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Bonds' 'Prospects Look Bleak'

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The Associated Press

The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 15, 2008

NEW YORK - Don't expect to see Barry Bonds showing up in a pennant race.

The all-time home run leader has not received a single offer, agent Jeff Borris said Monday. He dismissed recent reports of interest from Arizona, Boston and the New York Mets.

"I'm an optimistic guy by nature," Borris said, "and I've told Barry that the prospects look bleak.

"And with the first trading deadline coming up, I can't understand why my phone is not ringing off the hook."

Bonds, who turns 44 in two weeks, was indicted last November on charges he lied when he told a grand jury in 2003 he didn't knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs. A trial is scheduled to start March 2 in San Francisco.

NATIONALS: Outfielder Wily Mo Pena will have surgery on his left shoulder.

Pena has a small tear in his left rotator cuff and fraying of the labrum in his left shoulder.

YANKEES: Left fielder Johnny Damon, on the disabled list for the first time in his 13-year career, had his first hitting session off a tee pushed back at least a couple days of because of soreness in his injured left shoulder.

OBITUARY: Red Foley, the most celebrated official scorer of his time in Major League Baseball, has died. He was 79.

From 1981 to 2001, Foley was an official scorer in 10 World Series, more than any other scorer in modern history.

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