NEW YORK -- Barry Bonds probably will pick up a big postseason honor Monday, just not the one he wanted.

	Barry Bonds Left Field San Francisco Giants Profile
	2002 SEASON STATISTICS GM HR RBI R OBP AVG 143 46 110 117 .582 .370

After putting up another season of historic statistics, Bonds is favored to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award for the fifth time when the Baseball Writers' Association of America announces its voting Monday.

Bonds, the only player with more than three MVPs, won his first NL batting title this season with a .370 average and set records with 198 walks, 68 intentional walks and a .582 on-base percentage.

''The guy to me, Bonds, has been the most dominant from what I've seen in 35 years of watching major league baseball,'' said Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, the AL MVP in 1973. ''I haven't seen anybody do what Bonds has done the last two years.''

Bonds hit 46 homers, down from a record 73 the previous year, and a team-high 110 RBI as San Francisco won its first NL pennant since 1989. But Bonds and the Giants lost the World Series to Anaheim in seven games after being just six outs from the title in Game 6.

Bonds had said a World Series ring was the one thing he had wanted.

''It's not going to haunt us,'' he said after the Game 7 loss two weeks ago. ''We'll go to spring training and start again.''

MVP voting was conducted before the postseason, when Bonds hit .356 with eight homers, 16 RBI and 27 walks. The 38-year-old outfielder, who often appears aloof and combative, said he enjoyed the World Series, even though the Giants didn't win. He claims to dislike the attention.

''I just want to go to the ballpark, do my job just like anybody else, go home and be with my family,'' he said during the World Series. ''I chose to play baseball because I want to be the best at it for whatever it is for me. Being a team concept, doing the best I can. I don't like to talk about it really. I'd rather just show it on the field.''

He is showing his talents in Japan this week as part of the major league all-star tour. He homered twice Saturday against the Yomiuri Giants, then struck out three times Sunday against Japanese All-Stars.

Bonds' two-run homer Monday accounted for the big league all-stars' only runs in an 8-2 loss.

Bonds won the MVP award for Pittsburgh in 1990 and 1992 and for the Giants in 1993 and 2001, and could be a unanimous pick for the first time. He also finished second to Atlanta's Terry Pendleton in 1991 and to teammate Jeff Kent in 2000.

For winning the award, he would get a $500,000 bonus added to his $13 million. He would have gotten $150,000 for the World Series MVP award -- he was a 5-0 winner when votes were collected with the Giants ahead late in Game 6 but lost 4-1 to Anaheim's Troy Glaus when the Series ended the following night.