Old Man David Ortiz Destroyed the League on His Retirement Tour | Baseball Bits
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Published 2019-11-29
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David Ortiz aka Big Papi used his 40th birthday to announce that the 2016 would be his last. We had seen plenty of MLB Retirement Tours at that point, but this one was going to be special. Once the David Ortiz Final Season aka the David Ortiz retirement tour took off, so did his performance. That season, we saw a plethora of David Ortiz 2016 highlights. It was arguably the MLB best final season ever.
2016 turned into the Big Papi last season show, and with it came the exchange of many gifts. But in this episode of Baseball Bits, a Foolish Baseball production, I argue that the greatest gift of all was simply Ortiz's production. David Ortiz put down an incredible "old man" season, specifically the age of 40. That's right, 40 year old David Ortiz came through with a huge performance.
The 2016 Red Sox ended up making the playoffs, but lost to the Cleveland Indians in 3 games. Still, it set up for an emotional David Ortiz farewell at Fenway. That's still storybook in my eyes.
Another thing I speak about is the David Ortiz Twins years. Yes, before he starred in Boston, it was all about the Big Papi Minnesota days.
Enjoy!
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All Comments (21)
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Favorite big Papi memory is him batting almost .700 in the 2013 world series. Man couldn't be stopped.
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''WHO PUT THIS PICTURE OF BARTOLO COLON IN MY BOB WICKMAN CALENDAR'' this is why I love this channel
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Watch out and don’t mess with Ortiz. He’s a man and he’s 40.
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The Boomer Stats vs Zoomer Stats killed me
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I actually was there for Ichiro's final game at the Tokyo Dome. There was a man who sat next to me, in tears when Ichiro was substituted for. He had come from Seattle, and grew up watching Ichiro patrol right field. The former face of the Orix BlueWave was the player that made this gentleman a baseball fan. I'm truly lucky to have seen Ichiro's final at bats. The place came alive when he stepped up to the plate. I can only imagine if the Tokyo Dome would still be standing right now if he had pulled a Ted Williams and hit a walk-off blast to win the game in his final AB.
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the pokemon trading card gameboy music in the beginning... wow. what a jam
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We almost lost that man. I was so happy to see him at this years World Series as energetic as ever after the hell he went through.
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I need me a Bob Wickman calendar.
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Pokémon tcg theme music. Ortiz in the background. Foolish baseball vid. Am I in heaven?
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Jomboy is good, but this is definitely the best baseball Youtube channel.
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Hitting 38 home runs at the age of 40, you know, like you do.
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“Daaaaaaaa... Yankees Lose”. Let him call the WS next year. Way better than Joe Buck.
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talk about Ted Williams almost hitting 400 when he was 38 years old
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At 9:34, Larry Walker and Tim Locastro This is why I love Foolish Baseball
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"After six partial seasons in Minnesota, it wasn't really clear if he was actually that good at playing baseball" shows him homering off of Pedro multiple times 😂 loved that! I love the detail you put in these vids.
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That quote near the end from Ortiz about Rafael Devers being an MVP caliber player by age 22 sure was on point. In his age 22 season, Devers broke out in a big way with over 30 HR, 50 doubles, a .900+ OPS and earning some MVP votes.
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As a Red Sox fan who was too young to really remember Ortiz's heroics in the '04 ALCS the most iconic memory of him for me is the grand slam he hit in the 8th inning of game 2 of the 2013 ALCS vs. the Tigers. The Red Sox were facing a 2-0 deficit against a great Tigers team but he hit it out and put them right back in the series.
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I remember the days when I'd be watching the game in the 7th or 8th inning and figuring out how many players had to get on base so that ortiz would get 1 more at bat in the 9th because that's all we Redsox fans needed, game on the line we just wanted papi to give us 1 last chance to win and he almost always delivered.
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4:56 is my only MLB game I went to. It was an amazing day. Not only did David steal a base, but Mookie went yard and price threw 8 innings.
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‘Do some research before you mention the leaked drug test’ My new favorite youtuber.
