When people talk about the greatest players to ever play in Major League Baseball, San Francisco Giants slugger and legend Barry Bonds is one of the first players to come to mind.
Whether or not steroids tarnished his legacy is up for debate, but there is no doubt that he was one of the greatest pure hitters the game has even seen.
Depending on one’s point of view, he has the all-time record for most home runs in a single season and an entire MLB career.
He hit 73 home runs in 2002 and hit a total of 765 during his career.
However, one thing that made Bonds so impressive was his ability to get on base and slug home runs simultaneously.
On Twitter, The Game Day tweeted a list of the highest single-season OPS marks of all time, and Bonds appears on the list multiple times.
This list is just ridiculous lmao pic.twitter.com/jlYEze5smc
— The Game Day MLB (@TheGameDayMLB) May 23, 2023
Bonds actually appears on the list four times.
The 2004 season saw him post an OPS of 1.422.
2002 was without a doubt Bonds’ best season.
However, that year, he posted his second-best OPS mark at 1.381.
The year before, Bonds was just a tick below that mark.
In 2001, the slugger posted an OPS of 1.379.
2003 saw Bonds post his fourth-best OPS mark at 1.278.
Interestingly, this list features only three players.
The other two on the list are Ted Williams and Babe Ruth.
Williams appeared on the list twice thanks to OPS marks of 1.287 and 1.257 in 1941 and 1957, respectively.
Ruth appears on the list four times.
However, Bonds owns the highest mark of the three sluggers.
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