing stuff or is it an inconvenience for players
Be a fan of America's team for Christ sakes..what is your major malfunction
BRONX
Gino Rossellini my malfunction is Canadianism
@@antoniohernandez2114 🤓 Bluejays are a great baseball organization. I remember when they were a Dynasty for short time. No offense man
Gino Rossellini nah they trash
Career .193 hitter...
Beats the 0 for 0 lifetime average 99.9999% of the world posesses.
Liam Leaver what’s ur career batting average?
@@1320retro I'm also not having a video telling you who I feared the most. With a line below Mendoza this dude feared the batting coach.
@@leavemealone5890 lol even the worst major Leaguers are better than just about everyone else. Like the other dude said. What's your stats line? Hmm?
@@ClydeSherburger for the 2nd time I'm not the one creating a video about "the pitchers I feared most".. you understand why it's silly right? You understand what the Mendoza line is?
Snapface 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The answer to this would be all of them. With the 193 batting average in 28 days being in the major leagues that shouldn't be a surprise
What's ur statline in the big leagues?
No offense, with a career batting average of .193, wouldn't it be safe to say that you hated hitting against any MLB pitcher?
Dan Rodrigues lol very good! I actually had some decent success against a few guys. Also only like 50 or so at bats, so a few hits swings the average a lot
You Probably hated facing 99% of them Mr. HALLOFFAMER
Vivek Babbar and who the fuck are you ya nobody bitch boy
no offense but aren’t you picking from a list of like 10?
You won’t face any of them Again
All of them because you played one year and had a .193 average 🤣🤣😂😂👎🏻