Barry Bonds is joining the Miami Marlins' staff as a hitting coach, the team announced Friday.
Bonds most recently played in the majors in 2007. He has worked as a special instructor for the San Francisco Giants during spring training the past two seasons.
Bonds holds Major League Baseball's record for career home runs with 762. He hit 73 homers in 2001, an MLB record for a single season, and had a career batting average of .298 over 22 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Giants.
After retiring, Bonds was indicted in December 2007 for his testimony before a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and its distribution of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds told the grand jury he didn't realize the substances he used were illegal PEDs. He was convicted of an obstruction charge in 2011, but an 11-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel overturned the conviction in April.
Bonds has been denied entry into the sport's Hall of Fame by baseball writers largely due to his PED use. This year, he appeared on 36.8 percent of ballots -- less than half the 75 percent needed.
Bonds joins the staff of Don Mattingly, who recently became the Marlins' seventh manager since June 2010. One of the players Bonds will tutor is $325 million slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
The team also said Friday that last year's hitting coach, Frank Menechino, will return as assistant hitting coach. Miami hired Tim Wallach as bench coach and Juan Nieves as pitching coach.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
Bonds most recently played in the majors in 2007. He has worked as a special instructor for the San Francisco Giants during spring training the past two seasons.
Bonds holds Major League Baseball's record for career home runs with 762. He hit 73 homers in 2001, an MLB record for a single season, and had a career batting average of .298 over 22 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Giants.
After retiring, Bonds was indicted in December 2007 for his testimony before a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and its distribution of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds told the grand jury he didn't realize the substances he used were illegal PEDs. He was convicted of an obstruction charge in 2011, but an 11-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel overturned the conviction in April.
Bonds has been denied entry into the sport's Hall of Fame by baseball writers largely due to his PED use. This year, he appeared on 36.8 percent of ballots -- less than half the 75 percent needed.
Bonds joins the staff of Don Mattingly, who recently became the Marlins' seventh manager since June 2010. One of the players Bonds will tutor is $325 million slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
The team also said Friday that last year's hitting coach, Frank Menechino, will return as assistant hitting coach. Miami hired Tim Wallach as bench coach and Juan Nieves as pitching coach.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
