Report: Netflix pursuing Barry Bonds for Opening Day Giants-Yankees matchup

Before Barry Bonds served as the Miami Marlins' hitting coach in 2016, he had stepped away from baseball for quite some time. 

Bonds, who retired in 2007 after hitting a Major League record 762 home runs across 22 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants, is being recruited by Netflix to assist with the pre- and post-game coverage for the Opening Night matchup between the Giants and New York Yankees on March 25. 

The Athletic's Andrew Marchand reported Netflix's recruitment of Bonds on Wednesday. He noted that an agreement between the two parties is not in place. 

Bonds' time with the Giants 

Bonds spent 15 of his 22 seasons in MLB with the Giants, winning five of his seven NL MVP awards with the NL West club. 

The 61-year-old remains popular in the San Francisco Bay Area despite reports indicating he used performance-enhancing drugs during his career. Bonds hit a single-season record 73 roundtrippers in 2001, breaking Mark McGwire's total of 70 in 1998. 

Though he holds several hitting records and earned two dozen All-Star selections, Bonds appeared in the World Series just once with the Giants, losing in the Fall Classic in 2002 to the Anaheim Angels. 

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