He was the BEST PLAYER from 1990 to 2000 with a career better than any other baseball player in that stretch, and that to me, I got him into Cooperstown.
Those who don’t get it never will. HOF is not just about a stretch of stats. It’s about representing the best of what mlb is. It’s not drugs or cheating. It’s a career of integrity.
@@Beethovenviolinthats some bs 😂. Look whos in there already! So we are just going to ignore the greatest player ever. Look at his stats before he was ever accused of anything, that alone is HOF. Then add on 250 more home runs after!
@@GetLeftTV those who don’t get it, never will. Fred Mcgriff and Ken Griffey Jr. stayed clean despite the culture and their records will stand the test of time. Bonds will continue bitterly loving himself wondering why we all don’t just pretend like he does. It’s literally the definition of narcissism.
Barry bonds was unreal to watch as an 8 year old in 01, unreal. Every night that summer he hit a home run it felt like. Barry bonds is the greatest baseball player of all time, no argument. Modern day player having a 61% obp in modern day, that ain’t steroids, that’s god given skill. ‘93 in a cold San Francisco climate pre his steroids .338, 49 hrs, 139 rbis…
Man when Bonds broke the home run record it was must see tv. When that dude was at bat EVERYBODY was watching even people that didn't watch baseball (like me). I was 13 years old and probably watched 2 or 3 games before then and watching Bobds home run record chase made me a fan and i been watching baseball ever since. Lets go Astros!!
I think so too, only because there are other players in that almost certainly used steroids, like Jeff Bagwell. There needs to be a single standard for everyone, if steroids don't disqualify some players, then it shouldn't disqualify anyone, Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, Clemens, and everyone else who has the numbers should be in.
@@Mox3712 Why? Steroids were not actually banned in baseball until 2005. If we really did some digging, beloved players like Mickey Mantle would no longer be in HOF either.
@@Mox3712he wasn't the only one who used steroids, but he was the only one that put up those kind of numbers. Not excusing cheating, cheating is cheating and it's wrong, but it's not like steroids are completely responsible for his success, it just made him better.
@@Cam23 the year after 73 was arguably his best, he walked every damn time there was an open base and he still found a way to smash the shit out of every hittable pitch he saw, and he could see 20 before he saw a good one. That's some superhuman patience.
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te because he was that good. The only guy people even dare to try to argue is better than him without just hiding behind "he took steroids" is Babe Ruth who played in a racist MLB where the entire league was white Americans. No interracial or international talent. Barry played in an era where the PEDs he took weren't even illegal and literally everyone was on them. Yet he completely obliterated everyone else. If the media didn't hate him, he would have somewhere between 9 and 11 MVPs. And if pitchers didn't intentionally walk him several hundred times, he'd probably have hit 900 homers. If anyone genuinely believes that is solely or even largely because of steroids, they're just ignorant.
@jaredhettler8572 YUP! People just need to grow up and quit acting like steroids taint everything. I agree he cheated on some level, but damn near everyone did. He was still that much better than the rest. If you really care that much, just put him in with an asterisk, but to not have the GOAT in at all is just embarrassing.
I like that Jeff Kent got the MVP in 2000, because when you consider a 2B with those numbers, it was amazing. But yea, I had Bonds winning it in 1992 and 1996, the 40/40 year (the year that Caminiti won it.). Bonds got tired of people winning the award who were juicing or suspected of juicing, then he decided to use. Those years were 94, 96, & 98.
2001 and 2004 are arguably the best offensive seasons in history. Highest slugging % in '01 breaking Ruth record with 73 HR. Then '04 is even better as he broke OPS/on base % record that he set in '02 (which Ruth held) with 232 walks and 45 HR compared to 41 SO. And the fact he is only one with 500/500 while no one else is 400/400 is crazy
it was a pleasure selling newspapers at all those Giants home games, and watching the show this guy put on! The excitement generated by his at bats are only matched by the most exciting pro fighter knockouts! Great job on the video 💪🏻😎💪🏻
I played baseball for a lot of years, I was actually a pretty good pitcher and one of my coaches was Vicente Palacios, he played for the pirates with bonds, we asked what did he think about bonds and the steroid thing, now that was in 2007 when bonds was about to retire, he said he ate really well and he was always at the gym working out hard, he said too he did not think he used steroids, he said he was on Creatine and probably more stuff, but only legal stuff, I don't think it is true, but you know I don't care about the steroid stuff bonds is the goat simple as that
Yep, he had the 40/40 in 1996, they gave the MVP to Caminiti, then in 1998 got the 400/400 led the league in WAR and they gave the MVP to Sosa. Then they left him off the All Century Team, so at that point he said, "its my turn."
