TOP 15 MLB DRAFT BUSTS Of The 1980's!! - CAN'T MISS Prospects FALL Completely FLAT!!
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- It's time for a new BUSTS video and today we go back to the biggest 15 DRAFT BUSTS of the 1980's!! I'll also include (When I could find it) information on WHERE THEY ARE TODAY!! This list will include highly touted prospects such as DREW HALL, MONTY FARRIS & KURT BROWN, who was somehow taken ahead of BARRY BONDS!! Who comes in at #1?? Watch and find out!
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21:07 you mistakenly said Augie Schmidt was drafted in '97, not '79.
Terry Blocker may have been a bust in MLB, but he deserved a medal for what he did off the field. 👏
Totally agree. Great story.
I remember when he played for the Mets.
Good for him. 👍
Holy shit, good on Terry Blocker at least
that's one hell of a story! what a great guy
Him giving the money to the widow tells me the man he is.
5:11 Wait, the Oakland A's tried saving money and it blew up in their face? Never!
Hey! Ty Griffin and Mark Merchant both ended up with my hometown Sioux City Explorers, then of the independent Northern League.
The Braves were high on Tyler Houston, who was selected 2nd overall in 1989, behind Ben McDonald of the Orioles. But, bad attitude and lack of production, pushed Tyler down the pecking order of Braves prospects. Eventually, Javy Lopez surpassed Tyler as the top-catching prospect in the Braves organization. And, of course, Javy was an All-Star player.
I'm surprised Paul Coleman didn't make the list. 6th overall in 89 by the cards. One pick ahead of Frank Thomas. Coleman never made it to AAA.
"Bust" is such a tough term in baseball. Unlike football and basketball, it takes years for most players to develop after being drafted; it's such a huge craps shoot.
True though if they can't even maie the show their a bust.
Included in the Jeff Jackson club are Paul Coleman and Earl Cunningham all HS athletic outfielders drafted around Frank Thomas by NL East teams. All also put up terrible numbers even in the low minors. And of course I invested in all three players’ rookie cards big time and still have literally hundreds of each players RC in a box somewhere…
In 1989, scouts stated that Earl Cunningham was the best high school hitter in SC since Jim Rice. But, sadly, it didn't pan out for Earl and the Cubs.
Just about the only thing you can be sure of is most of the “can’t miss” prospects will, in fact not only miss, but miss really big.
Kelly Gruber was a Rule 5 pick? Have you done a "Best Rule 5 Picks" video yet? It's rare that those work out.
Shawn Abner was the name I remembered the most on this list.
Holy crap I haven't thought abt Abner since I was collecting baseball cards in the 80s. Wow, what a great baseball name btw
Shawn Abner had some serious talent..
Since the Olympics are this season, would you be able to highlight the 1984 USA Olympic baseball team? 18 of the 20 players on that roster were drafted in the first round in 1984 or 1985, and there are some big names on that team.
The 1988 Olympic team had some decent players as well, but 1984 was loaded!
Who were some of those players?
@@Denozo88 Will Clark, Mark McGuire, Barry Larkin, B.J. Surhoff, Cory Snyder, Shane Mack, Bobby Witt, Bill Swift, Oddibe McDowell, Chris Gwynn, John Marzano, and Scott Bankhead are players from that team that I remember seeing in MLB.
@@Dulcimerist thats an impressive number.
@@DulcimeristTidbit about Larkin. His Michigan teammates included Hal Morris, Chris Sabo, Jim Abbott, and scott Kamieniecki. And? Shawn Abner…
I have no idea what a counterfeit karaoke business would even be?
That makes two of us. I never even counterfeit karaoke was a thing.
if you hear me (try to ) sing you will be very gratefull it is a fake
I wonder if maybe it's the use of the music without licensing it.
@@rslitmanOr using another company’s play list and music.
Not paying royalties for licensed music, like copying CDs and DVDs and selling them for a profit
I’d love to see a video about outlier seasons. Players who have one season where they are amazing mixed in among bad season or the opposite
Thank you for showcasing 2 Blue Jays. I always wondered their stories.
