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

[@SomebodyHadToSayIt99]

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

[@YSFmemories]

I agree with bonds to hof, but theyre gonna profit like 10 bucks from this video lol

[@spyroninja]

MLB does not decide who makes the hall

[@Mundanesoup4]

The sports writers are the ones that vote for some reason and a few have openly said they won't vote for him because they hate him lol

[@jasonmoyer]

That's up to the writers, and half of them are still in denial about how long players were taking PEDs and steroids specifically. The first person I'm aware of to have taken steroids with 100% certainty did so before Barry was even born.

[@billytcat]

​@@jasonmoyerwho's that?

[@doublem1975x]

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.

[@ryancrawford8042]

Bud the snake selig is a vile man

[@jamesolson7143]

You are confusing team owners with MLB media employees lol

[@doublem1975x]

@@jamesolson7143 I’m talking about Selig, the owners and the players association. They collectively were the MLB. They colluded against Bonds so he couldn’t reach some legendary milestones. The MLB now giving tribute to a guy they blackballed and have openly maligned for years (Bonds even sued them for it) is ironic.

[@themilioxperience2427]

@@doublem1975xwell said

[@Nuschler22]

Just like Kaepernick, owners can choose not to hire people who create problems. It's not collusion, it's you're behaving so poorly, and being so disliked, that employers don't want to make the hire. Learn the difference.

[@richg4189]

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.

[@EricSmyth4Christ]

Wow lol

[@Real_Michael_Jordan]

That's crazy

[@dmanatan]

He also had more homeruns than strikeouts

[@EricSmyth4Christ]

@@dmanatan true He is the only one It was 2001 or 2004

[@dmanatan]

@@EricSmyth4Christ It was 2004. In '01 I wanna say he struck out around 90 times. '04 is also when he set the record for walks and IBB in a season (I believe, without looking it up).

[@jasonwiercinski5250]

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

[@richardyocum6053]

He got that record with what 3 or 4 good pitches a night.....

[@brandonenga]

His eyes man crazy

[@Dayonetheone]

Yes. He walked alot.

[@themilioxperience2427]

Yes!!!!!!

[@genius179]

I remember Rich Aurilia saying he was amazed at how Barry would get maybe one good pitch a week, but when he did he'd never miss it.

[@dannydevito2989]

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

[@Goodluckfindinme]

Ikr! Im sure his wife… i mean ex wife… and his mistress have nothing but great things to say about him! Probably not a violent guy at all!

[@Uraclownmate]

@@Goodluckfindinme imagine going on multiple comments and talking about this lmao this is purely a baseball topic no one cares what u do off the field it doesn’t mean ur not a great

[@SlidinPonyCrew91]

@@Goodluckfindinme cope and seethe 🤣

[@fandyllic1975]

Haters gonna hate, but Bonds doesn’t need to go to HoF for real baseball fans to know how great he was. He has 350+ more career walks than #2. I’d like to see who even gets 2K walks in any of our lifetimes.

[@pochen23]

The HOF museum still has him, he is just not a HOF but all his stuff are still there. So you will definitely be able to read alot about what he accomplished there. Whether he is a HOF or not it doesn't really matter to me, greatest hitter ever no doubt. The whole HOF stuff is honestly below him, players, not those writers, should be the one voting them in, and he would have gone in first ballot.

[@nathanmarchant2175]

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

[@radoverpink]

Surely this bonds guy is in the hof

[@Joel-bb6og]

7 MVPS, 12 silver sluggers, 14 all star selections, most career home runs ever, most home runs in a single season ever, most career walks, 8 gold gloves, only member of the 500 500 club, and 2nd highest career WAR ever. This man is not hall of fame material apparently

[@The_Gamer_91]

Nope and it's not a surprise why.

[@Goodluckfindinme]

Beat his girl and threatened to kill his side girl… ofc he not the only one but lol yall still going to bat for a POS. Very strange. Maybe yall see some of yourselves in him.

[@Tagiau]

@@The_Gamer_91 Because the geriatrics in the contemporaries committee can't have it coming out that they also did steroids?

[@rogerdat2884]

@@The_Gamer_91 L

[@haroldlipschitz9301]

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.

[@ricksikora7270]

Perfectly said.

[@toxicmoldmedia]

Either did illegal bats LOL any advantage to help a swing is helping everything you mentioned. Gotta love all these people defending steriods.

[@chrislewis5069]

That’s a great point. Fact is steroids made him better, any way you look at it.

