Not a question he is one of baseballs greatest. However you feel about PEDs , he is still an all time player. We know where he got the power. But that swing/mechanics (and the speed he used to display) wasn’t something you can get from the pharmacy
@@suizikiozark250 The majority of players in the bigs have used some type of P.E.D. at one point or another. Just very few of them get caught. And the ones that do get caught are great players for the most part because they attract more attention than the others.
joe s Yeah, you’d have to wonder how many he’d hit if, say, there were no walks. Also, you’d have to wonder how many home runs Ken Griffey Jr. would’ve hit if he hadn’t gotten injured.
How good was Barry Bonds in his prime? Let's put it this way.. At 4:05 the announcer already knows it's a HR just by the simple fact that he made contact with it. Lol "Pitch to Bonds who swings and hits a homerun!"
I wish I seen him play in real time. I'm happy for the pennants the Giants obtained in 2010-12-and 14, but they never had a hitter like this during those times. Would like to see the Giants find a home run hitter, it's been way to long. They don't want to come to at&t park. Giants need to draft one
I can see why he took steroids because he was already great and then he was getting cheated out of awards because of other steroid users who needed it to be that great and Barry was just like well fuck it ima do it too then like it was already unfair how great Barry was and then he took the steroids and it was even crazier than before 😂 still takes skill to hit that ball
Tim Salmon's reaction said it all...Bonds didn't have great postseasons, but he killed that World Series...steroids or not, that guy was different, undoubtedly one of the best ever!!!
Steroids can't make you become a hitter all of a sudden. 70% of minor leaguers were on steroids and still batted 200 average. Bonds is the greatest player in human history
@@TrumpsEarBandage Cause there arent as many. And if roids made a pitcher that usually threw 95MPH all of the sudden throw 100+, then you'd hear about em.
Na, But Dominating the sport so badly you looked like a adult playing with littke kids......Like 60% of the pitchers he faced and 75% of the other hitters in the mlb werent juiced up gimme a break
@Chic 'N' Stu He was a Hofer without the peds dumbass. Sosa and Mcgwire needed to edge him out and they had to resort to using peds to rival bonds. Then bonds started and quickly reminded everyone about the gap between him and everyone else.
FF yeah but also steroids make your muscles recover very quickly so he was pretty much fresh and ready to play everyday while other guys were sore and breaking down
Maybe, maybe not. I did a search for reseach studies supporting that & haven't found one yet. This 2009 _Scientific American_ article seems to say otherwise, noting A-Rod's batting average didn't improve the years he juiced. I don't have a dog in this fight, just noting what I saw. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-rod-steroids-better-athlete/
As the story in Game of Shadows goes, Bonds got tired of all the adulation lesser players McGwire and Sosa were receiving, so he had a "hold my beer" moment, took the PED's like those guys were, and then easily surpassed their home run feats. And from there on out, he repeatedly obliterated the intentional walk record because nearly all pitchers thereafter refused to challenge him when first base was open and the lead was on the line. It's too bad PED use was so rampant in baseball, but it's kind of amusing to think a guy who already was one of the 20 greatest players of all time was able to reassert himself as the game's best, by a huge margin, when he evened the playing field for himself. The other guys one PED's were able to make themselves equally good all-around hitters as Bonds, but when Bonds joined them in the PED arms race, it was all over, and Barry was easily alone on top.
You all can hate on Bonds for doing roids as much as you want, but realize if your going to hate him for it your going to have to hate about 90% of the league then, all the way to today because they still do it currently. At the end of the day its their livelyhood, and if theres a great chance the guy throwing you the ball is on it, youll do it too. And if i was playing a game where if i produced i got payed hundreds of millions id be on roids myself just as you would. As long as there is big money in about any sport, PEDs will follow, lets not be naive. Lets just accept Bonds is easily top 10 hitter of all time, argueable the best.
He killed it in HS too.I grew up in the peninsula(now silicon valley pfft)and he and I believe his bro Ricky as well as Greg Jeffries all played on the Serra baseball team.
There’s a story about Barry in HS put one out of right field at San Mateo Park. The legendary part is that it went over El Camino which is 3 lanes both ways with an 8 ft divider. The ball hit the bank building on the fly across the street. Aluminum bat or not, that is a shot from a guy who probably weighed 165 lbs at that age. Greg Jeffries was on that Sierra team too. His father was my Jr. High PE teacher.
