The best hitter these former MLB players ever saw (Did everyone say Barry Bonds?) 

If you’re going to continue to profit from and praise Barry Bonds, induct him to the Hall of Fame.

MLB really has some balls. They colluded against Bonds in 2008 so he couldn’t get 800 hrs and 3000 hits and now they’re putting a tribute for him.

Surely this bonds guy is in the hof

The most underrated part of Barry Bonds greatness was how good he was at not swinging at bad pitches.

In 2004, Barry Bonds had 28 more intentional walks than swings and misses (120 IBB, 92 swings and misses). This is the most insane stat ever in baseball.

They all spoke very highly of this Bonds guy, I might go to the Hall of Fame to read up on him some more

Muscles didn't give Bonds better hand-eye coordination, patience, or bat control through the zone. Watch him in side view in 1992 or 2002, his head never moves, shoulders stay solid, the technique is just flawless. We were all lucky to see him play.

Bonds hit 28 home runs, .480 on base % , 132 walks, and a .565 slugging % his last season in 2007 and baseball colluded to keep him from playing in 2008. He would have gotten 800 homers and 3,000 hits if baseball hadn't sadistically decided to end his career. He could have played another 2 or 3 seasons at a high level!

When I went to ASU in the 80s, their sport science lab had figured out that the more times per second your eyes could refocus the better the chance you had of hitting the baseball. If your eyes could focus 7 or 8 times per second, they figured you could hit college pitching. 9 or 10 times per second and you might catch up to pro pitching. Bonds set their all time testing record at thirteen focuses per second. That was his superpower. He could see the ball better than anyone else. Probably looked like a beach ball to him. Dan

When Bonds was a skinny kid in Pittsburgh, he was dropping 35 homers and 50 stolen bases. To this day he is the only player to have 500 of each of those career wise. Once the steroids era took hold, his bat just became more powerful. As a younger player, by choking up, his bat speed through the zone was top 1% in the MLB. When you were able to add power to an already powerful swing, the ball goes 500 and out of the stadium, instead of 435 and 8 rows into the bleachers. He was a perennial All Star, Gold Glove OF, and consistent top 3 in MVP voting long before he ever took the juice. There was a summer when Sosa and McGwire chased Maris, and it got ALL the attention. Playing each of those players at bats live on ESPN, it was the entire seasons only story it seemed like. Bonds had a great season, and never got his name mentioned. The media created the need for steroids, or they wouldn’t talk about you. He did what the media wanted, to a T, and they still hated him.

For the people that are super confused after looking up Barry's on base, slugging, and OPS for the first time.. no, it is not a typo🤣😂

Barry Bonds was an experience. If you ever had an opportunity to watch him hit the ball, it was simply A+ entertainment!

An MLB tribute video for Bonds is…interesting.

What percentage of players were using steroids during that era? Bonds isn’t the Lone Ranger.

steroids do not create talent Barry Bonds will always have a place in this game and he'll always deserve one

Truly Barry Bonds has Darth Vader energy.

His damn eyesight was freaking crazy!.....probably the most amazing thing in all of sports!

2 Guys with the most confidence i've ever seen hitting a baseball: Bonds and Griffey. Griffey said he never felt overwhelmed by a fastball, like never. Bonds, forget the steriods, he had the greatest eye/patience in history. Like a computer. There are 2 guys if you strike them out, you really did something that was Bonds and Gwynn.

Barry Bonds was the ONLY player I ever saw where I knew the outcome was either going to be a homer or a walk. Not Griffey, Sosa, McGwire, Thome, Thomas, Manny or any other home run hitter of that era was like this guy when it came to plate discipline or presence. Was better than everybody. Even before his roid years, he imo was the best pure offensive threat of his generation. Could steal a ton of bases, always was an on base machine.. Complete as you could get on offense.

Bonds had the quickest swing & eye hand coordination ever! Dude belongs in the HOF!

Listen man, i’ve been a baseball fan for over 40 years and seen a lot of great players, and of course footage of the past greats. Whether you love bonds or loathe him, there is no doubt that he is the most feared and potent hitter that’s ever played the game. The guy had no weakness, if a pitcher made one little mistake, the ball was crushed. The guy was just born to hit a BB. He may not have been the best hitter of all time, but certainly the most feared.