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te he’s the player I’ve ever seen. Even before all the PED stuff, watching him in Pittsburgh and those early Giants years, I never saw anything like him. He’s not my favorite player ever, but pound for pound, play for play, Bonds is the best I’ve seen.
If I had to pick a team to put my life on the line, Bonds would be the number 1 pick. I don't like him as a person, but you can't deny he's the greatest player in history.
If Bonds had retired in '99, he'd be a first-ballot hall of famer. It's BECAUSE he broke every record known to man late in his career...that he's NOT in...🤔😒🤨 That's incredibly messed-up!
Good Evening Brother. This was an excellent video. Your channel is loved by my whole department. Can you please do a video on Dave Winfield? That would be greatly appreciated.💯💯💯💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for the kind words! I'm so happy to hear that you're celebrating the careers of these baseball legends with your department. And thanks for the suggestion, I'll make sure to put Dave on my radar 😎
Good grief are you ever going to do someone worthy like McGriff or Will Clark? Ozzie Smith or even Ryne Sandberg? I'd love to see one about these guys.
Worthy is subjective but I'll agree to disagree with you on that. Many players that I would like to do I don't have enough footage on. Bonds has been requested more times than anyone, thus why I prioritized his project.
Crazy he got screwed out of 2 MVPs ('91& '00) just because writers held a grudge...the same group of people that helped keep him out of the Hall, he should be in, we all just watched the vid, a 99.9 WAR through his first 13 seasons, if he retired then he would've been a 1st ballot lock, can we see a Rickey Henderson video next?
A Bonds video, wow! Most people don’t realize Bonds stayed in the lead off position for his first four seasons. 1987 8th in WAR, 1988 7th in WAR, 1989 3rd in WAR among position players. When manager Leyland finally moved him down in the order to drive in runs in 1990, the rest is history. His WAR and RBI total would have been greater had he been moved down in the order sooner. I saw him in 92 in Pittsburgh as a kid, he hit a home run in the upper deck in the first inning. One of my favorite Bonds moments is when the Giants won the west in 1997 and Bonds stood on the dugout hugging the fans and celebrated with them after the game. It was wild. He should have won the 1991 MVP, even though he got off to a slow start that year. The best of the best.
I would argue if he didn’t take steroids, he may have put up even better numbers. Already great power. Already had unbelievable plate discipline. The roids made him bigger and less flexible. Top 3 player all time in terms of pure ability. Loved watching Barry. Should have had 2-3 more MVPS as well.
Nope. Barry was smart when he started juicing. He was already losing his speed when he was getting older. People don't know this but he trained _really_ nonstop when he was playing..
(Spanish) Mi opinión personal es que Bonds era un bateador muy respetado por su capacidad de no hacerle swing a picheos malos. Al inicio, Bonds se ponchaba más de las bases por bolas que ganaba. Pero él fue mejorando, más y más. Más o menos en el año 5 de su carrera, Bonds comienza a tener más bases por bolas que ponches. Y eso es una habilidad incuestionable. Y a medida que transcurría el tiempo, Bonds mejoraba más y más en ese aspecto. Yo a veces observo a Ohtani y las veces que se poncha. Y comparó con Bonds. Bonds era simplemente ENVIDIABLE. Esa capacidad de reconocer los picheos buenos de los malos. Para mí, Bonds es un Hall of Fame. Lo que pasa es que los periodistas NO respetan. Si un jugador NO quiere dar entrevistas, ¿cuál es el problema? ¿No hay más jugadores? Para mí es injusto lo que ocurrió con Bonds.
Someone up top said that Bonds is the only player to have 2 primes...in all of sports I think Brady should be on that list as well! And they went to the same school lol
I really love your content. Do you ever do videos over older "forgotten" All-stars who only had 3-6 above average seasons like Cecil Fielder, Van Slyke, Kevin Mitchell, Phil Bradley, Glenn Davis, Mike Greenwell, Alvin Davis, Vince Coleman, Howard Johnson, Dyskta, Incaviglia or players with longer careers that were consistently very good but perhaps not all time greats, guys like Kirk Gibson, Jack Clark, Pedro Guerrero, Robin Ventura, Danny Tartabull, Kent Hrbek, Willie Randolph, Chili Davis, Devon White, Joyner, Bernie Willaims, Tino Martinez, Julio Franco, Dave Parker, Fred Lynn, Bonilla, Galaragga, Mark Grace, Micky Tettleton, Ellis Burks, Steve Sax, Marquis Grissom, Von Hayes, George Belle, Travis Fryman, Matt Williams, Mo Vaugn, Ron Gant, Dave Justice, Eric Karros, Gary Gaetti, Ruben Sierra? This would be good content. There's quite a few other dudes, this is just off the top of my head. Thank you!
also, I distinctly remember an interview he did during the all star game where he, Frank Thomas and one other player (maybe Sosa, maybe Bonilla?) in the mid 90's talked about their relationship with the fans and out of the three players only Frank Robinson mentioned he believed he WAS a role model for children and should act accordingly. Bonds didn't mind the hundreds of millions he was paid by the ticket sales and merchandise of fans, but didn't feel like he owed them anything in return which is a bit bizarre to me.
