How Carlos Beltran Made $100 Million in One Playoff Run

[@scottnotpilgrim]

And his performance earned him a very nasty card in MLB the Show 17

[@grizzyy26]

insane card. legendary

[@mustardtigerbaaaaaam]

Such a broken player to use lol. Him and Joe Mauer

[@1992sterlingsharpe]

When you had to get to level 50 XP with different players and he was one of the rewards

[@miguelcastroTX]

The card was betta in 16 imo

[@ethanniedorowski116]

He had the bang on lockdown in 17

[@SmoothCriminal12]

A couple interesting what ifs to consider is that the Yankees and Red Sox both made offers to trade for Beltran. The Red Sox offered Kevin Youkilis and Kelly Shoppach, while the Yankees dangled Robinson Cano in front of KC.

[@shoukatsukai]

And then they settled for Octavio Dotel, Mark Teahen, John Buck, and Mike Wood

[@SmoothCriminal12]

@@shoukatsukai Technically Dotel ended up in Oakland as part of that deal. But yeah, big whiff on their part.

[@2kdegenerate708]

Not signing Beltran after 2004 haunts me to this day. Probably win the WS in 05 if Beltran can replicate the same production

[@dirtybaystrangler]

Drayton McLane was a terrible, cheap owner.

[@2kdegenerate708]

@@dirtybaystrangler Thank God for Jim Crane

[@georgesouthwick7000]

The really crazy thing about all of this is that Beltran wanted to stay in Houston. He was willing to take less money than the Mets offered. All he wanted was for the Astros to give him a no trade clause, and they refused.

[@2kdegenerate708]

@@georgesouthwick7000 just unfortunate, however it was the first domino to push to the rebuild that brought us this recent run.

[@LemonGlow99]

2:37 never thought I’d hear Dave O’Brien call a home run over a Brockhampton beat Oh my God he did it AGAIN

[@RyanAngelo90]

The 2004 LCS (both league) was wild & one of the best series ever

[@RyanAngelo90]

@breadandcircuses8127 NLCS: Beltran & Pujols went berserk! The 2 walkoff HR’s in game 5 & 6.. and the ALCS: how the Yankees blew a 3-0 series lead with the stolen base by Dave Roberts, the Back 2 Back walkoff hits by David Ortiz This LCS & 1986 Playoff series was the best I ever withness (imo)

[@jewmaxin1984]

I used to tell people he was a distant cousin, no matter we're from different parts of the Americas; I'm Native American from Oregon and he's Puerto Rican. Nobody bought it, but it was fun still following the career of someone similar in namesake. Done pretty good for himself, wish he would have come up bigger or made different choices in certain moments but oh well, hindsight is 20/20. Congrats cousin on a storied career. Also at the beginning of the vid when you showed the voting results for BBWAA ballot I felt he should have, or could have gotten a few more votes if not for some shenanigans in Houston possibly influencing decisions made. The one name on that list that stood out that got snubbed was Todd Helton. He played pretty solid on the road with a highly consistent glove, so eventually that Coors Field effect bullshit will have to be put to rest. Regardless, The Toddfather, is a legend.

[@vintagepokeopenings178]

I remember watching that playoff run as a young Astros fan. I was in 5th grade and was devastated when STL beat us and Beltran signed with the Mets.

[@BeefPapa]

That first year in NY was a nightmare. But he was a superb CF regardless. The amount of ground he would cover... oh man.

[@CheeseMasterSports]

Especially in that massive outfield in Shea too

[@hulkout7823]

The only better postseason that I have ever seen besides Beltran’s 2004 was Lenny Dykstra. Can you do a video on Lenny Dykstra’s 1993 postseason? He also was a free agent and cashed in off of his postseason run. Back then there were only 2 playoff rounds so Dykstra made it to the World Series.

[@Shmuel420]

Mad respect for the BH beats. Caught me off guard in a pleasant way lol

[@justice85151]

I’ve always thought Mike Cameron & Carlos Beltran are among the best non hall of famers center fielders ever. They likely will never be hall of fame players but were great and dependable players in their prime.

