The INSANE Prime of Jeff Bagwell

[@Johnmhatheist]

My dad used to take me to Minute Maid Park when I was a kid. I loved watching Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell.

[@RichBigJohnson]

Same. Minute Maid and the Dome.

[@Whatishorror689]

I used to stand at a light and get autos from players when I was a kid lol got Beltran Everette ausmus and bagwell on a single hat in one day

[@birthgravy]

The nostalgia for that period is crazy, I remember being in 3rd grade during the 2005 World Series run and my teacher would come to school in a bee costume the next day after a game lol

[@ahol9120]

One of the most discipline hitters of all time! Loved to watch him hit as a kid!

[@stephenmacfarlane5061]

His eye and baserunning took him from very good to elite.

[@mikeyf7039]

He recently explained on an Astros broadcast that he “couldn’t throw the ball from first to second without bouncing it” due to shoulder pain from ‘02-‘05 That’s insane. His batting and scooping value at first base was next level, even while injured. Imagine his numbers were it not for that chronic injury. My favorite player of all time. And I’ll never forget the 3k hit for biggio. I was there live. Warmed my heart seeing him on the field with Biggio celebrating.

[@redsammy7789]

Or if he did not play in the Astrodome majority of his career

[@WinJennings]

Or if he didn't take steroids

[@chopkong]

His body was deteriorating from steroid use.

[@Bradleytosh]

The most underrated baseball KZbin channel on the platform, and it's not even close

[@Cam23]

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate you supporting the channel 😄

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Promote and recommend!!! I love Cam too, I wanna pump this kid up and keep the ball rolling!

[@GeordieGunner96]

Yeah I've been saying that for months now. Been in hospital for awhile to 3 videos have dropped so here for the catch up.

[@doodchappin]

This guy was the reason I loved 1st base.

[@birthgravy]

Growing up as a Yankees fan in Houston, Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio were always me and my mother's favorite Astros players. I used to mimic batter's stances and have my mom guess who they were, and we'd always have a laugh while doing Jeff's stance lol

[@DavidEnriquez-l8s]

The 94 season he had is still heralded as one of the greatest single seasons ever. And it wasn’t even a full season. He would’ve had the greatest single season by a player ever

[@ryanupchurch9683]

No he broke a finger or wrist so he got lucky the season got cut short otherwise he might not of won the mvp. Love baggie. Just saying

[@hogg4229]

Would’ve been hard to do with a broken hand

[@JustLikeHeaven77]

That padded batting glove worked. I saw it hit multiple times. It was velcro, and would fly off when hit.

[@dalebaker2541]

Born and raised in Washington and for some reason just loved watching Bagwell. He is an amazing player.

[@courtneyvaldez7903]

Unironically became one of the top 10 first basemen of all time. People forget about his baserunning. Sucks that his injuries slowed him in the second half of his career and kept him from 500 HRs, but even without that, he has one of the most complete stat sheets at the position.

[@Cam23]

Agreed. 💯 Incredible as an all-around player. Like you said, his base running was top notch to pair with a winning mindset

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

He was the gold standard for not that fast, but excellent base running skills that made up for it. One of the low key skills Bagwell had.

[@ryandude2448]

My dad says every chance how good of a base runner he was. I only got to see the last 6 years of his career. But Berkman was something else, lol

[@stephenmacfarlane5061]

Bagwell's baserunning was superb. You don't accumulate those SB and Runs from the 3 hole without it. He once scored 152 runs in a season. Nearly a run a game is incredible.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@stephenmacfarlane5061 very true, and a super underrated attribute of his. He had average speed, but he made more of it with base running skills than you can really quantify.

[@ToonTwist]

In my opinion probably the most underrated player of all time.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Barry Larkin has a foot in that arena, but hell ye Bagwell was super under rated, he beat Barry Bonds in OPS a few times.

[@summeronio9751]

Him and Biggio

[@jlobiafra]

Him and biggio both sucked in the playoffs

[@ToonTwist]

@@jlobiafra Your gonna judge a player based off of 33 games?

[@jlobiafra]

@@ToonTwist 33 is a lot of playoff games. I never said anything about them sucking in the regular season. How's this for a stat: The great Jeff Bagwell and Craig biggio have a total of two homeruns in the postseason each, one played 15 years and the other played 20 years. So four post season homeruns combined all those years. Meanwhile, the much hated Jose Abreu who has one postseason with the astros has 4!! Let that sink in.

