However, Bonds still had some quality baseball left to give and earned the right to go out on his own terms. Certainly many of Bonds’s problems were of his own making. Though it hasn’t been proven, it appears Bonds was blackballed from baseball once his contract expired in 2007. He certainly would have been an upgrade over Gary Sheffield and his. Personally, I’d hoped the Detroit Tigers would sign him as their DH. I thought there would have been several team hoping to ride the attendance wave to Bonds’s 3,000th hit…he was only 65 short. I recall Barry Bonds was on the free agent market in 2008…and, unbelievably, no MLB team signed him. 480 OBP, and this card has a good chance to replicate it. In 2007, Bonds also had an impressive, league leading. Second, it has eight 14s! Not surprisingly, Bonds lead the NL in walks and intentional walks. Nonetheless, this card has a couple of things going for it. 282 average, which is only six points off the mark…not twenty-two. If it had an extra 8, it would produce a. Yet, I only project this card to produce a.

However, APBA seems to have short-changed him a bit. Provided by : View Original Tableīarry Bonds’s final APBA card is very solid. Both Mays and Bonds were similar five-tool players, but Willie Mays didn’t dominate his era in the same way Bonds dominated his. However, Bonds was a better all-around player than Williams when defense and base-running are taken into consideration.

If he had to compete against his contemporary African-Americans, the Babe’s numbers would be different. Some might argue it’s Babe Ruth, but the Bambino was able to put up his astounding numbers before integration. Then the PEDs came…and Bonds put up video game numbers in the twilight of his career and became the greatest left fielder of all time.Īrguably, Barry Bonds is also the greatest position player of all time. With those numbers, he’s one of the top five left fields of all time. Basically, Bonds did what Carlos Beltran accomplished in a twenty-year career in his first twelve seasons. 290 career hitter with 411 home runs, 445 stolen bases, and 1.917 hits. If you don’t believe me, consider that before 1999, Bonds was a. By every measure, he was one of the greatest ballplayers EVER, even before he started taking PEDs. However, there is no controversy when it comes to his greatness. Of course, the main controversy with Bonds is his connections with PEDs and BALCO. There probably isn’t a more controversial modern baseball player than Barry Bonds. Maybe someday she’ll appreciate that she was once in the presence of greatness. It’s too bad my daughter was in a stroller at the time and doesn’t remember any of it. In that game, Barry Bonds drew a walk, went three for three, scored three times, drove in six runs, and smashed two homers. The Cubs were taking on the San Francisco Giants. The first MLB game my daughter attended was at Wrigley Field on July 19, 2007.

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