If you watched Bonds you know the roids were just a talking point. You know how good of a hitter and player he was. Just look at his numbers pre 1998 and post 2002. Scandal happened in 2003. The next 2 years, in his late 30s, off the PEDs (being tested regularly), under the microscope, with the whole world booing him, he slashed .342/.529/.713 and .362/.609/.812. Just incase that didn't click, I'll say it again. SIX. HUNDRED. AND NINE. On base percentage. EIGHT. HUNDRED. AND TWELVE. Slugging percentage. Off the roids. Under the microscope. OPS+ of 231 and 263. 263 being the highest ever despite his age and lack of PED use at that point. Nobody is even close. I don't think pre 1970 ballplayers should even be talked about in comparison to modern (1970+) players because of the lack of talent depth. Even for 20 years after Jackie, most of the league's owners were racist and the MLB was almost entirely white americans. 1970 and onward we started to see international and interracial play. And nobody was even close to Bonds. Not even the other PED users.
Everyone in the 90s and early 2000s used steroids. Bonds' numbers were in a different galaxy than anyone else from 01-04. He remained an excellent player till he was blackballed out of the league. No other steroid user came close to doing what he did. The MLB allowed the use of steroids and it led to the most popular period ever. The way the players are blamed while HOF gm Bud Selig and the mlb get to wash their hands of the situation frustrates the hell out of me.
You arguably could’ve used the “he took his game TO THE NEXT LEVEL” line on multiple occasions with Bonds. Also his 87-89 seasons often get overlooked, but he was arguably superstar level even back then. He averaged 23 homers, 27 steals, an .818 OPS (129 OPS+) and 6.7 WAR during that stretch, pretty similar numbers to Julio Rodríguez.
we can't deny the fact that Bond dominated baseball like no one ever seen before just as how we can't deny his influence of PED. His mark on baseball is so great and his number was tained by the PED, two sides of the same coin. But neverless, his record still stand and until someone without PED break his number, we still play the game under that shadow.
(Of course the steroids played a part in it in reality) but it was mainly the persona he put out. The media and many of his teammates over the years hated him. He was a self absorbed douchebag lmao I believe he is the GOAT and should have been 1st ballot HOFer with his own wing, but the reason hes not in is mostly the medias bias. Baseball is just a big history of different levels cheating. Bonds, Clemens, Sosa, McGwire and ARod are just scapegoated so the league can play the good guy.
Sure the steroids were bad but this dude was a hall of famer before 2000. He deserves to be in the HOF without question. Steroids don't make bad players good. But they help make amazing players even better.
The Hall of Fame doest deserve him. Introducing the Hall of The Legendary Bomber Bonds! May he live forever as leader of the baseball gods. The crazy freak of nature that hit nothing but home runs. All thanks to his roided guns.
MLB learned from the past and got ahead of the curve to successfully blackball Trevor Bauer for exposing the foreign substance spin rate epidemic.... The same people that condemn players for using PEDs dont say a word about Pitchers boosting spin rates by 400%.... MLB was the problem in both cases, not the players, people are just too delusional to see it...
Ive been watching baseball since 1996 and Barry Bonds is the greatest player ive ever seen! Steroids or not Ive never seen a batter turn on a pitch like he did. In 2004 I remember ESPN did this report that if a pitch entered this inside zone there was a 85% chance Bonds was gonna hit it.
I was a huge bonds fan early 90s with pirates. Not interested in debating the roids or if he belongs in the hall, but I will say the sad thing is to be that close to 3k hits. A club I'm sure he wanted to be in. All those IBB really robbed that stat.
No one discusses bonds body armor at the plate. He was able to use that 28 inch bat and hug plate due to that, which would have been impossible in prior eras. Would have been blown back to the dugout in prior eras
He was one of the best players in baseball even before the sauce. Same with Arod, they were always going to be great players, steroids just made them better.
