You think? There ain’t been one slam long term signing yet. He wants eight years for guys who aren’t cornerstones. Like snell? You ain’t building a rotation around snell. He’s a compliment. He ain’t an anchor. A four year deal is good for an inconsistent player like that and that used to be the norm but boras kept pushing and teams kept given in until enough of them got burned.
I think another reason Boras has been unable to spin his usual magic for his players is the fact that one of his signature moves hasn't been working this year. That being, to make an end around the front office and go straight to the owner. Right now, the current owners that aren't skinflints in the John Fisher mold, have spent a sizeable amount of money on their front offices and analytics department. So, they are more inclined to listen to them than in previous years. Also, he burned the Padres pretty badly with the Eric Hosmer deal. In the past, teams were willing to deal with Boras, knowing they would probably lose out on the back half of the deal, but at least they would get premium production during the first two years. From day one, the Hosmer deal was a millstone around the neck of a team that should have been entering their contention window.
All these guys outside of Montgomery have pretty serious warning signs in their advanced metrics, so that’s part of the problem. (For example, Bellinger had pretty weak contact quality despite having a bounce back year) But it really comes down to players deciding up front what they want - do you want to shoot for absolute top dollar and risk whats happening to these guys? Report late to spring training or not at all, not know whether you need to move your family or get on board with the new team’s strategy etc? Or do you want to sign earlier to an organization that’s committed to building a successful team around a group, not just one or two guys? And be able to participate in a normal offseason ramp up, team facility, security of location, etc. So for players who want the second option, don’t use Boras. Because he’s going to try and hold out.
For one Boras is a big reason teams are doing what they are doing. I really hope this is the end of long stupid contracts. The player's name is not worth more than what he can bring on the field at, say, 38 years old and playing like a little leaguer. I am thrilled that teams aren't falling for the Boras trick.
I’m certain cases it is, like if they played their whole career there and they sale tickets but guys crossing over hell no. Whatever chance they give you to win over the next four years isn’t going to make up for the fact that they are going to hurt you over the last six.
arod was a 25 year old megastar. those guys are worth big 10 year deals. that's completely different than the guys he has now that teams aren't caving on. arod was also phenomenal each year of that original contract.
Bad contracts hurt the product on the field and on tv. Giancarlo Stanton can’t run or stay on the field but he’s making $32 million a year and had a negative WAR last year (and is projected for 0.9 this year). It is an egregiously bad contract. These backloaded contracts are bad for business. One reason the NFL is so popular is because teams generally aren’t saddled with horrific long term contracts. The Redskins could release Carson Wentz with two years left on his contract. Imagine if his contract had been fully guaranteed and a team felt obligated to play him. Baseball owners have realized these huge backloaded contracts are bad for business. Boras needs to adjust his expectations.
I'm a Dodgers fan and have been a long time and I think they spent a little money this off season. I do hope Bellinger continues to find his swing again and continues to have success tho.
Boras is the most extreme end of something that is all around good for the game. Team execs used to collude to limit players options in free agency all the time to keep salaries down and pocket a bigger chunk of the revenue. Free agency of today is a much more fair bidding process because of agents pushing to get their guys a bigger share. Its part of the checks and balances of the league. Alas, Boras is the least likely to compromise and is typically the one who waits longest in the game of chicken. Eventually that just reaches a logical endpoint of team owners/GMs just saying screw it. There's give and take to it all. Let's be real here, the league doesnt have a salary cap. However much a team does or doesnt wanna spend isn't simply "cap space that could be spent elsewhere" like the other big 3 sports.
@@pizzaparity This is true but like a lot of teams use this as an excuse to just run with extremely low payrolls and that's entirely on ownership and management, not agents pushing for their client. The A's profit quite a bit because they run a shoestring budget so even their incredibly low revenue which is their own fault to begin with still yields a significant net positive despite being an unserious team.
Snell is a trap. He REQUIRES an excellent defense behind him to function and most teams don't have that. Snell should have taken that deal with the Yankees because that was the most he will ever see as a player. The market has contracted slightly this offseason and Boras WAAAAY overplayed his hand.
The "NEEDS a good defense" is really not true though. His FIP the past few years has been very good, and the reason his WHIP was so high last year is he had a lot of walks, meaning he let guys on only to strand them a lot. The real issue is that he just doesnt pitch enough innings. He limits damage excellently of his own skill (even though having HSK and Tatis helps) but he averages 5.2 innings a start, partly because he throws plenty of Bs, meaning a team needs faith in their bullpen on any of his starts.
Snell lacked confidence until one day his coach said, why are you getting upset by walking batters? Are they scoring? No. Then stop worrying about it. He then molded walks into his game. He is no longer afraid to throw balls to get people out, especially since they aren't scoring anyways. He's worth25 mil a year, just not for 9 years
Blake Snell wanted to come to the Mariners. He’s from Seattle and would love it. The Mariners (rather shockingly) are in such a good position with their pitching that they dealt away their expensive contract in former Cy Young winner Robbie Ray and basically said “nah, we good” to reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell. Which is an astonishing position for a team to be in, but all their pitching is home grown young guys under team control for a while plus Luis Castillo who they traded for but have for a pretty decent price for several years to come!