[@dustinhotard9634]

Everyone in the 90’s and early Aughts were doing steroids. Barry was better in the pre-steroids era and he was better in the steroids era. Split him in twain pre-2000 and post and you literally get 2 HoF careers. MLB is just mad that Bonds made a fool of the sport by being the best damn baseball player who ever lived.

[@haroldlipschitz9301]

@@toxicmoldmedia Nope, plain wrong. Strength has nothing to do with the technique points I mentioned. Easier to just say you never played the game.

[@MrMixItup]

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

[@billcephus]

he was an experiment, fixed

[@michaelotten2724]

Loved watching him play.

[@joshlewis575]

The 73 homer year was the greatest summer of baseball ever!!! Ya had Barry smashing homers almost nightly and the mariners and ichiro winning basically every night. It was awesome!

[@tammymatt9186]

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

[@zacharyradford5552]

Sad he had to tarnish his legacy.

[@axe2grind244]

@@zacharyradford5552 Hitting against pitchers who were also juicing btw.

[@ryancrawford8042]

I never knew this, thanks for sharing. Very interesting, as that kind of anomoly would likely be an inherited trait.

[@erikjon8432]

Never knew this .. makes sense. MJ had something similar trait in the NBA

[@tammymatt9186]

@Ryan Crawford that inheritance factor was very much discussed. They also theorized that you could train a real young kids eyes to follow moving objects and that the earlier you taught them to catch an object coming at them the better. And that was a given in the Bonds household. Dan

[@philb.1502]

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!

[@iamjp1]

this always saddens me. mvp caliber numbers but nobody will sign him. unbelievable

[@cliffjones8809]

How much of a steroid raging jerk would you have to be in order to be "the best hitter ever", and still no one wants you.

[@chazzx1018]

The juice rep got alot of players. Bonds isn't the only victim. Rose still isn't in for gambling. Bonds isn't even thinking about the hof. He knows how good he was.

[@alexanderbreeding1830]

@@chazzx1018 EXACTLY! And Rose should NEVER get in. What's the number 1 rule of baseball??? DON'T BET ON BASEBALL.

[@shinyhappyshibas1385]

Yep, collusion to keep Barry off the field at the highest level.

[@littlelogan]

The way Peavy talks about Bonds and how it was a special night for him and his kids to look back on really puts it in perspective (for me at least) on how great this guy was at baseball.

[@kevinmckay6456]

An MLB tribute video for Bonds is…interesting.

[@Ares14]

I think as much as everyone loves to hate him, His era was definitely a time when baseball was very exciting with many narratives and legendary players.

[@aaronstark1776]

I thought the same thing. Love the video, but doesn't quite make sense for MLB to spend money to make it 🤔

[@loualbino5536]

Deserving

[@ryancrawford8042]

Selig allowed them to use illegal substances....mlb profited.....Selig pretended to 'ban' something that was literally illegal anywat....Selig goes to HoF......the entire thing is bullshit.

[@ryancrawford8042]

​@@aaronstark1776 roids made MLB billions of dollars. That is why they turned a blind eye the entire time.

[@bobvylan7215]

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.

[@ryancrawford8042]

Selig created the need for steroids

[@joel8692]

They definitely hated bonds remember when they did the all century team in like 93 and the MLB selected Griffey Jr over bonds when he only had like 4 MLB seasons at that point and Barry was the much better player and also had a linger time in the league

[@jamiealexander7065]

@@joel8692 the century team was at the turn of the century, not 1993 (such a random year to choose lol)

[@MF-Rell]

He wasn't on steroids he was taking pro-hormones.

[@ryancrawford8042]

And MLB went from losing fans to printing money. Anyone who ever watched baseball knew it was going on. .

[@sailexw6414]

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🤣😂

[@tomw485]

I’m confused how a guy from age 36-39 had far and away the best seasons of his career when just about every other ball player peaks in their late 20’s to early 30’s. I wonder if there was some outside factor impacting those numbers…

[@sailexw6414]

@@tomw485 I watched Barry play nearly every-single-one of those games... the man's eye was SPECIAL. like he had a time machine and knew what pitch was coming...

[@jackstephens6642]

Barry just ate a good breakfast and wanted it more than other players.

[@guad512]

@jimclaus1576 if steroids make your head and feet grow, then that eliminates the myth that bodybuilders are taking them? 🤔

[@jamiealexander7065]

@jimclaus1576 Mike Trout's body and head is the same as Bonds was, he's not natural either lol

[@Izarcø-66]

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

[@EE-bg1de]

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.

