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Ferrariman
50% of those players are boras clients. if you count a-rod( he wasn’t a boras client at the time), its 60%. that man is just crazy good.
strikethree
Or maybe every other agent sucks.
Sometimes I wonder if a player is just better off negotiating his own contract (That is, if he doesn’t have Mr. Boras representing him).
Rich_in_NJ
I’m not sure if you are completely serious, but I think that makes more sense for veterans because there are more comparables. Setting the market for draftees, particularly if there is a need to negotiate an overslot contract, is probably pretty difficult.
Mike Axisa 2
It also has to do with the players Boras gets to sign on with his agency. He’s very prepared, he knows who the top draft prospects are and goes after team well in advance. Guys like Strasburg and Tex were geting paid regardless. Boras just got them paid a little more.
Triteon
Boras also leveraged Brien Taylor’s bad grades (and a damn serious fastball) into $1.55MM from a struggling Yankees team, threatening that Taylor would go JuCo rather than sign for less. Love him or hate him, Boras is fearless and that’s why he’s successful.
Zack23
That.
People try to point to Jarrod Washburn or Hank Blalock this offsesaon to show that Boras is slipping, when in-reality those players just aren’t good. He’s going to win more than he loses, like you said by taking chances. He has a track record, us fans can say whatever we want about him, but a lot of us would probably have him as our agent if we were players.
Rich_in_NJ
There has been a lot of buzz about the NFL having a wage scale for draftees in the next CBA. I wonder if/when that becomes a priority for MLB.
bomberj11
That is so much money. Nobody deserves that much to play baseball. Especially players who haven’t faced pro competition yet.
aap212
Why? Most veteran free agents end up getting more money than they earn in free agent contracts. Most of these guys have been worth far, far more than they signed for. The amount of money wasted on someone like Munson or Borchard is dwarfed by the amount of money Mauer or Teixeira earned but weren’t paid before they were arb-eligible. And even arbitration didn’t pay them nearly their market value.
Ferrariman
thats because arbitration isn’t suppose to pay a player their market value……
aap212
I understand that. My point is if you think players only deserve huge payouts when they’ve faced pro competition, but players don’t get market value until they’ve faced pro competition for anywhere from six to ten years, then why not let players get a payday? Joe Borchard had to be bought away from football. That should cost something. Most of these guys had to be bought away from college or other sports. All of them would have made much more on the open market. And everyone was certain Strasburg would perform at the pro level, and so far he’s dominating. Why shouldn’t top amateur players get paid like this? Are they any more of a gamble than signing free agent relief pitchers?
Big Davey
I think he means there are better uses in the world for the money these players get for playing a game.
aap212
I don’t think that’s his point, but if it is, get off mlbtraderumors, because you’re shouting at the rain. The players, at most, make a fair share of the huge amount of revenue the sport generates. You don’t like it? Don’t follow it.
rockpile_reject
Van Poppel was a stud coming out of high school. However, he was not going to go to U of Miami. He was headed to University of Texas where Coach Gustafson was churning out products. I think he was friends with one of Nolan Ryan’s boys who was going to school there at the same time. If I remember correctly, Coach Gus really felt like he had a chance to get him signed but he used UT as leverage. Big time.
Mike Axisa 2
You’re right, my bad. Fixed.
P W
It’s not quite as horrible as football but still, sports should have like a max amount a player from the draft can earn for the first few years.