Bonds Deal Complete

According to the AP, Barry Bonds has officially signed with the Giants for one year and $15.8MM. We can finally get on with our lives.  Bonds can earn another $4.2MM through playing time incentives.

San Francisco's lineup should look something like this (PECOTA projections follow):

1. Dave Roberts (CF) - .295/.365/.407
2. Omar Vizquel (SS) - .288/.354/.403
3. Rich Aurilia/Ryan Klesko (1B) - .277/.335/.440 and .266/.373/.418
4. Barry Bonds (LF) - .267/.441/.535
5. Ray Durham (2B) - .304/.373/.500
6. Pedro Feliz (3B) - .262/.312/.442
7. Bengie Molina (C) - .278/.323/.433
8. Randy Winn (RF) - .298/.355/.444

The Giants sure wouldn't mind to see Winn bounce back to that level. Overall, the offense should be OK when healthy.  The Giants are below average at the infield corners but above average elsewhere.

Comments

[Guitar Hero]

I kinda like this team in all their geriatric goodness. Bonds should be an interesting story to follow this year.

[Tony]

How do you have a career year at 35? How do you hit more than twice as many HRs as you'd hit the year before? How do you raise your slugging percentage by almost 100 pts over your career average and 50 pts over your best season to date? Ray Durham needs some special attention in the testing department.

[zubes007]

WAAAAAAAAAAY below average.

[Aduncaroo]

I find bonds stats interesting.

.267/.441/.535

They are definately reasonable, I just think its funny that a guy would bat .267 and have an OBP of .441. You would hope that guys notice he can't hit for average anymore and come at him a little more, but I guess they will probably still pitch around him based on the fact he has NO protection in that lineup. I would say that this is tragic, but I hate the guy, so i really don't care. Here is to hoping his knee doesn't allow him to walk to the plate.

[Aaron Schultz]

Good luck with Bonds in LF -- above average at what again?

[rhenderson58]

"...the offense should be OK when healthy..."

And that would be, how often? Two, three days a week?

God, they're old. So Winn's the only regular younger than 32? God, they're old.

[Droptop]

Adun - When teams finally started challenging Bonds is when he caught fire. Look how he finished the season last year, THAT is when he was challenged.

[tmar]

I can't wait until the prosecutors start challenging Bonds.

[Yu Hsing Chen]

They are also above average as a whole (by a huge margin) in age.

[nrmax88]

Dont worry about the Giants, they are going to win multiple world series rings in the near future. Ask barry zito he will tell you.

[Bleacher_Buddha]

I hope he crowds the plate this year. Some young gun pitches him hard inside. It runs up and beans him in his GIANT head and it pops like a zit. But his ego is so big it would protect him.

Zito had what 126 million reasons for not leaving the bay. Of the 126 million reasons not one was getting a WS ring. :-) I think he had a better chance of that on the east end of the bay.

Sorry not a big fan of Bonds. Roids or no roids he is a giant Schmuck.

[nrmax88]

That was sarcasm incase anyone didnt realize lol

[bravesbeast]

I am not a bonds fan myself, but I will say that I still respect the player he was pre steriods. I firmly believe he was a top five all time talent, as he actually was the perfect definition of a five tool player in the 90's, when he was healthy, and his arm may have lacked a little. The fact that he is the only 500/500 guy in the history of baseball I believe alone gives credit to how much talent the guy had in his heyday.

[beeniez]

Do the Giants have any position player prospects?