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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...
...What's fueling Fehr's concerns? For one, during baseball's general managers' meetings in Orlando last week, Theo Epstein of the Boston Red Sox and Larry Beinfast of Florida Marlins introduced a new element to the gathering. The GMs assembled in one room and each stated what their off-season priorities were, and who might be available in trades. To the execs, it was an efficient way to horse-trade information that they typically would share in various time-consuming, one-on-one conversations. Some teams spoke in general terms, others got a little more specific, Major League Baseball...
...Still, the union may be going a little overboard. It recently accused New York Times columnist Murray Chass of being an "enabler of collusion" by writing a piece in which he surveyed about a dozen GMs of their possible interest in A-Rod and found very few, if any, takers...
...allowing their teams to put more skilled defenders on the field. And baseball teams love to copycat. "This is a generation of players that have put a lot of focus on hitting," says Beane. "So, there's no question that one of the changes we've seen is that GMs will actually see young players and go, 'yeah, that guy could...
...long as the NBA entices youths with the promise of lucrative contracts and as long as GMs are forced to take immature, raw high-school talents out of the fear of passing on a Lebron or Kobe, high-school kids will keep skipping college to take their best shot at the NBA and financial security...