Why aren't we talking more about Fred McGriff? :: UK MLB Supporters Club :: Get... Page 1 of 5 Trons Atlantic Sports: tel: 0671 75& 299:2 August Welcome jchetwynd! logout forums . Home . Top List . Your Account 2m:HS Main Menu = [ Edit] [ Delete] Related • Home Why aren't we talking more about Fred links III McGriff? • M.y Account Posted by jchetwynd on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - • More • Administration about Josh 08:32 AM Chetwynd • Site Stats • Logout l/'" '\ Since the end of the World Baseball • News by r : Classic, the talk of baseball has been jchetwynd • Topics l... . ... 1 Barry BO~,ds.Detailed allega~ions fro.m • Sections \{JOSH CHETw\'tmv/ the book Game of Shadows are being Most read described by some as the smoking gun • Recommend Us that ties Barry Bonds to steroid use. Some pundits story in have argue that what makes Bonds' alleged steroid Josh • Forums intake so tragic is that he was a first-ballot Hall-of- Chetwynd: • Live Chat Famer before he supposedly started juicing. Great Britain While this is likely true, a look at Bonds compared to and the Authors III a contemporary - Fred McGriff - illustrates that any Major • David Lengel steroid use has not just slightly padded the stats of a Leagues • Jon Pearce future Hall-of-Fame star but has made all the • Erik Janssen difference in his legacy. • Jonathan Gould • Josh Chetwynd For those of you who don't remember Fred McGriff, he was a premier slugger in the 19805 and 19905 Sections III who was less than a year older than Bonds. During the first 15 full years of his career, which effectively • Biographies started one year after Bonds broke into the Big • MLB on TV Leagues in 1986, McGriff hit more than 30 home runs • Guest Authors nine times in a season. That's just one fewer than • Last Week in Bonds in his first 15 years. McGriff also drove in Baseball more than 90 runs eleven times during that span. In contrast, Bonds topped that number just nine times Info III (although Bonds did have two more 100-RBI years I during that period.) McGriff also did something Bonds • About has still failed to do: he led a team (the 1995 Atlanta Braves) to a World Series championship. Such a title Quotes III remains elusive for Bonds. There is little doubt that during those 15 years, I never thought Bonds was a more complete player. He won eight home runs were all Golden Gloves and stole at least 20 bases in all but that exciting. I still three of his first 15 seasons. (McGriff never earned a think the triple is Gold Glove and never tallied double digits in stolen the most exciting bases in any season.) Bonds also won three MVP thing in baseball. To awards. (That said, McGriff did finish in the top-ten in ! me, a triple is like a MVPvoting six times in his first 15 years - just four I guy taking the ball times fewer than Bonds.) on his l-yard line and runninq 99 Still, despite Bonds' obvious advantage, it wouldn't yards for a be too much of a stretch to say as late as 1999 or touchdown. 2000 that Bonds and McGriff were somewhat similar http://www.baseballfan.co.uklmodules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&... 20108/2006