Barry Bonds statue outside Oracle Park ‘is coming,’ SF Giants CEO says

(KRON) — San Francisco Giants legend Barry Bonds might finally get his own statue outside of Oracle Park. A statue for Bonds is “coming,” Giants CEO Larry Baer said on 95.7 The Game Wednesday.

“I would say on the radar, a statue,” Baer said. “Certainly, Barry is deserving of a statue, and I would say should be next up. We don’t have the exact location, exact date, exact timing.

“It’s coming. All I can say it’s coming.”

Currently, there are five Giants players with statues outside of the team’s ballpark at 24 Willie Mays Plaza: Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry.

For Bonds, the statue could be one way to honor a franchise legend and arguably the greatest baseball player ever — despite not having the honor of being a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.

Bonds is a seven-time NL MVP, 14-time All-Star, eight-time Gold Glove winner, a 12-time Silver Slugger and has the MLB all-time home run record with 762.

Bonds has been controversially snubbed from the Baseball Hall of Fame for years due to his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. His last year of eligibility to get in through the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot ended was 2022.