Graph of the Day: Barry Bonds' Historical RAR

by Sky Kalkman on Feb 26, 2009 9:00 AM EST

138 RAR in 2002. Gross.

WAR data from Fangraphs. All data relative to average, except RAR. Rep is the RAR of a replacement-level player in the same number of plate appearances.

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What I like about this, is that Bonds’ fielding data isn’t as terrible as many made it out to be. I always felt that towards the end of his career, with his knee problems, people unfairly slammed him for being “immobile” in LF. He clearly wasn’t a strong defender, but he was still out-fielding slugs like Pat Burrell and Carlos Lee.

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by xanthan on Feb 26, 2009 9:22 AM EST reply actions

Slugs? gee whiz xanthan, that’s pretty harsh. I woulda just called them lugs or something ;-)

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by baetown415 on Feb 26, 2009 1:50 PM EST up reply actions

That's just sick.

A 13 win player is incredible. It’s going to be sad when we have to go through the HOF conversation about Bonds. The guy may be an ass and a cheater but he was an incredible player.

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by azruavatar on Feb 26, 2009 10:17 AM EST reply actions

love the graph of the day. keep them coming.

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by larry on Feb 26, 2009 11:45 AM EST reply actions

Much thanks.

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by Sky Kalkman on Feb 26, 2009 2:45 PM EST up reply actions

What's sad about this graph:

It would probably take 5-6 (!) Giants position players this year to reach 138 RAR.

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by baetown415 on Feb 26, 2009 1:52 PM EST reply actions

giants a contender if bonds on the team?

semi-serious question – i realize he hasn’t played in a year and is old and has that whole federal trial thing. but he had pretty nice projections for last season and that division (certainly without manny) appears tight enough that a few breaks here or there and a big producer like a bonds could swing things.

/s/ someone who doesn’t follow the nl west much

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by larry on Feb 26, 2009 2:17 PM EST up reply actions

At this point probably not. Even looking at adding Manny Ramirez the Giants are only adding one or two wins over their current outfield. I don’t think that Bonds could add more than Ramirez given his time off.

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by WalrusMan on Feb 26, 2009 5:45 PM EST up reply actions