Bonds to the Tigers?
posted in trade rumors |I saw this first on The Cutoff Man, reporting Buster Olney was speculating about Detroit adding Barry Bonds to Detroit. Manager Jim Leyland is quite a Bonds supporter, and Detroit needs a left-handed bat. While Scott Warheit just summed things up, we get a a pair of posts from the Daily Fungo on the subject that I’m going to refer you to. Mike first brought this up as a controversial question: ‘Do you want Bonds on the Tigers?’ several days before the topic came up from Buster Olney. First, it was speculation of a free agency acquisition. Now it’s speculation of a trade.
I refer you to part 2 and part 3 for a nice recap.
Do I want Bonds on my team? Sorta. Not really, because I’m not too much in favor of his personality, his media circus, nor his insistance that he continue flying out rather than sending line drives all over the park like he’s shown he can do. That Barry Bonds, the one with a great liner and great OBP, that intrigues me. But he’s expensive and getting old. And would Tigers fans accept him? I’m not sure. I don’t really think so. Would he accept Detroit? If they’re winning, possibily, although I hear he doesn’t really want to leave the Bay Area and would probably prefer Oakland.
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