Are pitchers making Bonds BA higher?

No - human growth hormones are. IMO.
And have been - for quite some time now.

its,
That may very well be the case but hopefully we can leave it out of this particular thread and address the question otherwise we'll all just end up arguing about the same old thing.
Thanks,
CADad

My first thought is that it shouldn’t help his average.

However after thinking just a little more, I believe you are on to something especially if your other assumptions are valid.

If a pitcher pitches around him and finds himself 2-0 or 3-0 which happens frequently or even 3-1., Bonds is free to hit the next pitch and regardless of the result, the pitcher will very seldom continue to challenge him like they would most hitters. Therefore Bonds would suffer less strike outs.

A similar likely scenario is that a pitcher throws a strike. Bonds may hit it or may not but it would not be uncommon for the pitcher to be more careful to Bonds and throw the next pitches further from the strike zone than they would other players. This also provided Bonds a chance to get a hit with more impunity than other players in suffering a strikeout.

Either scenario over the course of a season, could result in validating your hypothesis.

As is now usually the case - I will shut up and go away.

Point taken.

Interesting. I am not sure I can go along with the incresed average, but, I follow the logic as to trying to swing harder on 2-0 & 3-0, instead of just trying to put the ball in play.....I don't know.....interesting though.

I wish I could teach hitters to wait for thier pitch the way Bonds does - I have rarely seen him swing at a bad pitch.

Itsinthegame do not go away. Its a valid point. What would normally be a routine fly ball is now a homerun. It may not be what this thread is actually about but he did it to himself. You can not discuss anything about Bonds without the issue of cheating entering the equation. Because thats what he is, a cheater.

Coach,

I have to admit - it is nice to have at least one person in my corner. Even in cyber world - its nice.

The truth is more important than anything else.

Without that - we are all just POS hypocrites. IMO.

Percentages work against having a better bqtting average based upon the circumstances of Bonds UBB's, IBB's and BB's.

The fewer AB's the more the percentages work to increase or decrease the batting average.

The greater number AB's the less the perectages will fluctuate. The less AB's (more BB's) or NTAB's the greater the fluctuation.

In fact, as a consequence of so many BB's Bonds AB's work against him and his margin for error in an AB is much less than a player who gets to hit with little to no BB's.

Interesting topic. Speaking of Bonds, his Dad held the all time single season strikeout record (189)for about 35 years until this year when Dunn broke it. During the year that Bobby Bonds set the K record, he was the leadoff hitter and hit .302 for the season, which is amazing considering the 189 K's. When he put the ball in play that year he hit .422. He also had 200 hits for the season which considering the K's is amazing too.

His body armor helps. I can't imagine Bonds, in the days before body armor, hanging over the plate against Drysdale...