[@gamingsquad2326]

Beltran will easily make the hof in the coming years the only reason he’s out is cause of the cheating scandal

[@FloatingAppleProductions]

Cool thing, too is that they played together for a season back in 2005. Injuries to both Cameron and Beltran derailed a chance at a solid outfield but it was still really cool to see.

[@Jobuwins92]

Beltrans going in

[@GeeEm1313]

Kenny Lofton

[@thomasfogarty2782]

Torii hunter

[@Posirep]

Lets not forget, the Mets traded Beltran to the Giants for Zack Wheeler...so definitely got value from him even after he was off the team

[@addictedtoJB]

But we were stupid enough NOT to keep Wheeler...

[@Posirep]

@addictedtoJB To be fair...while Wheeler showed his talent and potential...dude never pitched a full season and was always hurt

[@addictedtoJB]

@@Posirep and yet people wanted us to keep deGrom...

[@kylek1742]

I wore #15 for one baseball season growing up just bc of how good Beltran was at that time

[@cardinalsfan9610]

Beltran's run in '04 was nuts. He became a Cardinal killer in part due to that postseason. It was fun to see him as a Redbird in 2012 and 13. A real shame that he was a big part of the 'Stros cheating scandal though.

[@silentstorm5439]

a big part? He was the one that brought it to Houston from the Yankees and then did it again in Boston with the Red Sox who haven't done shit ever since the scandal

[@DonOfChi]

Will be nice when he doesn’t get enough votes to make the HoF along with any 2017 Astros player who might have a shot.

[@benjaminturpin6062]

He didn't show Beltran's last AB of 2004 😂

[@Grandmaster_1776]

@@silentstorm5439he was never with Boston

[@silentstorm5439]

@@Grandmaster_1776 I was thinking Alex Cora my bad. I always mix up the 2

[@Johnmartins648]

I always liked him. I wish he had won a ring with the Giants.

[@dannydonvito]

I was a teenager during his Astros day (I’m a Houstonian) I was so disappointed when he left

[@thomasramirez718]

Hall of famer in my book.

[@jethrojacinto2798]

OMG I totally forgot about that. Beltran had his Carlos Boozer moment 😂 19:41

[@ryanf219]

You’re gonna have to do another video on Evan Carter’s postseason soon.

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

This guy had great longevity too bad he couldnt stretch his playing career into the 2020s and be a 4 decade guy

[@Mainers1820]

earliest I've been to a video

[@jbj7599]

Was one of my favorites on MVP baseball 04 n 05, was cheap and damn good!

[@TheOfficialYoutubeCommenter]

most underrated sports channel

[@sfcSpidey]

I remember playing him as a cardinals fan and he would just kill the ball every time

[@poindextertunes]

The Dune Soundtrack in the background is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@tmalecki1521]

That strikeout at 9:32 wasn’t even close either. That pitch was like 6 inches off the damn plate

[@steveisgood2go]

One of my favorite Players I’ve seen play

[@zackaryhaselius2226]

I would vote for him. He deserves it.

[@orangehoof]

CB had a great 2004 postseason but he also laid an egg in the playoffs for the Mets. The reason I would keep him out of the Hall is that he was the ringleader of the 2017 trash-can banging incident. If baseball fans are still going to be butthurt of that incident, shouldn't they take it out on the guy who led the club into it? Somehow, the East Coast media loves to absolve Beltran yet blame other Astros who had little or nothing to do with the cheating. It was Carlos who hatched the scheme to begin with.

[@addictedtoJB]

The Mets never make it to the post-season without Beltran.

[@YanksJetsRangers]

Beltran’s low HOF voting has nothing to do with his play and everything to do with his role in the Astros scandal

[@maxdubs222]

I hope the same will apply to altuve aka buzz city himself

[@YanksJetsRangers]

@maxdubs2241 unfortunately he's been painted as innocent, as if stealing the MVP from Judge in '17 wasn't enough

[@brainstormscourge]

It’s pathetic that the record for most hrs in a postseason was tarnished by the joke Mickey Mouse 2020 season.

