Why The Marlins HATED Barry Bonds 

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Christian Yelich credits BB to changing his whole swing and making him a power hitter

the first person Christian Yelich credits to any success he reaches

Marlins gets rid of everybody within 2 years, bonds would be no different

The Marlins part ways with everyone after a year.

When you're such a freak of nature that it comes to you almost naturally, it makes you the person least likely to teach that skill to anyone else. Virtually all the best managers, coaches in both the MLB and the NBA, if they played, were journeymen. People who knew how to work hard, fill roles, and motivate others. It isn't about making the superstars better, but making everyone else at least good.

Coaches have to be grinders. They have long hours, with long, intense person to person sessions - add that they must also understand how each player learns and need to develop a strategy to get into the mind of each player. They are essentially personal tutors, these attributes are generally not those of superstars, thusly that is why so few stars make good coaches and managers.

A close buddy of mine played with Bonds in San Francisco . He was a young relief pitcher and said Bonds didn’t acknowledge him the whole season - not a word , a glance …nothing . Said Bonds had his spot in the locker room and it was off limits to everyone . He said he didn’t dislike Bonds because he never got to know him , but mentioned you walked on eggshells when you were near him ‘cause he seemed to always be in a foul mood .

I was teammates with Barry and at one time I would say we were friends. If I saw him today I'd give him a big hug and it would be great to catch up. I do believe however and have said for a long time his legacy in baseball is and was a huge missed opportunity. He could have been the greatest promoter of baseball EVER, but he chose a different persona. Too bad, but I truly wish him well in whatever his future holds.

From people I know that watch the marlins closely they say Barry had 6 or 7 dudes batting 280-300 average. With that being said bonds is one of the most self absorbed people ever created, he lives on a whole nother planet of arrogance and special treatment so I'm positive what Mattingly and the GM are saying are absolutely right lol and btw their GM is a slime ball as well lol

I didn't even knew Bonds was working for MIA lmao

You should try to get an interview with David Samson. Its quite incredible how open and transparent he has been about his role as an executive for an MLB team. His segments with Dan Lebatard over the years has always been the very insightful stuff in sports radio

Superstar players are rarely good teachers. The greatest hockey player ever, Wayne Gretzky, coached for four seasons and had a losing record. Larry Bird is the exception to this rule.

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In 2002 I took my firstborn son to one of many Giants games we attended that year and he was only 5 at the time but he loved The City and especially PacBell Park (now Oracle). We'd get there early and I always bought a couple of MLB baseballs before the game as my son was trying to get his first autograph of any Giants player. We had really good seats this one time, (section 121, about 4 rows up from the Giants dugout). As my son and I watched batting practice my son was in awe of the sheer power of major league hitters and who comes out of the batting cage and heading to the dugout? Jeff Kent. Kent is walking towards my son (I'm sitting in a chair behind my son reading the Giants program as my boy leans over the fence separating the field from the stands with a baseball in one hand and a ballpoint pen in the other)...he quickly asks me, "who's that coming daddy?" I look up from the program and see who it is and I say, "That's Jeff Kent, be respectful." I see my son extend the ball and pen as Kent comes closer to the dugout and my son says in his sweet little voice, "Mr. Kent, may I have your autograph please?" Kent looks up at my son (who is quite adorable if I do say so myself, with his Giants cap that's a little too big for him), and Kent looks back down and walks into the dugout without saying anything. I see my son's shoulders deflate as I sit behind him. A part of me burns that Kent did not even acknowledge my boy....when out of nowhere, this other Giant comes up from the dugout where I couldn't see and stands up directly in front of my son....my son looks up at this giant of a man and my son's Giants hat nearly falls off from looking directly up towards the sky from the size of this man....but my son doesn't ask me who THIS Giant is....because he already knows....Barry fricken Bonds! Even I stand up to make sure I'm seeing what I'm seeing and as my son begins to say, "May I have your autograph, Mr. Bonds...." Barry had already taken the ball out of my son's hand and was signing the ball for him! He hands the ball back to my son and fixes my boys Giants cap that was falling off. Bonds smiles and winks at my son, as I can't see my son's face because I'm behind him, but I'm sure his mouth is agape in awe. Barry goes to walk back in the dugout and my son catches himself and shouts louder than he wanted to, "THANK YOU MR. BONDS!!" My son turns around and with a victorious smile I will remember till the day I die...triumphantly extends his hand for me to see his signed Barry Bonds baseball. I walk over to where my son was standing and I try to peer into the dugout but I couldn't see Bonds from my perspective. From that moment, my son didn't want any more autographs. We walked to our seats 4 rows up and we sat together and admired the autograph he received from someone he didn't expect to receive it from. My son still has the ball to this day encased in a UV-protected acrylic cube. He's 22 years old now and it sits on his desk in his room in my house. He's currently in college studying computer science (like his old man) and comes home for the summer and holidays but for my son and me, we'll always be grateful to Barry Bonds for that memory. Yea, I know he was juicing and that's how he was able to break Aaron's record and all....but the way I see it, A LOT of players were on steroids. So I can't place judgment on a guy when we don't know what the actual percentage of players were on juice at the time. I mean, if Barry is on juice and the pitcher he's facing is also on juice (like Eric Gagne)....doesn't that make it a level playing field? That's the way I see it anyway....and I know I'm being partial towards Barry for the way he treated my son....but there's a lot to say for a man KNOWN for not signing autographs to sign an autograph for a 5-year-old kid....especially when it's your kid.

