Jeff Borris has finally accepted what we’ve all known for a long time: No team will touch Barry Bonds.
Borris, Bonds’ agent, told the San Francisco Chronicle that there is no chance of finding Bonds a major-league spot in 2010. Bonds, 45, has yet to officially retire, but he last played in 2007 — the year he broke Hank Aaron’s all-time home run mark.
“It’s two years since he played his last game, and if there was any chance he’d be back in a major-league uniform, it would have happened by now,” Borris told The Chronicle. “When 2008 came around, I couldn’t get him a job. When 2009 came around, I couldn’t get him a job. Now, 2010 … I’d say it’s nearly impossible. It’s an unfortunate ending to a storied career.”
Teams have been scared away by Bonds, who was the face of the steroid controversy, and in 2008 was ‘under an indictment accusing him of lying to a federal grand jury about never knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.’
“I’m sure if they gave him two weeks in a cage, he’d be hitting amongst the best in the game right now,” Borris said. “But Major League Baseball will never give him that chance.”
In 23 major league seasons with the Giants and Pirates, Bonds hit .298 with 762 home runs and 1,996 RBIs.


