This Is The Worst MLB Player of 2024, and It’s Painful to Watch

[@SamuelSerranobrito]

Wait, this isn't Martin Maldonado?

[@imnotcreativeenoughh]

Literally adressed Maldonado at the end of the video. Along with a couple others. The reason it's Drury is cuz he played over 100 games. Other guys didn't play enough.

[@madethecut]

Almost 100 games, but yeah, exactly. There’s horrid sample sizes all the time, but nearly triple digits? That’s a SEASON. This is, in my opinion, something different than a title like “slowest player” which is more based on rate stats not likely to change much over a wide sample size.

[@jrlangston6779]

Bro didn't watch the 3 minute video lmao

[@imnotcreativeenoughh]

@jrlangston6779 i saw, recently, a post with a chart of in the last 15 years teams that have won a Super Bowl, a conf championship, division games, or haven't even made the playoffs, etc, (for example the Cowboys being in the "won a WC game" category or the Dolphins not making the playoffs category) and the amount of brain dead pancakes who were commenting "this list is so stupid and wrong! The Vikings went to 4 Super Bowls in the 70s!!" or "ummm the Dolphins went back to back in 72/73! How could they never have made the playoffs!" because they couldn't be bothered to read the fucking TITLE was just astounding. Though to-date my absolute favorite was a post this year that said Cal Ripken Jr was excited to see someone wearing his dad's Orioles #7 jersey (with Jackson Holiday making his debut wearing #7). It showed a picture of Ripken Sr and the tweet from Ripken Jr. My God. When I tell you 95% of the comments were reeeing that "tHatS noT rIpKEN iN tHE piCtuRE!!" and "riPkEN wAS nUmBEr 8!!".......holy smokes my guy. One of the most famous baseball players ever.....and these supposed "fans" don't know the difference between Cal Jr and Cal Sr.....and can't read 😂

[@NickPham-n4p]

This isn’t Orlando Arcia.

[@Chance_2018]

He wins a silver slugger than does this two years later

[@henrywallacesghost5883]

That throw to first was hilarious. Dude was 10 feet away and still missed the firstbaseman. You rarely see that in the little leagues.

[@HenrySosenite]

You don't think he had to rush the throw to have any chance?

[@sv7pz]

Having your records in the negatives is wild.

[@Publiclighthouse]

… but a welcomed sight for STD testing.

[@luvmuppets]

And yet the Angels would probably rather have Drury on the team instead of Rendon. Mediocrity at one-tenth the price.

[@heresjohnny58]

As an Angels fan o dreaded every Drury at bat, and fielding play, and baserunning opportunity. He was truly awful

[@BaseisBeautiful]

And it was wild because he was pretty good in 2023 🤦‍♂️

[@GameinHistory]

Brandon Drury's 2024 wasn't just bad it was historically embarrassing. How does someone go from decent in 2023 to being the MLB's poster child for mediocrity?

[@robertsmith2088]

It's happened a lot over the years to be honest, you can see Pablo Sandoval, or Steve Blass who finished second in cy young voting to having a 9.85 era the following year and being out of professional baseball altogether two years later.

[@GameinHistory]

@@robertsmith2088 Great examples! Baseball can be brutal like that one year you're on top, the next you're a cautionary tale. Drury's fall definitely joins a long list of surprising declines.

[@robertsmith2088]

@@GameinHistory I also remember one time Jason Giambi coming off a season hitting 40+ homeruns and a .250 average had a parasite infection the following season and ended up hitting just .208 with 12 home runs as well, and seeing Brad Lidge go from the most unhittable pitcher in the league to suddenly having control issues and 7.21 era and eventually out of the league was hard to watch as well.

[@erichjenson7278]

Truly painful to watch.

[@cameroneverhart6443]

Sounds like a typical Angels acquisition

[@panushjo]

He is still in the top 99.999 percentile of all baseball players in the world now

[@gyrozeppeli918]

That's why it's titled "mlb player"

[@jnovak1278]

@@gyrozeppeli918yeah, in reality, I would swap places with Drury right now.

[@ftb3817]

​@jnovak1278 i wouldn't, he don't make that much more more then me or most people adn everyone thinks he's a crappy idiot

[@gregrowe1168]

I guess you could say the same about Lance Stroll in F1. He’s the worst driver but he’s still a top 100 driver in the world.

[@robertsmith2088]

He's had a 10 year career in the big leagues, so he must have done something right. Just think of all the minor leaguers out there who never even got a chance..... and there are loads of them.

[@imafortnitekid69]

Even as an Angels fan i think this is correct

[@greatloverofmusic1]

How in the hell can you have a 35 OPS+ and still get 360 PA lol? I do like that he sucked in all phases of the game. That was very democratic of him. The dude made $ 8.5M last season and almost $23M in his career, so he must be doing something right. I would guess he would be looking at a minor league deal and/or a non-roster invitee come spring if he wishes to continue to play. Although the White Sox could use a...

[@guywhoneversleeps]

He continued to play because it was the angels, and they literally had nothing better.

[@emmdog8195]

I booed him at an angels game and the ushers threatened to kick me out of the stadium.

[@chrisnalina1755]

How would they justify throwing you out of the stadium?

[@chrisnalina1755]

How would they justify doing that?

[@umbreonpokemon8190]

Rendon try to fight you afterwards?

[@homerj.simpson7562]

Bagged a cool 8.5mil doing this.

