Steve’s post this morning about the strong feelings that people have about A-Rod got me to thinking about Yankees that I have found it difficult to root for. As the team has met with failure over the last few years, more and more players enter that category of guys who force you to remind yourself that you root for the laundry, not the individual. So the discussion question that I pose today is, who is your least favorite Yankee player of all time? For me, the answer is easy. Randy Johnson came here with an awful attitude and continually came up small. He lost two playoff games that cost the Yankees postseason series, and never was comfortable here. He was glad to be traded, and I was glad to see him go. Who did you hate to love?
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Steve Howe was probably my least favorite. Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens went from being my favorite pitchers to guys I really don’t care about. I wouldn’t say they are even closer to being my least favorite Yankees, but they’ve fallen pretty far in my eyes.
Yeah, I thought about clemens, but I enjoyed him while he was here. I could just never get into RJ, probably because he seemed like he did not want to be in NY from the start.
I’m not as tough on Randy Johnson as most others are. He took the ball all the time with a balky back. Anyone who gets an epidural to pitch his next start is someone I can’t say a bad word about. He gave you all he had, there just wasn’t much left at his age.
He wasn’t the most likable guy, but he gave you everything he had and that’s all I can ask.
The 2004 team was loaded with guys I didn’t like one bit.
Kevin Brown, Gary Sheffield, Kenny Lofton and Tom ‘bullpen vomit’ Gordon. What a bunch of overpaid, over the hill malcontents.
Gordon gave all he had too, and he pitched well for us. I just never liked Randy- I know he was trying, but he had great years right before he came here. It also does not help that he beat us in 2001.
and also because the yankees got gordon, when he walked the yankees got the draft pick that they used for joba, and i’ll always be thankful gordon left so we could get joba.
Steve Howe, Sheffield, Kevin Brown, Kenny Loften, Ruben Sierra (1st time around), Jim “King” Leyritz, Chuck Knoblauch and the greatest disappointment RJ.
All of these guys where malcontents and thought they were the team, or maybe the team was there to help them…not the other-way around.
The King was one of my favorites during his run. He seemed to be what NY was all about. Knoblauch was a “winner” so I can’t really hate him. Lofton may actually have been a better player than Bernie at that point (judging from his stats after he left the team). Steve Howe is more of a sympathetic figure in my mind.
True with many of your points but, I remember somethings I didn’t like to see in a team 1st guy with each of them:
King; thought he should be the everyday catcher, and always let everyone know about it.
Kenny; Quit on the team, over playing time.
Steve; I could go along with your assement of him.
Sheffield; He wasn’t a very honest teammate, he bit the hand that fed him.
Ruben; Very unhappy player and very disruptive (1st time around). Great teammate the 2nd time.
RJ; Just a malcontent, with a bad attitude, even though he showed up for each game.
Chuck; was a head case, and couldn’t get over it. Never forgave the Yankees for letting him go.
Just my personal list, and going from memories.
Chad Curtis comes to mind, but it’s hard to know what a person is really like from watching them on TV, and especially from the bilge spewed by the sporting press.
I’m kind of surprised by some of the people described as ‘malcontents’. A lot of those people have been described elsewhere as ‘driven’ and highly competitive’.
I always hated Shefield when he was here but he did a lot when he was here and we sure could have used his bat the last couple of years. Still love Clemens and RJ. So probably Kenny Lofton I guess although I think the whole thing was partially not his fault.
I loved Gary Sheffield and I still love him to this day.
I always hated Ruben Sierra — he pissed me off.
I’m going to go with Enrique Wilson. I understand the attempt to create a Luis Sojo II but everytime he was in a game for any reason it annoyed me. Save for 1 four hit day against Pedro he was COMPLETELY useless.
At least with the guys listed above they were GOOD or could be GOOD or have been GOOD. Maybe its just because he was too pudgy too be a no hit utility guy for my taste. I can’t imagine Ransom is a whole lot better in any way but for some reason he doesn’t irk me as much.