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Because the representation style varies wildly from agency to agency and from agent to agent. Think of the agent as the face you wear in a negotiation. One of the reasons Boras became so dominant two decades ago was the unlikely deals he managed to pull off early. (See the Livan Hernandez defection story, et al). During this time he cemented a reputation as a tough negotiator who could outwait owners and there negotiators.
It's easy to see why a lot of players wanted that face going into their negotiations. But on the other hand some player are more concerned about staying with a team than maximizing income. There are a plethora of other priorities that players factor in as well. And getting those priorities in your contract without conflict is aided by a more amicable negotiating style.
Depends on their age and the season but I can see more people accepting the qualifying offer this year
Over the years, the Marlins have traded away an all-star team. Still waiting for any one of the zillion or so prospects they've received in return to establish themselves as a bona fide MLB player. Caleb Smith and Jorge Alfaro are OK, but if those two represent the top side, we're in trouble.
Actually believe Monte Harrison might end up being the jewel among them. And I like Jordon Yamamoto., too.
Just because Omaha hasn't been hit hard yet doesn't mean it won't be a week from now. Florida didn't look bad just a few days ago, how are things going there now?
I really am starting to wonder if they'll cancel the season. I wonder how late in the season they would actually start it. I can't imagine the regular season lasting a month or two
Yes, it is discussed in the Jeff Passan/Kiley McDaniel article linked to in the first bullet point
@Afk811, I don't think you understand the term sunk cost.
If only everyone actually understood the reason Obamacare had such high rates. Its got a lot to do with a greedy pharmaceutical company and insurance companies having to pick up 1000% price increases on medications for people with terminal illnesses that they had to take in order to survive. Not really something that is funny, you can find out all about it on dirty money.
Well I got 1 huge problem with your comment Lock. 1) The Cardinals had no losing seasons in the past decade how many other 'great' teams can say that?
This poor joey guy going to every post and saying who cares
You ever listen to faith no more joey? Rumor has it they care alot
Haha come on. It was an absolute landslide win for the Brewers. Getting 25 cents on the dollar is not great
Why does anyone care who a players agent is?
You are consistently one of the nastiest people on these boards. Congratulations are in order, I suppose. Everybody has to be good at something.
I agree. He’s a strikeout machine
That's called Thursdays in my household.
If they did, they'd have to replace the stolen plaque once a week.
Ray feels like a guy who would thrive if he was in the bullpen.
Worth asking. Do we think free agents to be, players along the line of Ray, would be more inclined to accept a qualifying offer (if applicable) to build their stock next year like they thought they would be this year?
You mean they aren't trying to extend the guy they've been trying to trade the last 3 deadlines and offseasons? Shocked.
They have a lot of starters so just trade him and get what you can he’s average at best
A big ..... juicy ..... van.
Yes, this player looks to be special.
Patra has the map
You may be missing the point that these players/team personnel have homes in their respective cities. If the entire U.S. doesn't have full clearance where it's deemed safe to resume baseball, you're risking bringing infections to these yet affected cities. There's always a bigger picture to look at.
Geez, who crapped in your corn flakes?
And if they play games with 29 man rosters the Dodgers will be loaded because of their depth.
Have the Yankees play their season at TD Park in Omaha , Mets can go play up North in the Old Expos Park , put the Mariners in the Alamodome in San Antonio since they play out west. I don’t see their cities being ready by the Summer . Yes this seems crazy and the fans can call me idiotic all you want but this is what’s best for the league if we’re going to try this season out ,
yes. covered in a prior article
i dont think Tomas is hurting for cash, same as Rusney Castillo.
That is pretty sad, at least plant a tree and put a plaque.
Unless I missed something, is there something covering what happens with pending free agents if there is no season? Do they still reach free agency?
The biggest losers in all of this baseballwise will be the Dodgers, Reds and anyone else who acquired a rental player
No. Just no.
McLovin.
edgy name
It was between Republik or Lenny Dykstra’s Gangsta Co.
Doesn't matter what he wanted. They had him under contract for 5 more years. And after his breakout 2018 they'd have gotten way more for him even with him losing a year of control.
Republik agency sounds like something out of Soviet Russia lol
23 skidoo
From the rooftops shout it out baby I’m ready to go
If there is a season lol. If not next season.
The birds are gone! Where are they hidden?
They're trying to make small steps that are better for them now, and if it means a longer term sacrifice so be it.
Nope, better look again, the Dodgers just graduated yet another above average, versatile replacement...lol
Their cupboard will never be empty the way they're developing prospects and players..It is just ridiculous how well their organization is ran. As a fan of baseball in general, you cannot help but admire the sheer amount of talent and depth they have managed to acquire, develop, and show off at the ML level..
Yeah... that’s gonna happen. Let’s take the #1/#2 from a dynasty b4 it gets rolling.
