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Do you really think teams wouldn't walk Bonds if he had a good hitter behind him? The only time they wouldn't walk him was if you had someone truly great. Furthermore, if they didn't want to walk him he'd be teeing off the crappy pitches he'd force them to make by taking the borderline pitches and getting into good counts.

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No, I don't think that it'd really make much of a difference. But isn't OPS a rate stat that gets beefed up by a bunch of additional IBB... So if he did swing at all these... He'd get his avg*slg... Okay... I'm wrong.