[@wess.9193]

I was and am still a huge A's fan but Bagwell and Biggio were my favorite baseball players. Love those dudes💪

[@uncledrew13]

Awesome vid! As a lifelong Astros fan I definitely can appreciate Jeff's career and everything he's done for the city of Houston. I almost forgot how aweosme he was for the Astro's

[@Cam23]

Thank you! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it, there's a part of me that feels like I lived through the '90s and watched Bagwell and Frank Thomas every day. This video was a blast to make, I enjoyed learning about Jeff's unique power-base running skillset as a first baseman

[@chrisholden615]

52 weeks strong loving this channel and it's content! Keep it up Cam!!!🎉🎉🎉 You are a one man show that has found their stride!

[@Cam23]

Thank you Chris! Your support of this series and the channel as a whole is greatly appreciated 😄

[@Tcehardscape]

You brought back playoff pains . I remember them like yesterday

[@UnHolyWible]

my favorite player growing up. I always remember watching his highlights on ESPN every night since I'm nowhere near Houston and back then we didn't have MLB TV. seeing him in 94 was just insane. I really wish he hadn't gotten hurt and the strike didn't happen and we could have seen how much more damage he could have done the last few weeks

[@Brand33777]

94 Bagwell was all-time great

[@Cam23]

Video game numbers! 🎮

[@milolink6993]

My favorite player.... I mimiced his batting stance when playing ball. I'll subscribe because of this video keep them coming.

[@poindextertunes]

I used to have a jeff bagwell foam bat and ball “the thumper” from pizza hut when I was a kid 😅

[@Cam23]

That bat is iconic!

[@poindextertunes]

@@Cam23 facts

[@stephenmacfarlane5061]

Bagwell was my favorite player growing up. He played a complete game with few true weaknesses. He was so underrated that to have a season in which he had a 158 OPS+ without a single MVP vote is absolutely insane. Even Mickey Morandini got an MVP vote that year.

[@lizbuckley7913]

please please please do a gary sheffield insane prime video soon

[@wacojohnnydean1777]

As a lifelong Astros fan, I can honestly say it was a pleasure watching this man play baseball! Bagwell was the truth! 💪🏾

[@joePARKS]

I moved to Houston in 1996 and loved heading to the dome and eventually Minute Maid Park to see him play live. What a stellar player

[@CC-rb1yf]

Mid 90s was so great watching all time hitters like Bagwell, Thomas, Griffey and Gwynn

[@mwright_boomer]

Loved watching the Killer Bees in the dome as a kid. Baggy was my favorite player in the 90s

[@UltraKellonRealEstate]

As a former college and minor league baseball player that was born in 1987, I was today years old when I found out Jeff Bagwell used to steal bases. 💯💯🙃🙃🤣🤣

[@jamesesterline]

Crazy what Bagwell was able to do in just 15 seasons, if he was healthy enough to play 5 more he probably could've had 600 homers and 3,000 hits.

[@Cam23]

I agree with you, as you said, in 15 years he did that?! 🤯 And the last few he was playing injured. I can't imagine what Bags would have accumulated numbers wise in 20 healthy years.

[@lukekymes]

been waiting on this one!

[@MNKgod]

Definitely need one eventually on Juan Gonzalez

[@brandonfarr6740]

@MNKgod hell yeah, one of my favorite players

[@matrix30008]

One of the most lopsided traded in MLB history. My team, the Red Sox trading Jeff Bagwell for Larry Anderson back in 1990 because they wanted to beef up their bullpen only to get swept in the ALCS by Oakland. Houston brings up Bagwell in 91 and the rest is history.

[@Nicholas-HTX]

I’m in my 30’s, but I was lucky enough to watch Bagwell play at the Astrodome and Enron/Minute Maid Park.

[@chemBTW]

can't wait for the INSANE PRIME of WILL CLARK video 👀🙏

[@deathminder9206]

Crazy that he only made 4 all star teams while being one of the best !B of all time.

[@Cam23]

We can thank Mark McGwire for that (primarily) 😂

[@brandonm3625]

Thanks!

[@Cam23]

Thank you Brandon! I really appreciate that 🙌🏼

[@agentallstar7]

Your channel is great and you earned my sub Cam. I used to love baseball and your videos take me back to the times where the sport was on top.

[@adammccraw4815]

Loved his compact but brutal swing with so much power! One of my favs

[@SLUGGER_CITY]

Great video, my friend, as always! Bagwell's been a favorite player of mine for over 30 years. Keep up the great work, and thanks for sharing!!

