Considering the salary of players at that time wasn’t astronomical compared to the average person, it’s plausible, especially if he’d always wanted to join.

Bruh a medeocre-good mlb player in the 40s was living the high life and earning a great salary. Dude just joined the navy cuz he sucked and it was ww2, all the good players where in the military

@@BoleDaPole please tell me that "krak head" is the official term for a fan of the Seattle Krakens

@@SuperNuclearUnicorn what's wrong with liking crack?

@@SuperNuclearUnicorn its actually the seattle kraken, for some reason

@Big J he hasn't given up an earned run since September 8th. 9 straight games of no runs allowed. 3.80 ERA and 1.29 whip is not bad Lmao

You the real one for this

@@Seth80897 he’s absolute garbage. As a Sox fan with an angels fan girlfriend, I’ve lost count of how many games this fool has blown. One tonight, in fact

@Big J I mean he's good enough to hang around in the big leagues for 6 years

@@Seth80897 hes trash

Sean Buchert Yeah I felt horrible for him I’m a big cardinals fan so I’m glad to see him turn it around seems like a nice kid

He had 48 strikeouts in 50 innings so far in 2018 which is pretty damn good. You can see even in this video he has good pitches, he was just missing his spots a few times combined with the Dodgers hitting the ball really well that day.

@@gmwdim and he was unprepared to be pitching in the majors on such short notice

Am not a mlb fan but relievers are like the bench in nba?

yes

😂😂😂😂

It's a damn shame

Balls

Time to bring it back.

Who woulda thunk

Same dude 😂

He's been a reliever this last year and he's not bad

Uh, he's been a bad reliever. Look at the numbers.

Michael Mulligan moron

Michael Mulligan he has a save in every game he’s appeared in

Brandon Leibowitz 😭

Stooooooop it hurts

Hey listen at least they might beat the record for most losses in modern baseball history

Lmao

Miaow!

Solid? He has negative 0.2 BBRef WAR right now and negative win probability added.

PandionOsprey there's always one analytics nerd that tries to suck the fun or good out of a sports story. That would be you, buddy! Congrats on being a douche.

He doesn't even make a good point with the stats. -0.2 WAR is basically zero, which means he's statistically an average pitcher by MLB standards which isn't bad for a reliever since most relievers have negative WAR (other than closers). And considering his stats made him one of the worst pitchers in MLB history in 2016, I'd say reaching the MLB average by 2018 is a huge improvement.

BBRef: His ERA+ is current 87, which means his ERA is 13 percent below the league average. His win probability added is -0.505. 83% of the games he enters are low leverage or medium leverage. Just 6 are high leverage. His average leverage index 0.69, meaning he's pitching in a ton of situations that aren't that important. As of today on FanGraphs, there are 148 relievers who qualify for minimum innings pitched. Mayers is 89th in fWAR (0.4), meaning he is in the bottom half relief pitchers for fWAR. Negative fWAR doesn't start (as of today) until the 126th player. He is not "quite solid."

All right, I guess you proved that he sucks. You must be proud.

That's why he clearly states it was "part bad performance and part bad luck". Didn't you listen??

Baseball is weird like that. You can throw a terrible pitch one night and leave it hanging over the middle and have it end up as a strike out or soft pop up (or even a hard hit ball right at a defender) then other nights you can throw a perfect pitch that ends up as a soft ground ball that ends up as a hit.

@@JonSmith-hk1bq lmao

Only "garbage" hit ball was seagers . Don't sugarcoat it

Well, yes, because that's literally what happened.

That's because he was. Thank you, Captain Obvious

i went to school with mike and talked with his dad he hated that mike was with the cards and wasnt being used properly

Lol came here for that exact reason, at least he’s not alone!

I thought I was having a stroke when he said that

Try going to Montreal they all say St. Louis like that

@@_top_jimmy_ Yeah, but that's just how the French canadians (or just French in general) pronounce St. Louis. It's because they say it in French. I doubt the anglophones from Montreal pronounce it that way too. His pronunciation of Missouri was horrible, though.

Hey blacksox sounds like a travel ball team I played against

Yeah I cringed really hard.

Oh god please no, because it's probably the time the Red Wings took a runny dump on the Avalanche in a game7 in the early 00s or so and I DO NOT want to relive that.

17 WS, glad the Dodgers lost, but it was boring, they could've at least made it close & interesting.

ConkeyCrack still doesn’t take away the fact that it was one of the greatest World Series ever.

JoeyDailyShow they did put runners on base in every inning till the 7th. But the Astros bullpen shut them down.

Easily the Pacers vs. Magic 1995 or we can go Pacers vs. Celtics (Miller's last year). Both of them were massacres from what I remember.

Yeah I love how researched this video was, made it really interesting.

Hes good now tho tbh

@@trevorsanders8757 I saw in the comments he became a reliever.

@Nick gers He eventually made it as a reliever if I hear correctly. The issue is that he wasn't ready for major league ball. He was in AAA ball for a reason- to prepare for the big leagues. He wasn't a horrible player- he just wasn't ready, and got rocked. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cardinals wrote the game off as a loss before sending him out there.

