if you take out bonds 73 homerun season all his other seasons in term of homeruns look above average but when looking at sammy sosa and mark mcgwires stats their prime years look crazy like sosa got 3 season with atleast 60 HRs. i also noticed that bonds got walked a lot, lot more and didnt strike out as nearly as much as sosa did so do you think bonds would have had some 50 and 60+ HR season instead of the one 73 homerun season if teams didnt walk him as much and why do you think he got walked way more then sosa when sosa was hitting like 50+ homeruns every year and bonds usually got only 40+ HRs?
2007-05-12 12:19:24 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
Very easy. Bonds would have hit 60 plus many years if they pitch to him. So very nice observation. Also your other question is easily answered. It is almost impossilbe to walk sosa and mcgwire. They chase anything trying to hit a homerun (especially sosa). Neither were worried about winning or being a team player all they cared about was thier own stats and pleasing home town fans. That is why any true baseball fan knows bonds is the best. I am from saint louis and i am here to tell you bonds is far superior over mcgwire sosa or any other player we have seen. He very rarely chases a pitch out of the zone. He always has more homeruns than strikeouts little on more walks than stikeouts..lol He is the ulitimate team player. He takes what the pitcher gives him and if it is out of the zone he drops the bat and goes to first. If it is in the zone 5 out of 10 leave the yard. He is awesome. He doesnt expand the zone just to pad his stats. He understands the game and is the ultimate team player with and on base percentage over 50 percent year in and year out. All mlb players are like little leaguers in Bonds world so enjoy the show. Good luck Barry!!!!
2007-05-12 12:28:23 · answer #1 · answered by DANNY A 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bonds is more of a threat to make contact. The low strikeout numbers means he puts the ball in play a lot more. Sosa has always been known to strikeout, there were some seasons he averaged like a strikeout every 3 ABs, which is very high. Sosa is also known to have a late swing which is why many of his homers are opposite field, they take this into account with the high strikeout numbers you feel as though he is less of a threat. Bonds on the other hand will always hit the ball hard and you don't what that ball that he hits to be a homer or a long double.
Other stats to throw out:
1. Bonds 73HR year was his only season with 50+ homers, his highest other than that was 49 (which was done a year before).
2. Bonds has never struck out 100 or more times in a season since his rookie year where he whiffed 102 times (he's reached 90+ 3 times).
3. In the 4 seasons that Sosa hit 60+ 3 times and 50 once he struck out more than 150 times each of those 4 seasons hitting 170+ in 2 of them and almost 170 (168) in one other.
4. The only times Sosa did not K over 100 times is when he didn't play a full season (5 separate years).
2007-05-12 12:57:05 · answer #2 · answered by jackdupp1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I also noticed some of these anomalies in studying Bonds' career. Why did no one think steroids when Wade Boggs hit 27 HR in the mid - 80s and had a season high of about 9 the rest of his career.
Do I think it is a steroids issue -- maybe. But I have never seen a study that showed Hand-eye coordination increase with prolonged use of steroids. The year Bonds hit 73 did not Rich Aurilia (hit behind him in lineup) have a career year in average, home runs, and doubles. Pick your poison.
Plus a smaller park, lighter bat, better training techniques, and changed batting stance with decreased emphasis on stealing bases -- yeah -- it definitely was steroids.
I cannot wait to see what the truth is if we find out before the truth about JFK.
2007-05-13 03:12:00 · answer #3 · answered by david w 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apples and apples with McGwire. He got walked a little more than Sosa but he only hit more than 60 HRs twice in his career. He did them when he's 34-35 years old when most hitters are projected to go on decline. Then two years later his career was cut short to unknown reasons at 37 years old. This strongly suggest that he may have overdosed on steroids in order to produce those seasons and it ruined his career.
2007-05-12 13:13:01 · answer #4 · answered by jasonpickles 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes most people have noticed that. No one disputes that bonds is a good player and consistent or that Sosa and Mcgwire were on roids there whole damn careers. But when someones feet and head grow and they go from being like 195 to 250 there are some eyebrows being raised. And sosa is such a little midget where does all his pop come from?
2007-05-12 12:29:21 · answer #5 · answered by Smartest Man Alive 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Aw, c'mon, facts get in the way of a good, irrational hatred.
No one has ever explained how steroids (or whatever Chemical X) made Bonds take walks better.
And McGwire's walks totals indicate that no, he did not chase anything. Career OBP of .394 is damn good.
2007-05-12 15:19:35 · answer #6 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His walk totals are a reflection of his artifically inflated power. He's also always had better strike zone judgement than either Sosa or McGuire.
You've noticed nothing that Bonds hasn't injected into himself.
2007-05-12 14:53:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All i have to say is Bonds used steroids.
2007-05-12 13:21:53 · answer #8 · answered by Harry KhanLA 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