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No more free passes?

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Won't anyone ever pitch to this man? Barry Bonds may be the best player in baseball. But isn't it a little nuts that the best way to measure that is the fact that nobody ever lets him play? We have come to take Barry's intentional walks for granted now. But step back for a minute and think about what we're witnessing here: This man already has been intentionally walked 27 times this year. That's almost four times as many as any other player on any other team. (Next-most by anybody: seven, by ...

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