Bonds showed that he can still make an excellent offensive contribution last season, what is keeping clubs from signing him isn't a fear of getting nothing for your money. Rather, it is how much money and how much grief would your club have to embrace in order to get whatever contribution Bonds could make. Barry has always equated money with respect and I can't see him offering his services cheaply. Does some club want to shell out 12 million for a DH who comes to the plate 400-450 times? Would that really be the difference between contending and one more crappy year for the Rays? Do they want to pay Bonds huge bucks so that they finish 19 games out of first place rather than 25? I think that if he is signed by a team at all, it won't be at the start of the season, and if it does happen during the season, it would be some club which is in contention but needs one more big bat to push them to the top.
There is also the concern of how Bonds would be accepted by any group of fans outside of San Francisco. Everywhere else he was greeted like Judas at a fundamentalist's convention and not just because he was a rival player. Would a club sign a player who is likely to be booed by the home fans?
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