Most Unlikable Baseball Player Tournament - Round 4, Heat 1 (The Hated Eight)

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Originally Posted by wazu

To be fair, Bautista is a household name for being hated. He's easily the most hated nationally. It's actually pretty impressive. He elicits an emotional reaction. The other guy is obviously a worse dude, but so few people have even heard of him compared to Bautista. It's less "fun".

Yeah, part of the thing that makes certain players more unlikable is how they conduct themselves on the field combined with how often you watch them. If we were just judging by off the field stuff, Matt Bush would probably win this competition. But hardly anyone even knows who he is or has watched him play.

It's the same reason you'd see Philip Rivers go further in an NFL version of this tournament than a bunch of criminals.