Grimsley Is No Longer Being Paid

Jason Grimsley plans to fight the Arizona Diamondbacks’ decision to withhold the remainder of his $825,000 salary.

“The whole thing is already in process,” agent Joe Bick said Saturday. “We haven’t filed anything yet, but the players’ association is aware of it.”

The reliever was given his release Wednesday, a day after federal agents searched Grimsley’s home in an investigation into performance-enhancing drugs. At that time, Bick said that “there was no negotiation” over Grimsley’s remaining salary and that “released players get paid.”

But Bick said he received a call Friday from Arizona General Manager Josh Byrnes, who told him the club had decided not to pay Grimsley, signed as a free agent last winter.

Ken Kendrick, the Diamondbacks’ managing general partner, told the Arizona Republic that the decision to withhold Grimsley’s pay is “the moral thing to do.”

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Barry Bonds sat out his fourth consecutive game because of a sore left side and probably won’t play until San Francisco begins a series Tuesday at Arizona.

Bonds has dropped a lawsuit against the authors of the book “Game of Shadows” that claims he used steroids. Bonds asked June 2 that the suit against San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams be dismissed, according to a filing posted on the San Francisco Superior Court’s website.

Bonds’ attorney, Michael Rains, told the New York Daily News that Bonds is willing to cooperate with baseball’s investigation of performance-enhancing drugs in the game provided the information isn’t used against him by federal prosecutors.

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Philadelphia catcher Mike Lieberthal was put on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 6. He has a strained left hip.... Washington outfielder Jose Guillen was activated from the disabled list after being sidelined because of a strained right hamstring.