Barry Bonds out here at 52 still hitting bombs

[WaveMolecules]

Darryl strawberry and ted Williams had the goat swings

 

[MikelArteta]

Dudes final season

28 hrs
66 this
132 walks
54 ks
276 avg

Then he was blackballed like Colin Kaepernick

GOAT hand-eye coordination

Bet he could still DH and mash 20-30 bombs if he played this season

 

[Remote]

Beauty is a matter of preference.

Barry had a great swing but you probably wouldn't teach it to every kid because Barry mostly pulled the ball. He didn't particularly care to spread the ball around. But that's perfectly fine because Barry was great at it.

On the other hand, someone like Edgar Martinez or Tony Gwynn had tremendous bat control thru the zone and could hit to all fields. Gwynn didn't try to hit homers but he could have. Same with Boggs.

Other guys like Manny Ramirez or Albert Pujols (to me, anyway) had tremendous balance. That's one thing that really impresses me because it's hard to be on pitches so consistently.

With regard to the blackballed stuff...meh. Barry played until he was 42. You don't get blackballed at 42. He was still effective, but at that age, you don't get the money you want anymore. Nor the years. And he was basically a DH. And Barry had the PED stink on him. His career ran its course.

 

[King Poetic]

Bonds

Griffrey

And

Manny Ramirez


Best swings I've seen

 

[Buckeye Fever]

David Justice too

The bat and the fist.

Ask Halle

 

[010101]

lazerz*

 

[010101]

talking swings how bout albert belle with the boom¿*

 

[Versa]

One of the goat swings


Griffey

Bonds

Gary( he had the Swing )

Gary Sheffield had the GOAT batting stance.

Full of swankiness

 

[Fart Knocker]

as a kid pops took me to veterans stadium to see phillies vs. giants. we were in the outfield for batting practice and the show bonds put on was incredible. ive never seen anyone else reach center field upper deck of the vet. willie stargel and mark mcguire were putting them into upper decks of right and left field, but center field was crazy

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

GOAT hand-eye coordination

Bet he could still DH and mash 20-30 bombs if he played this season

Let's not let fanhood set expectations quite that high. He hit 28 of them ten years ago. I bet he could still give 10-15 of them though even at 52. He never seemed to have an at bat where he didn't at least make contact with the ball. I think he had a few seasons of more walks than strikeouts.

Beauty is a matter of preference.

Barry had a great swing but you probably wouldn't teach it to every kid because Barry mostly pulled the ball. He didn't particularly care to spread the ball around. But that's perfectly fine because Barry was great at it.

On the other hand, someone like Edgar Martinez or Tony Gwynn had tremendous bat control thru the zone and could hit to all fields. Gwynn didn't try to hit homers but he could have. Same with Boggs.

Other guys like Manny Ramirez or Albert Pujols (to me, anyway) had tremendous balance. That's one thing that really impresses me because it's hard to be on pitches so consistently.

With regard to the blackballed stuff...meh. Barry played until he was 42. You don't get blackballed at 42. He was still effective, but at that age, you don't get the money you want anymore. Nor the years. And he was basically a DH. And Barry had the PED stink on him. His career ran its course.

Ran its course? I mean Barry is a dikk and all and was certainly using something, but he could clearly still play. He went out there and hit 28 homers and batted .280 for the year. He posted an on base percentage of .480, which nobody has done from 2008 onward. Even as a DH someone could have used him. I think he had another 2-3 years to go.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

as a kid pops took me to veterans stadium to see phillies vs. giants. we were in the outfield for batting practice and the show bonds put on was incredible. ive never seen anyone else reach center field upper deck of the vet. willie stargel and mark mcguire were putting them into upper decks of right and left field, but center field was crazy

I went to a diamondbacks game in 2007 and there's a Friday's in the upper deck I I think left field with a big marker on its wall outside with where one of Big Mac's bombs landed. Always thought that was pretty cool. How far was dead center out there?

 

[Raw Lyrics]

Breh reporters used to religiously ask Barry about steroids after every game, day in and day out, no other athlete ever got that kind of treatment. Not to mention his OBP was almost .500 his last year they black balled the shyt out of him. fukking bullshyt.

Clemens and McGwire not getting in are literally the only good things to come from their investigation. They both should never get in honestly. Barry was a hall of famer with it without roids. Clemens and McGwire never would've sniffed the hall without them.

Facts.

Bonds was top 5 dead or alive before he ever touched a PED.

 

[Remote]

Ran its course? I mean Barry is a dikk and all and was certainly using something, but he could clearly still play. He went out there and hit 28 homers and batted .280 for the year. He posted an on base percentage of .480, which nobody has done from 2008 onward. Even as a DH someone could have used him. I think he had another 2-3 years to go

Barry wasn't the only player who retired while still productive.

He was making 15M per year as a glorified DH in 2007 when that was a lot of money for that kind of one way player.

Even if he didn't have the stink of PEDs on him, his price and the perception of him as a clubhouse cancer would have made teams avoid him.

Also, where was Barry going to go? None of the big market teams had a need for him and he wasn't going to sign in Pittsburgh for 3 million.

 

[Sauce Dab]

My personal swings is bonds Griffey Manny Sheffield and really off radar prime Ryan Howard

That swing was vicious breh

That uppercut swing

 

[Remote]

Facts.

Bonds was top 5 dead or alive before he ever touched a PED.

Top 10. Not top 5.
And that's a big difference.