[@jdk3]

have to agree , the only thing separating Griffey from Bonds was Bonds superior batting average

[@bmdecker93]

Griffey was the best player I have ever seen

[@bmdecker93]

@JDK One aged gracefully, and the other didn't.

[@Tonyconstanza]

Pedro Martinez struck out bonds and owned griffey jr. Griffey said Pedro was the toughest pitcher he ever faced

[@blackmamba1261]

I mean it’s not exactly a stretch to say Pedro really did something.

[@oceaser6977]

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

[@thedude3065]

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

[@Mundanesoup4]

Right, there's tons of people juicing still and no one is touching Barry

[@billcephus]

riiiiight, going from average 25 HRs a year to hitting 73 in 2001 was natural. delusional.

[@kingdinodragonite3470]

​@@billcephus he was averaging 40 homers from his previous 8 years. In his 4peat years, he averaged 50. Stop the cap. He is already GOATED before the roids

[@morecowbell235]

If steroids don't help, then don't take them.

[@leroyapplegate5049]

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

[@UKFanatic97]

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

[@ryancrawford8042]

Blackballed after his use of roids made MLB billions. He is a jerk, but MLB knew what was going on. I was 12ish at the time McGwire was juicing and we knew it was obvious as pre-teens. We talked about it daily.

[@potentially__9445]

@@ryancrawford8042yet, MOST fans, reporters, and the media didn’t vilify McGwire like they did with Barry.

[@chazzx1018]

​@jimclaus1576thank you. Had a Mcgwire bobblehead shirt in the late 80s. What a time for baseball the juice era was?

[@TheProdigalSon325]

I think Griffey Jr. had the sweetest swing in baseball. Hands down

[@jasonlommen4769]

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.

[@billcephus]

his pre balco stats clearly show that's not the case.

[@rockbigfoot5531]

@@billcephus he was a hall of fameer before steroids, how old are you , if you watch him plsy, he was clearly in a different league, the steroids helped him hit further , but he still would have had 25 to 30 Homers every year, I watched the phillies walk him every time one year. He was spectacular

[@imoorzy]

@@billcephusfirst and only ever play to be in the 400 400 club, he did it in 98’ before he was juicing. His lowest home run season in SF when he was natural was 33. Never had an OPS less than .746 and spent most of his career with an ops higher than 1.000, even before roids. I could go on and on. He was a great hitter before juicing, stop lying to yourself.

[@chazzx1018]

Best contact hitter, Bonds. Best power hitter, Griffey. Didn't need juice to crank up his hr numbers. Still had 600 despite missing much time.

[@allainangcao28]

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.

[@morecowbell235]

7 seasons of good baseball doesn't get anyone in the HOF

[@craigbrindle108]

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

[@frisky_dart7273]

Doesn’t make it ok.

[@craigbrindle108]

Didn’t say it does.

[@omegacroc2928]

Agreed. There were many players using steroids in both the majors and minors, but there was only one Barry Bonds.

[@JG-fx8jm]

@@craigbrindle108 yeh you did.

[@craigbrindle108]

@@JG-fx8jm No I didn’t.

[@gregorycampbell9386]

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.

[@LoJahn]

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

[@owenhershey13]

Barry said he loved being booed on the road, that it motivated him to beat the home team

[@jonnya3425]

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

[@TheSpadre]

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.

[@BroncoWalker25]

Intentionally walking him the way teams did should've been fixed. MLB actually failed the fans by allowing that to rob us of the opportunity to watch the greatest hitter in modern baseball.

[@TheSpadre]

@@BroncoWalker25 I wholeheartedly agree. How many home runs could he have hit. He was easily the best player in MLB during my lifetime. Steroids may have helped him with power, but they did nothing for his feat of having more home runs than strikeouts.

[@Brandonmichaelc]

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.

[@lukekuykendall6366]

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.

[@morecowbell235]

Bonds struck out more times in one season than Gwynn did in an 8 year span lol

[@dennesey]

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.

[@acornsucks2111]

And he couldn't hit 300.

[@topkek8045]

There is so much more to being a great hitter than steroids make me strong. His plate discipline was amazing

[@abancwele]

He has unbelievable eyesight. That the most important for a hitter. Steroids cankt do anything for that.

[@InvestBetter.]

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

[@7266jp]

Hands down Griffey Jr. He had the sweetest swing ever and if he did t have the injuries that he did . Jr. would have hit 800+ homers . Bonds was enhanced and it was obvious. This is not even close.