Hes up there..maybe top 5, but Ted William's batting over 400%..or in the Dead ball era Ruth hitting 60hr or even Satch Page, was supposedly as good as Ruth..
I don’t care if someone eats steroids for breakfast every morning and washes it down with a steroid shake. I dont care if steroids come out of your nose when you sneeze. You have to have absolute god given ability to dominate a sport the way that this guy did. He’s the greatest of all time and it’s not particularly close. It’s an absolute travesty, perhaps the biggest in all of sports, that he’s not in the hall of fame.
Roids wouldn't guarantee another Barry Bonds. I don't know of any substance that can increase reflexes. If there is such a substance, fighter pilots and troops in combat would have it as a diet supplement. If Bonds had not been issued all of the intentional walks during his assault on Mr. Aaron's record his numbers would have been incredible.
@@chiefleapinglizard7502 Who cares, baseball would probably be dead without what these guys did, bonds was a better overall player before he did it anyway
Buckeye4life 440 yeah but over half the league was using roids and still not doing what he was doing. He was the best player in baseball before he ever touched steroids and then when he cheated he was basically unstoppable
Steroids itself doesn't make one a great player. It can help keep one who was great to begin with have longevity by keeping them fresh. For example if the worst hitter in mlb took steroids; does one think he could be as good as bonds? lol no way.
absolutely not😂😂😂😂right field was like 320 feet in the old yankee stadium. it was high and far but obviously dropping where it landed. 500 feet. MAYBE. probably less but i’ll give the benefit of the doubt. 600 on that would just be really unreasonable
GPS from Baseball Tonight just came out and said that the one Mark Mcgwire hit off Randy was actually 541 ft but this one from Barry was exactly 906'. Wow that boy crushed this one.
You can see the power in his swing how his feet come together then it’s all hips, arms and shoulders for that all mighty swing 💪🏼 much respect thank you for the memories and too bad he didn’t get that ring he so desperately wanted
The science of barry bonds. Freakin best hitter I've ever seen and one of sweetest swings too along with the kid. Lefties are a thing of beauty. Just awe inspiring.
For a brief time, (approx) 10 minutes, I actually enjoyed baseball. And then everybody started giving Bonds a hard time about doing steroids, as if that actually made him less interesting. I miss the good old roided up players hitting home runs off of roided up pitchers. Now I'm stuck watching the Diamondbacks play the Padres 19 times a year and that's supposed to be important.
1:24 I was at this game. I remember these guys about 15 rows back from me screaming at Bonds about banging his mother when he was on deck. He looked at these guy like he wanted to jump into the stands and beat the piss out of them. But when he unloaded at the plate, he looked over after he did his home run stare at the guys yelling at him and smiled. I swear that ball was still going up when it hit the upper deck. Absolute rocket.
He was the best hitter ever. Period. Say what you want about steroids. They didn't make him great. May have helped but guy used to take amphetamines and all kinds of shit back in the day. Bonds juiced when it wasn't banned. That's on MLB. Steroids SAVED baseball. They made it the best it ever was
As somebody who was fortunate enough to see him play live often, it was an experience unlike anything we'll see again. Nearly the whole stadium would stop moving to watch him hit. Every time he would swing, you knew he could go yard. So thankful I got to see the man play.
Right around 4.45 to 4.50 there is a sign in the outfield..AIG...the greatest risk is not taking one. Of course they blew the company up shortly after that. Still in business today, but they blew up. Insurance company.
Barry Bonds deserves to be in HOF!!! You can be the strongest person the world has ever seen but doesn’t mean you can swing a bat and hit a baseball. The two have nothing to do with one another! What Barry did was hand/eye coordination, skill, hard work, and discipline. It’s a crime against him and the game of baseball to not acknowledge what this man did!!!!
I’m a Dodgers fan and I just feel like he had one of the most perfect swings he should’ve never taken PEDs doesn’t matter about a record he would’ve still been a legen with that swing
Greatest Hitter: Barry Bonds Greatest Stealer: Ricky Henderson Greatest Fielder: Ozzie Smith Greatest Pitcher: Nolan Ryan Greatest All-Around: Ken Griffey Jr
Bonds and Griffey Jr. had one of the nicest swings in baseball hands down. Bonds more than Griffey but Griffeys swing was just very different and unique from everybody elses. I mean they made a logo out of that shit 😂🤷♂️ that should say it all
