Blue Jays rookie Mark Eichhorn took the baseball world by storm in 1986 with his unusually slow pitches.
Youtube rookie Look, It’s Baseball took the algorithm by storm in 2022 with his unusually bad audio and blurry pictures.
Was it all a fluke? Will he ever repeat? Find out now!
Stats and screen captures from Baseball Reference/Stathead: https://stathead.com/baseball/
Video footage used (fair use):
VoiceOfTheTurtle https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnyJqTsJ5jYE2cAFs42L2EQ
This Is Where You Find Baseball https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChcXJBA7jI8PtvXTKUgIEgQ
Classic MLB1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Aqied-buV601O_HfLqG2A
Garai József https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpfV8xNc4ch6QIP4qZTEWg
ClassicPhilliesTV https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWb6dGkCnKBlrQLJAjZ-4-w
halladaycelebrate https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFqqEHxRryWj1tu3ez5BIA
Sports History Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWZtGIFBtcRqU8ldJBL9b_w
Sources used:
UPI https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/05/29/In-less-than-two-months-Toronto-reliever-Mark-Eichhorn/8671517723200/
Mop Up Duty https://mopupduty.com/mr-submarine-mark-eichhorn/
Trading Card Database https://www.tcdb.com/GalleryP.cfm/pid/1676/Mark-Eichhorn?ColType=0&sYear=0&sTeam=&sCardNum=&sNote=&sSetName=&sBrand=&PageIndex=1
Sports Illustrated https://vault.si.com/vault/1987/06/22/to-know-em-is-to-fear-em-the-underappreciated-toronto-blue-jays-won-11-straight-and-knocked-the-yankees-out-of-first-place-in-the-al-east
Fangraphs/THT https://tht.fangraphs.com/broken-the-middle-reliever/