Jeremy Taché
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because you're drafting these guys and then they're turning out to be these superstars at this coveted position where...
If you're looking at like Reggie Jackson was bought by the Yankees and added to this group.
Babe Ruth famously bought by the Yankees and added to this group.
And so those are the different things that you're dealing with in baseball, which is why I think the Braves came to mind first.
first for me because I just think about their ability over the span of years and years and years and years to draft and develop starting pitching into what's been this truly legendary group of guys in several different generations, but just like those Packers.
Only led to one Braves World Series there in the 90s.
Don't you forget Mike Hampton, though.
I think that's where you have to go for it.
And again, I mean, like with the Dodgers pitchers, right, I was going based off of the peak of Sandy Koufax.
And you could do the same with Mickey Mantle because, again, Mickey Mantle's peak right up there with maybe the top five players to ever play this game where –
I guess he played more left.
But also, just in the last 15, 20 years, you go Maguire, Pujols, Goldschmidt.
And Maguire is my all-time favorite player because I was three years old for the 98 home run chase and it brought me right into baseball.
But that is one heck of a game.
of a run of dominance at that first base position going from McGuire to Pujols, two of the better home run hitters of all time.
But I really do.
And Mike Fundas and I were just sort of talking about this behind the scenes.
What's crazy is the way that the Lakers centers stand out in basketball.
Because it's so far and away the best positional group in basketball history.
There's not a lot of other traditions when you look at a singular position group for a singular franchise.