He had a sub 3 era in like 20+ starts in AAA they thought he was ready...

trevor sanders not really

He is really good I do pitching lessons with him in grove city

Against the cardinals too💀

@@whoyacallingpinhead2083 hey, their pitching has sucked but their offense has been really good. They’re 8th in runs per game

@@firemarblefilmsI think he said that cause he debuted as a cardinal.

Should've pronounced it like we do in Chicago: "Misery."

@@chicagoakland That's funny, that's how we refer to chicago!

@@Asa-bh7zi Ha cha cha

@@chicagoakland funny...

chicagoakland that’s funny. In Missouri we pronounce Illinois as, “shithole”.

That's why I specified "some accounts." Despite what (some) newspapers said at the time, I read that SABR research led them to conclude that he didn't actually record an out. It's not totally clear one way or the other, but I trust that opinion. Old baseball stats are messy!

for reference: sabr.org/cmsFiles/Files/SABR_BB_Rec_Cmt_News_June_2004.pdf

yeah, despite what the video looked like there's actually a fair amount of debate about that: "For nearly one hundred years there was a discrepancy in the account of just how unsuccessful Heitmann was in his one ML game. Written newspaper accounts claim he faced four batters and got none of them out, while the published box score indicated he faced five batters and got one out. In both accounts, the four batters who reached safely all did so on base hits, and all came around to score, tagging Heitmann with the loss. Official baseball statistics went with the box score version, crediting Heitmann with pitching one-third of an inning and finishing his career with an ERA of 108.00. However, recent research by the Society for American Baseball Research confirms the newspaper accounts. As of 2011, Heitmann is now credited with facing four batters, giving up four hits and four runs, and being one of 19 players who retired from the major leagues with an ERA of infinity." -Harry Heitmann's Wikipedia page

Seth Rosenthal love these vids!

I thought maybe that image was supposed to go with the guy who actually did have the 108 ERA.

Kazmir doesn't exactly rake either. 2016 was his first year in the NL, he went 5 for 43 for a .118 batting average. His only two RBIs were off Mike Mayers.

I laughed my ass off at that

@@andrewconfiado2082 me too

Yes the MLB seems to be like life, a few winners and a shitload of losers. @@scullystie4389

This nasty comment should be deleted

Not anymore…

Misplaced video clip; ie. bad editing. That was another guy who had the 108 ERA.

Apparently there was dispute over Heitman's performance, with contemporary accounts disagreeing over whether he recorded 0 outs or 1. The article in the video says 1, but SABR has apparently determined that he did in fact fail to retire anybody, making his infinite/undefined ERA correct as it stands now.

His debut was so bad he joined the Navy!

Shane Dalgleish i was looking for this comment

I hope it's a joke

He was joking. Literally a few seconds after he pronounced St. Louis correctly.

St louis is pronounced correctly by the way. Its a french name. In french it is pronounced exactly how he said it... But not Missouri tho

Daniel Ortiz Ryan Leaf?

ryan leaf had a great debut start actually@@oneofmanyte3321

Frosty Klecko lol ur not wrong

Sadly

"One of the best relievers in baseball." Look, as a Cubs fan living in LA, I'm a big Angels supporter. Love your ballpark, great fan base, typically really knowledgeable and love to talk about the game. Never any "oh you're a fan of another team" bullshit you get with Dodgers fans. But you're making those other Angels fans look bad with this hyperbole. Let's slow our roll a little here. He's got a 2.51 ERA, he's not exactly Mariano Rivera out there.

He was too good at his job and now he teaches other people how to make videos

He's being held against his will, tied up in the SB Nation basement

All of the above are simultaneously true

He's been placed at the 1 yard line and he isn't allowed to leave until he scores a 99 yard TD run on a QB sneak.

He transcended human form and became god himself.

I went back to make sure I wasn't going crazy. Absolutely did.

Twelve runs per inning would be 108, so if you're charged with 4 runs and record one out, that's your ERA.

Also technically if it was zero then the ERA would be undefined, not infinity.

Yes it was my team against yours 😂

....the so much better?

ITS FRITTS really! That’s the only response a liberal can come up with?

@@oreopuppydawg1564 I'm a Republican from Texas

ITS FRITTS if you were you would know about auto spell.

ITS FRITTS if you were you would think about the child first. We don’t come on this channel anymore

calgary flames streaker who climbed over the glass slipped when he jumped down and hit his head on the ice got knocked unconscious and landed on his back. junk pointed at the ceiling

@@clay4444 well there it is folks....the greatest streak in sports history.😂😂

Johnny McCollum i hope you looked it up lol

@@clay4444 oh you can count on it lol

I seem to recall that there once was a cricket streaker who tried to hurdle the stumps (you know, those 28 in long wooden sticks stuck in the ground) and didn't quite make it.

Or whoever won the afc south in like the last 5 years besides the jags last yr

Francesco Piliero 2016 and 2015: 9-7 Texans, maybe, but 2014 and 2013: 11-5 colts? or 2012: 12-4 texans? Forgettable, probably, but not the worst

They beat the Saints in the wildcard...

Sam Rier but they shouldnt have even been in the playoffs at all, with two ten win teams in the conference booted for a mediocre team winning a weak division

It was already said, but those sad sack Hawks beat the Saints in the playoffs. Sad!

I dont think so not at all

Lol he kinda does

aaaaaah....actually, ankiel was found in the MITCHELL REPORT to be high on drugs!