Topic: Useless Barry Bonds info

[Elvis]

I was reading a column over at ESPN .com and came across this:



Useless Barry Bonds Information

# Of his last 50 trips to the plate through Tuesday, the amazing Barry had been on base (gulp) 39 times. If you took away half the times Bonds had been on base this year, he'd still have a higher on-base percentage than Ichiro Suzuki (.337).

# Meanwhile, Bonds is averaging three swings and misses per week. It might put that in perspective to report that last year, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Human Fan, Jose Hernandez had five different at-bats in which he swung and missed three pitches in a row. (Which might explain why Hernandez also hit only air with a mind-boggling 230 more hacks last year than Bonds -- 355 to 125.)

2004 SEASON STATISTICS
AB BA HR RBI OBP OPS
46 .478 9 20 .692 1.866

# We sometimes forget how tough it is for everybody else except Bonds to hit at SBC Park. Well, here's a reminder: Bonds at SBC (through Tuesday): 8 HR in 38 AB. All the other Giants: 6 HR in 344 AB.

# Bonds' 245 home runs since he turned 35 are the most in history. But let's put this another way:

This man has hit more home runs just since age 35 than all these Hall of Famers hit in their whole careers: Roberto Clemente, Roy Campanella, Paul Molitor or Kirby Puckett. And he has hit more home runs since then all of these active players have hit in their careers: Vladimir Guerrero, Ivan Rodriguez, Todd Helton or Javy Lopez.

# Here's proof that Bonds can literally do the impossible: He just set an NL record by hitting eight home runs during a streak of homers in seven consecutive games. But what was really tough was that he appeared in eight games during that streak of seven consecutive games.

OK, so it's a technicality. (He was intentionally walked in the eighth game, so it counted as a game appeared in but not as a game played for homer-streak purposes.) But it's still supremely Barry-esque that he averaged more than one game per game.

# You don't find many guys these days with homer-to-strikeout ratios of almost 2-to-1. But Bonds was at nine homers, five whiffs, through Tuesday. In response to several readers wondering which player in history hit the most home runs in a season of more homers than punchouts, here's the list, according to Lee Sinins' Sabermetric Encyclopedia CD-Rom:

Johnny Mize, 1947 -- 51 HR, 42 SO
Lou Gehrig, 1934 -- 49 HR, 31 SO
Lou Gehrig, 1936 -- 49 HR, 46 SO
Ted Kluszewski, 1954 -- 49 HR, 35 SO
Ted Kluszewski, 1955 -- 47 HR, 40 SO

# One loyal reader saw that .500 average next to Bonds' name and wanted to know the latest in a season that anyone in modern times has been batting over .500. But since Bonds walks about six times a night, he hasn't had 50 official at-bats yet -- and Paul Lo Duca batted .500 through his first 50 at-bats just this year. Last player to hit .500 for more than 50 at-bats into a season, according to Elias: Darin Erstad (32 for his first 64 in 2000).

# Finally, since we spend all our time talking about the many cool milestones Bonds can reach, we thought we'd toss one more in there: By September, he almost certainly will become just the fifth player in history to reach base 5,000 times: Here is where he stands on that list (counting just hits, walks and HBP):

Player BB Hits HBP Times on base
Pete Rose 1,566 4,256 107 5,929
Rickey Henderson 2,190 3,050 98 5,343
Carl Yastrzemski 1,845 3,419 40 5,304
Hank Aaron 1,402 3,771 32 5,205
Barry Bonds 2,102 2,617 84 4,8

I find it absolutely amazing and its got nothing to do with steroids.

And the link.

  ESPN  

[Elvis]

I was reading a column over at ESPN .com and came across this:



Useless Barry Bonds Information

# Of his last 50 trips to the plate through Tuesday, the amazing Barry had been on base (gulp) 39 times. If you took away half the times Bonds had been on base this year, he'd still have a higher on-base percentage than Ichiro Suzuki (.337).

# Meanwhile, Bonds is averaging three swings and misses per week. It might put that in perspective to report that last year, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Human Fan, Jose Hernandez had five different at-bats in which he swung and missed three pitches in a row. (Which might explain why Hernandez also hit only air with a mind-boggling 230 more hacks last year than Bonds -- 355 to 125.)

2004 SEASON STATISTICS
AB BA HR RBI OBP OPS
46 .478 9 20 .692 1.866

# We sometimes forget how tough it is for everybody else except Bonds to hit at SBC Park. Well, here's a reminder: Bonds at SBC (through Tuesday): 8 HR in 38 AB. All the other Giants: 6 HR in 344 AB.

# Bonds' 245 home runs since he turned 35 are the most in history. But let's put this another way:

This man has hit more home runs just since age 35 than all these Hall of Famers hit in their whole careers: Roberto Clemente, Roy Campanella, Paul Molitor or Kirby Puckett. And he has hit more home runs since then all of these active players have hit in their careers: Vladimir Guerrero, Ivan Rodriguez, Todd Helton or Javy Lopez.

# Here's proof that Bonds can literally do the impossible: He just set an NL record by hitting eight home runs during a streak of homers in seven consecutive games. But what was really tough was that he appeared in eight games during that streak of seven consecutive games.

OK, so it's a technicality. (He was intentionally walked in the eighth game, so it counted as a game appeared in but not as a game played for homer-streak purposes.) But it's still supremely Barry-esque that he averaged more than one game per game.