[@XxStonedImmaculatexX]

Well, he was hurt early on and then had some other health issues when he came back so he never got into the flow of the season. Drury has done pretty well for us overall, way more than what Rendon has done!

[@ajandfred7223]

It’s hard to watch him like this cause just last season and the season before he wasn’t nearly as bad and even would come up clutch for the Angels, hope we finds a way to bounce back even if it’s not with us next year

[@jedward5155]

Javy Baez. Dude got paid and stopped trying.

[@Ibhenriksen]

Angels should have seen the writing on the wall when he started his decline on the Padres.

[@shinyhappyshibas1385]

Hard to believe he is on the Angels.

[@frankmccarthy2624]

Of course it’s an Angel. They suck!

[@robertsmith2088]

I remember the old days when the Angels used to always win the AL West division with Mike Scioscia around. Garret Anderson, Jered Weaver, David Eckstein, Troy Glaus, John Lackey, Franky Rodriguez, Chone Figgins, they had some quality teams.

[@braedenwells6484]

I watched every angels game this year can confirm drury was the worst player

[@Notkimbosliced]

Not sure if hes worse as a player than Abreu or Moldanado, or if the amount of game he saw while being bad is more of an indictment of the Angel's god-awful system. If he we're on pretty much any other team he just wouldn't have been in a position to accumulate that much negative play

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

I watch games from my couch. Are you saying my numbers are better?

[@markjohnson3413]

What about Alex Jackson? Batting stats are even worse and I think if you gave him as many at bats he would win the LVP award

[@jaredcortez3251]

That’s not Phil Maton.

[@robertlasher9246]

Worse season ever? Oh definetly Chris Davis 😂😂😂

[@TwoFingerSaloute]

I really hope Trout can somehow get moved. Maybe the Mets can swing something and stick him at 1st base.

[@johnnydepp4866]

Trout doesn’t want to be traded, and this loyalty is affecting his legacy

[@Rick_King]

What the hell are BWAR, FWAR, OPS, OPS Plus, WRC plus, and the other non-stats you mentioned? How about batting average, home runs, RBIs, stolen bases, and other *real* stats? Old-timers like myself, who have loved baseball for 60 years or more, can't begin to comprehend what some of these things mean. And as far as WAR, there is no formula to determine this particular non-stat. It's totally subjective. Drury batted .169, with 4 homers, 15 RBIs, and 1 stolen base in 97 games. You're right, that's pretty bad, but I presented it in English! 😄

[@markcornish2519]

@@Rick_King I agree, hearing talk about launch angle on home runs and that kind of stuff is kind of irritating. Like when a batter strikes out 3 times and homers the fourth time, he had a GREAT game. Home runs are king now.

[@dkroll92]

maybe you should find something else to be a fan of

[@Rick_King]

@@dkroll92 I've been a fan of baseball since long before you were born. over the past 50 years, 20 years, and especially since Manfred took over, the game has declined. And the stats they use today are nonsense!

[@hhattonaom9729]

his future is drury

[@jp_eight3]

he looked like he was trying to be mike trout

[@BaseballLegionUnite]

For me it’s Nacho Alvarez Jr of the 2024 braves

[@Gidgyy]

He had 30 abs u don't know ball 😭

[@BaseballLegionUnite]

I do I just hate the braves

[@Madman27-g6e]

Go angels (said panfully hoping drury nevers plays baseball again)

[@MungBeena]

Jake Cave?

[@gregrowe1168]

Matt Carpenter was still in the league in 2024.

[@markcornish2519]

Dylan Carlson too

[@Fortheloveofbaseball]

Hol up, is,that Brandon drury or Mike trout?

[@italianwaterice9594]

javy baez??

[@lorenzodemedici1]

No wonder Ohtani got the hell out of that organization.

[@nickhughes8179]

Brandon Drury. Another example of a Loss Shatkins Contract Control signing. He sucked as a Jay in 2018 batting .190 most of the year and ending at .229.

[@robertsmith2088]

Sucking in the MLB is considered a privilege. Most minor league baseball players would dream of getting a chance to play.

[@ratedRblazin]

Most sports contracts should be incentive-based. Only absolute superstars who produce yearly deserve guaranteed contracts

[@TheOtherKine]

What's even more sad is that the Angles don't have any other good players to replace him while they send him down to the minors, or trade him for somebody else during the season because the Angels organisation is shit

[@roughcut627]

Someone worse than Anthony Rendon? :shocked Pikachu face:

[@martyyoung3611]

MLB is painful to watch. That's why I stopped watching 25 years ago.

[@dkroll92]

and yet you watch MLB youtube videos,for some reason?

[@martyyoung3611]

@@dkroll92, I comment on occasion just to get a rise out of ckskrs like you.

[@martyyoung3611]

@@dkroll92, On occasion....reminds me nothing has changed.

[@kelbytodd5818]

It’s Mitch Garver for the Seattle Mariners. Avg 172. , it’s a brutal contract. He’s now on his second year of a 24 million dollar contract. Massive disappointment.

[@matthewjepson664]

yo

[@HenrySosenite]

He's nowhere close to as bad as 2018 Chris Davis and it's pathetic you would throw away your credibility by saying that

[@dkroll92]

the fun thing about baseball is you can measure things using numbers based on things that actually happened, and they all say 24 Drury was one of the worst ever. Out of the hundreds of thousands of player-seasons in MLB history, he's far closer to Davis than not

[@HenrySosenite]

@@dkroll92 You can also ignore the numbers and look at what happened