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Threat_Level_RedSox
Do agents have contractual obligations to these types of companies? Sport agencys usually begin with a group of agents pulling together their collective resources to create a positive and stable image to athletes, I imagine loseing the comission for those players must have put the BHSC in a major finacial bind. It just seems strange that being Group orientated buissness that a agent could walk away with such a large amount of clients with out some legal action.
YanksFanSince78
I’m no expert but I think the agency has already seen or is still going to receive whatever money is do. How BHSC got screwed was from the new money coming in from new deals signed or coming up for Pujols (FA 2011), Rollins (FA 2011), Uggla (ext), Votto(ext) and Werth’s new deal this winter. Assuming the agency does a 50/50 split with the responsible agent, then that can add up to over $10 -$15 mil lost in new contracts and endorsements.
I forgot the name of it but for most talent agents and sports agents you sign with the agency and then you sign your own roster of talent. In most agreements, or at least ones with agents who have some sort of leverage, you can work it out where you can take the clients you sign if you are fired or leave the agency. You just have to make sure than the host agency gets all the money due them from the existing contract.
Steven St Croix
” I feel like this contract might have been panned had the Astros signed it”
Exactly! I haven’t seen what Keith Law said about it, but we all know what he would havesaid if Houston did do this deal.
iains
I’m thinking the Jays were counting on Gregg getting more on the open market than he would have gotten in arbitration. When they picked him up last year there really wasn’t any intention of using the club options. It was strictly fill a hole and generate a draft pick.
alxn
Oakland is trying to contend and has extra money to spend that nobody will take. Houston should be committed to a rebuild and signing Fuentes would serve no purpose.
There’s me trying to justify it after the fact
DudasPriest
I wouldn’t pan the Fuentes deal. It’s extremely difficult to find consistently solid relievers, and Fuentes has only put up one bad season out of 9 (and it came in coors). I think it’s likely he puts up 60 or so solid innings for Oakland while providing insurance in case of injury and trade bait in case of a lack of contention. Perhaps if you like to nitpick you could say he deserves only 3 or 4 mil per, but from the Oakland point of view this seems like a solid signing. That bullpen is looking scary…
optionn
Is it just me or are teams like Houston and Toronto unloading boat loads of money and not signing anybody over a million bucks?