MLB teams spent over $850MM on free agent contracts during the 2009-10 offseason. 45 different agencies were involved in those 122 Major League signings. Here's a look at the 15 agencies that brokered at least $10MM in free agent contracts:
- Boras Corporation: $165.05MM. That's less than half of the previous year's total, but still the best this winter. About 73% of Boras' total came from Matt Holliday. Boras has Manny Ramirez, Carlos Pena, Adrian Beltre, and Kevin Millwood next winter.
- ACES: $105.325MM. The Levinson brothers' agency had five players sign for over $10MM: Chone Figgins, Placido Polanco, Marlon Byrd, Jason Marquis, and Fernando Rodney. Aubrey Huff and Ross Gload are other clients. Many of ACES' deals this winter seemed to favor the player rather than the team.
- Octagon: $98.55MM. John Lackey's deal makes up about 84% of the total.
- WMG: $89.55MM. The Wasserman Media Group's contracts included Randy Wolf, Joel Pineiro, John Grabow, Rich Harden, Hideki Matsui, Jason Kendall, and Vicente Padilla.
- CAA: $83.575MM. Creative Artists Agency brokered big deals for Jason Bay and Ben Sheets.
- Hendricks Sports: $42MM. Just two deals for the Hendricks brothers: Aroldis Chapman and Andy Pettitte.
- SFX: $36.85MM. Wasserman acquired SFX a few years ago, and if you combine their totals they're #2. SFX brokered deals for Noel Arguelles, Adam LaRoche, Miguel Tejada, Vladimir Guerrero, and Bengie Molina, among others.
- Beverly Hills Sports Council: $30.845MM. They did Jose Valverde's two-year deal, and were also behind a bunch of one-year deals, including Octavio Dotel, Orlando Cabrera, Kevin Gregg, and Russell Branyan.
- Peter Greenberg: $21MM. Marco Scutaro and Rafael Soriano were Greenberg's big fish.
- Legacy Sports: $18.4MM. They brokered deals for Brad Penny, Danys Baez, and Orlando Hudson.
- Barry Meister: $17.875MM. Brandon Lyon's $15MM deal is about 84% of the total.
- LSW Baseball: $17.7MM. Starters Jon Garland and Brett Myers led this agency's deals.
- The Sparta Group: $17.25MM. Basically, Mike Cameron's contract.
- Career Sports: $13.55MM. Mark DeRosa's deal, mainly.
- Representation for next winter's big-name free agents is spread evenly, though Legacy boasts Carl Crawford and Adam Dunn while CAA has Derek Jeter and Derrek Lee.
- Sosnick Cobbe Sports: $12MM. They make the list for Freddy Sanchez's extension.
