At their peak who was the more dominant player

[PowerT83]

ESPN has a pole up about this so I figured I would see what the Nation thinks.

Griffey Jr or Barroid.


Griffey Jr. is my favorite baseball player ever, he has got the smoothest swing I have ever saw, and back in his prime he was a great CF.


Bonds has never been a great fielder IMO, but its kind of hard to argue against someone that had 72 HRs in a season so I got to say he was more dominant.

[doozer]

if Griffey had been able to stay healthy, we'd be talking about him approaching Barry instead of talking about him hitting number 600.

[VOLNBAMA]

Originally Posted by PowerT83

ESPN has a pole up about this so I figured I would see what the Nation thinks.

Griffey Jr or Barroid.


Griffey Jr. is my favorite baseball player ever, he has got the smoothest swing I have ever saw, and back in his prime he was a great CF.


Bonds has never been a great fielder IMO, but its kind of hard to argue against someone that had 72 HRs in a season so I got to say he was more dominant.

Bonds was a very good fielder in his prime.

[VOLinthaATL]

Originally Posted by PowerT83

ESPN has a pole up about this so I figured I would see what the Nation thinks.

Griffey Jr or Barroid.


Griffey Jr. is my favorite baseball player ever, he has got the smoothest swing I have ever saw, and back in his prime he was a great CF.


Bonds has never been a great fielder IMO, but its kind of hard to argue against someone that had 72 HRs in a season so I got to say he was more dominant.

72* He was roided up in 2001 no doubt!

You have never heard anything about Griffey doing anything like that, not even a peep I don't believe. I'll take the guy that did it naturally. You can have Barry and his size 23 dome...

[VOLNBAMA]

I will go with Jr. If it wasn't for all those injuries he would be getting ready to break the HR record.

[VOLinthaATL]

Originally Posted by VOLNBAMA

I will go with Jr. If it wasn't for all those injuries he would be getting ready to break the HR record.

Very hard to speculate but it would have been fun to watch!

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by PowerT83

Bonds has never been a great fielder IMO.

His shelf full of Gold Gloves say otherwise.

[VolfanMike]

Bonds was a very good fielder in his prime, he was awesome before he got on the juice.

I'll take a 1990 roidless Barry over a 1990 Griffey

[volfanbill]

It all depends on your definition of "prime". The player Bonds was becoming as a Pirate before he beefed up (and I'm not going to speculate what he did) was a 5 tool player. He could hit, hit for power, run, had a good (I won't say great) arm, and was a very good fielder. After beefing up he lost a lot of speed and seemed to lose his touch in the OF.

[volfanbill]

I will also add that I agree Jr would be going for the HR record (or might already have it) if he not been injured so often. However, I hate "if" statements. If my aunt had ba***, she'd be my uncle. Personally I'd take Jr's Mariner days over Bonds.

[BigPapaVol]

'roids or no, Barries 3 year run at the plate was the best ever. You wanna talk about dominant, his OPS was like 1.4 at some points. That's obscene.

I can't stand Bonds, but he surpassed the Babe's marks for season slugging, all while being pitched around. That's hard to refute. Griffey was awesome, but not like that.

[doozer]

Originally Posted by volfanbill

I will also add that I agree Jr would be going for the HR record (or might already have it) if he not been injured so often. However, I hate "if" statements. If my aunt had ba***, she'd be my uncle. Personally I'd take Jr's Mariner days over Bonds.

i agree. based on what actually happened, you have to say Bonds. based on what could have happened, you can make a case for Griffey.

don't like to say balls?

[volfanbill]

Originally Posted by BigPapaVol

'roids or no, Barries 3 year run at the plate was the best ever. You wanna talk about dominant, his OPS was like 1.4 at some points. That's obscene.

I can't stand Bonds, but he surpassed the Babe's marks for season slugging, all while being pitched around. That's hard to refute. Griffey was awesome, but not like that.

I just like the all around player better. Offensively, you are correct. Bonds' run at the plate was miraculous.

Originally Posted by doozer

i agree. based on what actually happened, you have to say Bonds. based on what could have happened, you can make a case for Griffey.

don't like to say balls?

figured it wouldn't be PC enough.

[Vercingetorix]

Originally Posted by hatvol96

His shelf full of Gold Gloves say otherwise.

Isn't winning a Gold Glove for playing left field sort of like being the hottest girl in a Hooters in Paducah, Kentucky?

[Vercingetorix]

Originally Posted by volfanbill

I just like the all around player better. Offensively, you are correct. Bonds' run at the plate was miraculous.

I'm not sure that a "miracle" is what I'd call it. It wasn't exactly a phenomenon without a rational explanation.