[@Cam23]

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate you tuning in, Bagwell was a phenomenal player and he deserves the spotlight. Genuinely surprised how little there is out there highlighting his career 🤯

[@monkeymagee2008]

Amazing Video Cam 👍🔥😎👍

[@Cam23]

I appreciate you Sergio! Thanks for watching 😎

[@machfive22]

Very well done video on a criminally underrated player. He was the ultimate example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. He could do it all on the field, and is without question one of the best first basemen to ever do it.

[@Cam23]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I couldn't believe how there wasn't a video made about his career yet. He was truly a phenomenal player that deserves more recognition

[@richardyeung1403]

Jim thome please 🙏

[@JoshBennett-ev6zf]

Do one on Willie mays hays

[@benignobrionesiii]

Biggio and Bagwell was my favorite duo growing up. Wish they could have won it all in '05. I'll be honest, i would have loved seeing that '05 team win it all than the '17 and '22 team. But I don't follow baseball like that anymore compared to when i was a kid and you ger adult years.

[@adiactpsn976]

Universal DH would have given him about 5 extra years of production imho, maybe 500 homers

[@stephenmacfarlane5061]

Probably right, could've gotten off the field sooner and spent the later part of his career as DH only. Maybe would've slowed down his degeneration and could've played sparingly in the field too.

[@831farmeros2]

If he got into the HOF then everyone else should too. Bonds, Big Mac, Alex, Pete, Roger ect...

[@hlcn6266]

YES!!! Thank you Cam!!

[@Cam23]

Thank you for watching! 😎

[@EYE4EYEPRODUCTIONS713]

Bagwell, Biggio & Lance Berkman was DAWGS not forgetting Ken Caminiti.. But Glen "The Big Bopper" Davis was the pioneer. IYKYK

[@booshwilson8814]

Liked, subscribed, and here’s a comment. Excellent video keep up the good work

[@Cam23]

Thank you! I appreciate that 😎

[@seplays2280]

Love these videos, can’t wait for Aroid

[@f_zed4068]

The UNDERRATED Prime of Paul Konerko

[@GHOST91141]

👍

[@seplays2280]

Dude was quietly a warrior

[@Cam23]

Quietly smoked 439 dingers, I like the idea

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Oof, the Mattingly of Chicago.

[@LineDriveBros]

Great content. Do Billy Wagner sometime. His story is awesome. Roy Oswalt as well

[@mastermace7770]

Willie Mays video

[@JeffBird86]

My favorite player when I was a kid.

[@prestonpohl]

YESSSSS THANK YOU MY FAV PLAYER OF ALL TIME

[@Cam23]

Of course, I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@GeordieGunner96]

Top notch as per mate!!

[@Cam23]

I appreciate that!

[@thehypocriticalcynic9182]

I remember a player named Orlando Merced was also in the running for rookie of the year...but Jeff kinda owned baseball that season. Time flies is an understatement!!!

[@janellemaynait]

The stance the goatee the legend

[@redsammy7789]

When I was in elementary school in Houston, I played little league and went to school with Tal Smiths son Randy, his dad was the GM of the Astros, I remember spending the night at his house and his mom taking us to the Astrodome to see an Astro's game, we had the best seats and got to run all over the dome, great times. The Astrodome was only a few years old at that time.

[@jlobiafra]

I just looked up tal Smith to see when he died but he's still alive!

[@Hmrhed]

Please do 2001 gonzo !!!!!!!!!!

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

Bagwell and Biggio were both already Astros legends when I was a kid, got to see them both play in the Astrodome a few times. I never knew he broke his hand 3 times from HBPs!

[@Dross_eva]

The Goat of all time

[@briansolo]

I think this is my 3rd or 4th time making this comment, but WHY DON'T YOU HAVE MORE SUBS?! Love your vids, Cam! Request: Fred McGriff. For 16 seasons, he AVERAGED 30 HR/year. In 15 of those 16 seasons, he only missed the 20HR mark once, hitting 19 in 1998.

[@Cam23]

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate you supporting the channel, it truly means a lot. Ooooh the Crime Dog, you already know he's gonna get one of these vids at some point!

[@ldr4690]

One of my favorite PED stars👍👍

[@wesjones565]

Great player!

[@benjaminfulmer9860]

Hey I started in your video! SWEET!

[@andrewbanks608]

I've said it from the beginning, Bagwell was clean. You gain weight as you get older. It's as simple as that.

[@elev8torguy130]

Could you please do a video on how good Rafael palmeiro was? If it weren't for not returning because of ped hate he would have been the 3rd player in mlb history with 3,000/600. Awesome player.

