2000 was even better

Nationals are awful

@@hockeycentral1149 got their championship though lol

they will always be the expos

It's interesting indeed. 2002 - 2004 are the best chances for that to happen, he still would have been hurt in 2001 though. Would have been interesting to see how many games he could have won in 2000 with the Yankees, seriously that ERA.

@@iamhungey12345 Don't think so. The Expos wanted Mo and Pettite if i remember correctly.

@@KTF0 Still it's something to think about, but yeah it may not be all that worthwhile I guess. Call me crazy but I might do it for Pettitte for Pedro but Mo? Yeah the potential for wasted pitching gems. I know it sounds crazy choose a closer over a starter and all. There always has to be a catch by the end of the day. I have to wonder thinking about this, in 2000 did the Angels really offered Jim Edmonds for Mendoza straight up or was there some others they were asking for? I know Mendoza was brought up in the discussion for Sosa months later but Edmonds straight up? It sounded too good to be true to be honest.

@@iamhungey12345 Funny part it was the Expos asking for Pettitte was when the Yanks said no. There was a third dude in the trade, not sure if it was Posada or Ricky Ledee. I remember reading it in the Daily News and hearing it in Mike and the Mad Dog back in the day. The Yanks, I believe, wanted Edmonds or a CF for a sec cuz they thought Bernie was going to sign with Arizona. Don't remember that clearly.

@@KTF0 I recall the Yankees going for Albert Belle when it looked as if Bernie was going to leave. Really dodged a huge bullet there considering what happened to him after 2000, even then his numbers were dropping off before his hip dies on him. 1999 wouldn't be an issue but 2000 definitely would have killed them and that's without factoring his reputation in the club house of the teams he played for. With that said, regarding Pedro, still better than the time when the Indians turned down the offer where the Expos asked for Jaret Wright. I didn't know this until recently.

Well, Barry Bonds did well against everyone.

Pedro Martinez, David Cone, David Wells, Orlando Hernandez and Andy Pettitte would've been the 5th starter! What a starting rotation! You're essentially using Pedro Martinez to take Hideki's spot and then some lol. Never mind Atlanta's 3-headed monster, that would've been a 4 headed monster (considering Wells finished 3rd in Cy Young voting the year Pedro would've been traded to the Yankees if it had happened) and the scariest starting 5 in all of baseball that year.

StarryStarryNocturne man that five man rotation... the yanks would have never lost a game. They already won so much as it was...

Yankees would of had a 6 peat 1996 to 2001

@@courtgizzle maybe more..

Yeah pedro loved the yankees are his childhood team

Put him in those Yankee teams with the form he had in his Red Sox years and he probably wins 25 games every year, possibly 27-28 in his 1999-2000 seasons, slam dunk back to back MVPs. Absolutely stupid how good he was in his prime.

FACTS!

lol he won 219 games. he's not magically winning another 131 if he went to the yankees. And I say that as a Yankees fan who thinks Pedro in his prime is the best pitcher of my lifetime.

And Expos were stiff budget so Pedro was earning too much for them

The league would of stopped it from happening maybe

@@noelguillermo685 the Yankees would of had a 6 peat from 1996 to 2001

Cubs? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pleaseeeee

Sam The gerbil came at him and he stepped a side with a little push. Posada that was a PR DR argument

Actually Sam, Pedro had a lot of success against the Yankees. To say he couldn't beat them is flat out wrong

To be fair, most of the Ls against the Yankees he just got out pitched. Those were hard earned victories the Yankees got off him for the most part. Just that they had more than what most team had done against the guy, especially in his prime.

iamhungey12345 also most of the Ls to the Yankees were 2002-04...check 1998-2001

Ws or Ls Pedro is still a first ballot Hall of Famer and Top 5 all time 🤷‍♂️

I know a lot of people would go against that hard. But I feel like that's accurate, in his prime there was no one better than him. He had finesse and power. When he fell off is a total different story. Late 90's-early 2000's he was the real deal.

Arod was almost a Red Sox player too

Many players don't get drafted by their favourite team. As Pedro indicated though once you're a player you stop being a fan. That's your competition. You go out to be the other guys. Maybe if you still have an interest in the city, the management and the team that they have at the time you express some interest in being traded or signing with the club later as a free agent. David Wells was an example of that. He really wanted to be a Yankee. He played with several teams before he got the chance then they traded him away.

Babe Ruth be like: