MLB: Greg Maddux was ‘near nothing’ from signing with the Yankees in 1992, but fate surprised him at the last minute

One of the best pitchers of all time in MLB undoubtedly is the “Mad Dog”, Greg Maddux, who is a member of the Hall of Fame and a legend of several Major League teams like the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs, being one of the most prominent of the 90’s. However, this could have changed quite a bit, as Maddux was nowhere near going to the New York Yankees.

Greg Maddux himself spoke to former Yankees pitcher David Cone’s podcast, “Toeing the Slab,” where he confessed that he came close to signing for the Bronx Bombers at the end of the 1992 season, his last of his first. stay with the Cubs However, something happened the same day he was going to sign that stopped his signing.

I was there (in New York), I went to sign with the Yankees. This is not the university, you are not going on a trip to see the facilities, you are going to sign the contract. But something happened, I don’t really know who it was, but someone high up on the Yankees had a heart attack, and that’s why the offer wasn’t made. There were no cell phones, so no one could tell me what happened. When I got back to Chicago, my agent told me “you got an offer from the Braves,” and that’s what happened.

And as the adage goes, “the rest is history.” Due to a major mishap, the New York Yankees were unable to sign one of the most dominant pitchers of all time. With Maddux leading the trident of John Smoltz and Tom Glavine, the Braves won the 1995 World Series and he won three straight Cy Young Awards.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie at Al Bat in early 2018 and am in my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I’m a fan of the San Francisco Giants, number one defender of Barry Bonds, and hater of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to have the World Series taken from them for their cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy football, flag football, basketball, and just about any other game that involves a ball or ball. I’m also an amateur musician, a penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the world capital of shrimp, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived for a while in Australia; I survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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