Bonds was a great player before the steroids. He was a skinny guy with the Pirates, but still hit homers and stole bases. When he got to the Giants, that's when he started the steroid use and he gained a lot of weight and muscle. He was 180lbs as a Pirates' rookie and turned into a 235 lb guy with the Giants.
If Bonds were more like Sosa and had a few more 50 home run seasons instead of actually just one (2nd best total 49) Similar to Brady Anderson I wonder if that changes the narrative at all.
The fact that he had 500 home runs before that insane four year run blows my mind. Also, you could justify him having 11 MVPs, which...WHAT?!
PEDs are the reason.
Before there was any hint of steroids (through 98), he was already one of the top 10 players ever. Dude should have had 9 MVPs!
1991, 1996 (40/40 year) and 2000 he had a case to be MVP. Could have been 10 even! 🤯 🤯 🤯
Bull! Why spread misinformation on this! Bonds head started physically swelling in 1993! He is a crook and you are dumb and immoral to support that.
He should have also not been dumb enough to cheat and tarnish his legacy.
@@gabriel-contentwriter5578if it wasn’t for the roids who would’ve gave af bout baseball frfr. Roid era was a hell of a time for baseball
I don't care if he did steroids, he belongs in the Hall even if we're just talking about his career before 2000
Fuck the rules. Great message for the kids.
But he did to steroids.
But he still did steroids, can't change that.
@@k.s.nichols4060he had 2 hof careers in one
@@countkilroygraf8816talking about Bonds is a great way to teach kids how the media can fuck up your career no matter how great you are
Great timing. I've been watching Barry Bonds videos all week.
Glad I could contribute to your Barry Bonds stat binge!
He was the BEST PLAYER from 1990 to 2000 with a career better than any other baseball player in that stretch, and that to me, I got him into Cooperstown.
Imo he even had assembled a HOF career before leaving Pittsburgh, it's insane!
He is undeniably the greatest MLB player ever. Whom also played in the same division as prime Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling btw.
Those who don’t get it never will. HOF is not just about a stretch of stats. It’s about representing the best of what mlb is. It’s not drugs or cheating. It’s a career of integrity.
@@Beethovenviolinthats some bs 😂. Look whos in there already! So we are just going to ignore the greatest player ever. Look at his stats before he was ever accused of anything, that alone is HOF. Then add on 250 more home runs after!
@@GetLeftTV those who don’t get it, never will. Fred Mcgriff and Ken Griffey Jr. stayed clean despite the culture and their records will stand the test of time. Bonds will continue bitterly loving himself wondering why we all don’t just pretend like he does. It’s literally the definition of narcissism.
TB12 and Bonds out of the same high school is crazy!
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Barry bonds was unreal to watch as an 8 year old in 01, unreal. Every night that summer he hit a home run it felt like.
Barry bonds is the greatest baseball player of all time, no argument. Modern day player having a 61% obp in modern day, that ain’t steroids, that’s god given skill.
‘93 in a cold San Francisco climate pre his steroids .338, 49 hrs, 139 rbis…
Man when Bonds broke the home run record it was must see tv. When that dude was at bat EVERYBODY was watching even people that didn't watch baseball (like me). I was 13 years old and probably watched 2 or 3 games before then and watching Bobds home run record chase made me a fan and i been watching baseball ever since. Lets go Astros!!
The greatest player of all time not being in the hall of fame means the hall of fame is worthless
TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!
Dr Beau has a great RUclips presence
Very few people have mastered their craft like Barry did, he was 40/40 in the first half and 40/200 in the second half
FACTS. It's literally worthless.
He needs to be in the HOF
No, he doesn't
I think so too, only because there are other players in that almost certainly used steroids, like Jeff Bagwell. There needs to be a single standard for everyone, if steroids don't disqualify some players, then it shouldn't disqualify anyone, Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, Clemens, and everyone else who has the numbers should be in.
@@Mox3712 Why? Steroids were not actually banned in baseball until 2005. If we really did some digging, beloved players like Mickey Mantle would no longer be in HOF either.
your wack bagwell or Thomas never took roids all natural hard working players get your facts straight
Well let me ask you this, is Hank Aaron a HOFer? @@Mox3712
Everyone's "insane" prime and "historic level" is merely average compared to Bonds in the integration era.
Steroids will do that for ya...
@@Mox3712he wasn't the only one who used steroids, but he was the only one that put up those kind of numbers. Not excusing cheating, cheating is cheating and it's wrong, but it's not like steroids are completely responsible for his success, it just made him better.
Haha! Bonds put up some video game numbers that's for sure
@@Cam23 the year after 73 was arguably his best, he walked every damn time there was an open base and he still found a way to smash the shit out of every hittable pitch he saw, and he could see 20 before he saw a good one. That's some superhuman patience.
