Avoiding force outs

Are any players significantly better at avoiding being forced on ground balls
at any or all bases enough that one player should replace another, say if the
tying run is on third and the winning run is on second and he is on first with
one out in the bottom of the ninth? Say if the man on first is Barry Bonds now
or was Big Mac the year he hit 70 homers? And say when the next hitter and
any pitch hitter available are prone to hitting grounders and are exceedingly
slow afoot?

And how good is BB at avoiding forceouts now anyhow? I am assuming Big Mac was
not all that great in '98.