Netflix has drafted another baseball legend for its MLB announcing team. The name? Bonds. Barry Bonds.
The streamer said today that Major League Baseball‘s all-time home run leader and seven-time NL MVP has joined the booth team for the three MLB events it will cover this upcoming season. The legendary slugger will debut with Netflix’s opening-night game, as his former team the San Francisco Giants hosts the New York Yankees on March 25.
Bonds joins fellow ex-Major Leaguers Albert Pujols, Anthony Rizzo, CC Sabathia and Hunter Pence on the announcing crew alongside Lauren Shehadi and host Elle Duncan. They also will call the annual Home Run Derby on July 13 and MLB at Field of Dreams game on August 13, which will stream live on Netflix.
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Next week’s opening-night game will be Netflix’s inaugural trip to the MLB plate after it inked a three-season deal with the league in November that also gave TV rights to NBCUniversal and ESPN. No financial terms were announced, but Wall Street Journal pegged the value at $800M a year as viewers and advertisers continue to flock to live sports.
Bonds is something of a polarizing figure among baseball fans. Inarguably one of the league’s handful of greatest players ever, his legacy was tarnished by doping allegations later in his career that have kept him out of the Baseball Hall of Fame. The son of fellow former Giants star Bobby Bonds, he broke in with the 1986 Pittsburgh Pirates, playing seven seasons with the club before joining San Francisco in 1993. Barry Bonds spent his last 15 seasons with the Giants, leading them to a 2002 World Series championship before retiring in 2007.
Along the way, Bonds shattered a number of near-mythical MLB records including most career home runs (762), most homers in a single season (73 in 2001) and most MVP Awards with seven — four of which came in consecutive years with the Giants from 2001-04.
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