Los Angeles Dodgers famous person Shohei Ohtani is among the greatest hitters in baseball, however MLB’s all-time residence run king thinks it is just a little simpler now than it was in his heyday. Bonds appeared on the “All The Smoke” podcast and mentioned gamers at the moment have much less to fret about on the plate.
When Bonds was requested about Ohtani’s brilliance, he did tip his cap to the 2024 NL MVP. Bonds mentioned he admires Ohtani’s capacity to excel in each side of the sport.
“The pitching and hitting has been excellent for what he is performed,” Bonds mentioned. “Baserunning. He is a whole participant. There is no doubt about the kind of participant he’s and what he is completed in his profession.”
Regardless of that reward, Bonds asserted that hitting is not fairly as troublesome now as a result of fewer pitchers are plunking hitters following residence runs. Bonds mentioned Ohtani would not have been capable of hit a number of residence runs with out getting plunked within the previous days.
“The sport has simply modified,” Bonds mentioned. “The sport is manner totally different than it was after I performed. The identical manner Michael (Jordan) talks about it or anyone does. Ohtani just isn’t gonna hit two residence runs with out seeing one go (by his ear) in my era. I do not care what he does. He isn’t gonna steal two bases with out somebody decapitating his kneecap to gradual him down. It is a totally different recreation again then.”
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Bonds added there’s much less retribution for celebrating residence runs in at the moment’s period. He claimed he would have been hospitalized for gloating after parking a ball within the stands.
“They need to be higher than us hitting-wise as a result of they’ll hit a house run, throw their bat up within the air, run round, get a taco, come again down and have a limo drive them round,” Bonds mentioned. “All these antics that we weren’t allowed to do. If I did something like that, I am gonna see a star. I am gonna see a hospital, however I ain’t gonna see baseball that day.”
One other distinction Bonds alluded to was how a lot batting observe gamers get at the moment. He famous “these guys hit greater than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.”
The excellent news for Bonds, and his residence run report, is that Ohtani nonetheless has 537 homers to go earlier than catching Bonds. Even with the supposed benefits Ohtani has, that is a tall activity for any hitter.
