The back of Barry Bonds' baseball card is full of stats that absolutely boggle the mind.
But there's one statistic that you wouldn't find there that might be the craziest of them all.
It involves the amount of times Bonds was intentionally walked with first base occupied. Usually, an opponent will use an intentional walk when that base is open.
But with Bonds, it didn't matter. The San Francisco Giants slugger put so much fear into the opposition's minds that it made sense to put him on anyway.
Bonds was intentionally walked 81 times in his career with first-base occupied, by far the most since 1955, when intentional walks were officially tracked.
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The rest of the leaderboard doesn't even have a fifth of what Bonds did.
Most intentional walks with 1st base occupied
— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) June 21, 2025
(since they started tracking in 1955)
Barry Bonds, 81 <----- no, really
Miguel Cabrera, 15
George Brett, 14
Willie Stargell, 13
Ryan Howard, 13
Hank Aaron, 11
Willie McCovey, 11
Harmon Killebrew, 11
Mike Trout, 11
Bryce Harper, 11
There's really no immediate significance of this. It just made the social media rounds on Saturday and is too insane to overlook.
Bonds was one of one, and there may never be another quite like him.
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