Frank Robinson's Underrated Legacy in Major League Baseball

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00:00man like frank robinson's one of the greatest players ever to play the game he doesn't get

00:04talked about for whatever reason and baseball like doesn't do a good job like you have to be

00:08part of a scandal to get talked about almost but frank robinson like literally one of the greatest

00:13players ever to play the game he was the manager of the expos for a couple of years and he told

00:19vladimir guerrero once like uh during batting practice like you know like you know these guys

00:25don't talk as much as you think right so like frank robinson went up to guerrero and he sort

00:29of talked to him for a couple of minutes and i said to him after i said like what did you guys

00:34talk about and frank used to be very open with me and stuff and he goes yeah i told him that if he

00:40would stop swinging it like every freaking pitch that pitchers throw you know he would have an even

00:46higher batting average and it hit even more home runs because he's a great hitter but he swings at

00:51everything and remember like guerrero famously like used to swing at everything like it was fun to watch

00:58like somebody tried to you know when someone tried to intentionally walk vladimir guerrero senior

01:03he'd swing at it like he'd literally reach out of the box with one hand and swing the bat at the ball

01:08like he famously hit a home run on like a ball in the dirt right like he used to like just swing

01:16at everything like all the time and so robinson told him listen if you'd be more selective and like

01:22wait for your pitch you know like you'd be even better than you are and guerrero sort of nodded

01:28on him and stuff and he was it was cordial and frank told me a couple of days later he goes man

01:35i got a call from like guerrero's like agent and people that like they told me like don't talk to

01:41him in the batting cage ever again like it and they were polite about they were like he'd appreciate it

01:47like he's you know doing his thing that you don't try to get into his head like with new ideas or

01:51something like right and he's frank robinson and vladimir guerrero wasn't like a malcontent he's a

01:58hall of famer he's like you know dude good for you that you played 30 40 years ago i really like you

02:04know like i really don't want to talk about this right like he just the guerrero just like shut it down

02:11right and he got a call like vlad would appreciate it if you don't like uh you know disturb him uh

02:17during batting practice before the games and guerrero and frank was like all right he goes i

02:22tried right like that that's the way it is so this devers stuff you know i mean i've seen this stuff

02:28before right you know newsflash a lot of major league baseball players are pretty like self-centered

02:33people right they don't like they don't like being told what to do they don't want this they don't

02:39want that but devers is gonna like run out of like good teams you're gonna want them on the team

02:43like if devers keeps up this attitude like the dude's gonna end up playing like colorado or

02:48something he's gonna end up in sacramento like you know i mean like some bad team will pick him up

02:52because of his name and like maybe he'll be happy you know we'll tell you listen you can do whatever

02:57the hell you want bro just you know hit home runs and drive people in