Wow
I miss baseball.
Were about to lose Darvish for nothing anyway.
Tommy John surgery isn't a haircut.
Thanks for that info, much appreciated...
cancelled.
Lol JD. I didn't go due to the possibility of more avalanches, getting stuck there, and not being able to ski/snowboard. Ended up doing the usual tourist things all throughout northern Italy and west of France.
The Wilpons really blew it with Cohen. The ONLY reason I am hopeful this goes through is for the sake of Mets fans. I would like for them to have a better owner than the joke that is the Wilpons.
I'm even a Braves fan but the Mets have such a disadvantage by having an ownership like they do that when the Braves win the season series against the Mets, it's about as satisfying as winning a fight against someone who had their hands tied behind their back.
In some circles whyhaszee would be referred to as a "useful idiot."
Try again
Wow. It's probably a good thing I missed those posts!
What you can't get your head around is that NO ONE knows what's happening right now. We don't know what kind or season there will be - we don't even know if there will be a season at all. At this point, thousands of people are dying from a virus sweeping through the world, and the most organized brains in the world don't know what tomorrow will bring - let alone what your season tickets constitute tomorrow or months in the future.
Now, you're using an article about people having their wages guaranteed in a time of crisis, as a forum to vent about not getting answers that absolutely no one is able to give to you in the first place. At this point, you don't even know what the question is.
Get some perspective, and get yourself out from under the weight of bitterness and negativity you bring here.
@slide
Absurd
@SdHotDawg getting the facts wrong is his thing. He also said that Trea Turner is injured more often than he is on the field, that Luis Urias has negativity, that Jake Cronenworth is better than Xavier Edwards and that the Marlins gave up their best pitching prospect for Jonathan Villar.
I’ve been laughing at your comment for about 24 hours WhyZ. Haven’t slept. Fell off a chair and kept laughing. You are a riot. Not that intelligent but quite a riot. Keep posting. We need more humor.
@outinleftfield - you're asking him/her a question they cannot possibly answer without realizing they're a bitter, entitled, out of touch person.
Unfortunately, common sense and a sense of reality isn't all that common.
As a Queens residents Braves fan, I'd kill to have a Brooklyn team. It's a travesty how little the community recognizes Ebbetts Field or the Dodgers/Jackie with some horrible low-income housing currently on top of the former Ebbetts site and not a plaque to signify the relevance.
Seinfeld Kevin James and Chris Rock and Jim Breuer should all get together and buy the Mets . All of them are huge Mets fans
I love you all.
I stand corrected. Thank you, sir. Just shows you the kind of bastards the MLBPA really are.
It was a crappy deal for him not to have control and he was smart to get out of it. No one wants Jeff to be involved with the team for 5 DAYS longer than necessary, never mind 5 YEARS.
For the life of me, I do not understand how anyone can say that the Orioles deserve to hold DC as their own region. I have lived in DC for years and I can't remember the last time I saw a single Orioles logo or sticker much less a shirt or flag or something representing an Orioles fan.
It seems that most national writers who don't know DC just assume that DC people rooted for the Orioles in the past (before the Nats came to town) and that is so far from the actual truth.
Calhoun reminds me of Delmon Young. So much raw talent for hitting the ball. If Calhoun has a disciplined off field regimen, then he could be special. Like MVP candidate special.
Dude wanted out and flourished since then, can't hate on that. Marlins did well in the Mike King, Stanton, Ozuna, Gordon, Brian Schales, and Romo trade, you win some and you lose some.
Make all games seven innings with the late innings allowing pitch designated/hitters for trailing teams
Toss around a bunch of ideas, without considering logistics or anything else. Great idea.
June or July opening day would be fine. All of May could be late Spring training.
Well, the geniuses in Minnesota did build an open air baseball stadium. Of course, they also elected a professional wrestler to governor, an ignorant comedian to the Senate, and a law-breaking communist Somali to the House of Representatives. Forget December baseball and Covid-19, they should test their water supply for hallucinogens.
No need to explain, everyone here misses sports and I enjoyed what you wrote. Thanks.
China?
I wasn't admonishing you like the others, I honestly wanted to know what you would do differently cuz I've got my own ideas. But getting the owners & players to agree is the challenge. I like both of your ideas, thanks.
Check it out, this was on 2/13/20, about six weeks ago: "The team, on the other hand, now has the eighth highest payroll in baseball, according to Spotrac, which tracks player contracts in major sports. The Mets lost more than $50 million last season, according to people familiar with the team’s finances, largely because of declining attendance and about $50 million in annual payments on bonds used to finance the construction of Citi Field."
nytimes.com/2020/02/13/sports/baseball/Mets-Wilpon…
Too early to say isan Diaz is a starting 2B as well. Dude has looked lost in the MLB in his brief time. And you’re getting real close to saying Brinson is a complete flop—if you’re not there already.