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You’re making 1.5 Mil as a hitting coach in the bigs yes you’re going to get hated, even by your own team.

We need a moneyball style movie about Barry Bonds, most controversial player in MLB history. On the field and off.

Marlins should’ve signed Bonds as a player in 2008, still not sure why they didn’t.

When he was on the Pirates, he was on the team that played their AA team (Carolina Mudcats), located outside Raleigh, NC. A buddy from high school worked for the AA team, and was assigned to be one of Barry’s helpers that day. Said Bonds was a total a-hole.

Just becuase a player is great at the sport don't mean they are going be a good coach usually the best coaches are just average players

Rose and Bonds. Two who will forever be on the outside looking in. Reminds me of somethings my mom always said. "You reap what you sow." and "No action is without consequences."

I saw an interview he did, and he gave his concept on hitting. My semi-pro career had already ended, so, I never gotta chance to try it. He stated that him hitting correlated to playing catch. When you catch, you're supposedly watching the ball into your glove. When he hit, he said he watched the ball to the bat (I've paraphrased). In my opinion, that says how keen his eye was in regards to hitting. He may have had other nuances that he identified with, but, that stuck out primarily to me as a former ball player. The bottom line is if you can't see the ball, you'll never hit the ball, consistently, no matter what you wear, take, pray or etc. That part of hitting is Cut & Dry!

Being great at something and teaching other people, even very talented people, how to be good at that same thing are 2 very different skill sets. You would want your hitting coach to have had successes at the major league level, even to have been a great hitter for a good while, but if it always just came easy to him, then how is he going to relate to and help a hitter at the major league level who is struggling?

My cousin went to school with Joe Nathan the All Star Closer. Nathan said in one entire season bonds never spoke a single word to him and that the whole team hated him.

Love for someone to post a link of him owning up to anything besides being a bad teammate

Marlins hate everyone & everyone hates the Marlins 😂

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Id like the Mets to hire Barry Bonds as a hitting coach instead

I know several people who have interacted with Barry through baseball/spring training MLB camps/promos etc., who plainly say, "Yeah, the guy is a grade A prick..."..

MLB Hall of Fame doesn't include the All time hit king Pete Rose who also was 1,972 winning games the most in any athlete in any sport ever, Barry Bonds who has 7 NL MVP awards and the all time Home run hitter and Roger Clemens who pitched dominantly for 24 YEARS won 7 Cy young awards, 354 wins, a 3.12 earned run average (ERA), and 4,672 strikeouts. Baseball doesnt matter anymore no one cares except those people that like to bet. Thats ironic because of Pete Rose's long battle with the various commissioners.

Watch Jim Leyland chewing him out while with the Pirates...