[@brainstormscourge]

@breadandcircuses8127 Bonds and Beltran hit 8 hrs in the postseason plus playing regular season 162 games. Compared to 2020 were only 60 games were played. At 60 games, players are barely getting warmed up. That’s why 2020 should’ve never happened but greed gets in the way. Also the baseballs were juiced in 2020

[@almightysosa3007]

2.3 OPS lol, dude was averaging a double per at bat

[@elizidele2916]

Top 10 CF 1. Willie Mays 2. Ty Cobb 3. Tris Speaker 4. Mickey Mantle 5. Ken Griffey Jr. 6. Joe DiMaggio 7. Mike Trout 8. Billy Hamilton 9. CARLOS BELTRAN 10. Duke Snider

[@xxbyron13xx]

Ken Griffey Jr. over Ty Cobb

[@andrewdevore4799]

You're referring to 1800s Billy Hamilton right?

[@elizidele2916]

@@andrewdevore4799 either one would do

[@rogregg29445]

No Andruw Jones that’s insane!! He’s got ten gold gloves

[@elizidele2916]

@@rogregg29445 I have him 12 behind Jim Edmonds also. Who would u put behind him

[@SHAd0Eheart]

Those Astro uniforms were generic looking as heck back then. I remember wishing they would go back to the 80s orange but never in a millennium did I ever think they actually would. Let alone expand on that theme.

[@grizzyy26]

sick video

[@pikapal91]

It’s a shame he’ll only be known for possibly the biggest “what if” in Mets history..

[@MagnetoJones]

My man put up Baseball9 numbers

[@CheeseMasterSports]

5:17 Cut to a whole generation of Astros fans who tremble in fear at the mention of Jim Edmunds

[@Archemist03]

MLB power pros season mode music let’s go

[@Rock33b]

Walking Beltran wasn’t cowardly it was a smart decision not pitching to him it would have been a dumbass decision pitch to a guy as hot as he was sometimes being smart and swallowing your pride is the right decision

[@baseballer8370]

brockhampton already?! WHO YOU KEEP AROUND NOW THATS A BIG REFLECTION and Joey trap wtf holy shit

[@elizidele2916]

Greatest hitter in Mets history who will be know as a met

[@johnnymoondog9474]

Darryl Strawberry? David Wright?

[@elizidele2916]

@@johnnymoondog9474 I think Beltran is better than both

[@johnnymoondog9474]

@@elizidele2916 As strictly a Met I think Strawberry had a better career. Not saying he's better than Beltran overall.

[@elizidele2916]

@@johnnymoondog9474 that’s what I was saying. He’s the best hitter to have his prime with the Mets

[@addictedtoJB]

​@@johnnymoondog9474David ain't do it as long because of injuries and sh*t. Strawberry, when NOT high, was very impressive but the numbers lean towards Beltran.

[@holdenopp5754]

Wasn’t expecting to hear brockhampton in the vid

[@JabariParkerr]

Wish there were sports betting apps back then would have bet on him to get a hit and a homer each and every at bat 🤣

[@spfhoops]

Jose Altuve in 2017.

[@chrlysweenie]

he knows how to play baseball and how to cheat at baseball

[@Tr1212.]

MLB power pros! 😁

[@Gnar_Dogg]

He'll make it into the HoF within the next couple years. If he doesn't I'd be very surprised because he absolutely deserves it.

[@Wolf-wc1js]

He was the mastermind behind the Astros cheating. Bonds, Clemens, Arod aren’t in and neither will Beltran

[@Jobuwins92]

@@Wolf-wc1js46% hof vote in your first year of eligibility is a good indicator that he’s going in

[@pancreaticlemons7069]

he’s a cheating POS

[@pancreaticlemons7069]

@@Jobuwins92he’s a cheating bum

[@NoUploadJustComment]

The home run montage needledrops are so very cheesy

[@SoSickRick]

As a Braves fan he made me a hater for life 😂 he owned us from my recollection

[@anakar3586]

brockhampton jumpscare 2:38

[@benjaminturpin6062]

Not gonna show his last AB of 2004? 😣

[@davidrothbart3301]

corey seager in 2020?

[@dantheman9167]

I wonder how much of his career had sign stealing in it.

