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Effectively Wild Episode 1975: Backdoor Curve

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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Is Barry Bonds a Hall of Famer?

Mr 3000 is about a Milwaukee Brewers player who retires after making the 3000th base hit required to enter the baseball hall of fame. Nine years later, a clerical error is discovered in validating three of the hits and keeping Ross from the ultimate baseball honor. The 47 year old player convinces the Brewers to let him rejoin the team to make his last three hits and sheds his selfish nature as he rediscovers his love of the game. This made me think hypothetically, if it were discovered that nine of Barry Bonds's career home runs weren't actually homeruns and he needed to hit three more to reclaim the all time home run title. How many of bats would it take

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