His resume is so insane that everyone likes him even though he’s a yankee and had 2 huge blown saves in the 2004 ALCS & 2001 WS 😂 you can overlook those things and it just shows how legendary he was

@timetowakeup6302

8 ай бұрын

We don’t talk about 2004 😂

@rfe8nn2

8 ай бұрын

It made those Blown slaves more memorable. He won't be Goliath without his accomplishments.

@iamjp1

8 ай бұрын

141 innings. 11 earned runs. 0.70 era in the postseason. 42 saves. that will never be touched ever. in 10 years they will tell you some closer was better "bEcAUse oF cOmpEtiON" as if it isn't separated by 5 years lol

@rws348

8 ай бұрын

@@iamjp1Batters today aren’t better than batters of the steroid era though.

@iamhungey12345

8 ай бұрын

@@rws348 Still you'd be surprised by how the new school fans have been pumping up Mendoza line sluggers like they're better than players who hits for decent average. I had came cross some who thinks hitting for good average means run deficient...

When an era+ of 144 is considered a bad season for you, you're the GOAT

I’m a Red Sox fan and me and a friend went to Yankee Stadium on September 11th 2005 to watch the Sox and Yanks play. It was a 1-0 game in the top of the 8th when Torre brought Mariano in to face Ortiz with 1 on and 2 outs. I can still remember to this day the sound of Enter Sandman start playing and those bullpen doors open and the place went absolutely crazy. You could literally feel the excitement throughout the park. Even me and my friend were actually smiling when Mariano started jogging to the mound cause of how insane it all was. It was one of the loudest cheers I’ve ever heard at any stadium. Mo came in and got out of the 8th and then worked out of a little trouble in the 9th to get the safe. To this day I still tell people that that was one of my best memories of a sporting event I’ve ever witnessed.

@yanksrule311

Ай бұрын

That’s so cool. A great rivalry between two outstanding teams at the time. Sadly, neither of us have had a lot to cheer about recently. 😔

@JackieDaytona1776

21 күн бұрын

Dude I remember that game - it was supposed to be Schilling vs Johnson but either Schilling was hurt or didn't line up right and it was Wakefield vs Johnson. I think I watched every Yankee game that year lol

0.70 Era in the postseason with 141 Innings pitched and 11 ER with 5 Championships an ALCS and World Series MVP is literally insane and MLB the Show type numbers. I feel blessed to have grew up in a Yankee family and watching his career from the start. I could give so many crazy stats and facts but just look at his baseball reference regular season and postseason and World Series stats its literally laughable how great he was

@breadedagenda

8 ай бұрын

Irony being that, in Franchise mode of most The Show games, closers are never very consistent and the ones who dominate for a season are random as hell. Mo truly is special, even the best of games can't keep up with the sheer consistency.

@85mcarnold

7 ай бұрын

Quite possibly the best postseason pitcher ever. Not just the best closer.

@johnwayne9828

6 ай бұрын

He won a world series mvp for pitching 4 innings. Not impressed.

@johnwayne9828

6 ай бұрын

​@@85mcarnoldmadbum, schilling, koufax would beg to differ. He wasnt even the best YANKEE in postseason history, that being pettitte.

@iamhungey12345

4 ай бұрын

Big time but as you have seen in this thread, there are couple of idiots looking to discredit.

There will never ever be another like Mariano. No one will break his records because of how dominant he was. Analytics prevent managers nowadays from bringing in closers everyday. Mariano will forever be the greatest closer.

@YunaCrawford

8 ай бұрын

Closers don’t stay with one team anymore.

@mastod0n1

8 ай бұрын

Doesn't hurt that he was on one of longest running MLB dynasty teams in history.

@YunaCrawford

8 ай бұрын

@@mastod0n1 true. That’s one reason but still closers in one team is extremely rare.

@iamjp1

8 ай бұрын

@@YunaCrawfordirrelevant comment to the op lmao but imagine how much shit a team would catch today if they let mariano rivera sign to another team😂😂

@iamjp1

8 ай бұрын

@@mastod0n1he was one of the biggest pieces of that dynasty. 8-1 0.70 era in 96 games. 42 postseason saves 141 innings. it's literally untouchable. 11 earned runs in 141 innings "it helps to be in a dynasty" 😂😂

Everything about Rivera was amazing. The fact that he was still mowing people down even at the end makes you wonder how much longer he could have played.

