Top 30 Hottest Players to Start the 2022 MLB Season and the Best Card I Have of Each Player!

[jessethibodeau]

Great content. I think Baseball Reference WAR is much more accurate. For example, Nasty Nestor has a 1.7 WAR on BR

[waxthefuture]

Jazz up to 1.9 now! 3 for 5 last night .. batting 303. Kid is electric ⚡️

[tdsportscards]

Kelly got rocked tonight....great idea for the list

[ermis]

Bryce Harper NL Player of the week! Dude is on pace for 40 HR and 63 Doubles!

[jessicalightner]

Pitchers can really increase their war with a couple great games. This was a great watch, would love to see this again in a couple of months.

[maligatorbaseball]

Love these videos! I think this video also highlights why some people aren’t a fan of WAR being the end all be all stat, hahaha.

[jackiechapman]

Awesome video Joe.. Nice seeing the cards of each player in the top 30.. Love it.. Stay safe all..👍💕🔥⚾🤗🤙🤘

[robertjimenez]

Mookie Betts plays right field not center. Dude is a stud defender!

[rascal]

That David Wells bobblehead kind of resembles "Nasty" Nestor Cortes jr. Anyone else see it?

[josephdill]

Skubal is a strikeout machine that hardly walks anyone. He had a shaky first couple outing but now he is money. And he was very good last season as a rookie. If he were on a team like St. Louis or Atlanta he’d win 20 games with no issues. And he is a mid 25. Very good cheap L.T.I.. If he ends up in a big market and experiences minimal injuries, I truly believe he has H.O.F. talent. (Rodon strikes out something like 16 guys per 9 innings. He either pitches a gem or a dud every game.) sorry to keep adding as I watch. I’m HUGE into fantasy baseball. Gausman has 54 strikeouts and TWO walks. He averages about 7 innings every game and he plays in Toronto which is NOT a pitcher friendly place. And his e.r.a. Is under 2.50. He’s been a top 10 fantasy pitcher for a few years.

[burleycardboard]

I appreciate all the work that goes into these videos. It’s one thing to have the top 30 WAR list, but it had to be a ton of work digging up all of the best cards you have of those players. I’m a big fan of WAR because it gives you individual value, which can be overlooked. A lot of the stats you were referencing for guys you were surprised to see so high weren’t individual stats. For example, wins and losses for a pitcher. A great example of this is that the Reds just no-hit the Pirates, but lost the game. You mentioned that Gausman has a very low FIP while having an unimpressive W/L record, and that would be a better statistic to look at for individual performance, as it takes the fielding by the players behind him out of the equation. Loved this video, though, and looking forward to another WAR video later in the season!

[jchuck]

Gimenez was the Mets #2 prospect that was traded for Lindor. He was also a top 100 prospect I believe. He has the potential to be a special player.

[aduncaroo]

Fangraphs WAR is called fWar. So if you see war anywhere it’s the same I believe, it’s fWar that’s calculated differently

[haydenphoenix]

Brewers have a stack farm system, along with the Padres

[jlovaglio]

I thought you had the Diamond Anniversary Trout Rookie, is that cheaper than the Bowman?

[droogie]

War is calculating how a player stacks up compared to the other players that play their same position right.

[dbify]

According to Baseball Reference Cortes has 1.7 WAR as of 5/17 and Rodon has 0.9 WAR

[mlbcardsaustralia]

Love your videos! The only card I have I think is better than yours is my 2013 Topps Chrome Machado PSA 10 😄

[JackM-rejk]

Can someone link the Devers RCEB clip?