And the Wait Continues...
Maybe I should wait until tonight's game is actually over (it's currently 4-2 Rockies in the 5th), but I wanted to chime in on Bonds' lack of success now for a reason.
Simming a 2206 season on OOTP, I noticed my cyber-Bonds was struggling just like our real one, just with a more likeable personality (it is my game). Now my fake Bonds is rated just like a 2004 Bonds, with off the chart power numbers and patience. But this Bonds was hitting .164 on May 1st.
But I did notice he had hit one homerun. It came April 29th against the D-Backs. So now that is my prediction. April 29. Real Bonds, real flesh and blood and horse testoterone Bonds will hit his first home run. Science has already proven it and I will now stop worrying.
And despite Bonds' struggles (real one, no more talk of the pixel one), he is still has a .521 OBP. Even if the power doesn't come, and it probably wont, you have to expect a hitter like him can at least hit .270. At this point I talk about how only if he's healthy, etc...But not having been able to see Bonds swing recently, I can't tell how much he's really reaching. Reports are he's a shaddow, a shell of his former self. But I still think that he could hit .270 with one arm if he had to; his eye and his sense of the plate is just that good.
We'll see if all those reports of him being capable of hitting .400 if he wanted too were true. I suspect he if decides he can't get the power anymore he'll start taking those doubles and walks, hit 15-20 homeruns and still, if not strike fear into pitchers, at least annoy the hell out of them.
Simming a 2206 season on OOTP, I noticed my cyber-Bonds was struggling just like our real one, just with a more likeable personality (it is my game). Now my fake Bonds is rated just like a 2004 Bonds, with off the chart power numbers and patience. But this Bonds was hitting .164 on May 1st.
But I did notice he had hit one homerun. It came April 29th against the D-Backs. So now that is my prediction. April 29. Real Bonds, real flesh and blood and horse testoterone Bonds will hit his first home run. Science has already proven it and I will now stop worrying.
And despite Bonds' struggles (real one, no more talk of the pixel one), he is still has a .521 OBP. Even if the power doesn't come, and it probably wont, you have to expect a hitter like him can at least hit .270. At this point I talk about how only if he's healthy, etc...But not having been able to see Bonds swing recently, I can't tell how much he's really reaching. Reports are he's a shaddow, a shell of his former self. But I still think that he could hit .270 with one arm if he had to; his eye and his sense of the plate is just that good.
We'll see if all those reports of him being capable of hitting .400 if he wanted too were true. I suspect he if decides he can't get the power anymore he'll start taking those doubles and walks, hit 15-20 homeruns and still, if not strike fear into pitchers, at least annoy the hell out of them.
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