[@Roysorb]

Truly Barry Bonds has Darth Vader energy.

[@MoHassanTV]

I use to stay up late into the evening early morning watching Bonds and Giants on Channel 5 in London. This guy was truly a beast 🔥

[@UKWildcats11997]

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!

[@dfcintron]

Hitter & player

[@dme1016]

Your attempt at sarcasm is weakened by the fact that ya' can read about Bonds The Great without going to a place that doesn't recognize his brilliance. Fuc* the HOF!

[@simpleanswer8954]

Wow. What a creative comment. I think this was only said ten or twelve times already.

[@dme1016]

@@simpleanswer8954 Yeah, really. So creative, we've only seen it 200 times.

[@kilgoretrout4461]

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.

[@christianjames92]

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.

[@potentially__9445]

I’ll NEVER forget the one he hit against the Cardinals in the 2002 playoffs.

[@dctuss21]

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

[@owenhershey13]

he made the hardest thing to do in sports - hitting a professionally pitched baseball - look so easy

[@Ares14]

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.

[@potentially__9445]

I’d say Barry was the greatest offensive threat EVER.

[@ryancrawford8042]

You know what? You are right. I never thought about it, but the big bat guys usually HR or K.

[@satoshisata3409]

Not only offensively but also defensively. His eight Gold Glove Awards are the most as a leftfielder, even though most of them go to centerfielders or rightfielders as outfielders.

[@tenthavenue]

Pujols is up there I ain’t gone lie.

[@matthewsdonnelly]

2:10 when you have the opposing pitcher smiling you know you're fun to watch haha

[@MrAitraining]

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.

[@potentially__9445]

Absolutely

[@jimgray3346]

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

[@JulianWyllie]

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

[@CYMotorsport]

The hall of fame is an ENTIRELY separate entity from the mlb and the writers association is separate from the hall.

[@treybear8174]

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” 😂😂😂😂

[@ASPextra]

I think you can make a case for Tony Gwynn, but Barry was ELECTRIC.

[@no-bozos]

Ken Griffey Jr. too.

[@morecowbell235]

It's the fans that create the electricity

[@HereForAStorm]

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

[@cchan9186]

And honestly that was the right move lol

[@joel8692]

Another crazy thing is that bonds probably got one good pitch to hit the whole game and he was still able to hit that much bombs

[@RussellMills1877]

This man was a beast as a player and the way he hit home runs was out of this world and the way they would walk him so they didn't have to pitch to him was insane which goes to show you how scared they were of him. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017 to find me.

[@tayeeddings7501]

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

[@SOC-1]

Bonds was a great hitter no doubt about it. back in the 1920s and early 30s there was a player named joe sewell for those who dont know who he was (hall of famer by the way) he was without question the toughest batter to strikeout in mlb history. In 8333 PA (7132 AB) he struckout 114 times during his 14 seasons as a mlb player in 1929 he had 672 PA (578 AB) he struckout 4 times thats 1 SO for every 145 ABs

[@ozzieoz1]

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

[@slee2695]

The whole steroid era in baseball was a joke..fake numbers

[@troylee4196]

​@@slee2695do you feel currently with juiced balls it's the same?

[@burningknuckle26]

SF fan here. Roided out Bonds was the goat ngl.

[@midrangetorque]

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.

[@Matt-xv2cp]

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.

[@thepiecreamer]

mlb actually acknowledging barry’s existence???

[@randyrobey5643]

I grew up watching Mantle, Maris and Mays live on TV. I watched Hank Aaron. As a young adult, I watched Reggie Jackson hit three homers in a World Series game. I have see most of the great hitters since them too. The deadliest hitter I've ever seen was Barry Bonds. He almost never swung at balls out of the strike zone. He had an extremely quick and compact swing that sent balls that would have been strikes a very long way.

[@jeremyheyman8952]

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

[@sdzielinski]

A Yinzer here. I concluded that Barry Bonds had the best stroke when I first saw him hit. His second peak did not surprise me at all. I wondered why it took him so long. Only an idiot would claim that PEDs gave him his second peak. What gave him his second peak was strong mental discipline, elite pitch recognition, elite bat-to-ball skills, elite bat speed, the willingness to take a walk. He did all of this when players from around the world came to the USA to play baseball. The level of competition was far greater than it was during the 1920s to 1960s. He wasn't a generational player; he defined his sport in the way that Babe Ruth defined it. But the quality of the competition was so much greater for Bonds. To my limited knowledge, there are no rigorous studies demonstrating the causal efficacy of PEDs on hitting a baseball by a ML player. There are correlational studies, but those do not demonstrate the presence of a cause. Nor do they account for an alternative explanation: Juiced balls. Bonds is the best.

