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Related: About this forumHere's Why Barry Bonds Still Would Have Been One Of The Best Players In Baseball
If He Played Without a Bat.
Pretty interesting view of what Barry Bond's incredible 2004 season meant statistically. The caveat here is that the pitcher would not know that Bond's didn't have a bat. What if he decided to just show up at home plate with the intent to never swing at a pitch?
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Here's Why Barry Bonds Still Would Have Been One Of The Best Players In Baseball (Original Post)
OAITW r.2.0
Jan 2022
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Crazyleftie
(458 posts)1. BS
OAITW r.2.0
(28,821 posts)2. LOL
Brother Buzz
(38,056 posts)3. It helped he was playing in a new ball park with a right field wall.....
designed for southpaw sluggers.
I regret Willie McCovey never got to rack up some impressive numbers in it, but they did put up a cool bronze statue across McCovey Cove of him (Upper left in the photo)
309 ft to the right field foul pole!
Capt. America
(2,482 posts)4. F Bonds ...he was bad for the game.