San Francisco Giants: Barry Bonds still not a Hall of Famer

San Francisco Giants great Barry Bonds could have been one of the best hitters of all time, but he decided to cheat, so he still isn’t worth of Cooperstown.

San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is a seven-time MVP, a 14-time All-Star, 8-time Gold Glove winner, 12-time Silver Slugger, and has 2 batting titles.

All of those awards will always be on his mantle. But do you know the one accomplishment that won’t be attached to Barry Bond’s name?

The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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It is written in stone. Barry Bonds used steroids during his career, and of course, that means he cheated which is not allowed in baseball and especially if you want to be in the Hall of Fame.

Bonds tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2000, which was months before his 73 home run season. The worst part of it was that he did it after he was well on his way to a Hall of Fame career.

So, people always like to make the argument that Barry Bonds was already a Hall of Famer before he used the steroids, but I say that then why did he make the decision to cheat if he was already on his way to Cooperstown?

Bonds is a great player even when he was with the Pirates, but if someone cheats in baseball they don’t belong in the Hall of Fame because they did not compile their career numbers purely based on their talent.

Those players that have cheated like Bonds and like Roger Clemens thought they needed to gain an advantage on the competition, and that is something that doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame.

Look, if Barry Bonds gets in then that makes Major League Baseball look bad and it opens up the floodgates for all cheaters to be in baseball’s most treasured building, and that is not what the Hall of Fame should be about.

The Hall of Fame is a group of very talented individuals in the history of baseball that played the game the right way, and Barry Bonds doesn’t belong in that group.

It is as simple as this: San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds used PED’s, so he doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame.