Quote Originally Posted by 1inStripes View Post
Putouts are very different than assists. He averaged less than 8 assists a year.

Also as a testament to his arm......Sid Bream.
I said as a young guy, Bonds had a very good arm, which is 100% true. No disputing that.

This year's NL LF leader, Matt Holliday, only had 8 assists.
Barry Bonds led the NL LFs in assists in 1989 (14), 1990 (14), 1991 (13), 1994 (10), and 1995 (12).
During his years in Pitt, Bonds averaged 11 assists per year as a LF.

Take out the last three years, Bonds averaged almost 10 assists per year, a very high number for a LF. One of the better throwing LFs of all time TBH.

Bonds had one of the best OF arms in the game in his younger years, and the stats back that up.
Even for his career as a whole, with the 8 assists per year as you pointed out, is a very good number and one of the better numbers of all time in terms of LF assists.
If 10, 11, 8, 9, are all league leaders or top 5, having a career average of 8 is pretty darn good.

1987 NL 10 (2nd)
1989 NL 14 (1st)
1990 NL 14 (1st)
1991 NL 13 (1st)
1994 NL 10 (1st)
1995 NL 12 (1st)
1996 NL 10 (2nd)
1997 NL 10 (3rd)
2000 NL 8 (2nd)
2001 NL 9 (3rd)
2004 NL 11 (1st)
Career 160 (2nd)

Bonds had a great arm