Barry Bonds

This article is about the baseball player. For other uses, see Barry Bonds (disambiguation).

Barry Bonds
Bonds in 2006
Left fielder
Born: (1964-07-24) July 24, 1964 (age 60)
Riverside, California, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
MLB debut
May 30, 1986, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB appearance
September 26, 2007, for the San Francisco Giants
MLB statistics
Batting average.298
Hits2,935
Home runs762
Runs batted in1,996
Stolen bases514
Stats at Baseball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Teams
As player

As coach

Career highlights and awards

MLB records

  • 762 career home runs
  • 73 home runs, single season
  • 2,558 career bases on balls
  • 232 bases on balls, single season
  • .609 on-base percentage, single season
  • .863 slugging percentage, single season
Medals
Men's baseball
Representing  United States
Amateur World Series
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Cuba Team

Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964)[1] is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Bonds was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1992 and the San Francisco Giants from 1993 to 2007.[2] He is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time.[3][4][5][6][7]

Recognized as an all-around player, Bonds received a record seven National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Awards and 12 Silver Slugger Awards, along with 14 All-Star selections. He holds many MLB hitting records, including most career home runs (762), most home runs in a single season (73, set in 2001), and the records for the most walks and intentional walks in a career, season, and in consecutive games.[8] Bonds led MLB in on-base plus slugging six times and placed within the top five hitters in 12 of his 17 qualifying seasons.[9][10] For his defensive play in the outfield, he won eight Gold Glove Awards.[11] He also had 514 stolen bases, becoming the first and only MLB player to date with at least 500 home runs and 500 stolen bases.[12][13] Bonds is ranked first in career Wins Above Replacement among all major league position players by Baseball-Reference.com and second by FanGraphs, behind only Babe Ruth.[14][15]

Despite his accolades, Bonds led a controversial career, notably as a central figure in baseball's steroids scandal. He was indicted in 2007 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying to a grand jury during the federal government's investigation of BALCO, a manufacturer of an undetectable steroid. After the perjury charges were dropped, Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice in 2011,[16] but was exonerated on appeal in 2015.[17] During his 10 years of eligibility, he did not receive the 75% of the vote needed to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.[18][19][20] Some voters of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) stated they did not vote for Bonds because they believe he used performance-enhancing drugs.[21][22]

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  13. ^ BBQ, Cespedes Family (January 22, 2019). "My favorite Barry Bonds stat is still that he's the only member of the 400 homer/400 steal club and the only member of the 500 homer/500 steal club". @CespedesBBQ. Archived from the original on April 9, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
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  16. ^ "Barry Bonds convicted of obstruction of justice in performance-enhancing-drugs case". Los Angeles Times. April 13, 2011. Archived from the original on April 28, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
  17. ^ Egelko, Bob (April 22, 2014). "Appeals court overturns Barry Bonds's obstruction conviction". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 9, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  18. ^ Blinn, Michael (January 26, 2021). "Baseball Hall of Fame vote: Schilling, Bonds, Clemens come up short". New York Post. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  19. ^ Berry, Adam (January 24, 2018). "Bonds climbs, still short of Hall of Fame". MLB.com. Archived from the original on January 25, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  20. ^ "Complete 2022 Hall of Fame voting results". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. January 25, 2022. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  21. ^ Passan, Jeff (January 23, 2019). "Why Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens aren't getting into the Hall of Fame". ESPN.com. ESPN. Archived from the original on June 16, 2020. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  22. ^ "Lawyer Bonds didn't know he used steroids". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 7, 2022. Retrieved October 9, 2022. (subscription required