@GSP-76

7 ай бұрын

He could easily have played a few more seasons if he wanted to...but there was nothing left for him to prove by that point.

@iamhungey12345

7 ай бұрын

@@GSP-76 Not to mention in 2013 his slump at some point felt a bit more extended, in his prime he would have gotten out of them a lot quicker. Plus he was originally going to retire after 2012 before that freak injury happened.

I was lucky enough to see him live many times. It was always electric. He was so reliable that when he blew a save, everyone watching was like, "wait, what? Is there something wrong with the ball? And I hope he's okay!" The way the ball just seemed to explode out of his hand was insane to see as a kid. He was always so composed and calm in appearance, and truly everything I knew that embodied the Yankees' way.

@rommyremus9650

8 ай бұрын

Yes, I was able to see Wakefield and felt like the ball was like that as well.

@rona4444

7 ай бұрын

This is great! I had the opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with Hank Aaron. To take the suspense out of this is, at the time I was a minor league player. So that to me is why I got the chance to sit with him , we played the same position and any thing I could laern from him would be a positive for me. That’s a moment in my life is way up there. And yes, I shared the same dressing room with Bob Gibson and Joe Torre and those guys. Real memories.

Lifelong Mariners fan. When Ichiro walked off Mo, it felt like the Mariners won the World Series; all-time team moment for a team that doesn't get many all-time moments.

Cut fastballs back in Rivera's day were typically high 80s to low 90s. Rivera's cut fastball being consistently 94-97 during his prime with that amount of movement was such an outlier that hitters couldn't prepare well for it. Rivera also had such command and control of the strike zone that perhaps only Greg Maddux can really be considered in the same class during that era. That combination produced such an unstoppable combination that usually only lady luck or a hitter generous home plate umpire could slow Rivera down.

@Refill_2

Ай бұрын

Incredible control, but nobody was better than Maddux

He is also an amazing individual.

Growing up a Twins fan, I absolutley hated the Yankees. Despite this, I idolized Rivera and developed a cut fastball because of him.

When you heard enter sandman playing, you knew it was over. Mariano told you there was one pitch coming, try and hit it. And whats crazy too is he never needed unlike a lot of pitchers today. Very healthy for most of his career (minus 2012) and IMO, the BEST closer in MLB history

I was a kid but remember the 2001 WS. That Luis Gonzales flair walk off is iconic.

Mariano's control and consistent velocity with his cut-fastball just shows how well a pitcher can do with good control and an average fastball velo "the best pitch in baseball is a well located fastball".

The post season ERA is unbelievable

I went to his house in Tampa ,he use to go to my church ,we seen him as a regular person and not as a famous person ,he attended to that church over 5 years,he invited the youth to his house.good days 😊😊

As an almost 31 year old Yankees fan, some of my earliest baseball memories are of Mariano Rivera

@diam3931

8 ай бұрын

Almost 36 here, 90's Yanks were the shit! Mo was the best

@yungruuku

26 күн бұрын

I wish we were like 12-16 in the mid 90s when he was a complete god. You know what I mean? I would have loved to watch him throw his cutter at 97 while fully understanding and appreciating what I was watching

There are guys around today who have great cutters (Kenley comes to mind), but Mariano's cutter was damn near unhittable. Chipper Jones said it was like facing a guy throwing 95mph chainsaws at you. Guys knew what was coming and still couldn't hit it. His stats are just insane and they won't ever be topped. He'll be leading the Mount Rushmore of closers and deserves every bit of it.

As a Red Sox I have immense respect for Mariano. As for if there will ever be another 1 like him.....he was a once in a lifetime player.

No matter how much a person may hate the Yankees, it is simply impossible to hate Mariano Rivera.

@iamhungey12345

8 ай бұрын

There will be idiots looking to discredit him though, even in this comments section you will find few examples. Some were hidden though due to YT being weird with the comments section where one has to toggle to latest comments to make them visible. One person in particular spewed the same crap about putting him another team would make him less great so it seems he's one of those people who goes by saves numbers rather than his WHIP and ERA.