The fact that no former teammates speak well of you is pretty rare, even Ty Cobb had respect among his guys

Barry bonds did it to himself

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As everybody knows the unfortunate part about Barry Bonds and how he has a cloud caring over him for the uncertainty of becoming a HOF is the use of PEDS, same thing holds true for Mark McGuire. Whenever PEDS are used for any sport it just shows how the public isn’t going to recognize them for any high ranking honor award for that particular sport because it’s tainted.

The numbers will show Bonds to be the greatest Home Run hitter of all time but anyone that understands baseball will know it will always be Hank Aaron.

Never forget the local radio show he did where they asked him what he like to say to the people that say he's arrogant. He said "i'm not arrogant because I'm good." Then he rambled about arrogant people thinking they're good but that he's too great to be arrogant. He couldn't actually grasp the definition of the word

The HOF needs to build a new wing. 'The Douche Bag's'. There are several players that should be inducted into the new wing. Bonds and Clemens would be the inaugural inductees.

I'm going to enjoy watching Bonds NOT get voted into the HOF for the final time. RIP Hank Aaron, the REAL HR King.

Him and Cal Ripken JR were my favorite players coming up in the 80’s and 90’s. By the time Ripken retired and Barry morphed into AlphaBonds I was checking out on baseball; finally disconnecting from it entirely in 2005 after watching the Sox wire to wire run. I picked it up again in 2019 post season watching the Nationals claw through the post season (plus playing four games against one guy in the NLCS “Jose Martinez”) I just couldn’t fathom how Bonds did what he did to the game and the fans. Damn shame. All that said, if Old Bud Selig gets a plaque in Cooperstown, then the likes of Bonds, Clemens and the others who were obviously juicing should too.

Barry’s college baseball manager said that Barry was the rudest person he had ever met. When was the last time you ever heard a collage manager talk about his own player like that?

its like jordan being a gm, idk it seems like the greater you are as a player, the worse you are as a coach, gm, etc

Seems like the dude had an axe to grind.

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Barry Bonds as a hitting coach: Find a reliable dealer and a good vein.

If he got another shot to coach as of now (Oct 21), who would take him on? It feels like he wouldn’t be a good fit for a small market team, plus there are probably a number of clubs that just outright hate him

Are you baseball doesn’t exsist

Bonds was there for one year, and Dee Gordon immediately pops for steroids. Coincidence, probably. "Clear"ly.

THis video has more innuendo than any video on YT. Congrats

No one had a worse attitude than Tony Phillips. In the eighties, I watched him berate a mass of young kids because they wanted autographs at the dugout. I'll never forget it. Barry was always about himself, ike Reggie Jackson was.

As for his career, tons of guys were taking steroids , Bonds just outperformed the other players who were doing the same thing. People tend to forget that. He gets singled out because he wasn't warm and friendly and he dared to break records

Barry Bonds is just one of those types of people you just wish would go away.

Good piece. As a Giants fan I would point out that Bonds may be the best hitter overall in baseball but the Giants never won the World Series with him, I suspect because he wasn't, and never will be, a team player.

His talent level really couldn't be measured. He didn't need to cheat to be the best. Pity he could never see that.

I'm thankful he helped yelich tho

I asked him for an autograph once at a Braves game. He asked for $20. I was 7 years old.

Marlins should have hired Ichiro

Lmao if you wanna see a real disaster go watch David Samson’s stint on survivor

He was one of the least of our problems over the years. If Arod can be on SNB this guy can be in the HOF too, just mho.

i ran into barry riding my bike. he's big into cycling. we had a nice chat while cycling side by side.

It's a shame Bond's is not in the HOF. I think they should reconsider.

Can't coach greatness lol. In all seriousness, he is too great of a player to be a hitting coach, when coaches in.the dugout has to pay attention to detail in the dugout and literally coach even the 25th man in the roster. Barry should have been the team's special consultant or assistant hitting coach in a part-time basis. Asking Barry to be a hitting coach is like asking Michael Jordan to be a offensive coach on the bench, not going to happen.

Who doesn't despise Barry Bonds?

The irony is that he would be in the HOF if he had never touched PED's, he was that good early in his career.

Best I ever saw!!!