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

I have a weird Palmeiro mandela effect. I somehow made up a story in my mind that Palmeiro went back to the Cubs at the end in 2007. I wonder if he did in some very very small capacity.

[@elev8torguy130]

@BucketofScuzz lol he did not. But if he did he would have probably hit 260 and have 25hr.

[@DransikRS]

Great video

[@Cam23]

Thank you!

[@patjoslin4087]

He slipped through the PED cracks. One of the lucky ones.

[@Nicholas-HTX]

He’s always been pretty thick, and still is. He was tested.

[@jlobiafra]

Yeah he use to have arms like Popeye. Plus his mentor was Ken camineti who used steroids

[@armthesharks6904]

As a kid, he was my all-time favorite player. Probably still is.

[@El_Joe._.]

Banger.

[@Cam23]

Thank you!

[@josegrullon024]

Asking for Alfonso Soriano. The guy should be in the hall of fame.

[@brandon-ww3mu]

Noway. Soriano was a good, but not great player. Sucked at 2B and the outfield on defense. Yes, he hit over 400 homers but had a sorry OBP and if you want to go the WAR route(which isn't the greatest factor), his career WAR was under 30. That is terrible

[@gabrielwendell8382]

best batting stance loved this guy great vid. How about the Prime of McGwire his HR AB ratio from 1995-2001 was insane.

[@Cam23]

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed. I don’t tip my hand often but you won’t have to wait long for Big Mac 😉

[@DavidEnriquez-l8s]

One of the greatest first baseman of all time

[@JeremyWaldrop-ls2pn]

Jeff was a big bat in Texas!!! ⚾️

[@DwightCastillo]

My favorite player along with chipper and griffey jr

[@GHOST91141]

Jim Thome, Greg Vaughn & Dante Bichette

[@seplays2280]

Oh god Greg Vaughn would be a good one

[@aldito7586]

He's ridiculous!!!

[@ericd4132]

i wouldnt mind seeing the rise and fall of Bobby Crosby and Khalil Greene . Two rookie shortstops from the NL and AL competing for ROY in their respective leagues. Then just disappearing from the game. BOTH made their debut in Sept. 2003. Greene on Sept. 2nd & Crosby on Sept. 3rd. Greene's last appearence was in 2009. Crosby in 2010

[@christianschwalbach7561]

Greene played in San Diego when I lived there as a young teen. He certainly underachieved but was never absolutely terrible. Played decent for some bad SD teams but struggled with some major anxiety issues and other mh challenges. Felt sorry for he guy

[@williamalexander1863]

I'm a diehard Astros fan an a big fan of Bagwell. But I think he juiced as well!

[@jdm2339]

Everyone says Altuve is the greatest astro of all time but to me it’s still this guy… I love Bagwell 4ever my 🐐

[@davidspence7062]

Bagwell was juiced up

[@VisualTedium]

Body grew twice it size, veiny forearms

[@Garfieldforpresident2024]

Please do a video on Carl Crawford! He was my childhood hero.

[@CapAnson12345]

He was never caught but.. man were his stats suspicious.

[@MarvinMonroe]

In 1998, when it was obvious McGwire was on PEDs, i immediately looked back and thought of Bagwell and Caminiti. They all had the "Roid Gotee"

[@jmillshobbies6344]

Nice video, bagwell was a favorite, so was Dave Justice, Joe Carter would make a good video as well as Eddie Murray

[@jeanpayano1506]

Carlos Delgado and Bonds should be next

[@carlozz8670]

Can you make a video about Robin Yount's prime,he's my favorite player of all time

[@Josh-ut4wv]

Bagwell is a very underrated player as for most of his career the team either stunk or the PED players had the limelight. Now you can debate about it though it should be noted that during the prime of the PEDs MLB was throwing in juiced baseballs as they wanted more excitement which considering that and his numbers before he bulked up it is not hard to see it as a product of him building himself up and juiced baseballs that gave him that bump into the 40 range. Now had the Astros been in the AL or DH was universal at the time Bagwell might have played a bit longer as they would have just made him the everyday DH. I do wonder whenever you do another Astros player i wonder who you will pick. As i liked both this one and the Biggio video.

[@seplays2280]

Probably not popular pick but Carlos Lee is very under appreciated

[@Josh-ut4wv]

@@seplays2280 i could see that. I could also see some others (a few of them are still playing so it will be a bit before those video show up.)