The most insane thing about his accomplishments is the fact that he NEVER got pitched at. No one else in the league could have done half what he did with the minuscule number of hittable pitches he saw. His feat is absolutely enormous when that is calculated into his numbers.

I love that interraction between Bonds and Peavey. Two men with genuine respect for each other.

MLB office themselves campaigning for Bonds to get him into the HOF

Truly a Giant, we didn't give a dam what he did off that field when he was on , he was on!

thats the craziest thing about Bonds, the juice didnt him the eye he had, the insane contact skills he had his entire career before and after juicing. The dude could see ANY pitch over the plate and hit it no matter what its insane

If you only took his numbers for when he was on the Pirates, he was already a HOFer. The Roids in San Francisco made his already great numbers video game metrics.

When Bonds was in his prime and hitting all those HR's, he didn't miss a hit-able pitch. At one point he became so intimidating, he was being intentionally walked with a runner on 1st and nobody out. Whenever a pitcher would challenge Bonds, they paid a terrible price and decided it's best to walk him on 4 pitches. How do you set the record for most HR's and Walks in the same year?

Blackballed him, and now they're out here posting love stories.

its funny how big leaguers have the same opinion, but people on the internet would whole heartedly disagree lol sorry guys

Bonds was magic every single night. Perfect time to release this vid to remind us of pure greatness in the current age of mediocrity. 2500+ career walks and he still managed to rack up almost 3000 hits AND become HR King. His stats page on baseball almanac reads like fiction.

The morality clause is a joke.. Barry bonds is the greatest hitter we’ve ever seen and shouldve been a 1st ballot selection

We went to Minute Maid Park in Houston to watch him tie the season homerun record and Dierker (Hou manager) intentionally walked him 4 times. 5th at bat they pitched to him and he lost it in deep right field. I'll never forget it.

I’m honored to have watched him play as a kid. Going to Giants games was a blast back then. The Bonds and Lincecum eras just hit different!

Barry Bonds deserves to be in the HOF and even a legit movie done. Bonds is one of the greatest power hitters of all time! most perfect swing every pitcher feared. I believe he could of passed 800 hrs

Is this video some attempt by the MLB to show that they forgive Barry Bonds?😮

Barry is the MJ of baseball, the guy was a special talent.

Man, this Bonds guy seems like he was the best hitter the game has ever seen. I can’t wait to read about him the next time I visit Cooperstown!

bonds on a mlb youtube thumbnail? hopefully this is progression towards a HOF

I grew up in Kansas and am a Cardinals fan but the SatDish we had in 90s had the Giants channel on so I watched Barry! I've never seen anyone get the treatment Barry Bonds did. And we probably never will. Nobody would pitch to him. Everything he came to the plate, the only question was? Are they going to pitch to him? Bonds is the best ever in my book.

You can disagree with Bonds and what he did and how he did it, but the man was one of the best hitters the game has ever seen. The evidence of this is not the hits, not the homers, not the batting average, none of that. It's the walks. They knew he was *that* good. They feared him *that* much. 2,500+ walks. I don't think people really grasp that if they actually pitched to Bonds, he'd have over 4,000 hits and easily would've been over 900 homers. In an era of rampant cheating, he was still that much better than ever other player. He had one of the best eyes I have ever seen any batter have. Ever.

Well there was this guy named Ted Williams who was a pretty fair hitter with uncanny hand/eye coordination. And therre was (well before my time) Rogers Hornsby, who AVERAGED .403 over 5 consecutive seasons and set the ML mark for HRs by a 2nd baseman that stood for decades. And these guys did it without 'roids.

Wow, from the way they talk about him Bonds must be a really likeable guy...

mlb actually acknowledging barry’s existence???

People do not understand how good Bonds was. His ability to turn on pitches is legendary. There's no one else that could turn on inside pitches or pitche that beat him and still make loud contact on them.

