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Bonds' forced retirement? Not collusion

How many guys coming off a season with a 1.045 OPS can't get a job?

That's the question that fueled Barry Bonds' collusion case against Major League Baseball. Arbitrator Frank Horowitz, however, ruled this week against Bonds' assertion that MLB owners conspired to keep him out of the game following a 2007 season in which the then 42-year-old outfielder hit 28 homers on a $19.3 million salary from the Giants. But they didn't offer him a contract and neither did anyone else, effectively ending a career smeared by the home run king's connections to performance-enhancing drugs and the BALCO case.