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Bonds, a seven-times National League Most Valuable Player
whose suspicion of doping has kept him out of the Hall of Fame,
was released after the Marlins offense finished near the bottom
of the league, the report said.
Under Bonds, who leads the all-time home run list with 762 and
hit an MLB-record 73 homers in 2001, the Marlins scored the
fourth fewest runs of 30 teams, only two spots higher than the
prior campaign.
According to the report, Marlins manager Don Mattingly had often
lamented the team's failure to score late in games and also
recently indicated the hitters were not doing enough in the way
of pre-game preparation and utilizing technology.
Miami missed the postseason for a 13th consecutive year and were
27th in the league with 665 runs, up from 613 in 2015. They
played most of the second half of the 2016 season without
injured slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto. Editing by Steve
Keating.)
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