@IBangedUrMom69420

7 ай бұрын

@@iamhungey12345ERA for closers is flawed just due to lack of innings. ERA+ is more effective and unsurprisingly Mariano has a stupid high ERA+

@iamhungey12345

7 ай бұрын

@@IBangedUrMom69420 And kept it up for a long period of time as well. Many closers generally flames out after few years but Mo was among those who defied that.

- His "worst" career ERA: 2.85 - His ERA while injured: 2.75 Freaking OP...

@susanmullen8648

4 ай бұрын

His post season ERA was .70. This was against the best players, under the greatest pressure, often cold weather, while others were resting up to pad their next season's stats.

No athlete has ever executed their role better. As well, never better.

His career numbers are insane BEFORE you even consider the context that he did almost all of it with one pitch. No guessing games for the hitter. Just a simple man-to-man challenge. Here's my one pitch: hit it. ⚾️🐐

@jareddanielcunanan4303

8 ай бұрын

He didn’t throw the cutter exclusively he also threw a four-seam reaching 154 km/h

@IBangedUrMom69420

7 ай бұрын

@@jareddanielcunanan4303Yeah, but that Cutter was used over 90% of the time over his career. That’s pretty much as close as you can get to being a one pitch pitcher outside of being a knuckleballer.

Awesome video! My favorite Mariano Rivera stat is more people walked on the moon (12) than he gave up earned runs in his postseason career (11) in 141 innings pitched.

@tupacalypse88

7 ай бұрын

That's friggin crazy

Crazy how bro didnt say anything about how he pitched during the toughest decade for pitchers

Bro wore number 42. What a legend

I got to see him get the save against the Reds in Cincinnati in 2011. My favorite Yankee, Jorge Posada, hit a HR too. It was a good day

As a yankees fan and a native new yorker seeing that great yankee dynsaty as it was happening was unbelievable it was euphoric my GOD. The yankees WERE baseball in those days, we absolutely owned major league baseball. Such a great time to be a yankees fan ill never forget those days in my life every yankee game was so good to watch. We will rise to the top again our time will come again !

Unanimous ticket to Cooperstown.

During that stretch true Yankee fans know as long as Jeter and Rivera were there; the other guys didn't matter. When they spoke about the Yankee mystique what they meant was the overwhelming psychological advantage the Bombers held during that run that set them apart. Captain clutch was going to come through and when they handed the ball to Mo it was lights out.

Owner of the best pitch in baseball history

14:07 I always love to see this crushed-bat chair

As a lifelong Red Sox fan, Mo was the truth. One of the only Yankees I both respect and like.

What I always liked best about Rivera was that he never screamed, yelled, or gestuculated after getting an out. He'd come in the game at the most crucial moments, break multiple bats, and make hitters look silly, but he never rubbed it in their faces. He didn't celebrate each out because he viewed it as just doing his job. Getting outs was what he was supposed to do.

I really enjoyed this video. As more of a casual baseball fan at that time in my life, I could never understand why no one could seem to hit his one pitch. It really didn’t look that great yet it made the best hitters in the league always look silly. He certainly was something special.

Those were the best years in baseball. I loved watching them as a kid. At 9-10 I couldn’t grasp why they knew the pitch was coming and still couldn’t hit it haha… I loved it

To be fair, that 85 mph LL pitch amouhts tk about 110mph In MLB, and I don't think many pros could hit that either ;)

@JackmeriusTacktheratrix7

8 ай бұрын

with crazy weird movement, to boot.

If it was a west coast game and the Yankees had a 1 run lead coming in the bottom of the ninth with Mo coming in I’d just turn the game off and go to bed, can’t think of many times in his career I woke up the next day and we didn’t win. His level of dominance was just incredible, even his blown saves which where exceedingly rare it was like a couple of soft fart broken bat bloopers. And he did the aforementioned for 18 years.

Boston Red Sox fan here: Mo is clearly the best closer that has ever played the game. There isnt even a close second place to have a discussion. He is the only relief pitcher who is in the discussion for GOAT all time pitchers, IMHO.