# You don't find many guys these days with homer-to-strikeout ratios of almost 2-to-1. But Bonds was at nine homers, five whiffs, through Tuesday. In response to several readers wondering which player in history hit the most home runs in a season of more homers than punchouts, here's the list, according to Lee Sinins' Sabermetric Encyclopedia CD-Rom:

Johnny Mize, 1947 -- 51 HR, 42 SO
Lou Gehrig, 1934 -- 49 HR, 31 SO
Lou Gehrig, 1936 -- 49 HR, 46 SO
Ted Kluszewski, 1954 -- 49 HR, 35 SO
Ted Kluszewski, 1955 -- 47 HR, 40 SO

# One loyal reader saw that .500 average next to Bonds' name and wanted to know the latest in a season that anyone in modern times has been batting over .500. But since Bonds walks about six times a night, he hasn't had 50 official at-bats yet -- and Paul Lo Duca batted .500 through his first 50 at-bats just this year. Last player to hit .500 for more than 50 at-bats into a season, according to Elias: Darin Erstad (32 for his first 64 in 2000).

# Finally, since we spend all our time talking about the many cool milestones Bonds can reach, we thought we'd toss one more in there: By September, he almost certainly will become just the fifth player in history to reach base 5,000 times: Here is where he stands on that list (counting just hits, walks and HBP):

Player BB Hits HBP Times on base
Pete Rose 1,566 4,256 107 5,929
Rickey Henderson 2,190 3,050 98 5,343
Carl Yastrzemski 1,845 3,419 40 5,304
Hank Aaron 1,402 3,771 32 5,205
Barry Bonds 2,102 2,617 84 4,8

I find it absolutely amazing and its got nothing to do with steroids.

And the link.

  ESPN  

[Elvis]

I was reading a column over at ESPN .com and came across this:



Useless Barry Bonds Information

# Of his last 50 trips to the plate through Tuesday, the amazing Barry had been on base (gulp) 39 times. If you took away half the times Bonds had been on base this year, he'd still have a higher on-base percentage than Ichiro Suzuki (.337).

# Meanwhile, Bonds is averaging three swings and misses per week. It might put that in perspective to report that last year, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Human Fan, Jose Hernandez had five different at-bats in which he swung and missed three pitches in a row. (Which might explain why Hernandez also hit only air with a mind-boggling 230 more hacks last year than Bonds -- 355 to 125.)

2004 SEASON STATISTICS
AB BA HR RBI OBP OPS
46 .478 9 20 .692 1.866

# We sometimes forget how tough it is for everybody else except Bonds to hit at SBC Park. Well, here's a reminder: Bonds at SBC (through Tuesday): 8 HR in 38 AB. All the other Giants: 6 HR in 344 AB.

# Bonds' 245 home runs since he turned 35 are the most in history. But let's put this another way:

This man has hit more home runs just since age 35 than all these Hall of Famers hit in their whole careers: Roberto Clemente, Roy Campanella, Paul Molitor or Kirby Puckett. And he has hit more home runs since then all of these active players have hit in their careers: Vladimir Guerrero, Ivan Rodriguez, Todd Helton or Javy Lopez.

# Here's proof that Bonds can literally do the impossible: He just set an NL record by hitting eight home runs during a streak of homers in seven consecutive games. But what was really tough was that he appeared in eight games during that streak of seven consecutive games.

OK, so it's a technicality. (He was intentionally walked in the eighth game, so it counted as a game appeared in but not as a game played for homer-streak purposes.) But it's still supremely Barry-esque that he averaged more than one game per game.

# You don't find many guys these days with homer-to-strikeout ratios of almost 2-to-1. But Bonds was at nine homers, five whiffs, through Tuesday. In response to several readers wondering which player in history hit the most home runs in a season of more homers than punchouts, here's the list, according to Lee Sinins' Sabermetric Encyclopedia CD-Rom:

Johnny Mize, 1947 -- 51 HR, 42 SO
Lou Gehrig, 1934 -- 49 HR, 31 SO
Lou Gehrig, 1936 -- 49 HR, 46 SO
Ted Kluszewski, 1954 -- 49 HR, 35 SO
Ted Kluszewski, 1955 -- 47 HR, 40 SO

# One loyal reader saw that .500 average next to Bonds' name and wanted to know the latest in a season that anyone in modern times has been batting over .500. But since Bonds walks about six times a night, he hasn't had 50 official at-bats yet -- and Paul Lo Duca batted .500 through his first 50 at-bats just this year. Last player to hit .500 for more than 50 at-bats into a season, according to Elias: Darin Erstad (32 for his first 64 in 2000).

# Finally, since we spend all our time talking about the many cool milestones Bonds can reach, we thought we'd toss one more in there: By September, he almost certainly will become just the fifth player in history to reach base 5,000 times: Here is where he stands on that list (counting just hits, walks and HBP):

Player BB Hits HBP Times on base
Pete Rose 1,566 4,256 107 5,929
Rickey Henderson 2,190 3,050 98 5,343
Carl Yastrzemski 1,845 3,419 40 5,304
Hank Aaron 1,402 3,771 32 5,205
Barry Bonds 2,102 2,617 84 4,8

I find it absolutely amazing and its got nothing to do with steroids.

And the link.

  ESPN