If it have been as much as Darryl Strawberry, Barry Bonds could be in Cooperstown.
The 62-year-old eight-time All-Star was requested throughout a latest look on OutKick’s “The Ricky Cobb Present” if Bonds, amongst different gamers with ties to efficiency enhancing medicine, must be within the Corridor of Fame.
“I feel in case you look down the record of each participant that’s within the Corridor of Fame, someone’s finished one thing. Let’s simply be actual, no person’s excellent. Everyone makes errors, everyone falls quick,” Strawberry mentioned.
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Barry Bonds is launched to the followers on the Pittsburgh Pirates Corridor of Fame ceremony at PNC Park. (Philip G. Pavely-USA TODAY Sports activities)
“Whenever you take a look at guys, any man that performed, it’s laborious sufficient to do this 12 months after 12 months and compete and put your physique by means of what you bought to place your physique by means of. To see these guys not be honored for what they completed on the ball area, I feel it’s insane.”
“You may’t put some in and depart some out, you bought some in there that individuals do know did the identical factor, and you then’re leaving different guys out, and also you level at these guys and say these guys don’t get in. Nicely, why did you let the opposite guys in? You let different guys in who did issues. Why not let these guys be in, too, as a result of they completed lots of nice issues on the sphere?”
Bonds, regardless of being a seven-time Nationwide League MVP winner, 14-time All-Star, 12-time Silver Slugger, eight-time Gold Glove winner, two-time batting champion and having essentially the most dwelling runs (762), walks (2558) and intentional walks (688) in MLB historical past, just isn’t a Corridor of Famer.
Bonds examined optimistic for steroids thrice in his profession, and through his 10 years on the writers’ poll, he by no means had sufficient votes to make the Corridor of Fame.
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New York Mets former participant Darryl Strawberry speaks throughout a press convention at Citi Area earlier than his quantity is retired by the workforce. (Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports activities)
He may sooner or later be voted in by the Up to date Baseball Period Committee, however for him, he received’t have the ability to be voted on till 2026.
The Pittsburgh Pirates inducted Bonds into their Corridor of Fame final month. The San Francisco Giants retired his No. 25 in 2018.
Boston Pink Sox slugger David Ortiz was inducted into the Corridor of Fame within the Class of 2022, but in keeping with a New York Instances report, he examined optimistic for a banned substance in 2003 throughout an nameless survey. The substance was by no means made public and Ortiz has by no means admitted to taking performance-enhancing medicine throughout his taking part in profession.
Ortiz received 77.9% of the vote, simply clearing the requisite 75% benchmark for induction. Bonds in 2022 acquired 66% of the vote.
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Barry Bonds addresses the followers after being inducted into the Pittsburgh Pirates Corridor of Fame at PNC Park. (Philip G. Pavely-USA TODAY Sports activities)
Strawberry additionally believes that one in every of his childhood idols, Pete Rose, must be within the Corridor of Fame.
“I used to be an enormous fan of Charlie Hustle, Pete Rose. I noticed him play lots on the Dodgers and I simply thought he was an exceptional baseball participant, the best way he hustled, the best way he performed the sport, and naturally, his uniform was all the time soiled. In the event you’re going to play baseball and your uniform just isn’t soiled, which means you’re not doing something.”
“Pete Rose taught me that by the best way he performed the sport, and hopefully sooner or later they are going to honor him and put him within the Corridor of Fame as a result of he deserves to be within the Corridor of Fame for all that he did for the sport of baseball and the best way he performed the appropriate manner.”
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Rose was given a lifetime ban from MLB for playing on the game throughout his profession. Rose is MLB’s all-time hit chief with 4,256 profession hits.
Strawberry spent 17 seasons in Main League Baseball. He was rookie of the 12 months with the New York Mets in 1983 and a part of the 1986 workforce that received the World Sequence.
Strawberry additionally received World Sequence titles with the New York Yankees in 1996 and 1998 and ended his profession with 335 dwelling runs and 1,000 RBI.
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