We're a week or so into spring training here, the winter meetings have long come and gone, and Barry Bonds is still unemployed. No one seems to want to take a chance on him. San Diego seemed to be the most logical destination, but still, nothing.So if no MLB teams aren't going to take a chance with the 43-year-old slugger, his agent said he might take his services overseas.
"He's not retiring," Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris, told Metro yesterday. "He intends to play somewhere. If a door doesn't open for Barry in the major leagues, as unbelievable as that possibility sounds, then Japan certainly is an option."It would be a bit odd, but perhaps fitting last chapter for a man that -- PEDs or not -- is going to go down as one of the best hitters of all time. Although, this could make it easier for him to take down Sadaharu Oh now, right?
Borris, remarkably, has been driving from training camp to training camp in Florida, hoping to persuade a general manager of some major-league club to give Bonds a new opportunity.
HT: Larry Brown Sports