More people have walked on the moon than scored against Rivera in the playoffs. That is actually just so insane to think about.

His biggest failures are some of the greatest moments in baseball history simply because of his presence on the mound. He was almost God-Like to watch.

@Galactic123

7 ай бұрын

Yep. He was the Goliath to a few David's during his incredible career

@susanmullen8648

4 ай бұрын

The "his greatest failures" crowd always stops by.

Great Video! Thanks. All glories to Mariano Rivera!

Perhaps the most memorable game I've ever been to in person was a late August game in 2009 in Seattle where Ichiro hit a bottom of the ninth, two out, two-run walkoff home run against Rivera. It was electric. A true hall of fame match up.

It feels too early to be here

I'm a Red Sox fan, and I knew for years that if the Sox were going to beat the Yankees, they'd better have a lead after 7 innings, because if not, Mo was there to shut the door. Rivera was amazing to watch, even for an opposing fan like myself.

Us Yankee fans were spoiled while he was playing. He essentially made the gane a 7 inning game... because if it was ever close and got to the eighth inning, we knew Yanks would win.

My dad and his family are from Westchester County which is just north of NYC and where a lot of players and coaches live during the season because it's outside the city enough that you actually have property but it's also only 15-20 min drive to Yankee Stadium. My grandmother who was and still is a massive Yankee fan ended up befriending Mariano simply by running into him at the bank, the pizza place in the town, just out running errands. He was always happy to see her, called her Catherine even though everyone calls her Cathy, asked about me and my sister whom he never met but she always talked about, and she always said he was always just the nicest most respectful guy in the world, carrying on conversations, stopping to talk to her when he didn't have to and a simple hello in passing would have been good enough to make her day.

THE 1ST PLAYER(SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 100) TO RECEIVE 100% OF THE MLB ⚾ HALL OF FAME BALLOT .. MARIANO 'MO' RIVERA#42 ..

Mariano rivera could throw a cutter ranging from 91-94 mph to all 4 corners not to mention almost always jamming them when he threw inside

@iamhungey12345

8 ай бұрын

At his peak he can hit upper 90s as well. What can be said his ability to locate his pitch is what enabled him to adjust to declining velocity.

If you want to be the best you must beat the best. The Sox in 04 they could say they beat one of the best Closers of all time before they could advance to the World Series and win it for the first time since 1918. No shame for Mariano that day. Just one bad pitch and great baserunning by Dave Roberts the game was tied. Any lesser pitcher it would of been all forgotten!!! Pedro and Mariano will go down as great pitchers of that era.

Here before this blows up

@rancidcrawfish

8 ай бұрын

You're also here before the artards leave comments about the 2001 WS

@JackmeriusTacktheratrix7

8 ай бұрын

​@@rancidcrawfishI can't help but think that most "fans" at the time have moved on and deserted them, and anyone who makes such comments were born long after. That being said, that was a tough one.

@iamhungey12345

8 ай бұрын

@@rancidcrawfish Not to mention people with derangement syndrome towards the Yankees.

He was more like a force of nature than anything, you know it's coming, but still cannot do anything. That is the most gangster shit in baseball ever. One of my favorite players ever

Can confirm. Watched him live back in the day

If you heard the Metallica song "Enter Sandman" at the stadium, you knew who was heading to the mound and the game was over. So many great memories at the old Yankee Stadium.

The amazing thing is that closer wasn’t his best position. He was even a better set up man in 1995

@iamhungey12345

4 ай бұрын

*1996 On top of that he didn't have his cutter at the time as well. Makes you wonder how much better he could have been had his signature pitch been there at the time.

@sundaypikachu1844

29 күн бұрын

I remember one of his middle relief appearances in '95, he walked the bases loaded, but then struck out the next 3 batters.

When your signature pitch is called the buzzsaw, because the amount of bats he cut in half, you know you’re a beast.

GOAT

A living legend

No steroid allegations. Probably got a big ol' hog on him, too. He's a goddamn hero

@iamhungey12345

8 ай бұрын

You should look at the nonsense the user SniffyJB posted claiming that he juiced. It didn't take much to get the guy to start resorting to insults when pressed.

