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...wouldn't sign him," says Don Slaught, a former teammate of Bonds with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and batting coach for the American League-champion Detroit Tigers in 2006. "It would just cause too many distractions for my team...
...Slaught, however, doesn't rule out the possibility of some team taking a chance on Bonds. He is still a powerful hitter with insane plate discipline, which will tempt GMs to offer him a deal. In 2007, he slugged 28 home runs and led the National League in on-base percentage for the 10th time. His finished sixth in OPS - on-base plus slugging percentage - a favorite stat among the number-crunching set. (When reached by TIME, Mr. Moneyball himself, Oakland general manager Billy Beane, declined to comment on Bonds.) Now that Alex Rodriguez has reunited with the New York...
...years old and precludes off-season testing: "They're not in contact with reality. I mean, the program that they put together is a joke." Players are tested once during the season. First-time offenders are placed in treatment programs but not sanctioned. Former major league catcher Don Slaught, who played from 1982 to 1997 and with Bonds in Pittsburgh from 1990 through 1992, insists that even in the '90s it was common knowledge in locker rooms that steroid use was rampant. "But there was no animosity," he says of the relationships among those who cheated and those who didn...
Gardner, obtained in the 1985 trade that sent Bob Ojeda to the New York Mets, relieved winner Bruce Hurst (2-0) with men on second and third and none out in the seventh. He struck out Pete Incaviglia, Larry Parrish and Don Slaught on 14 pitches to end the threat and allowed just one hit while striking out seven in three innings...
...Their first line is a powerhouse," White said. The freshman netminder stopped 42 shots of the Brown on-slaught, many in spectacular fashion...