re: How Good Was Barry Bonds?

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Advance stats says otherwise

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What advanced stats are telling you this?

I know Sid was slow but he was rounding third base when Barry was just getting the ball. I don’t blame bonds for that loss.

question is who was best roided out ball player?

bonds?

mcgwire?

sosa?

So, much wrong with that GIF. Lol First, it wasn't Bonds like the previous poster said, second, the runner was already well around third base before the outfielder scooped it up and came up throwing, and he still came close to getting the runner. If the throw was right at home plate or close to the line at left, he tags the runner out, but it's on the right of home plate where the catcher has to go over to the right to snag it and then hurry up and try to reach back to the left to try and tag the runner.

Barry Bonds was no worse than the third best position player in the history of MLB, his only competition there is Mays and Ruth. (Before people start grinding about me including Ruth, the 25-year-old George Ruth who set the world on fire in 1920 was a 6-2, 215-pound world class athlete without an ounce of fat on him, and a five-tool player. The portly Bambino came later.)

Barry Bonds also was the biggest turd in the history of MLB. (Although in recent interviews it seems like he realizes it now and regrets it, although there's no unmaking the bed he created for himself with his turddom.)

He played two decades with a chip on his shoulder because he thought his daddy was mistreated. (Bobby Bonds IMO had more sheer talent than his son, but he wasn't mistreated, he was a sot drunk from high school days until he finally, admirably, got clean right before he died, who drowned that enormous talent in liquor.)

He juiced out of sheer ego, because he couldn't stand seeing people he viewed as his inferiors getting all the publicity.

And he "broke" the most famous record in MLB history, that was set by the most beloved man in MLB history, and subsequently broken by one of the finest human beings ever to draw breath on this planet.

The last four paragraphs are why some people will never accept what I said in my first paragraph, which is OK because, again, Barry Bonds made the bed he currently lies in as far as how he's viewed.

Followup: In Joe Posnaski’s recent book on the 100 best baseball players ever … it’s a superb book, I highly recommend it and he has Bonds third behind Mays and Ruth and ahead of Aaron, Oscar Charleston, T. Williams, Cobb, Musial, Mantle and Wagner among position players) he has a quote from Bob DiBlasio, longtime PR man of the Indians.

He said Bobby Bonds, who was with the Indians in 1979, would bring Barry out to the park to work out, take BP, take fielding practice, etc.

DiBlasio said Barry could’ve started for the Indians that year. At age 15.

But again, when you’ve used up your goodwill, nobody cares.

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Bonds is not even in the top 100 players in mlb history. To think otherwise displays a complete lack of knowledge of history of the game or if Bonds.

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I’d be interested to see your top 100.

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Bonds is not even in the top 100 players in mlb history

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Bonds was good in his day. Also lazy, petulant, spoiled, arrogant and selfish.

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His Arizona State teammates hated his guts. Why people knight for him is beyond me. He became great...but we know why. But him being one of the truly greats before that hypnotized needle...that's balderdash, poppycock and folderal.