Terry Blocker!!! Good on ya!!!
This is the best part of your channel. The stories and countdowns keeping me scrolling over your previous uploads. Thanks for the amazing content.
excellent video, lots of info I did not know. Shotkowski story is crazy!
Terry Blocker take him off the Bust list WOW a real hero!!!❤
Great job on this video... writing, narration, research, editing.
Good video and I remember Terry Blocker from watching the Braves on TBS. Side note, why is it commercials or adds will always play with no issues, but actual content is problematic at times.
The most notable thing here was that a 22 year old Joe Posnanski was writing about Ty Griffin in the minors
He did begin his journalism career in Charlotte, after all!
This is very good video because I never heard of these MLB busts and good to know how they try in major league but couldn’t pan out. Thank for this video
Terry Blocker put his own life on the line to help solve that murder.
🏆Champion🏆
I really like your videos, keep up the good work!
Thank you my friend
We had professional baseball players named Billy Beane, Billy Bean, and Bill Bene all around the same time. These days, Beane, despite being a draft bust, is best known as GM of the "Moneyball" A's, while Bean is best-known for being MLB inclusion ambassador.
If you drafted a team with Jim Rice in LF Billy Beane in CF, and Billy Bean in RF, your outfield would be Beans and Rice.
Good stuff Erik
Fun fact about Shawn Abner. His son is a retired professional esports athlete, in optic scumpi. Seth was one of the best players over multiple Call of Duties & one of the more popular CZcamsrs for the games. Still active in the COD community having live streams for major events. His dad was talked about a lot in vlogs from a CZcamsr named H3cz, always calling him a former professional baseball player. Never mentioning the fact he’s one of the biggest draft busts of all time.
As a Phillies fan, unfortunately I do remember Jeff Jackson. Most of the Phillies 1st round picks in the 1980s were busts, although some had cups of coffee in the majors, sometimes with other teams. 1981 pick Johnny Abrego, whose brief MLB time was with the Cubs, had only 1 big league win. It was against the Phillies.
4:07 Lynn (sic) Dykstra - Not a draft bust. Played on NL pennant winners with both the Mets and Phillies. But not as good a citizen as Terry Blocker.
The Astros had a lot of top outfield prospects when they picked Willie Ansley that, like Willie, didn't pan out: Eric Anthony, Cameron Drew, John Fishel. At least they flipped Anthony to Seattle for Mike Hampton.
Bill Bene was the first guy I can remember who could throw a 95mph FB and 80mph slider with the exact same release point.
Gregg Jeffries was the man I don’t care what anyone says.
According to Sports Illustrated.
So many Gregg Jeffries rookie cards, so many mistakes childhood me made lol
5:10 Not surprised bro didn’t work out in the Bigs. Morningside sounds like the name of a Montessori school, not a college that preps you for MLB hitters
When are we going to see the Terry Blocker movie?
The 1980 draft in which Mike King was taken was the last for Charlie Finley as owner of the A's.
Why would the Cubs pick Ventura over Griffin? Nolan Ryan could have took them both any day of the week. Headlock on each arm banging their heads together.
I was thinking, “Boy, Griffin sure dodged a bullet!” 😂😂
less than 1% of all professional baseball players make it to the bigs....even 1 game in the bigs proves you're not a bust never liked that term
I had aome of these baseball cards. Yay, junk wax era.
Imagine a WIP of almost one!! Forget about adding the hits!
There's a big difference between using the fourth pick to draft someone and the team using their fourth pick to draft someone.
Bill Bene had a career 1.95 WHIP... REALLY BAD!
Ouch
Pets are like Family. Have someone come by to feed and check on em if you cannot take your pet with you. And yet so many Teams passed on top 5 players in the late 80s and 90s.
Did you notice the majority of these records were set in the stones ages of professional baseball ?
