Jun 12, 8:00 PM Koubek, Quarless choose school /BY SCOTT BROWN/ /FLORIDA TODAY/ * Walk Bonds?* Barry Bonds had walked a whopping 82 times going into Saturday -- Adam Dunn's 55 free passes ranked a distant second -- which is as much of a reflection of opposing managers refusing to pitch to him as it is his keen eye at the plate. But a Duke University professor did some numbers crunching and concluded that teams should not only pitch to Bonds but go after the Giants slugger -- especially when he leads off an inning. Tracking all of the runs scored following Bonds' plate appearances from 2001-03, Jerry Reiter found that the Giants scored at least one run 46 percent of the time and averaged 0.9 runs per inning any time Bonds led off a frame with a walk (about 80 at-bats). When he didn't walk to open an inning, the Giants averaged 0.6 runs and scored 36 percent of the time (roughly 300 at-bats). Reiter, an assistant professor at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke, started the study after talking baseball with a graduate student. He wrote a paper on his findings and the "Baseball Research Journal" published it in January. "In all, I probably put in three solid months of work to complete the paper," said Reiter, adding that his research showed teams are better off pitching to Bonds even if one runner is on base. Of course, try telling that to Rockies manager and former Merritt Island resident Clint Hurdle. In his last 17 games against the Rockies, Bonds has hit .529.