Barry Bonds Reportedly Under Consideration to Become Marlins Hitting Coach

The 51-year-old coaching neophyte would work in tandem with another hitting coach under new Marlins manager Don Mattingly.

All-time Major League Baseball home run champion Barry Bonds is reportedly under “serious consideration” to serve as an additional hitting coach for the Miami Marlins.

CBSSports.com reported earlier Monday that the Marlins were having internal discussions about hiring Bonds as a hitting coach.

While Frank Menechino is expected to return to the team, the Marlins would employ two hitting coaches to bring Bonds on board.

Former big league outfielder Barry Bonds last played in 2007, with the San Francisco Giants, when he hit 28 home runs giving him 762 for his career, the most in baseball history.

Bonds, who worked out with Yanks’ slugger Alex Rodriguez last winter, is known to love coaching. Following his second spring training with the Giants, the team discussed assigning him to an instruction role during the season after he was “well-received” by the players.

Bonds was the key figure in the BALCO steroids scandal.

The potential monumental move of the Marlins adding Bonds to their coaching staff could further enhance an already talented lineup that consists of Giancarlo Stanton, Dee Gordon, Christian Yelich and others.

He was convicted of the obstruction charge in 2011, but an 11-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel overturned the conviction in April.

In the three years his name has appeared on the Hall of Fame ballot, Bonds has fallen well short of the 75% vote required for entry into Cooperstown.