Ted Williams was special
Forget the hall. Bonds might just be the goat…
Why do you say that?
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te because he was that good. The only guy people even dare to try to argue is better than him without just hiding behind "he took steroids" is Babe Ruth who played in a racist MLB where the entire league was white Americans. No interracial or international talent. Barry played in an era where the PEDs he took weren't even illegal and literally everyone was on them. Yet he completely obliterated everyone else.
If the media didn't hate him, he would have somewhere between 9 and 11 MVPs. And if pitchers didn't intentionally walk him several hundred times, he'd probably have hit 900 homers. If anyone genuinely believes that is solely or even largely because of steroids, they're just ignorant.
@jaredhettler8572 YUP!
People just need to grow up and quit acting like steroids taint everything. I agree he cheated on some level, but damn near everyone did. He was still that much better than the rest. If you really care that much, just put him in with an asterisk, but to not have the GOAT in at all is just embarrassing.
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te BECAUSE ITS TRUE!!!!!!!
Unreal the man deserves even more mvps. Bonds is the goat with and without steroids.
I like that Jeff Kent got the MVP in 2000, because when you consider a 2B with those numbers, it was amazing. But yea, I had Bonds winning it in 1992 and 1996, the 40/40 year (the year that Caminiti won it.). Bonds got tired of people winning the award who were juicing or suspected of juicing, then he decided to use. Those years were 94, 96, & 98.
We must never forget Barry Bonds. Thank you ❤
greatest player of all time
Ohtani is already the greatest of all times. No stats needed
@@haidarhakimable 12 years old and blind must be a fun combination
2001 and 2004 are arguably the best offensive seasons in history. Highest slugging % in '01 breaking Ruth record with 73 HR. Then '04 is even better as he broke OPS/on base % record that he set in '02 (which Ruth held) with 232 walks and 45 HR compared to 41 SO. And the fact he is only one with 500/500 while no one else is 400/400 is crazy
Amazing! An actual person who respects Bond's natural talent. P. S. Why did only 5 of the 90 players who took PEDs have a positive reaction?
Stats don't lie! If everyone did as much digging as I did to make this video, they would all be on his team too 😂
it was a pleasure selling newspapers at all those Giants home games, and
watching the show this guy put on!
The excitement generated by his at bats are only matched by the most exciting pro fighter knockouts!
Great job on the video 💪🏻😎💪🏻
CAN'T TAKE THE MLB ⚾ HALL OF FAME SERIOUS IF IT DOESN'T HAVE BARRY LAMAR BONDS IN IT .. HE'S SIMPLY THE GREATEST PLAYER IN LEAGUE HISTORY ..
I played baseball for a lot of years, I was actually a pretty good pitcher and one of my coaches was Vicente Palacios, he played for the pirates with bonds, we asked what did he think about bonds and the steroid thing, now that was in 2007 when bonds was about to retire, he said he ate really well and he was always at the gym working out hard, he said too he did not think he used steroids, he said he was on Creatine and probably more stuff, but only legal stuff, I don't think it is true, but you know I don't care about the steroid stuff bonds is the goat simple as that
Bonds first to make the 400hr/400sb club. No one cared. He made everyone care about his numbers after that
Yep, he had the 40/40 in 1996, they gave the MVP to Caminiti, then in 1998 got the 400/400 led the league in WAR and they gave the MVP to Sosa. Then they left him off the All Century Team, so at that point he said, "its my turn."
If absolutely nothing else, 01-04 Bonds gave us hilariously good hitting stats to geek over for the rest of time
He’s the best player I’ve ever seen play.
Why do you say that?
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te he’s the player I’ve ever seen. Even before all the PED stuff, watching him in Pittsburgh and those early Giants years, I never saw anything like him. He’s not my favorite player ever, but pound for pound, play for play, Bonds is the best I’ve seen.
If I had to pick a team to put my life on the line, Bonds would be the number 1 pick. I don't like him as a person, but you can't deny he's the greatest player in history.
@@jeremyweems4916 Why do you say he's the bes player to ever play but not Babe Ruth?
THE BEST PLAYER I've seen, an that's before the "monster" four year stretch. Only rivaled by Puhols and Trout after that.
Barry was the best offensive player of all time. Period. HOF. 😌
If Bonds had retired in '99, he'd be a first-ballot hall of famer. It's BECAUSE he broke every record known to man late in his career...that he's NOT in...🤔😒🤨 That's incredibly messed-up!
