Official Barry Bonds Countdown Thread

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Consider the fact that he played 15% of his games versus the Red Sox, and teams were using 4 man rotations, and pitchers threw a lot of complete games, and the impact of a single pitcher in, say, 1921 is several times greater than the impact of a single pitcher today. Infusing 3-4 HoF quality pitchers and maybe 6-10 sometimes-All Star quality pitchers would have certainly made SOME impact on his numbers. What if it cost him 5 HRs a year? Is that a stretch? And maybe 50 pts of OPS? I'm making these numbers up, but are they THAT unreasonable? 5 HR a year = 110 less home runs. 50 pts in OPS puts him at 1.114, which is still a bit over Bonds. I don't think its hard to imagine that these pitchers could have had an even greater impact on Ruth's numbers, but I am by no means saying its a certainty. Obviously, we can never know for sure. I just think its very reasonable that, since Ruth and Bonds are so close, adding in 5 or 6 great black pitchers could have tipped the scale. Ruth would still be amazing, but Bonds is ridiculously good.


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I'm not sure if there is data on this, but I imagine that even if you are talking about some sick season like say Pedro 00, you would rather face Pedro with him on 110pitches than the best closer in baseball that year, if I had to guess I think you'd rather face a the #1starter in the 9 when he's >100pitches than league average closer