By baseball’s most famous statistic, Jeff Kent is the best hitting second baseman of all time. WillLaws says that’s worthy of the Hall of Fame
in ’96 by Cleveland for fan favorite third baseman Matt Williams, a swap so detested by the team’s fans that new GM Brian Sabean had to clarify he was “not an idiot” in a press conference days after the deal.
The two instantly clashed. One day during his first spring training, Kent unknowingly took Bonds’s seat on the team bus. Bonds, who was used to getting his way, told him to move. Kent refused. Bonds, to the shock of his teammates, eventually acquiesced. It would be the first of many arguments between the two . But it also set the tone for perhaps the most productive one-two punch in the sport during their time together.
Bonds, MLB’s all-time home run leader, was named on 66% of the ballots last year in his final year of eligibility, falling short of the 75% required and . This year marks the last time that Bonds’s greatest teammate will be on the ballot. Kent received affirmative votes from 32.7% of the electorate, the most he’s ever gotten. That’s less than half the support Bonds garnered last year despite Kent being something of a home run king himself; and has never been connected to PED use.
Is this the deserved fate for the best home run hitter at his position in MLB history? It’s a title that’s not really up for debate. Kent hit 42 more homers than Robinson Canó, who owns the second-most among second basemen and 76 more than third-place Rogers Hornsby, who’s the only second baseman in Cooperstown with a slugging percentage higher than Kent’s .“beach boy turned cowboy,” the son of a police officer grew up in Huntington Beach, Calif.
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