If I’m not mistaken didn’t Monty Farris develop the “yips” when it came to throwing?
Lets me know Steve Decker wasn't as bad as he was let on to be.
Aluminum 3 3/4 bats. Wooden bats are for real men.
Albert Pujols, 13th round. Kieth Hernandez 37th round. NFL Tom Brady 6th round. You never know.
Topic idea: best do or die LDS game 5’s
Cory Snyder he was on the cover of sports illustrated in 1987?
You know, if you had used the Rangers announcers to say that about picking Harris over Thomas it would've meant more. Those 2 goofs for the Sox were the 2 biggest "homers" in the game. Even worse the Joe Buck with St. Louis. Constantly comparing these guys to known PED users doesn't make your list more impressive.
The 1980s Oakland A's absolutely destroyed the careers of every pitcher they drafted. Mike Morgan, Rick Langford, Mike Norris, Steve McCatty, Mike King, Stan Hilton, and Tim Belcher were all ruined by the coaching staff of the early Billy Martin Oakland A's. The amount of inning these starting pitchers were forced to pitch was unrealistic. The A's didn't believe in relief pitching in the 1980s, and expected their pitchers to throw complete games. The A's should have won 5 World Series in the 1980s.
So the Yankees had in their system at least 2 pitchers with the given name of Michael King between 1983 and 2023.
Shawn abner also the father of pro cod player Seth abner or scump one of the greatest player of all time.
I'll never forget the 1989 draft. The Phillies had the 4th pick in the draft. Do they draft Frank Thomas who's sitting there doing nothing? Nope. They take high school kid Jeff Jackson. Jackson never made it past AA. Everyone knows that the draft is a crap shoot but Frank Thomas was a can't miss once in a generation player. I can't help but think about Thomas hitting in The Vet. He would have been a perennial 50 home run hitter in that stadium.
Actually, I think they made the right move at the time for Jeff Jackson.
Overall, position players coming out of HS tend to have a higher ceiling and do better than college position players.
Jeff Jackson had all of the tools. Was definitely the best athlete in the 89 draft..
Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and he didn't pan out.
Shawn Abner taken by the Mets. What a mistake that was.
You made a mistake at 16:10 - Jeff Jackson played for the CUBS organization not Whitesox.
Willie Ansley could’ve made more money playing for the Sooners under Barry Switzer.
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Do NOT mention the name Ty Griffin
anywhere near Wrigley...even more than Steve Bartman
Is Todd Van Poppel on the list? Or was that in the 90s?
1990 pick.
Where was Brien Taylor of the Yankees? He was by FAR the biggest draft bust I can remember
He was a 90s draft bust.
Is this the Yankees LH pitcher who got into a fight with some guy in a bar. . .resulting in him messing up his pitching hand??
@@michaelwolf6424Correct.. Quite possibly the greatest pitching prospect of all time.. Sad that a small time bar fight ruined his career. He had it all
20:50, he was drafted in '82 or '97??
They left the part of the Dodgers pitcher Billy Bene came out of the closet
Is Todd Van Popple on here?
He was drafted in 1990.
The Jays of the early 80s were desperate y'know, being near the bottom of the MLB for several years
The Jays made hay with the rule 5 drafts… and Gillick made great trades and scouting in the Dominican Republic, even if the draft wasnt productive
@@stevejohnson1577George Bell has also a Rule 5 pick for Toronto.
@@rslitman I was talking the MLB Draft, Rule 5 I know they were good at
@@CutterHistorical The Blue Jays had a draft bust in, I think, 1979, catcher Jay Schroeder, who was something like the 2nd or 3rd overall pick. He left baseball, became a college quarterback, and played in the NFL for Washington.
What's a counterfeit karaoke business
Money Fariss 🙂
I want to see a video of how the lives of all the guys that left messages turned out after high school. Ugh. I did worse than every guy on this list, no need to watch mine.
Wow someone had 3 signed donald harris cards!!! Lucky bastard is probably retired on a beach with all that money!!