The Sidelines : Pirates at Odds With Bonds

--The Pittsburgh Pirates, faced with budget-breaking salary hikes, say they won’t offer Barry Bonds a multiyear contract despite the MVP’s threat to become a free agent after the 1992 season.

Bonds said he won’t re-sign even “for $100 million” if the Pirates don’t give him a long-term deal worth at least $3 million a year before his Feb. 15 arbitration hearing.

“And if I do leave, I’ll haunt the Pittsburgh Pirates,” Bonds was quoted as saying today by Pittsburgh’s two newspapers. “They’ll be the one team I will beat up on.”

Despite Bonds’ threat, team President Carl Barger said the Pirates won’t offer multiyear deals to players with two years of arbitration eligibility remaining. The Pirates won’t make a long-term offer to Cy Young Award winner Doug Drabek, who also can become a free agent after 1992.