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nmendoza51
What’s wrong with you…?
MB923
He’s a troll
go_jays_go
It ain’t a ‘career’ contract if it includes opt-outs.
aff10
Yeah agreed. Seems like wishful thinking for Boswell to believe that Harper would agree to an extension without an opt-out. That would probably require about 750 or 800 million I would guess
Bobby Sweet
I think 12 years and $400M gets it done. Boras gets the next largest contract ever, and the Nationals get long-term control.
wreckage
Seems about fair but will likely require more with how his season has started and his recent history. I’d guess 12 years and $400 with a couple options as the starting point from his agent. Possibly 10 years at slightly above Giancarlo with options as the low starting point for Bryce’s camp.
Twinsfan79
That’s a tough one. This guy is no doubt Boras’ biggest pay day in the foreseeable future. I think 12/400 is more than fair but I’m not sure Boras lets him sign an extension. If Washington is willing to go there then he has to be thinking that number will get pushed far north of 400 with other teams involved. Who knows? I’m probably way off. Either way it’s a stupid amount of money.
Jeff Todd
I am skeptical that Boras would do anything that isn’t truly historic … the number in my head is half a billion dollars. He can now argue, quite reasonably, that this is a truly unique chance to buy up prime years of a player who is on the early part of the path to being a legitimate inner circle HOFer. Fact that Stanton got X and Trout got Y will not factor into the asking price, in my opinion. Boras will be thinking in terms of what an unprecedented open-market bidding war could bring down the line.
mike156
I think this is the correct analysis. I think his starting bid is at least $500M plus multiple opt-outs, maybe staggered at 3/5/7 years. Realistically, he has to ask for the moon, and get turned down.
johnsilver
Harper and Boras would break Nationals ownership to sign a deal covering FA seasons, I don’t see any real chance. Just look at how bad Boras hammered Texas on the Andrus deal and he couldn’t even HIT! 8/118m, with 2 opt outs, just in case the kid by chance learned to play the game?
Nationals think Boras is going to sign some deal giving them any of his FA years for less than.. Say 30m annually? MAYBE more than that? Then u know there will be at least a couple of opt outs.
This is Scott Boras here, not some back woods lawyer, but a guy as slick as those politicians in washington. They ain’t got the cash without having no chance of signing anyone else the term of the deal.
BoldyMinnesota
Comparing Harper to andrus is pretty absurd though. While every deal of that length is risky, Harper is one of the greatest we’ve ever seen through his short career.
ikker19
He was not comparing their talent….his well made point was that if Boras can squeeze that much money out of Texas for a player like Andrus…..just think how much he will try to get for a player of Harper’s talent level….if Harper continues to play at his current level or gets better….the sky’s the limit….Washington will be lucky to get 2 guaranteed free agent years from Harper before an opt out would be available to him….and that’s probably only if Harper is guaranteed at least 25-30 million a year from here on out….
westcoastwhitesox
Farrell has more in-person meetings with his boss because his boss travels more? Does that imply Dombrowski travels along with the team more often than most GM’s? (My boss travels a lot too but that’s why I never see him and we have few in-person meetings.) I always think of baseball GM’s in office buildings, not traveling with the team…that’s cool if he does go on the road a lot with the team.
Samuel
I noted that as well.
The new wave stat-oriented GM’s primarily stay at home base looking at data and what the tinker toys show about pitching velocity, exit velocity, spin rate and such. They work with the manager “as a partner” literally daily, discussing data findings from the past game and discussing who will play and pitch for the team in the next few games.
I would tend to believe that Dombrowski is not just traveling with the team – if he was, that would have been noted. I believe he is out there scouting players in person as opposed to electronically, as he did with the Tigers, Marlins, and Expos. The good front office people are superior in evaluating talent – especially young players – and to do that they need to see them in-person. No doubt in my mind that Dowmbrowski is transforming that organization. I’m especially impressed that he seems to spend little time schmoozing the media and forever pushing his brand.
davidcoonce74
Nope. GMs pretty much travel with the team every day
beauvandertulip
At that point the Phillies will have lots of money, wouldn’t be surprised to see them take him.
Samuel
Yes, they thought they had Miguel Cabrara locked up as a future Yankee 3 years before the Marlins traded him to the Tigers.
MB923
um, no.
ikker19
“RAB Commenter”….funny comment!!….hey “nmendoza51” and “MBg23″….try getting a sense of humor….if the Yank’s could ever grow their own talent they wouldn’t have to spend so much money on free agents!!!…I thought it was only Red Sox fans who had no sense of humor…lol…
MB923
oh I have a sense of humor. Doesn’t mean I can’t call out a troll when I see one