On an average night, towards the end of his career, he'd have 4 ABs He's be walked intentionally once, he'd be pitched around once, for another walk In his 3rd AB, he'd get one pitch to hit, just miss it, and sky to RF. The final AB, he'd get one more good pitch and he'd crush it, for a double or HR. So 2 pitches, 2 bases

I met a guy on a flight one time who played MLB during Bonds career and he said that it got to a point that if Bonds didnt swing the umps unquestionably called it a ball. He said he had the greatest eye ever.

Surely the greatest hitter of all time is a 1st ballot HOFer right?

How often was he walked because they were afraid to pitch to him??

I saw Barry Bonds play 3 times at Dodger stadium growing up…he was constantly booed throughout the entire game unlike anything I’ve heard at a baseball game and it didn’t even matter..he still hit a homer in every game I was at and even hit 2 one night…me and my family were sat a row in front of his dad Bobby Bonds one night and he gave me and my brother a special Barry bonds card in a little case…pretty surreal looking back

Some of his years you just couldn't pitch to him. Dude would go 1 for 1 with a HR and 3 walks in games.

Nothing found in a needle gives you the gifts Barry had. You could see the it in the pitchers eyes when he got in the box. They knew.

It’s funny watching them talk about how tough he was to face when one of the greats Greg Maddox said he was the easiest hitter he’s ever faced “It didn’t matter , you just walked him” 😂😂😂😂

dude swung a little league bat as well like 32 inches and he choked up. guy was amazing. like amazing amazing

I have a good friend that was a scary hitter, I as a catcher when he come to bat could feel he ate all the plate, the only good throw against him was below and outside ( no one was throwing fast enough to punish him being so close and “in front “ ) the pitchers got intimidate and give him the base or miss the signal and see the ball disappear, I cant imagine how scary and overwhelming Barry was, he owns the plate.

I still can't get over that Barry was intentionally walked with the bases loaded... and that was before his Super Bonds seasons.

So if every PLAYER says it then all the fans need to shut up and accept it. He is the greatest player of all time hands down

he was a borderline .300+ hitter until he turned 36 years old. if only tony gwynn was on the same pharmaceutical program! we could have watched someone bat .440 with 40 homeruns!

Been a Dodger fan since 1975, and BB is the greatest hitter I've ever seen, not even close. Tony Gwynn and Pete Rose a distant second.

I saw Tony Gynn play against the Mets. He hit a ball that whistled, through the infield.

Even without a substance. I believe mostly all his homers would still be homers. Those bombs he hit would 100%still get over the fence without juice. So I never bought into the juice made him great. He was just the greatest hitter, with the greatest eyes, greatest hand speed to catch any pitch that came his way, and greatest IQ to know what was coming. To me he is the greatest hitter. Every time, everyone knew he was gonna hit it right on the head, and it was gonna be hit hard. But best contact hitter may be Tony Gwynn.

im a huge bonds fan, but i give the edge to tony gwynn the guy was a machine

I tell you I was the biggest Bonds fan on the East Coast I always loved the guy as a player his confidence and his presence in the batters box I’ve never seen anything like that watching baseball 30 years

Bud Selig looked the other way and is in the HOF and he couldn't hit his way out of a paper bag.

He should be in mlb the show and the hall

They must have never played with Tony Gwynn. Tony had nearly the same amount of Strike outs in the entire decade of the 90’s as Barry had in 1998 alone. And Bonds is an absolute legend still….says a lot about Tony.

Ive never seen a better swinger or hitter in my life either what Bonds use to do was unbelievable every swing could be a homer that was crazy

The best hitter I ever saw was Bonds in San Francisco. The best player I ever saw was Bonds in Pittsburgh.

Anybody who's unbiased and doesn't have a personal gripe against the guy knows what we ALL deep down know: Barry Bonds is the GOAT. The only player that made hitting look easy. If he didn't care about homeruns, I genuinely believe he could've hit .400 multiple times. Used to hate him as a kid but I grew up. The best I've ever seen. Him and Clemens and ARod and Manny all should be in the HOF. I refuse to visit Cooperstown until he's in there. Puritan rubbish 😑.

