Barry Bonds vs. Melky Cabrera

Melky Cabrera released the following statement (issued by the MLB Players Association):

"My positive test was the result of my use of a substance I should not have used. I accept my suspension under the Joint Drug Program and I will try to move on with my life. I am deeply sorry for my mistake and I apologize to my teammates, to the San Francisco Giants organization and to the fans for letting them down."

Melky Cabrera 2012 
Batting AVE .346

OBP .390

SLG .516

SUSPENDED: 50 games

"I went through the system. And that's what it is. And that's what I got. I went through the system. I'm in an appeal process right now. I was never convicted of steroids." 

-- Barry Bonds May 29, 2012

Barry Bonds needs a job

The MLB players’ union is considering a collusion grievance on Barry Bonds’ behalf.

MLB union chief Michael Weiner says: 

"There’s a potential grievance. I’d love to see Barry work in baseball in any capacity he’d like. Barry Bonds is not just a multitalented player but a multitalented individual. It would be wonderful to see him in whatever capacity he’d like to work in."

NY Daily News: Barry Bonds' desperate swing

It was announced this week with bad intentions, look out, that the Major League Baseball Players Association was going to come after baseball on a big collusion charge because nobody wanted to give Barry Bonds a job this past season. That was the first part of the announcement, anyway. The second was that the grievance wouldn't be filed right away, but rather in an "indeterminate period."

Lupica: Barry Bonds' desperate swing

Bud to Jeff: No Barry Bonds Collusion

Commissioner Bud Selig said Tuesday: "We have not found any indication of anything other than clubs making individual decisions that this player is not appropriate for them."


SF CHRONICLE: MLB dismisses collusion charge from Bonds' agent

Player's Union: concerns and more concerns

Union express concern over lack of offers to Barry Bonds

By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer

NEW YORK (AP)—The players’ association has expressed concern to the baseball commissioner’s office over the lack of offers to Barry Bonds, asking for additional information about the offseason’s free-agent market.

The union did not go as far as to file a collusion grievance on behalf of the 43-year-old outfielder, who remains unsigned since the San Francisco Giants decided not to make him an offer last year and he became a free agent.

“We’ve raised both general concerns and some player specific concerns,” Michael Weiner, the union’s general counsel, said Tuesday.


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Zero contract offers ... collusion??? ... players union smells a rat

Fehr says union will investigate why no Bonds offers as it examines free-agent market

By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP)—The lack of offers to Barry Bonds will be examined by the baseball players’ association as part of its annual review of the free-agent market.

Less than two weeks before opening day, the 43-year-old home run king remains unsigned.

“He’s in playing shape right now. He just hasn’t hit off live pitching,” Bonds’ agent, Jeff Borris, said Tuesday. “I’ve had conversations with Barry. It would probably take him about two weeks to get ready.”

Bonds was indicted in November on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice, charges stemming from 2003 grand jury testimony in which he denied knowingly using illegal performance-enhancing drugs. The seven-time NL MVP pleaded not guilty.