[@rickdiaz3657]

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

[@ZE5R]

Barry bonds wouldn’t want to be in mlb the show

[@OJTheBLAK]

If Bud Selig’s in the Hall, Barry should get in too. No questions

[@marcusg1021]

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.

[@SPICY_BEAR]

Very well said and agree 100%! 🙂

[@philobeddoe8342]

I don't think the juice helped too much with the hitting aspect, I think it prolonged his career. If you look at the steroid era, dudes were playing and excelling later in their careers when in the past most players were done.

[@doublestrokeroll]

He's only 7 homers ahead of Aaron. Sorry but the roids helped at least 8 of those clear a fence when they probably shouldn't have. The guy was amazing for sure and a huge talent. No doubt about it. But his numbers are deservedly tainted.

[@doublestrokeroll]

@@philobeddoe8342 Of course it did. That strength gets some of those homers over the fence when they should have been warning track outs. Some of those lazy fly balls or worm burners enough juice to become squibs. There is just no denying strength matters. Look the guy is obviously one of the greatest players ever, but his numbers ARE tainted.

[@philobeddoe8342]

@@doublestrokeroll yeah, and Fulton County stadium helped about 200 of Aaron's HRer's. That place was a band box. Also, you do realize Hank had about 2500 more at bats than Bonds, right?

[@acornsucks2111]

No one said that about Bonds during the 90's.

[@infiniteuniverse9528]

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?

[@johnpastore7685]

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

[@RickLaFlaR3e]

The only thing that could stop Bonds is the MLB editing crew 3:38 mark😂😂😂

[@RonFleischhacker-bi7gt]

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

[@SSNESS]

Ken Griffey Jr. was better

[@RonFleischhacker-bi7gt]

@@SSNESS nah he underachieved Bonds blew the Top off of Baseball. They need another steroid season Baseball is losing to soccer

[@Vjl5280]

The best hitter ever. Period. I’m sure Lou and Ted were good but Barry is the goat. Barry vs Randy Johnson was amazing to watch.

[@Grillinnap]

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

[@gerrybonds]

Yeah that’s pretty much what this video is lol

[@ryancrawford8042]

They let Selig in, he was the ring leader through it all. He is far more to blame than anyone.

[@mikeroagreschen5350]

I'm old enough to remember Bonds when he was in Pittsburgh. Before he became a home run machine, Bonds was a complete player. In 1990, he hit .301, had 114 RBIs, hit 33 home runs, and stole 52 bases. He was a Golden Glove winner as well.

[@EatUpBoise]

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.

[@nathanchildress5596]

Dude Tony Gwynn was a great hitter, I remember, but he didn’t even have 200 hits more than Bonds while having 620 fewer home runs, 200 fewer stolen bases, and 3 fewer gold gloves. So no, they don’t compare at all.

[@BozColorado]

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!

[@backgoesupton4553]

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

[@ryancrawford8042]

Nope, bc the commish at the time is the real crook

[@morecowbell235]

No and don't call me surely

[@georgerodriguez2987]

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

[@trevorlund8282]

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

[@harrymiram5562]

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....

[@joshgonzalez1807]

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

[@morecowbell235]

Except for you know...that whole cheating thing.

[@CalvinHikes]

Starts at 1:00

[@edwardanthony7283]

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

[@rickdiaz3657]

one season he was intentionally walked 120 times 😁 in 2004 so you can see how exaggerated this is, aaron judge was intentionally walked 18 times in 2022 and was the most dangerous slugger past year

[@edwardanthony7283]

@@rickdiaz3657 They were petrified of him & he should be in the Hall!

[@edwardanthony7283]

@@rickdiaz3657 If the 120 were 18 Barry would have hit 80 homers!

[@99bimmer]

Those 120 walks in 2004 were his INTENTIONAL walks (including one with the bases loaded), his total walks that year were 232. And most of those were likely 4 pitch walks

[@edwardanthony7283]

@@99bimmer Imagine what he would have done! no Hall? Now that's sick.

[@865style]

Bonds is the most talented offensive player ever. The problem is he achieved this because of steroids. Steroids helped reverse the aging process. It didn't help his hand eye coordination. It didn't change his vision. It did help him greatly obviously. BUT, everyone else was doing steroids as well. I dont see anyone else with his number or even close.