@Strike Four ... Pham is good. He is NOT elite.
Get your facts right, nowheretogo. Renfroe's K-rate is NOT 34%. On top of that, his BABIP last year was only .239. Wil Myers is the one with a 34% K-rate. Aaron Judge and Miguel Sano also had higher K-rates than Renfroe, AND higher BABIP.
Says the guy whose username refers to his IQ.
I am the smartest man alive!
Who?
So you're okay because of your credit card? You know that travel insurance (no matter where you get it) only works in specified situations. You were lucky in a sense that you'd already arrived at your destination when the trip had to be canceled. That's trip interruption coverage. If you had never gotten on the airplane they might not have covered any of that. I booked an international trip for May, which the tour company just canceled. They are not refunding but offering a voucher for another tour. We have travel insurance but it's unclear if they'd pay us a red cent in that case because our trip wasn't interrupted. The airline is also offering only a voucher not a refund and the voucher periods offered by the two of them are incompatible. So were are probably screwed.
But back to baseball. Vouchers aren't cool. You can only use them on their terms and if those terms don't work for you, well, you're screwed.
MLB Owners have only committed to paying players 3% of their annual salaries ($170M total for all 30 teams) if there is not a season at all. If they end up playing 50% of a regular season (81games) they get 50% of their regular season’s pay. Seems like a pretty fair deal to me.
No baseball this season is being realistic, you can't have 20 or 40k fans in a stadium for three hours, this virus can come back even if a person gets over it, it can come back as well. I have loved baseball for 55 yrs but let's be real about this, 2021 will be the first new season and that will give time for MLB to make their demands know to MLBPA and the Union. The way its formatted now its really bad, strike now this also negates players being paid and by 2021 of March it should all be in place without giving away the farm.
September 14, 2020 - Major league baseball has announced a new plan in case the season is able to start in two weeks. They will play games over a period of 24 hours, allowing teams to use their full major and minor league rosters, placing restrictions on how many major league players can play in each game.. All the games will be in hastily built baseball fields in the desert of Nevada, keeping travel at a minimum. This is the 319th plan devised by major league baseball but they really believe we're almost at the end of the curve and can finally see the way to starting the season.
suppose to cough in your arm by covering your mouth completely.
isn't #2 already happening? I guess except for in cases where the players out of options or on the ML DL?
I do not believe that the NY Mets operated at a 50 million dollar loss last year. That seems completely ludicrous given their payroll obligations.
I say go on strike now it won't matter since there will be no baseball this season. I don't like the service time allotted even if the season is cancelled. I would also give the players 35% of their salary tops with no season. If MLBPA doesn't like it then call a strike now and they don't get paid anything.
thetruth, You're missing the point the virus can come back once you're in remission and that is the infectious aspect of this virus. You won't be calling this chicken little when in four months from now the total will surpass 5 M people in this country.
Sorry there will be no baseball this year is a sure thing, putting 40k fans together in a stadium won't happen until Dec. 2020 at the earliest and baseball is not played in the snow.
whyhaszee, Well you still have a job right? the best economy in 55 yrs and your complaining suck it up, of course with this virus things in the economy have changed but they'll be back stronger than ever in four months
I know you were voting for that commie Sanders but he's gone now thank God
George has a way the Mets could get Trout and Scherzer and it wouldn't cost them very much.
what about all the players signed for one yr. they basically get a free ride by not playing at all this year. For the season will be cancelled. If the players get paid for not playing how about all the emp’s of businesses that had to shut down, restaurants, theatres, most main street businesses, most retail businesses, etc. Those emp’s are not being paid, sad. 50% of baseball players make more in one yr. then the ave. family makes in a lifetime and the union for these players demand they get paid, that’s insane. This is the time for MLB to start the baseball strike and stop kowtowing to the union and MLBPA demands.
well if he needs TJ he should do it now and sign a one year extension now.
Still say if there is no season they cannot take a yr away from the players from the team and fans. There's too many players signed for one yr or two yrs.
Your talking about Pham?
Renfore strikes out 34% of the time has a .290 OBP and will bat seventh in the Rays line up his average will be .225 at best and yes he'll hit 30 HR's but?
Exactly. There was no reason for the Tigers, the Orioles or even the Marlins to not take Cronenworth last offseason if they thought he would eventually become something decent.
He already turned that down. And he'd demand more now that he's closer to FA and since the season might be cancelled there is no risk of injury or poor performance in 2020 hurting his stock.
@Afk711 they do. There is a number that the Yankees wouldn't have exceeded for Cole. And the Nats for Corbin. But they didn't have to exceed that number because no one was offering more than them. The Dodgers still aren't going to offer Betts more money than they believe he deserves because of "optics." Their GM isn't Walt Jocketty, A. J. Preller or Dave Stewart. It's Andrew Friedman.