[@Cam23]

That's a rather astute observation, I think there's definitely a lot of truth to that. It isn't far fetched to think that MLB manipulating baseballs could inflate numbers league wide in addition to the steroid use running rampant too. At the moment I feel like Berkman is most likely to be the next Astros player covered on the channel. No set date for when that project begins but I certainly look forward to it, as the '80s-'00s Astros have been a fun team to research.

[@Josh-ut4wv]

@Cam23 The reason why I brought up juiced baseballs was one of the 70 Mark Mcguire hit was opened up and it randomly had two rubber cores. Now this could have been an Aaron Judge situation where during the second half of his 62 run the MLB was throwing in juiced baseballs during Yankees games to help out. Though it wouldn't surprise me if during the late 90s early 2000s if it was more wide spread.

[@Cam23]

@@Josh-ut4wv MLB does anything possible to increase run production, so it is not far fetched at all! And as you stated, there is clear cut evidence that baseballs are manufactured differently

[@SONICX1027]

As a Red Sox fan, I’m a bit salty that the Sox traded Bagwell to the Astros. Still wondering about the What Ifs if Bagwell didn’t get traded

[@Cam23]

Unreal they could have replaced Boggs with Bagwell... 🤯 I agree, hypotheticals are fun to consider

[@joshuapatrick682]

PEDs werent banned by MLB until 2005 so I am not sure why players whose prime was in the 90's don't get a pass because technically everyone could be juicing with no consequences!

[@seplays2280]

Tbh I think most of them should get passes. You receive a suspension, serve it, and presumably come back clean. If you serve your punishment with the league that should be the end of it. Only people who shouldn’t be given that benefit are multi time offenders

[@PrickFlair]

That’s why I defend McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, Clemens. The MLB enabled PED use and they always looked the other way on it. The MLB should be thanking them for saving the game. How can you penalize players for doing something you condoned ? It’s the most hypocritical topic in sports.

[@pounc007]

Do Ron Gant!!!!

[@uberboomer8670]

Great video on an even greater player. Forget if you've covered him, but Brett Boone had some goofy stats in his day...

[@Troy428492]

I wish Jeff Bagwell can make 500 home run so he can joined 500 home run club

[@cooperbetancourt1147]

Do victor martinez

[@ulyssesgeorgeocana9922]

prince fielder

[@adampopour8491]

Wil Myers in the early 2010s w Tampa would be cool I’ve been asking for months

[@thesunabsolute]

Everyone talks about how they juiced the ball AFTER the strike... Nope, ball was already juiced out in '94. Look a the league stats from 1993 and compare it with 1994. 1994 was one of the most insane offensive seasons for so many players. Similar to the early 2000s, where it seemed like everyone had career years.

[@novidsatriosatriochannel3336]

Please make video of "The Insane Prime of Jim Thome"

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

As a native Houstonian, I love this. The Astros were pretty irrelevant for a lot of his career, so he didn't get the praise he deserves. To think the Redsox traded him for practically nothing, because they had Boggs at 3B, even though Bagwell never would have been a MLB 3B anyway on account of his noodle arm, and they got rid of Boggs shortly after anyway. 🤣 Stupid Sox🤣🤣

[@Cam23]

It is funny how true that is, Boggs left shortly after and they could've had another HOFer to replace him smh Red Sox 😂

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@Cam23 that's why they were a clown franchise for an entire century, they famously made stupid moves like that. Bagwell was clearly not a 3B, but he had a bat like less than .00001%, you keep that bat and find a position. They thought Boggs was old but he clearly had staying power, the man drank and ate like no human should and not die by 40, but he was still game, all the time, every day, all day long, even when the rookies couldn't hang anymore. Wade Boggs is a freak of nature, no other human can punish their body like that and still use their body to be a top tier professional athlete. Double doofus by the Sox.

[@Cam23]

@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 Double doofus got me rollin 😂 Boneheaded moves seem to be so common in hindsight, kind of like the Babe Ruth trade... 💀

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@Cam23 inspiration for more videos? I really love your work, your videos are great and you clearly love baseball. Passion is the most important ingredient. Aaron Judge is another one, I think he got drafted by the A's out of HS but he decided to go to college because they didn't give him enough signing bonus. That's a booboo too, I don't care if he strikes out a lot, when you got a freak show bull like that who can crank homeruns to the moon, you sign him now and work on the kinks in the minors.

[@Cam23]

​@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 I appreciate the kind words! Making baseball videos has been a blast I truly enjoy what I do on this channel. I'm always looking for new ideas and ways to improve the videos because at the end of the day there's always something to work on. I had no idea Judge was drafted by the A's! Geez they really botched that, and of course it was because of the money haha

[@person1192]

George Brett