Trevor Hoffman and coming out of the bullpen to Hells Bells (he was the first to use that song) was the most electrifying thing you ever experienced and the crowd would go crazy.

Correction, In the 2009 WS, Yankees closed out the Phillies in 6 games, not 5.

As a Red Sox fan, Mariano is my favorite closer of all time. He’s literally the GOAT of GOATS! Yankees Fan were lucky to have him.

@sundaypikachu1844

29 күн бұрын

My memory might be shaky, but the season after Mariano blew the 2004 ALCS against the Sox, he had a rough start of the season where Yankee fans actually booed him. So when he came out of the dugout during player intros at Fenway (might have been the first home series of the season for the Sox), Boston fans gave Mariano a loud applause and cheers, not in a mocking way either. It was purely out of respect. The one and only time Boston Red Sox fans showed any class. 😁

My theory is this. At 95mph+ it is proven the human eye cannot track the ball from about 20 to the plate so every hitter’s brain has to determine where the ball will end up after the first 40 feet. Your brain can do that calculation. But his cutter broke so late the ball was simply not where the batter’s brain said it would be when it crossed the plate. So it didn’t matter the hitter knew what was coming.

He was a phenomenal closer, and I know I’ll get hate for saying this, but the blown playoff saves against Arizona in game 7 of the World Series (01) and Boston in game 4 of the ALCS, on the verge of a 4-0 sweep in that series which they would infamously blow (04) will always sting. Ok you can destroy me now 😂

@rfe8nn2

8 ай бұрын

I tell you as a Sox fan our hope was 99% gone when he came in. You had to believe there was a chance but with Mariano it always felt like you were facing the Roman army or the Persian Immortals.

I know there's a game called ultimate frisbee, but his pitch was the "ultimate frisbee."

I think we’re going to see Ohtani become a closer, after his recent injury, plus the WBC. I think the starting is going to be too much, and that way, he can still be active pitching. ALSO, Robinson, Aaron, Mays, Williams, Mantle and some other should have also been unanimous votes for the HOF. Criminal that Aaron and Robinson were not.

@DanielSong39

8 ай бұрын

Ruth was not a unanimous vote LOL I mean 3 people did not vote for Ken Griffey Jr. so these things are unpredictable

@iamhungey12345

8 ай бұрын

Or he can focus on his hitting more if he doesn't pitch.

I was always a huge Red Sox fan growing up but I always had MASSIVE respect for Mariano. Man was incredibly dominant at his craft and played with incredible class. I feel the same about Derek Jeter

@rfe8nn2

8 ай бұрын

04 ALCS I was like its over he's coming in. You had that feeling that Mariano would shut the Sox down in the 9th. Then boom it was like a Miracle David defeated Goliath. He was so dominate and it had to be one.

@HT-sm9dm

8 ай бұрын

Yeah but those hitters he was competing against were bums compared to today’s hitters.

@iamhungey12345

8 ай бұрын

@@HT-sm9dm Not really, especially since today's era has a Mendoza line batters as among the top hitters...

@rfe8nn2

8 ай бұрын

@@HT-sm9dm Well I won't tell legions of baseball that. The late Tony Quinn will have the problem with that. The game may change but the players will never will.

@HT-sm9dm

8 ай бұрын

Yeah but come on guys. Alejandro Kirk is a godly physical specimen of a man. Imagine him compared to say, Mike Piazza or Ivan Rodriguez. Those guys would be lucky to compete with his shadow in a bat speed contest.

This title is “Perfect “!

Enter the Sandman. Thank you for everything you done for us Mariano

What’s interesting for Rivera is he was constantly put in the situation to get a save and he almost always consistently delivered in closing the game all the way up till he retired. Was he the best closer ever with the best stuff? Maybe not the best in everything but his cutter was the nastiest thing I’ve probably ever seen.

Red Sox fan here. I always respect the skill that the Yankees could bring to the game. But Rivera is the only Yankee I ever feared. There was immense pressure to be well ahead by the end of the 7th. Because if you weren't, you'd have to face him, and the game was over. The best closer ever, and in some ways, maybe the best pitcher ever.

