SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds might be getting a statue outdoors the San Francisco Giants’ dwelling stadium the place he set baseball’s profession dwelling run document, the group’s CEO mentioned Thursday.
Giants President and Chief Government Officer Larry Baer was requested throughout a radio interview a few statue for Bonds, and he responded that it was “on the radar.” However Baer did not have any particulars of when that will occur.
“Barry is definitely deserving of a statue, and I might say must be subsequent up,” Baer mentioned throughout an look on San Francisco’s 95.7 The Recreation. “We do not have the precise location and the precise date and the precise timing. … It is coming. All I can say is it is coming.”
Bonds performed for San Francisco the final 15 of his 22 massive league seasons, hitting 586 of his 762 homers whereas with the Giants from 1993-2007. He set the single-season MLB document with 73 homers in 2001, and hit his record-breaking 756th homer to cross Hank Aaron in a house recreation off Washington’s Mike Bacsik on Aug. 7, 2007.
There are at present 5 statues outdoors Oracle Park, these of Corridor of Famers Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry and Orlando Cepeda. The Giants retired Bonds’ No. 25 jersey in 2018.
Bonds, a seven-time MVP and 14-time All-Star, shouldn’t be within the Corridor of Fame. He failed to achieve the 75% threshold required throughout his 10 years on the Baseball Writers Affiliation of America’s Corridor of Fame poll, principally due to steroids allegations that dogged him throughout his ultimate years with the Giants. The Modern Participant Committee additionally handed on electing Bonds in 2022, although the committee might rethink Bonds’ standing.
