Bonds' agent decries lack of contract offers

Last update: July 14, 2008 - 9:19 PM

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NEW YORK - The agent for Barry Bonds said no teams have expressed interest in signing baseball's career home run king, and the agent added that he does not expect any to make a pitch for him.

Agent Jeff Borris was at the All-Star headquarters hotel in Manhattan and said, "I am not optimistic any team will approach me about Barry before the [July 31] trading deadline."

Borris said he had made a sweeping offer to many major league teams, which he compared to the one Andre Dawson once made, when he offered to sign a blank contract and let his team fill in the salary amount. Borris said he made it known throughout the big leagues that Bonds would play for the major-league minimum of $390,000, and still got no offers.

"If that doesn't raise a level of suspicion, I don't know what does," Borris said. "I think it's a pathetic ending to the story."

The agent added that if a team signed Bonds today, he would start taking live batting practice tomorrow and would be ready within two weeks.

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