Bonds signs with a team!
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Bonds resigned with the Giants for one year and will be paid $16 million for the 2007 season.
Hopefully he breaks the all-time HR record.
Hopefully he breaks the all-time HR record.
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<< <i>Bonds resigned with the Giants for one year and will be paid $16 million for the 2007 season.
Hopefully he breaks the all-time HR record.
I hope you're kidding...
Updated: Dec. 7, 2006, 10:42 PM ET
Report: Bonds to re-sign with Giants for 2007ESPN.com news services
Apparently prepared to leave the Bay Area, free agent Barry Bonds has instead agreed in principle to stay with the San Francisco Giants, MLB.com reported Thursday night.
The Giants were reportedly one of several teams bidding to sign the seven-time NL MVP. But MLB.com reported that the slugger will re-sign with the Giants in a one-year deal expected to be worth $16 million, pending a physical.
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Bonds has 734 home runs and is 22 from breaking Hank Aaron's career record. He has played 14 seasons for the Giants and is coming off a $90 million, five-year contract.
Bonds missed nearly the entire 2005 season after three operations on his right knee, prompting speculation on whether he was almost done. But the left fielder bounced back this year to play 130 games, hitting .270 with 26 homers and 77 RBI.
Shadowed by allegations of steroid use and a target of boo-birds in many opposing parks, Bonds has remained a fan favorite in the Bay Area. He has been tied to the Giants by family and history -- his dad, Bobby, was a popular player with the team; his godfather, Willie Mays, is regarded as the greatest Giant of them all.
A seven-time NL MVP, a 13-time All-Star and an eight-time Gold Glove winner, Bonds has stolen more than 500 bases and is baseball's all-time leaders in walks.
Bonds met Wednesday with his former Pirates manager and now-Detroit skipper Jim Leyland, who is close friends with St. Louis manager Tony La Russa.
The Giants have been busy since the season ended. They re-signed Ray Durham and Pedro Feliz and also signed free agents Dave Roberts, Rich Aurilia and Bengie Molina, hoping to boost their lineup.
San Francisco cut ties with manager Felipe Alou after going 76-85 this season, and saw his son, outfielder Moises Alou, sign a free-agent deal with the New York Mets. Pitcher Jason Schmidt is working to finalize an agreement with the Dodgers.
Bruce Bochy was hired away from San Diego to manage San Francisco. Among the first things Bochy did after joining the Giants was phone Bonds.
The day after this season ended, Giants owner Peter Magowan said Bonds would not be the team's main cog if he returned in 2007.
"I think we need to go in a new direction," Magowan said in early October. "We have for a long time had a strategy that has worked well until the last two years, when it hasn't worked so well. The strategy has been one of having a great player -- maybe the greatest player in the game -- at the centerpiece and filling in with veteran players.
"For a long time that worked well. It caught up with us the past couple of years. Now we do need to get younger and healthier," he said.
Shortly before Thanksgiving, Magowan called the Bonds camp to clarify his remarks and say he did not mean to offend the star.
When the Giants did not offer salary arbitration to Bonds last week, his agent was miffed.
Borris said it spoke "volumes of their true intentions to have him back in a Giants uniform for the 2007 season."
"It has been well documented that the Giants were trying to sign Alfonso Soriano, Carlos Lee, Gary Matthews and Juan Pierre," Borris said. "And they have been working diligently in trying to trade for Manny Ramirez. The Giants' actions demonstrate that Barry obviously is not a priority to them."
Once the baseball winter meetings began, however, Borris and the Giants talked several times.
At this point in his career, only one thing is missing on Bonds' major league resume: a World Series ring.
Bonds has reached the postseason in seven different seasons, but made it to the World Series only in 2002 against the Anaheim Angels. With a chance to win the championship, the Giants blew a late 5-0 lead in Game 6 and lost, then lost Game 7.
Despite the defeat, Bonds hit .471 with four homers and had a .700 on-base percentage against the Angels. Overall, he is a .245 career hitter in the postseason.
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I hope he breaks a leg.
I almost sure one of the betting services is going to set odds for which game he does it in.
<< <i>I'm serious. He resigned with the Giants! >>
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<< <i>That chase next year will be biggest media circus since 1998. I expect Bonds cards to explode like his ever increasing melon head.
I almost sure one of the betting services is going to set odds for which game he does it in. >>
I don't know if it will happen next year. He hit 26 this year and needs 21 more next year to tie. He's a year older and another year off the HGH or Clear or Cream or Juice or Nutshrinker or Headexpander, I think you get my drift. I don't think he will be as healthy or as stron as this past year. I don't know if he'll hit more than 15 or 16. When Aaron was 41 he only hit 12 and Mays only hit 8 at 41. Now that Bonds is clean he may show some more signs of age.
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I agree zef but the fact is alot of the pitchers are no longer juicing either. I think with the weak pitching around the league he might hit more. Dont get me wrong i hate Bonds with a passion and hope he breaks a leg or something but its not looking good I think he will break it.
Bonds will be lucky to hit more than 15 this year.
<< <i>The Giants were stupid. They could have paid him $6m -- no other team wanted him bad enough to pay him anywhere near $16mm. >>
They were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They couldnt sign carlos lee, mathews jr or any of the other overrated players in this year's market....so, they were handcuffed by bonds' agent to sign him at an exorbitant price. the giants need barry to keep butts in the seat....especially when everyone knows the giants wont compete this season.