This was a fun one. Special thanks to Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Retrosheet.
Chart Party: What if Barry Bonds had played without a bat?
In the boldest Chart Party yet, we relive every plate appearance of Barry Bonds’ 2004 season without a bat. The only thing crazier than this experiment is the way it turned out.
For further adventures in Chart Party:
- “We erased the three-pointer.” I rescored the entire 2015-16 NBA season as though the three-point line didn’t exist.
- “My favorite worst baseball player.” A tribute to Jeff Francoeur, who has had one of oddest and most endearing careers of his era.
- “Scorigami.” The history of every final score that has ever happened in the history of the NFL, as well as every score that has never happened.
Who cares about any of that? Here is bonus content! For this episode, I made this chart of every full season every hitter has ever had, expressed in terms of OPS. There are so many stories to tell in this chart that I decided to dump it in here with some random notes. Enjoy!
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