Ill say this with pride and confidence that Barry Bonds belongs in the HOF his numbers dont lie

May have been THE greatest baseball player who ever lived

Nobody talks about how the ballparks have become smaller equaling more HR

Very obvious to see the game was easy for him. Vision and Power and confidence . Confidence being #1

The brief cameo of John Cena was cool

Til this day I think Barry Bonds had a Sharigan, you couldn’t pitch to him if you did it was gone

I''ve NEVER seen somebody that's NOT even a lifetime .300 hitter be spoken of so highly?!!! 😮‍💨

The G.O.A.T. Technically, he never tested positive and was never suspended for PEDs. I'm not saying he didn't use, I'm just sayin', know what umsayin'? Haha.

Respect to Peavy for giving Barry a chance to hit something. The baseball gods would be proud.

Still my favorite player ever. There's time when barry wasn't in the line up I wouldn't want to watch the game.

Barry Lamar Bonds was the best I ever saw.. Ironically. I would send out tons of cards for players to sign for team addresses to Becket. 3 came back authentic, Wayne Gretzky, Brett Hull and Barry Bonds ...

Pete Rose and Barry Bonds should both be in the Hall of Fame! 😠😤

Posting this from the official channel is almost insulting. Barry Bonds is the best player to every play the game and its the establishment that both created him and is preventing him from being enshrined in Cooperstown. This will be a stain on baseballs legacy. I hope Barry makes it in his lifetime.

What is amazing is that Barry actually struck out fewer times over the last 10 years of his career than the first 10. So many power hitters will often hit a lot of home runs, but also consistently strikeout 150-200 times, but you accept the trade off for their raw power. Barry not only hit 40+ home runs consistently year after year, he only struck out more than 100 times a single time in his career, his rookie season.

The intentional walks were something else, I still remember the rubber chickens they used to hang at the ball park. 😅

The best to ever do it, 🐐 Bonds

Barry Bonds it's the Goat 🐐

Bonds , Griffey Jr and Gwynn has the sweetest swing …….

Bonds didn’t need the juice, he was one of the best ever before he ever took steroids. But he did and tainted his legacy. I admire guys like Jr and Pedro and others that were great in that era without PEDs.

GOAT with or without juice

The best player to ever play the game! Hands down. Barry Bonds with or without steroids Barry had the best eyes in the game. To lead the league in home runs and walks. That’s absolutely impossible! GOAT! 5 tools.

Bonds is certainly one of the top 3 or 4 hitters in the history of Baseball no matter what substance he took.

As a kid growing up in the UK in the 90s and 00s and only having Monday night baseball on TV late at night (obviously due to time difference) I had heard of the legend that is Barry Bonds. I never got to see him a whole lot and that's a big regret now that I am a massive fan of baseball and have access to as many games of baseball throughout the season as I want. I'm a Cardinals fan and Albert Pujols is my favourite hitter of all time and he probably is the greatest right hander to play in the show but, Barry Bonds was just different gravy!! Induct him into the HOF and stop monetising from his name.

People don't talk enough about the career Bonds had back when he still weighed about 170 lbs soaking wet. Most people don't know he set the career record in MVP's, led the NL in HR's for a decade, became the only member of the 400/400 club and won 8 gold gloves before there was any doubt he was juicing... Give that guy a needle and you can see now why he made a mockery of an already roided out league. He's top 3 EASY.

PIRATES should push this guy to the HOF because He was an HOF player before PED, you can't use steroids for talent, his pitch recognition, his perfect and violent swing, VETERAN COMMITTEE, GET HIM IN

From what am able to recall, some of the best hitters eye have seen, includes but not limited to... Tony Gwynn, Don Mattingly, Wade Boggs, Rod Carew, Joe Morgan, Dale Murphy, Will Clark, Pete Rose....

His swing, IMO, is the best I’ve seen Powerful, compact, smooth and picturesque Ik everyone says Griffey but for me Bonds swing was perfect

There shouldn’t be a HOF without Barry and Pete Rose in it

The best hitter I ever saw was Tony Gwynn. Hitting is more than putting them over the fence.

Peavy was basically a replacement for Dempster in 2013 Red Sox rotation. He was a great asset for that team.

You can't tell the story of baseball without talking about Barry Bonds. He should be in the Hall of Fame.