{"id":396228,"date":"2022-01-19T20:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/greg-maddux-almost-signed-with-the-yankees-in-the-1990s\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T20:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:17:52","slug":"greg-maddux-almost-signed-with-the-yankees-in-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/greg-maddux-almost-signed-with-the-yankees-in-the-1990s\/","title":{"rendered":"#Greg Maddux almost signed with the Yankees in the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Greg Maddux almost signed with the Yankees in the 1990s<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>One medical emergency could have dramatically changed the landscape of baseball in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Maddux, who was a key part of the Braves\u2019 powerhouse teams in the 1990s, revealed on an episode of the \u201cToeing the Slab\u201d podcast with David Cone that he didn\u2019t intend on signing with Atlanta at all. Matter of fact, he <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed to New York in 1992 with designs on signing with the team that twice defeated them in the World <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went there to sign with the Yankees,\u201d Maddux said. \u201cI mean, I was shocked I didn\u2019t get offered a contract. It\u2019s not college \u2013 I didn\u2019t go there just for a recruiting trip. You kinda go there to sign the contract and everything. I had the nice day, went around, went to a show, went to dinner, and they said we\u2019ll be in touch with a contract offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The offer never came. Why was that?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know who it was, but \u2026 one of the guys had a heart attack,\u201d Maddux said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I wasn\u2019t made an offer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI got on the plane, went home, we had a layover in Chicago \u2026 and I remember landing in Chicago and calling [agent] Scott [Boras], and he said the Braves were able to make me an offer. Which originally was the team I wanted to go to, before I went to New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maddux was coming off the final year of his run with the Cubs in \u201992, in which he won his first Cy Young Award. He was the most coveted free agent of the offseason, and the Yankees were gearing up for a return to prominence after not making the playoffs in over a decade. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/greg-maddux.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Greg Maddux with the Braves in 1998\" class=\"wp-image-20885831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/greg-maddux.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/greg-maddux.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/greg-maddux.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Greg Maddux with the Braves in 1998<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clearly, things worked out fine for the Yankees, who won four championships during Maddux\u2019s 11-year tenure with the Braves. And Maddux was a key reason for Atlanta\u2019s success, in which they <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in three World Series and he won three straight Cy Youngs.<\/p>\n<p>If not for the unnamed Yankees executive suffering a heart attack, things could have been real different for each of the storied franchises.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Greg Maddux, who was a key part of the Braves\u2019 powerhouse teams in the 1990s, revealed on an episode of the \u201cToeing the Slab\u201d podcast with David Cone that he didn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/greg-maddux-index.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[124314,71601,124350,70722],"class_list":["post-396228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-19-22","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-greg-maddux","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}