Imagine giving this dude the juice that there is in today era! Dude would be Superman out there
If bonds isn’t in the hall, Selig shouldn’t be either
Prime Bonds was fuckin insane. He'd break fantasy baseball. He was amazing
His career before 00 is amazing and after is just insane
I dont care what people say, i never seen anybody in the plate like barry
I was waiting for this one 🔥
Good Evening Brother. This was an excellent video. Your channel is loved by my whole department. Can you please do a video on Dave Winfield? That would be greatly appreciated.💯💯💯💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Mr. May!
@@thfonz98 Ha Ha. Real funny
Thank you for the kind words! I'm so happy to hear that you're celebrating the careers of these baseball legends with your department. And thanks for the suggestion, I'll make sure to put Dave on my radar 😎
@@Cam23 I appreciate you brother 💯💯💯
Best baseball player I ever saw play
Barry Bonds the only player ever to have 2 primes
Good but I still want will Clark
Please do David Ortiz or Pedro Martinez next
They were all juicing…the league knew all about it….allowed it…so eff ANYONE who says it was unfair.
Steroids or not he deserves to be in the hall of fame….. steroids don’t help with how good you hit you still have to make contact
He was a great player before ped's. He should be in the hall.
Willie Mays next
Thank you!!!! I asked for this video a year ago
Good grief are you ever going to do someone worthy like McGriff or Will Clark? Ozzie Smith or even Ryne Sandberg? I'd love to see one about these guys.
Worthy is subjective but I'll agree to disagree with you on that. Many players that I would like to do I don't have enough footage on. Bonds has been requested more times than anyone, thus why I prioritized his project.
Crazy he got screwed out of 2 MVPs ('91& '00) just because writers held a grudge...the same group of people that helped keep him out of the Hall, he should be in, we all just watched the vid, a 99.9 WAR through his first 13 seasons, if he retired then he would've been a 1st ballot lock, can we see a Rickey Henderson video next?
Imagine if he never got walked! Dude number would be out of this world! Record on the most walked and feared man to hit the ball!
A Bonds video, wow! Most people don’t realize Bonds stayed in the lead off position for his first four seasons. 1987 8th in WAR, 1988 7th in WAR, 1989 3rd in WAR among position players. When manager Leyland finally moved him down in the order to drive in runs in 1990, the rest is history. His WAR and RBI total would have been greater had he been moved down in the order sooner. I saw him in 92 in Pittsburgh as a kid, he hit a home run in the upper deck in the first inning. One of my favorite Bonds moments is when the Giants won the west in 1997 and Bonds stood on the dugout hugging the fans and celebrated with them after the game. It was wild. He should have won the 1991 MVP, even though he got off to a slow start that year. The best of the best.
268 OPS+ 😳
And .800+ SLG multiple times! I don't care if you take the biggest PED cocktail in human history, that is just ABSURD
Video game numbers 🎮 🎮 🎮
B Double the greatest to ever do it 💯💪🏾🔥
Can we get a vid on Will Clark or Ozzie?!
Yes, Clark!
Do Eddie Murray or Ozzie Smith. I would also like to see one on Canseco, Palmerieo or Ruben Sierra.
Ruben Sierra would be awesome, one of the underrated greats! Also Will Clark?
Bonds could have gone to the plate, without a bat, and still led the league in walks. Crazy
I would argue if he didn’t take steroids, he may have put up even better numbers. Already great power. Already had unbelievable plate discipline. The roids made him bigger and less flexible. Top 3 player all time in terms of pure ability. Loved watching Barry. Should have had 2-3 more MVPS as well.
Nope. Barry was smart when he started juicing. He was already losing his speed when he was getting older. People don't know this but he trained _really_ nonstop when he was playing..
The greatest ever 0 debate steroids or not
If David Ortiz is in the hof Barry should be hands down
The MJ of Baseball 🐐
(Spanish) Mi opinión personal es que Bonds era un bateador muy respetado por su capacidad de no hacerle swing a picheos malos. Al inicio, Bonds se ponchaba más de las bases por bolas que ganaba. Pero él fue mejorando, más y más.
Más o menos en el año 5 de su carrera, Bonds comienza a tener más bases por bolas que ponches. Y eso es una habilidad incuestionable.
Y a medida que transcurría el tiempo, Bonds mejoraba más y más en ese aspecto.
Yo a veces observo a Ohtani y las veces que se poncha. Y comparó con Bonds. Bonds era simplemente ENVIDIABLE. Esa capacidad de reconocer los picheos buenos de los malos.