[@thegamingpigeon3216]

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.

[@potentially__9445]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@SYBtravel5bball]

People forget, or fail to acknowledge, that the Mitchell Report suggested PED use was even more prevalent among pitchers than it was among hitters. Especially among relief pitchers. You feel bad for the natural hitters who had to be compared to him, but Bonds may have actually been leveling the playing field with regards to the pitchers he was regularly having to face.

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

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 😑.

[@simpleanswer8954]

I loved him. He was my favorite player when he was active. I have a hard time being upset about the steroids because the league was aware of it at the time, and they rode the excitement players like Bonds and McGwire created. Bonds was an unreal hitter, but so many idiots in these comments act like he was Sosa or McGwire, and they act like he'd have been nothing without steroids. The league was fine with it at the time, and people are still doing it. They're just better at hiding it now. Except for Tatis jr.

[@jonlanier_]

I disagree with your biased premise.

[@morecowbell235]

Nah. Out of the guys I've seen in person, Gwynn, Griffey and Ichiro and were the best. Mind you, I went to a LOT of Giants games during the Bonds years because my sister had season tickets.

[@BlazingShackles]

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

[@whalecove1283]

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.

[@dfcintron]

People equate what Barry did to Popeye eating spinach. It's ridiculous.

[@vivsavagex]

i dont think you realize just how much better these athletes are than anyone else. if you did you would understand that even a 1% advantage at the pro level is HUGE. especially in a game like hitting a baseball where a 33% success rate is literally elite level. he cheated. no one could ever say with certainty what he woulda done if he hadnt and thats the end of the story

[@jsizzledt]

I’m happy that I got to see him play and hit a homer live, He would smack a ball 430+ feet effortlessly, Top class

[@greicorolle344]

The best to ever do it, 🐐 Bonds

[@billcephus]

stick to football, but looks like you don't know about that either.

[@way2kool876]

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

[@yoda101]

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.

[@davenewman2751]

Unfortunately Barry decided to use PID when he would have been one of the best ever without them. Mistakes not unlike shoeless Joe Jackson or Pete Rose made.

[@nolansmith64]

He should be in mlb the show and the hall

[@99bimmer]

Well, as far as MLB The Show, that might be a bit more tough because Bonds isn't in the MLBPA, and I believe it's by choice. So the game devs would actually have to negotiate with Bonds himself to get him in the game

[@Shamir725]

contact 150 power 200 vision 175 lmao

[@99bimmer]

@@Shamir725 But somehow only 97 overall

[@steroidsR4losers]

STEROIDS!

[@jesseGfragrance]

He’s the goat we will never see a player, do what Barry did in the major leagues

[@noahmcdaniel4920]

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.

[@ryancrawford8042]

I was at the Pirates kids camp in 1987. Bonds and Merced were instructors. Let me tell you. even though I was young his greatness was obvious. He was about 165-170 and could flat out crush the ball.

[@Bones12x2]

Its Bond's fault people don't talk about that.

[@noahmcdaniel4920]

@Bones12x2 no, it's the fault of casuals who don't recognize greatness.

[@geoffhampton9155]

I couldn't agree with you more. He was already an unanimous vote for the hall before there was any suspicion of him using PEDs, and we know why he did that. He's better than all of these players getting inducted into hall right now. People can like him or hate him, but when he came to bat, everybody was watching. He was an amazing talent. He was also a threat to steal bases too, something that's not talked about enough. He accomplished a 40/40 season clean. And he was already leading the league in walks and intentional walks. He's the best I ever saw and deserves to be in Cooperstown.

[@joel8692]

​@@geoffhampton9155yup I agree he and I think he was actually a better all around player before the roids because he ran the Basses and played the outfield better. the only weakness he had was that he didnt have a strong throwing arm like Griffey Jr did and that's why he played in left field instead of right or center

[@Indomitablespirit108]

Roids Baby! Massive, Dense, intense anger inside! BAM, home run! Wew

[@eddielopez4698]

GOAT with or without juice

[@Skogebear]

MLB keeps the integrity torch in the closet until Bonds comes into the conversation, then suddenly they are like LIGHT THE BEACONS!!!

[@ShooterSanoff]

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

[@brandonelliott5345]

Never won a ring. Jeter best I ever saw

[@ryancrawford8042]

Rings dont mean a damn thing about individual talent, less in the NBA. Bonds is the greatest hitter, perhaps greatest player.