re: Barry Bonds is the GOAT Baseball Player

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It’s laughable to mention rings in an argument for how great a baseball player is. It’s the ultimate team game and the sport with the most parity.

To mention a bunch of Yankees players rings who played with some of the most stacked squads in baseball history, and compare it to Bonds having none is ridiculous.

By your definition Bill Russell is the GOAT of Basketball.

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also have to consider that there were 8 teams in AL for most of the Yankees success until sometime during Mantle's era when it went to 10. Having a stacked squad followed by only one round of postseason makes the comparison between Bonds era and the dominant Yankees run null and void. I'm honestly more impressed by what the late 90s Yankees accomplished than what the Ruth era teams accomplished in terms of WS championships.

That said, when comparing players across eras the only way you can do so is by the way they dominated their peers. With that in mind, it's Ruth, Williams, Bonds, and Gehrig followed by Hornsby Trout and Mantle. This is hitting only (adjusted OPS+). I don't really care to try and add in the defensive shite that WAR accounts for.