Para mí, Bonds es un Hall of Fame. Lo que pasa es que los periodistas NO respetan. Si un jugador NO quiere dar entrevistas, ¿cuál es el problema? ¿No hay más jugadores?
Para mí es injusto lo que ocurrió con Bonds.
Great video!!!!
Thank you!
Dude needs to be in the HoF
The Man❤
No way Tom Brady and Barry Bonds went to the same high school. No way.
It feels like it should be fake! haha
Curry and lebron were both both in Akron I think in the same hospital
Tatum and mat did so
Biggie and jay z did
Someone up top said that Bonds is the only player to have 2 primes...in all of sports I think Brady should be on that list as well! And they went to the same school lol
I really love your content. Do you ever do videos over older "forgotten" All-stars who only had 3-6 above average seasons like Cecil Fielder, Van Slyke, Kevin Mitchell, Phil Bradley, Glenn Davis, Mike Greenwell, Alvin Davis, Vince Coleman, Howard Johnson, Dyskta, Incaviglia or players with longer careers that were consistently very good but perhaps not all time greats, guys like Kirk Gibson, Jack Clark, Pedro Guerrero, Robin Ventura, Danny Tartabull, Kent Hrbek, Willie Randolph, Chili Davis, Devon White, Joyner, Bernie Willaims, Tino Martinez, Julio Franco, Dave Parker, Fred Lynn, Bonilla, Galaragga, Mark Grace, Micky Tettleton, Ellis Burks, Steve Sax, Marquis Grissom, Von Hayes, George Belle, Travis Fryman, Matt Williams, Mo Vaugn, Ron Gant, Dave Justice, Eric Karros, Gary Gaetti, Ruben Sierra? This would be good content. There's quite a few other dudes, this is just off the top of my head. Thank you!
I also looked for and didn't find any Will Clark , Dave Winfeild, Ozzie Smith or Geroge Brett, Canseco which is shocking, totally shocking.
Shocking? I've only been at it a year. Give me some time! 😂
@@Cam23 Love your work, thanks.
also, I distinctly remember an interview he did during the all star game where he, Frank Thomas and one other player (maybe Sosa, maybe Bonilla?) in the mid 90's talked about their relationship with the fans and out of the three players only Frank Robinson mentioned he believed he WAS a role model for children and should act accordingly. Bonds didn't mind the hundreds of millions he was paid by the ticket sales and merchandise of fans, but didn't feel like he owed them anything in return which is a bit bizarre to me.
He was the best ever 5 tool ⚾️
If you watched Bonds you know the roids were just a talking point. You know how good of a hitter and player he was. Just look at his numbers pre 1998 and post 2002. Scandal happened in 2003. The next 2 years, in his late 30s, off the PEDs (being tested regularly), under the microscope, with the whole world booing him, he slashed .342/.529/.713 and .362/.609/.812.
Just incase that didn't click, I'll say it again. SIX. HUNDRED. AND NINE. On base percentage. EIGHT. HUNDRED. AND TWELVE. Slugging percentage. Off the roids. Under the microscope.
OPS+ of 231 and 263. 263 being the highest ever despite his age and lack of PED use at that point. Nobody is even close. I don't think pre 1970 ballplayers should even be talked about in comparison to modern (1970+) players because of the lack of talent depth. Even for 20 years after Jackie, most of the league's owners were racist and the MLB was almost entirely white americans. 1970 and onward we started to see international and interracial play. And nobody was even close to Bonds. Not even the other PED users.
1000%
Certified GOAT and people need to grow up and see the flowers lnao
Beast mode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do Manny Ramirez next pls
Do Jim Thome next!
I'd love that! I also think we should get one on Ozzie Smith or Andre Dawson.
I wish you can do videos about all time great mlb teams (the big red machine, yankees) it would be interesting
Good idea
Everyone in the 90s and early 2000s used steroids. Bonds' numbers were in a different galaxy than anyone else from 01-04. He remained an excellent player till he was blackballed out of the league. No other steroid user came close to doing what he did. The MLB allowed the use of steroids and it led to the most popular period ever. The way the players are blamed while HOF gm Bud Selig and the mlb get to wash their hands of the situation frustrates the hell out of me.
How about Eddie Murray?
YEs and also Ozzie Smith!
Barry Bonds is not only the GOAT, but he is also essentially the Daemon Targaryen of MLB
You arguably could’ve used the “he took his game TO THE NEXT LEVEL” line on multiple occasions with Bonds. Also his 87-89 seasons often get overlooked, but he was arguably superstar level even back then. He averaged 23 homers, 27 steals, an .818 OPS (129 OPS+) and 6.7 WAR during that stretch, pretty similar numbers to Julio Rodríguez.
