Thread: Big Papi not convinced Bonds is a product of steroids (good read)
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Old 05-09-2007, 01:23 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Big Papi not convinced Bonds is a product of steroids (good read)
You guys are leaving out some very important details about what happend in baseball during Bond's career. The ballparks got smaller as he went on and the pitching got a lot worse A) because of expansion and B) just overall.

He's also played in a bad national league for some time. You can't tell me these were factors. I mean christ, Luis Gonzalez hit 57 homers one year. So what do we say about that? Lucky season?

Homers are way way up across the board.

Is it so far fetched to think that Bonds got better with the strikezone over the years as well? I would think the more you play, the more you learn. The easier it is to lay off pitches you would have swung at earlier in your career.

Bonds hardly ever swings at a bad pitch. He's more patient then A-Rod is. A-Rod could have 150+ walks a season as well if he didn't swing at some garbage. He's also not the mentally strong kind of player Bonds is now. Just look how he performs in the playoffs. Bonds used to be the same way, but he's overcome those demons now.
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