Crunching The Numbers: What’s Barry Bonds Real Statistics Before ‘Roids?

A lot of people think Barry Bonds doesn’t deserve the home run record. I agree as well. Bonds probably has been using steroids for most of the past decade.

This is what brings me to something. Bonds was still good even before he started to juice up. He didn’t need them but he used them anyways. I don’t know why, but he just did.

So it gave this idea: What were Barry Bonds' real statistics? Bonds started to gain weight in 1997. He went from 190 pounds the year earlier and then went up to over 200 in ‘97.

During the 1997 season, Bonds had 40 homers. The year before that, he had 42. So with that, there could be a suspicion of steroids in 1996 as well. But for me, I think it truly started in 1997. So let’s stick with that...

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