Just spoke with Barry last month, he's doing well! Great guy,

The statement: Bonds didn't improve anyone's performance ( about 4:40-4:46 mark): not true, Christian Yelich has publicly stated numerous times that Bonds' advice turned his career around

All the Marlins hitters started developing a roids rage attitude.

I don’t really comment on videos look at Marcel ozuna breakout year in 2017 and Stanton mvp in 2017 and yelich mvp two years later and Derek Dietrich 19 hrs before he slumped they all worked with bonds

Barry was a nightmare that year...i remember all of the issues that arose that year

Bonds teaches his hitters to look for pitches up in the zone, that he did the most damage with pitches that were up. However, by watching highlights of his HR's, most of them were pitches that are DOWN and in. So maybe Barry doesn't know what the hell he's talking about?

He’s consistent though. He was a jerk as a player to most on his own team.

Your lead in explains why him not being inducted is ludicrous

Barry Bonds is an @$$hole. Bobby Bonds is a true player. Loved seeing him play! Henry Aaron is the ALL-TIME Home Run KING! Didn't need steroids!!!

Okay, I'm a huge Barry Bonds fan. And I remember during this period that I was very interested to know if bonds had any effect. And he did. Go in and check the hitting statistics of the Marlins and you will see that their plate patience, hard contact and run production in the first half of that season improved. They also got on base more and scored more runs. That's it, that's the statistics across the board. We know that he didn't get along with Stanton and that it was an ego clash but basically, no matter what you want to say about his work ethic, the Marlins became better hitters listening to Barry Bonds. Also, he worked out the previous year with the Giants in spring training and if Brandon Crawford right now is having his best year, he shortened his left-handed swing and started hitting the ball with more authority in the year that he hung out with Barry Bonds. And the last thing I want to say is that I've watched videos where bonds attempts to teach something about hitting and the truth is, he knows what he's doing. He's a baseball genius and what his eyes can see and what all of that baseball experience at the most ridiculous level imaginable bring to any team is simply genius. If you're going to have a bunch of spoiled prima donnas who don't even want to sit and listen to the greatest hitter of all time talk about how to get the barrel on the ball in the shortest possible swing with the most possible pop, they are crazy. Put Bonds in the Hall of Fame already and everybody can sleep peacefully.

I’ve listened to the LeBatard Show for about 7 years now and Samson is one of my favorite guests of all time.

Greatest man to ever wield a bat period

Dave Samson’s should not be taken lightly, I find his daily podcasts refreshingly insightful and honest. Thanks for another awesome RU-vid post 👌

If he hadn't been roided up the man would have been a first round hall of famer. Not now.

Mattingly I thought I told you to trim those sideburns!!!!!

It's wild to me, given how hated David Samson is among South Florida Baseball fans, that a video on a subject like this would lean so heavily on anything he said. Poll Marlins fans on who their most hated person related to the franchise is and Samson will likely top the list.

Barry...here is why we hate you. First, you aren't playing anymore and you are still better than every hitter on our squad. What the hell is that all about?

They didn't hire Bonds to be a real hitting coach. It was just for marketing. The owner knew that, we all knew it, and Bonds acted in that way. The only people that were sour about it had other underlying issues that manifested in their dislike for Barry and how they saw him.. He wasn't their sole hitting coach that year

My thoughts on cheaters? Their careers don’t mean a thing.

Miami was doing very well until the end of the season that year.

The same reason why everyone hates Barry Bonds.

Bonds is hof in my books no doubt

If you can’t hit a specific pitch don’t swing at that pitch is good advice. If you don’t know what it looks like, go ask a pitcher to show you.

Carlos Beltran also trained under Barry also... So to say he was no good is crazy

Barry would probably work much harder at being a coach if there was a steroid just for that.

Bonds deserves the hall, period.

People should be voted into the hall of fame for the performance not their attitude.

Arguable: Best hitter of all-time Not Arguable: Most feared hitter of all-time

Never hire a GOAT to teach others, that be like hiring MJ to be a coach lol

He cheated for sure! Without steroids and Growth Hormones he still was a above average player,with that being said his numbers would be much less if he stayed natural.

"The worst interview, ever," but the Marlins still hired him!

If he cheated his ‘Milestones’ should have been either wiped clean or asterisked.