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In addition, he has the record for most MVP awards (seven) and
probably deserved to win the MVP a couple more times, most notably
1991. And he wasn’t all bat, either. He holds the all-time record for
putouts by a left fielder, won eight Gold Gloves and stole 514 bases.
How about Roger Clemens?
• Third all-time in strikeouts (4,672)
• Ninth all-time in wins (354), but third among pitchers who didn’t
spend the bulk of their career in the deadball era;
• Sixteenth all-time in innings pitched, but ninth among nondeadballers;
• Seventh all-time in games started;
• Third all-time in WAR for pitchers;
• Tenth all-time in adjusted ERA+ (which is analogous to OPS+ in
that it weights for era); and
• First in several other complex era-adjusting statistics such as runs
saved, win probability and the like.
Like Bonds and his MVPs, Clemens has seven Cy Young Awards and
arguments for more. He also has one MVP award of his own.
When you look merely at their production and their dominance, the
number of hitters better than Barry Bonds and the number of pitchers
better than Roger Clemens in all of baseball history can be counted on one
hand. Comparing Bonds and Clemens to people like Babe Ruth, Willie
Mays, Ted Williams and Walter Johnson is not just not hyperbole. It’s
absolutely necessary, for their like has rarely if ever been seen in the game
of baseball. Put simply, they are immortals.
But their baseball exploits are not the end of the story, obviously.