[@patricksullivan8165]

Shoutout to rbt lol

[@DTMJR1987]

Ugh every time that pink filter during highlights shows up, my eyes disintegrate. Pls I'm begging you to stop; otherwise great vid as usual

[@luishumbertovega3900]

The so called sign stealing scandal is overrated, much ado about (almost) nothing, the Home Run Derby competitors know exactly what's coming and they don't hit every pitch square. My fellow countryman Carlos Beltrán deserves that plaque in Cooperstown.⚾ 🇵🇷.

[@Josh-ut4wv]

One thing that is important is those voting numbers are in light of 2017 which for him getting close to 50% that is a good thing as if it grows for next year then he will get into the HOF and it will probably determine how some other players will go years down the line.

[@pancreaticlemons7069]

he’s a cheating bum

[@JB-wh3we]

Dude, what is up with your cadence? Its not selling me on Beltran

[@99laughingman]

visual effects were annoying

[@PHXez7939]

WHY would you even pitch to this guy anymore???

[@ripharambe4796]

real

[@fxsavant9436]

Ayyyy @JoeyTrap @ 4:20 !!

[@davidwagner3710]

The a big reason for his lack of hof votes was that he was the architect on the Astros sign stealing scandal.

[@tonychen3628]

Nope, he came up with the trashcan thing, not a HOFer to me.

[@xxbyron13xx]

Amen*

[@addictedtoJB]

That's a stupid take. It's been revealed that they weren't the only team cheating in 2017. You gotta come up with a better reasoning than that.

[@SamuelJ888]

His role with the Astros make me question his entire career sorry.

[@kikim.29]

Why? Imma WSox fan so i love all this.

[@addictedtoJB]

The man makes 1 career mistake and you question EVERYTHING? God forbid the guy is an imperfect human. Plus, EVERY team cheats, and we have other players from different teams saying that their team cheats too.

[@DaMurphyBeat]

All of this would be very impressive if he wasn't on the Astros, with their garbage can assisted wins.

[@gslips9956]

Don't care, put up a video of how Beltran couldn't lift the bat off of his shoulder for a curveball right down the middle of the plate that ended the Mets playoffs.

[@addictedtoJB]

Stop being salty. We don't even make the playoffs without him.

[@talltexan4710]

Bonds was cheating don’t count

[@juniorsantibanez3335]

He was good until he joined the astros and became a cheater

[@dennisvera2802]

BASEBALL PUTS A STEROID PLAYER IN THE HALL OF FAME BUT NOT CARLOS BELTRAN NO WONDER BASEBALL GOING DOWN FASTER THAN THE TITANIC.

[@saubergt2390]

Beltran might never make it in because he orchestrated the sign stealing thing.

[@dennisvera2802]

STEALING SIGNS BEEN PART OF BASEBALL FOR DECADES

[@kenw2225]

3rd.

[@michaelweston2285]

he's definitely not a first ballot HOFer, never led the league in anything ever besides his post season exploits, only ever finished in the top 10 for MVP voting once, but he was just really good for a really long time, similar to HOFer Craig Biggio whose WAR is 5 points lower than Carlos'.

[@thatONEmachine]

By being an unrepentant cheater?

[@bradhorowitz2765]

Speaking as a Yankee fan, Beltran will never get my vote for the hall. Why? Well it’s because of his tenure as a “special advisor” for my team after he retired as a player. I don’t really care that he cheated, I’m actually impressed with his efforts. What is that when he was an employee for the Yankees, he by all accounts did Jack shit, never telling the team of what he did and HOW my team could use his methods. In fact, some Yankee employees were suspicious of the amount of time Beltran spent with Alex Cora whenever the red Sox’s and Yankees met. He choose not to help the team who HIRED him, he choose to let the Astros keep that advantage. That to me breaks his integrity.

[@DonOfChi]

Cheaters shouldn’t make the HOF.

[@addictedtoJB]

And yet we have multiple steroid users in it. How hypocritical can you be?

[@DonOfChi]

@@addictedtoJB yeah it’s BS cheaters are in the HOF but I can’t go back in time to stop the voters.

[@xxbyron13xx]

He didnt make the HOF because hes a bleeping cheater

[@dickey1331]

He’s a cheater

[@antoniomiranda8691]

Barry hit those 8 hrs in 45 at bats. Beltron 46.

[@davidwagner3710]

The a big reason for his lack of hof votes was that he was the architect on the Astros sign stealing scandal.