March 21, 2017

Bonds Comes Home

Barry Bonds is now part of the Giants front office:

It was contentious. It took years to negotiate. But the Giants and Bonds finally reached agreement on a front office position with a multiyear arrangement – a formal reestablishment of ties that is expected to pave the way for greater recognition between baseball’s all-time home run leader and the team that he lifted out of obscurity into one of the game’s preeminent franchises.

Someday soon, perhaps Bonds will pedal past a bronzed version of himself.

There’s the statue. Retiring his No.25. First up: A spot on the club’s Wall of Fame, for which Bonds is massively overqualified.

“We don’t want to do everything in 2017, obviously,” Giants CEO Larry Baer said. “The Wall of Fame is definitely in order. And down the line, we’ll plan for other things. It’s not like this is a one-year deal to see how this goes. It’ll be for a long time.

We will see. Bonds can be easy to dislike. His role as special advisor to the CEO is nebulous enough that Barry can pretty much do what he pleases, so he may not stay in one place long enough for people to get mad at him.

For Giants fans, this is great. They remained on his side to the end, and seeing him back in a Giants uniform should rekindle those feelings.

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