Barry Bonds will soon be immortalized in San Francisco.
The Giants plan to build a statue of Bonds outside Oracle Park, CEO Larry Baer said on 95.7 The Game on Wednesday.
"On the radar, I would say it's say on the radar," Baer said. "Barry is deserving of a statue and I would say, should be next up. We don't have the exact location and the exact date and the exact timing, but you're saying things that we're totally in-sync with. You probably notice, Barry's around a lot, more recently this year and last year as well... It's coming. All I can say is it's coming."
The Giants already have statues of Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry.
Bonds isn't in the National Baseball Hall of Fame due to steroid controversy, but that doesn't reduce what he accomplished between the white lines.
Bonds hit 762 MLB home runs, including 586 in 15 years with the Giants.
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In his San Francisco career, Bonds batted .312 with a .477 on-base percentage and a .666 slugging percentage.
He had his 73-homer season with the Giants, and was the most feared slugger in baseball for many years in a San Francisco uniform.
Fans already started to wonder where the statue might be placed. Maybe he should hang out back by McCovey Cove, which Bonds made his own personal splash zone.
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