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By Can_of_corn · Posted
Heh, that's some fair criteria you set. I don't see anyone doing it better (over an 18 month window, with lower payroll and only using the last five years)! You should be posting about historic stats on Twitter. There are a thousand ways to skin a cat. Elias has done a great job, that doesn't diminish what some other people in the industry have accomplished. I think Elias gets tons of flowers on this site, a huge amount. I think we hear daily about it. I think the National media has given him his flowers. I think it's nonsense to think he is somehow being overlooked by anyone. How much more look at me do you want? -
By Roy Firestone · Posted
You dont have to like him. Some people don’t. A lot of fans blame him and other agents for driving up the high cost of sports. Even mentioning his name to baseball fans brings out contempt and hate. But heres the thing. Scott Boras has done his job for the last 40 years, and he’s done it better than any other agent in the game, whether you like him or his style, or not. Boras has been recognized by Forbes as the World’s Most Powerful Sports Agent multiple times, he has negotiated 16 record-breaking contracts and numerous agreements totaling over $100 million. The other night, when I hosted and help induct him into the California Sports Hall of Fame,I asked him if it hurts to be held in such contempt. The former baseball player from Sacramento said this, “I don’t need to be adored. I don’t think any agent has ever been liked by the fans, but my job is to get my clients the best contracts, the best professional advice and protection and of course, the best financial deal we can make.” Boras told me that he thought the Shohei Ohtani contract for the Dodgers, valued at 700 million dollars over 10 years(much of it deferred) was a “steal” for the Dodgers. Huh? A steal? How? It’s the richest contract in all of sports history. But heres why Boras thought the Dodgers “stole”Ohtani. “The Japanese and Chinese and Korean media and merchandise markets, and brand upgrade was this year alone, worth 180 million dollars to the Dodgers. That’s just THIS year”, said Boras. "Imagine it over the course of a decade”, said Boras. “If I represented Ohtani, and I don’t, I wouldn’t have allowed him to sign the deal that he made with the Dodgers. I think his contract is worth at least a BILLION dollars, not 700 million. That means players like rising superstar Gunnar Henderson and pitcher Corbin Burnes, both Boras clients, are looking at eventually hundreds of million dollars in salaries and all kinds of additional revenue streams. “I love the new owner of the Orioles, David Rubenstein, the leader of the Carlyle Group.He’s got an open love for his team like no owner I’ve ever seen and he said he’s willing to do what it takes to keep his biggest stars in Baltimore. Baltimore didn't;t have that kind of ownership before. Rubenstein, 74, a former White House staffer who became a leveraged-buyout legend, built Carlyle into one of the world's largest managers of alternative assets. He has a net worth of about $5 billion. The control stake of the team -- along with its related assets, including its stake in the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network -- was sold for $1.725 billion to Rubenstein, so he has plenty more money and is willing to spend. That doesn’t mean Boras would sign a “hometown friendly” deal to either player, Burnes is a Free Agent next year, Henderson after about 4 more years. But Boras with other Oriole clients, Jordan Westburg, and Jackson Holliday, is going to be an important figure for baseball’s future in Baltimore and a lot of other franchises too. You may not like Scott Boras, but his clients do. He’s just doing his job. And he does it better than anyone in his profession, and it’s not even close. -
I don't see anyone doing it better. Find me a better season and a half stretch with a lower payroll wrt to competition in the last 5 years. And as noted, the arrow still points upwards. -
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I’d certainly trade Holiday for, say, Skenes and Bednar, but it’s tough to find a match with the big three that works for both sides. Like I’d probably do Basallo for Skubal, but I’d doubt that would be enough for Detroit and I wouldn’t want to add in another top 100 type of guy. In my mind, Urias, Stowers and Norby are the spare parts where we need to find a way to get value for them this July. -
By Can_of_corn · Posted
We can keep going back to 2019 if you want? 😉 The O's aren't the only ones doing more with less, they aren't the only ones that are competent. -
By ShoelesJoe · Posted
Jackson Holliday gets us the most back in a trade, while the performance of Westburg and Henderson in Baltimore, and Mayo in Norfolk, means trading him away probably wouldn't leave a big hole in our future. Would JH get us Skubal from the Tigers? If so you'd have to seriously consider it.
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