There have been many great players that have represented the San Francisco Giants organization proudly. One of the greatest baseball players to ever play the game in Willie Mays was one of them. Teams honor legends in many ways, whether it’s retiring their number, putting them in the team’s ring of honor, or building a statue.

Well, the Giants have plans to build a statue and it’s to honor a legend of the game and the organization. His name is Barry Bonds.

Giants To Build a Statue of Bonds

Everyone has a way they feel about Bonds. Yes, he came from the steroid era of baseball and that hits a sore spot for some baseball fans. For me, you truly can’t tell the story of baseball without talking about Barry Bonds. He truly was one of the best players to play this game and the numbers he displayed across being a Giant was spectacular. He truly was one of a kind.

Barry Bonds was an illustrious Giant and holds numerous records for the franchise. While, he holds the league across MLB for the most home runs, he has the Giants franchise record with 586. Furthermore, he holds the record for walks (1,947), runs scored (1,555), and stolen bases (263).

When it comes to being a further machine at the plate, he leads the Giants in batting average (.312), hits (1,951), doubles (381), and was an RBI machine (1,440). These are just the overall records. When it comes to single season, he still holds records and has numbers that are very hard to touch.

His 73 home runs (2001), is going to be a very hard record to break and imagine walking 232 times in 2004 and of those walks, 120 were intentional. There’s a reason we joke and say when someone gets intentionally walked, we call it the Bonds treatment. His ability and display of raw power gave him an .863 slugging percentage in 2001. Credit to Aaron Judge last season, being the first player since Bonds to have a slugging percentage above .700.

He helped get them to the World Series in 2002, but they ultimately lost that series unfortunately. In that run, he hit .356 with a 1.559 OPS. Absurd stuff. End of the day, when you do look back on it, he is a legend among the Giants franchise and the franchise is going to cement his legacy outside the park to honor it.

Giants CEO Larry Baer says that it’s on the radar and it’s coming and that’s all he can say right now. It certainly is more than earned and certainly deserved.

If there was ever to be another statue for the Giants outside of Oracle Park, I would nominate Madison Bumgarner, who was instrumental in their ability to win the World Series three times.