Barry Bonds Was Good

[nilodnayr]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/bonds-and-a-bat

 

Summary: The difference between Bonds at his peak and a AAAA player was about the same as the difference between a AAAA player and a papaya playing DH. Thats pretty insane.

 

The first thing I did when fangraphs started posting thier WARs and Values was go to Bond's page. Its just ridiculous. If you adjust for 10% inflation, his 2002 season would be worth $62.7M in 2008 dollars. Thats more than #2 (Utley) and #3 (Chipper) combined and over 50% more than Pujols.

 

If you look just at batting value in 2002, Bonds is worth is 2% less than that of Soto, Lee, DeRosa, Theriot, ARam, Soriano, Fukudome, and Edmonds (cubs Edmonds, not Padres Edmonds) in 2008...combined.

 

In 2005, he only had 52 PAs and his line was the worst he'd put up in the previous 6 years and he was still worth $2.4M ($3.14M in 2008 terms). In fact, if you set the minimum at 250 PAs, he was more valuable in his 52 PAs than 73 batters (or roughly 24% of the sample).

[17 Seconds]

i still think 2004 was his best and most astonishing season. he walked 242 times and still hit 45 bombs. will any player ever get the treatment to walk 242 times again in one season? albert pujols is as close as it gets to bonds right now and he still isn't even close to getting that kind of treatment.

[nilodnayr]

i still think 2004 was his best and most astonishing season. he walked 242 times and still hit 45 bombs. will any player ever get the treatment to walk 242 times again in one season? albert pujols is as close as it gets to bonds right now and he still isn't even close to getting that kind of treatment.

 

Only a .450 IsoP...meh

[17 Seconds]

i still think 2004 was his best and most astonishing season. he walked 242 times and still hit 45 bombs. will any player ever get the treatment to walk 242 times again in one season? albert pujols is as close as it gets to bonds right now and he still isn't even close to getting that kind of treatment.

 

Only a .450 IsoP...meh

 

that's not everything.

 

he had a .609 OBP that season and had the highest OPS of his career. 232 walks is insane to me.

[nilodnayr]

i still think 2004 was his best and most astonishing season. he walked 242 times and still hit 45 bombs. will any player ever get the treatment to walk 242 times again in one season? albert pujols is as close as it gets to bonds right now and he still isn't even close to getting that kind of treatment.

 

Only a .450 IsoP...meh

 

that's not everything.

 

he had a .609 OBP that season and had the highest OPS of his career. 232 walks is insane to me.

 

i was obviously kidding...we retired green font

[FergieJ31]

Until last August, Bonds was the answer to one of my favorite trivia questions: Who was the last player intentionally walked with the bases loaded?

 

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05281998.shtml

 

(Now Josh Hamilton is the answer to that question.)

[17 Seconds]

i still think 2004 was his best and most astonishing season. he walked 242 times and still hit 45 bombs. will any player ever get the treatment to walk 242 times again in one season? albert pujols is as close as it gets to bonds right now and he still isn't even close to getting that kind of treatment.

 

Only a .450 IsoP...meh

 

that's not everything.

 

he had a .609 OBP that season and had the highest OPS of his career. 232 walks is insane to me.

 

i was obviously kidding...we retired green font

 

i still should have caught that

[nilodnayr]

i still think 2004 was his best and most astonishing season. he walked 242 times and still hit 45 bombs. will any player ever get the treatment to walk 242 times again in one season? albert pujols is as close as it gets to bonds right now and he still isn't even close to getting that kind of treatment.

 

Only a .450 IsoP...meh

 

that's not everything.

 

he had a .609 OBP that season and had the highest OPS of his career. 232 walks is insane to me.

 

i was obviously kidding...we retired green font

 

i still should have caught that

 

yeah considering the last guy who did it was some guy named mcgwire in 98 who broke some silly little record

[Tyrant]

2004 Barry Bonds: 232 walks

2008 Kansas City Royals: 392 walks

[SouthSideRyan]

Barry Bonds '04: 232 Walks

Shawon Dunston career: 203 Walks

[DiamondMind]

Reaching base 61% of the time is the definition of baseball insanity

[Clem Fandango]

With steroids anything is possible!

[BigbadB]

Barry Bonds '04: 232 Walks

Shawon Dunston career: 203 Walks

 

Haha. You kicked Tyrant's butt with that one.

[Mephistopheles]

Barry Bonds was good? I had no idea. Thanks for telling me that a 40/40 player was good. Alfonso Soriano is good too, I take it. Good thing, I was worried.

[imb]

Barry Bonds was good? I had no idea. Thanks for telling me that a 40/40 player was good. Alfonso Soriano is good too, I take it. Good thing, I was worried.

 

hey, if you apple+c his post, you've got your next front page article!

[CubbieBum]

Barry Bonds was good? I had no idea. Thanks for telling me that a 40/40 player was good. Alfonso Soriano is good too, I take it. Good thing, I was worried.

 

hey, if you apple+c his post, you've got your next front page article!

 

could be control+c to him