We sat down with @MLBNetwork personalities who used to play in The Bigs and asked who was the best hitter they ever saw. (Hint: Barry Bonds was mentioned a few times.)
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42 Comments
I can’t believe the amount of people who don’t care he cheated significantly. Wild
Being juiced up doesn’t make plate discipline and hitting a baseball easier. Greatest offensive player ever. Period.
Oh this isn’t to help Tatis at all lol
Best ever is correct . This man would've played and dominated in any era .
The Steroid Giant
Imagine if rose or ichiro juiced 800 Homer's easily and if Griffen Jr did 1k
By far the greatest swing in baseball history!
So can we get a change as to what it takes to get into the HOF because clearly the people who vote don’t like bonds. He is 100% deserving to be inducted into the HOF.
Anyone who says it was all just because of drugs needs their head examined.
mcgwire and sosa did more steroids then bonds yet bonds gets critisized while mcgwire and sosa dont add bonds to the show
Bonds was great, no doubt.
This clip is titled, “The best hitter these former MLB players ever saw”.
I think the following hitters were just as good at dominating the plate.
Ted Williams, Tony Gwynn, Pete Rose, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb.
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.
Damn shame he hasn't been elected to the HoF yet.
MLB crucified this guy but now has the audacity to post a video of him on their channel of how great he was. Whatta joke.
I’ll take Ken Griffey Jr any day over bonds for best hitter
Bonds is the best, period.. my favorite bonds stat is he stole at least 10 bases in 16 consecutive seasons!.. An mlb record..
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.
Wow, from the way they talk about him Bonds must be a really likeable guy…
Most amazing thing was when Bonds was supposedly in his prime before steroids was slumping so badly in the postseason with the Pirates that they were intentionally walking Bobby Bonilla to pitch to Bonds.
Barry is the goat and i don't care what he did. There were guys who took roids and were completely worthless.
He wasn't even a lifetime 300. career hitter before the steroids.
The morality clause is a joke.. Barry bonds is the greatest hitter we’ve ever seen and shouldve been a 1st ballot selection
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.
Bonds averages from 2001 to 2004 (4 years)
350 batting avg
52 homeruns
110 rbi's
122 runs
1.365 ops
Any batter above a .900 ops is considered excellent.
Any batter above a 1.000 ops is considered elite.
Bonds averaged 1.365 ops in 4 straight years.
For his career his ops was 1.051
Oh yeah…with some roid help😂
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.
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
His first career big league home run was an opposite field one when he was SKINNY.
And for those who might not understand, and I am a STL Cardinal fan by the way…..A video called, Barry Bonds Career Highlights…..https://youtu.be/j3EHr90pkew?t=59
The question is who would you want to pitch to? The answer is never Barry Bonds. Steroids yadayada but he had to hit it and he did
Griffey on the gear would have given him a run for his money no doubt!
We should ask Latroy Hawkins and Jaime Moyer because they are like 1,000 years old and have seen everyone
The so-called Hall Of Fane….governed by staid White guys, ain't a legit place without Bonds & a few other players from his era.
Privileged.
Simply
When the great Willie Mays legitimizes you, you are LEGIT! PERIOD!
Interesting that this is on the MLB official YouTube channel after the league has been trying to drag his name since before he retired. It’s a damn shame this man isn’t 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.
Yeah he was the best but he was also a walking science experiment during most of his Giants days.
So…the MLB made a 5min. Video celebrating him rather than making him HOF? 😅
mr steroid!!
The most underrated part of Barry Bonds greatness was how good he was at not swinging at bad pitches.
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.