Haha very true! Though it definitely needed to be reserved for the start (2001) of his truly bonkers 2001-2004 stretch 😂
Can’t wait to see all the people who sat the bench and didn’t play at a high level come in the comments and start crying about steroids .
What high level did you play at?
Mark hit 70 homeruns and was just as great people forget though
we can't deny the fact that Bond dominated baseball like no one ever seen before just as how we can't deny his influence of PED. His mark on baseball is so great and his number was tained by the PED, two sides of the same coin. But neverless, his record still stand and until someone without PED break his number, we still play the game under that shadow.
At least ten of his home runs would have been warning track outs without the juice. Hank Aaron is the true home run king
Someone explain to me why he doesn’t belong in the hall of fame without saying the word steroids
(Of course the steroids played a part in it in reality) but it was mainly the persona he put out. The media and many of his teammates over the years hated him. He was a self absorbed douchebag lmao I believe he is the GOAT and should have been 1st ballot HOFer with his own wing, but the reason hes not in is mostly the medias bias. Baseball is just a big history of different levels cheating. Bonds, Clemens, Sosa, McGwire and ARod are just scapegoated so the league can play the good guy.
Sure the steroids were bad but this dude was a hall of famer before 2000. He deserves to be in the HOF without question. Steroids don't make bad players good. But they help make amazing players even better.
The Hall of Fame doest deserve him. Introducing the Hall of The Legendary Bomber Bonds! May he live forever as leader of the baseball gods. The crazy freak of nature that hit nothing but home runs. All thanks to his roided guns.
MLB learned from the past and got ahead of the curve to successfully blackball Trevor Bauer for exposing the foreign substance spin rate epidemic.... The same people that condemn players for using PEDs dont say a word about Pitchers boosting spin rates by 400%.... MLB was the problem in both cases, not the players, people are just too delusional to see it...
I used to watch his uncle boxer bonds at mesa verde prison in Bakersfield ca
Ive been watching baseball since 1996 and Barry Bonds is the greatest player ive ever seen! Steroids or not Ive never seen a batter turn on a pitch like he did. In 2004 I remember ESPN did this report that if a pitch entered this inside zone there was a 85% chance Bonds was gonna hit it.
Hey big fan of all of you content ❤ just sayin if you haven’t you should do a video on hank Aaron
Thank you for supporting the channel! I'm hoping to make one on Hank soon, the footage is hard to come by for certain seasons I want to highlight
I was a huge bonds fan early 90s with pirates. Not interested in debating the roids or if he belongs in the hall, but I will say the sad thing is to be that close to 3k hits. A club I'm sure he wanted to be in. All those IBB really robbed that stat.
Without a doubt! 3,000 was in the cards had he not gotten intentionally walked so often
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I appreciate you!
Hall of Infamy must include Bonds, Big Mac, Clemens, Pete Rose, etc - some great players.
No one discusses bonds body armor at the plate. He was able to use that 28 inch bat and hug plate due to that, which would have been impossible in prior eras. Would have been blown back to the dugout in prior eras
The Hall of Fame is a joke without Bonds. They should call it the "Hall of not the best players ever."
Damn two arguable goats (I think both are clear) from the same HS
Jose Altuve please!!! he's racked dup quite a lot of accolades
barry bonds is natural
At steroid taking, yes
He was one of the best players in baseball even before the sauce. Same with Arod, they were always going to be great players, steroids just made them better.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 how many home runs do you think he'd have if not for the steroids? i can see him with high 400's to high 5's
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231Shoeless Joe was one of the greats. Pete Rose.
Not arod. He was using since he was a teen.
You should do Barry larkin next
Put this man in the HOF
Please do David Ortiz or Randy Johnson
Edit: sry I realized that you already have one on Randy johnson
Bonds was a great player before the steroids. He was a skinny guy with the Pirates, but still hit homers and stole bases. When he got to the Giants, that's when he started the steroid use and he gained a lot of weight and muscle. He was 180lbs as a Pirates' rookie and turned into a 235 lb guy with the Giants.
the goat
Brady. Jordan. Gretzky. Bonds. The 4 goats. This is an undeniable fact so no need to discuss it.
If Bonds were more like Sosa and had a few more 50 home run seasons instead of actually just one (2nd best total 49)
Similar to Brady Anderson I wonder if that changes the narrative at all.
How he got 4th in mvp voting in 2001 with those stats is crazy
In 2001 he won an MVP, were you remembering a different year?
No more than 57 strikeouts in a season says it all in a 7 year period
Considering how much he walked and the power he hit for aswell makes it even more insane