Growing up, and playing baseball. It blew me away you knew the Cutter was coming from 42, yet no one could hit it. Kenley Jansen got close with his cutter. His prime was crazy too

As a Red Sox fan, I started liking Mariano Rivera as a person in 2005. The Yankees were of course the scheduled opponent for the Sox’ home opener, and as each Yankee was announced, they were lustily booed by the Fenway faithful. The bigger the star, the louder the boos. That is, until Rivera was announced. The boos turned to raucous cheering. Rather than take this attempt at humiliating him for his blown saves stoically or getting upset, he just smiled and tipped his cap. Classy move. On an unrelated note, former Red Sox third baseman Bill Mueller’s last name is pronounced MILL-er, not MYOO-ler. My next door neighbor at the time had the same first and last name, but pronounced it MULL-er so the difference stuck with me.

Do a video on Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders

Great video.

If he played for any other club, he'd be right next to Junior as the most universally beloved baseball player of all time.

W video

As a Jays fan, the number 42 still gives me nightmares.

Wow...that's INCREDIBLE!! I wonder what it was that made him so hard to hit.

@GSP-76

7 ай бұрын

He didn't come up with that cut fastball overnight...he was developing it for a while...but he himself said one night it all came together and he was able to throw it as needed...then he further developed with finger placement and pressure to move it to anywhere he wanted in the strike zone. People don't give Mel Stottlemyer enough credit because he worked with Mariano to perfect the pitch.

@rmp5s

7 ай бұрын

@@GSP-76 Right, but I wonder what made it so hard to hit, as in, I wonder what it looked like on the receiving end and why it was so effective. I guess it just moved unpredictably. Dunno.

@GSP-76

7 ай бұрын

@@rmp5s It was the movement he had...ball was already coming at you 95mph but the crazy change in direction as it approached the plate is what made it impossible to hit...he didn't have a lot of different pitches..the batters knew exactly what pitch was coming but we're mostly helpless in getting a hit.

Obligatory "More men have walked on the Moon than scored an earned run against Mariano Rivera in the postseason."

The one pitched Reliever

As a Red Sox fan, I hated the guy. As a baseball fan, I admired the man.

@seveng1147

21 күн бұрын

Same here with Papi and Pedro

@seveng1147

21 күн бұрын

As a Yankees fan

For one season, the Yankees had another reliever who put together an amazing record. In 1927, Wilcy Moore, pitching primarily in relief, posted a record of 19-7 with an ERA of 2.28. What makes this so unique is, like Mariano Rivera, he did it with one pitch, a sinking fastball he could locate with pinpoint control.

I agree

Has the amount of broken bats ever been tracked? By both hitters and batters? Seems Mo would be pretty far up there, if not first by a lot and at least the most memorable, considering the Twins gave him that chair.

Weirdest thing about Rivera nowadays when you watch old film is he wore 42 into the 2010’s

@dipren443

8 ай бұрын

I believe he was the last person to wear 42. They retired it across the league while he was still active but allowed him (and others) to use it for the remainder of his career.

Mariano Rivera was ridiculous! And he came outta nowhere, I'd put him up there with Nolan and Pedro as one of the goats!

A lot of people in Panama refer to Rivera as "Señor Automatico!" Mr. Automatic!

Mannn the Yankees only missed the World Series in 97 and 2002 in a 8 year span but had a chance to win 6 championships in that span as well .. crazy

1) 13:22 that was absolutely WICKED! 2) The Yankees beat the Phillies in 6 games in 2009, not 5. 3) His divine intervention cutter is proof that God is in fact a Yankee fan

As a sox fan growing up, I hated the Yankees. But not Rivera. I feared and respected him.

HOLY UPWARD INFLECTION BATMAN!!! Couldn’t watch this video because of it

Never say never. It might not happen in your lifetime, but the future is a long time for things to happen.

You forgot about Bruce Sutter. His split-finger fastball was basically unhittable.

True

I love this video, but every sentence ends in a question mark adn it drives me crazy

That's true! literally and figuratively

Doval might be the next Rivera. I know he didn't have the best outing against the Rockies. But even Mariano had a few stinkers.

The pitch was great but his easy delivery made it so much better

As an O’s fan, I was quite happy to see the last of Mariano…. Lol….