If you want to asterisk it, yea, but the pitchers Bonds / Mac / Sosa hit home runs off of were probably roiding too so it all evens out. 70 is and should be the number imo
Gotta do it in under 154 games to avoid the asterisk. But Ohtani hit a lot of dingers off spider tacked balls, so maybe that should erase it.
come on Mets, please don’t Mets right now
welp
Quintessential Metsing. Can’t even put it in play.
If we believe Ohtani is clean then I think it’s 61.
There were hitters who didn’t juice when pitchers were.
73 you mean
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Off a change-up no less and LvL.
Ugh duh brain fart
Ohtani gets an asterisk, but its to remind people he was ALSO A STARTING PITCHER WHILE DOING THIS!!!
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A reminder that there is no actual asterisk on the single-season HR record of 73 and that Barry Bonds remains the GOAT hitter.
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I agree but I think its also fair to adjust for the era in which people played. Moralizing steroids = bad, recognizing steroids = good.
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When Babe Ruth hit 54 HR in 1920, 2nd place on that list was George Sisler with 19.
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Ok, Redbean.
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If anyone deserves astersiks, it’s the guys who played in a whites-only league.
Thats a bit of an exception because Ruth was a great but the ratio says more about the approach everyone else was taking. The next year 3 players hit over 20 and the year after that 3 players (including Ruth) hit over 35. Still really cool though.
When Barry Bonds had 120 intentional walks in 2004, the next closest was Jim Thome with 26
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An even crazier number, the top 3 other highest season totals (not by Barry Bonds who owns spots 1-3) of ALL TIME just barely best out his best season. McCovey twice and Pujols once = 129 over three seasons
For Christ’s sake this!
Only 6 players in history have been intentionally walked more times in their entire careers than Barry Bonds was from 2002-2004.
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