Barry Bonds tells a curious George Steinbrenner story in Netflix MLB debut
What's more likely: Barry Bonds lying/misremembering or George Steinbrenner ignoring a ban from baseball?
Along with the rest of the Netflix crew, Barry Bonds made his MLB streaming debut with the service in the MLB Opening Night game between the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants on Wednesday . The MLB all-time home run leader will be working as an analyst for the Netflix pre- and postgame shows this season , and he made an appearance in the booth during the sixth inning Wednesday. During that interview alongside Matt Vasgersian, CC Sabathia and Hunter Pence, Bonds recalled an interesting story about his free agency following the 1992 season, when he left the Pittsburgh Pirates for the Giants.
The Yankees were one of Bonds’ other suitors at the time, and he claimed it wasn’t money that ended up pushing him away from the Bronx. He said it was former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season Barry Bonds tells the story of how he nearly became a Yankees player.
WILD 😳 #OpeningNight pic. twitter. com/UDQHnbVuNQ — Netflix Sports (@netflixsports) March 26, 2026 Bonds’ recollection: “George isn’t here anymore, so I can tell the truth.
I would have been a Yankee, but Steinbrenner got on the phone, and he called us. They told me, ‘Barry, we’re going to give you the money’ — the highest-paid player at that time — ‘but you have to sign the contract by 2 o’clock this afternoon. ’ “I said, ‘Excuse me?