Boras Wants Posada Money For Varitek

Hopefully they sign Tek to a cheap 1 year deal plus an option and then get a young catcher like Salty or the Max Ramierz kid from texas

I've said it elsewhere and I'll repeat it here:

If the Dodgers signed Varitek and considered trading away or moving Martin to make room for him, it would be about the single most boneheaded move in the last decade.

If the Dodgers' management is actually that dumb, let 'em have 'Tek and we'll put together a swap of Lugo for Martin. That's no less ludicrous than moving a guy like Martin for Varitek. Hell, while we're at it, they can have Lowell in exchange for Kemp, Kuroda and Billingsley. That all sounds perfectly sensible, right?

Are you kidding me?! Posada money for a catcher that can't even hit above .250?! Posada hit .320+ the year before he got his new contract. Absolutely ridiculous for Boras to get that much.

Any GM that falls for that bait should be shot in the face. Or fired on the spot.

I want to punch Boras in his ovaries!

LOL
Never happening
Dare I say.....
The yanks even overpaid for posada

Posada can't do what tek can behind the plate. Case and point phil hughes and ian kennedy vs lester and masterson. Not to mention beckett, matsuzaka. Tek does it behind the plate posada does it at the plate. The reason tek doesn't deserve that much is cause neither did posada. He just plays for the yankees who notoriously overspend on old players. At least tek played this year...

Good luck with that, Scott and Tek.

Dumbasses.

It's not even that the Yankees overpaid for him. He was coming off the best statistical year of his career and his offensive numbers were staggering. Varitek was as close to an automatic out as you could get. His production was microscopic and he was a detriment to the lineup. It's only going to get worse the older he gets. I expect nothing less from Boras to try and get the most for his wallet as well as his client, but asking for 4 years at nearly 16MM per for an over the hill catcher who can't hit is outrageous. Going public just makes it seem like more of a reach and it makes his public image that much worse.

that is absolutely ridiculous. i don't even know what else to say.

2/10 or 3/13, anything else is lunacy.

I think this brings one question to all of our minds: Where does Scott Boras get his crack?!

Santana/Beckett is such a homer.....haha. How can you blame the struggles of Hughes and Kennedy on Posada? Vtek

HA HA HA. I guess Boras "calls a great game" too. I would LOVE to see V-Tek get that much money just not for the Red Sox. PLEASE...At this point Kevin Cash is NOT MUCH WORSE than Varitek. And there are 3 Rangers that can be had for one of the Sox's prospects.

As long as some team keeps playing into Boras' numbers, he's going to keep doing it.

God, please someone make a post bashing Scott Boras again, I can't get enough of them.

If you can't come up with something, pick a person and call them a homer.

I also like how people say V-Tek's off-field personal troubles were to blame for his offensive struggles, yet it didnt seem to affect his defense, game calling or throwing runners out at 2nd...OH WAIT..he kinda sucked at that too.

See ya later Jason!

HES GOT THE REEFER MADNESS!

... the next year, it starts all over, with the same people still sitting here talking about what a moron Boras is. It is just a never ending cycle.

Type Key cut half my post in half. Is that a new feature?

Good luck trying to get a 37 year old guy who only had a .220 average that kind of money,if they don't back down the Red Sox need to move on,they moved on from Pedro Martinez,Johnny Damon,and Manny Ramirez they'll be fine without him.

I'm not siding with Boras, but you really think he's gonna go out and say "He should get 2 years/10 million"? You may all think he's crazy, but there's a reason why he's the most powerful sports agent.

"the possibility of russell martin to the sox for bucholz is seeming a whole lot more real now."
if anything wouldnt the dodgers stop and think?

hey?!
lets send our lightly paid allstar "5 tool" catcher to the redsox make them 5 times better and then sign tek for a boras in your face contract?
please god please no

I don't think anyone here actually thinks that Boras believes what he says half the time. It's just funny that he actually has the balls to say it. But you only need one GM/owner to drink the koolaid. Who would've thought that Arod would've signed a $250 million dollar deal with Texas and then a few years later sign one bigger? Who thought that the Sucks would sign Drew for that ridiculous amount of money? WHo thought the Sucks would pay $50 million just for the rights to TALK to a player? Who thought that after coming off an abismal year that Andru Jones would get a 2 year/$36 mil? If I was a ball player looking for a big payday I'd want him to be my agent too.

ahhh i hate it!!!

"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Boras should crawl in a hole and die."

Why? For being the best by far in the world at what he does?

For all of you calling him an idiot/dumbass/cracksmoker etc. You just don't get it. You all go nuts every time Boras makes some proclamation like this, but you are too stupid to realize that this is just part of what he does. He is an agent. And a damn good one. Anybody questioning the way he goes about business is the real idiot/dumbass/cracksmoker. You may as well question the way MJ played ball, or the way Tom Brady plays QB, or the way Albert hits a baseball. He may well be a tool as a person, but you have to be sort of a scum bag to be a good agent. It is what he does. I can't believe people still react like this when Boras speaks. Just let him do his thing, and get his guy paid. Obviously Tek is not worth Posada money, we all know.

Posted by: nrmax88 | November 04, 2008 at 06:46 PM

I get that he's doing his job, but there is a point of greediness. He has been kinda a jerk through his career too. I just think it's bad for baseball because I think he really controls a lot of these players and there decisions, like Joe Crede for instance. Crede likes the Sox, but KW and Boras bug the HELL out of each other so Joe wont be back. I think there might be some change if Boras would have stepped aside.

and really guys, stop the drug comments. there not funny, your just saying taking what the previous commenter said and replacing the drug name with a slang word.

lol i think they would

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/11/russell-martin.html

please read

Posadas contract was a reward for being a great player and leader in the clubhouse all these years, same thing with mariano. Yanks obviously needed them both abck and can afford it so they hooked up a couple of the 4 ring crew.

Varitek is washed up, I hope Boras wises up and the big V signs back with Boston, it'll be the 2nd best move for the Yankees, Varitek stinks. The last thing Yankee fans want is Boston to go out and trade for Salty or Martin. Peter Gammons is a Boston shill

No matter what team you support, you kind of have to admire the Red Sox/Theo Epstein for their ability to set limits on players and walk away when those limits are surpassed.

Damon/Pedro were not resigned because they (in the Sox mind) surpassed their worth. The teams that signed these players have not gotten good value out of these guys at all.

With Manny this year, the Sox felt he surpassed his worth to the team when his distractions became to much to bear and they ended up downgrading on the talent side, but upgrading on the team unity side which led to a spot in the ALCS.

With Varitek, I expect they will do the same....set a limit on his value and refuse to budge from that ceiling. Boras knows the Sox well and I doubt he will try to call their bluff with Tek, because he probably knows they won't be bluffing.

Despite what many think, Kevin Cash offers many of the intangibles of Tek with regards to defense/game calling. Offensively, he is no gem, but neither is Tek.