Big brain players moved to CAA from Boras, where it’s still just as corrupt, but at least you get your money!!! (See: Bryan Reynolds’ extension and Lucas Giolito to Boston as examples)
Snell's insane babip of .250 something along with the ERA being well over a run lower than his FIP is not something that can be paid for, its a perfect storm of outcomes to get that lucky, and teams know that. Ive seen others argue that snell didnt deserve the cy young last year, im not willing to go that far, but i understand the argument.
exactly. he's super inconsistent and walks a ton of guys. he also doesn't go deep into games at all. if you give him a 7 year deal he'll probably have or 1 or 2 great years when everything bounces his way,
Good article and commentary. Never been a fan of Boros. Cody? Being a Dodger fan. Watch this kid come up. When he went free agent looking for big money, all of my Dodger buds knew he wasn't going to get it. Baseball is a difficult game difficult to play. Tough to be somebody's critic. But for whatever reason injuries or personal life the guy went into the tank for about 2 to 3 years. They expose his weaknesses at the plate. Baseball is a difficult game. Like you reported-- How do you know this guy is going to go to into the tank again. Baseball is it difficult sport. I'm not putting Cody down. But Otani was worth the big money. For 5 years he could hit lefties and righties across the plate. Equal average. He's the real deal. We do miss Cody's glove in the outfield. He covers a lot of ground & an excellent arm. Probably takes .50 off some pitchers' eras
Ehhh you’re missing starting at a tree and missing the Forrest. Ohtani is worth 700M because all of Japan will be watching every game he plays. He’s literally going to put billions in both the MLB and LAs pockets. No player on skills alone is worth that, period.
Boras usually gets shut down by the Dodgers' management, because tyhey don't like his tactics. He recently praised the Dodgers front office, which is really strange. It make me think that he could be trying to sell Snell to them, using sugar instead of vinegar. But I don't know that he's the type of pitcher they want. He walks too many, and he can't go beyond 5 innings.
For the deal that Belli got, I would’ve been fine if the jays picked him up. It would’ve been an extra 16 mill on top of what we are paying kiermayer, who plays better defense and had a nice bat last year, so I see why the jays stuck with what we have, but Belli could’ve provided the lefty pop we lost with Belt.
Playing devils advocate here as I agree totally with this take. My counterpoint is the 2019 Nationals which were built from a lot of Boras contracted players. It can work for the big markets but overall the teams are looking for value
The advanced analytics are working against some of these guys now. Imagine if they had this level of analytics in , let's say, the 90's. I remember the Astros signing Doug Drabek and Greg Swindell back in the day. That would've never happened if they had this type of info.
You keep hearing Snell to the Phillies the Philadelphia area reporters are not reporting only saying what Media is saying. It seems the only media reporting Snell maybe to the Phillies is Scott Boars i would be shocked if the Phillies sign him
As a Mets fan I can suggest that the 43 million per years deals Scherzer and Verlander got, and failed, the owners might use that as part of their thinking in this. And the fact that NO athlete should be making 40 million dollars a year.
As a Yankees fan, I wanted Bellinger. He’s still young. He’s obviously not Juan Soto but we gave up a lot of pitching depth. Boras asking for 200$ made us pivot to Soto.
Nobody seemed excited to sign Snell. Not just teams and players, but even fans didn't seem all excited. Maybe its Boras fault, maybe Snell should have signed with the Yankees, but it is still a 2 time Cy Young award winner we are talking about. Baseball fans need to get out of the weeds of the numbers when looking at the bigger picture.
I'm not for any team paying any player 200mil. Even digging up Babe's grave and finding a young Ruth, no. That's why you can't afford to take a kid to a game anymore. Even with empty stadiums, they expect a middle class family to take out a loan to buy season tickets. Losing your young base baseball. Speeding up the game helped, now stop the hockey fights and players arguing every call. This is just to keep the tv contracts for us older guys. The teens could care less. NBA to follow and eventually Football but that will take a bit more time.
So glad the M's never even sniffed Snell, yeah great story kid comes home to play but the pitching staff is so young and rounded already he would have been a distraction.
Michael Conforto was the beginning of the end for nonsense deals. Post-steroid era took years to adjust contracts for aging players. Now we are seeing a next level stat cast adjustment.
If MLB teams are looking for deal, I'll not only play for free, but pay them to play for a team. Since I'm 5'5"," 73 years old, and Jewish, I will also satisfy their DEI requirement. The only downside is that my ERA is likely to match my age.
Um like um teams not willing to pay what players are asking for. Just like me unwilling to pay what teams are asking for tickets. Owners pointing the finger at players, and me pointing my middle finger at owners.
If Snell was smart he’d take a similar deal that Belli got and stick with the Padres. I believe a lot of his success was due to his pitching coach Ruben Nebila. Ruben is one of the best in the biz
@@JumboJuneau He was in Tampa for 2019 and 2020. They didn't have Ruben Niebla in 2021. They had Larry "Tommy John Surgery" Rothschild. In 2022 they got Ruben and Snell's ERA went from 4.2 to 3.2 Then in 2023 it went from 3.2 to 2.2. The Ruben experiment has been successful with Snell so far.
Boras’ clients simply aren’t that great this year. Matt Chapman, great glove and inconsistent bat. Bellinger, nice glove and he bounced back last season after a few terrible years at the plate. He needs to have at least one more prove it season. Snell, a 2-time Cy Young winner, but he walks a lot of batters and doesn’t go deep into games. He’s a 5 inning pitcher. Montgomery won a career high 10 games last season and has 38 career wins. Was Boras expecting to get him $30 million per season? In years past Boras has bamboozled a few teams with similar type players. As 1/2 the teams usually don’t entertain him and many of the other teams have not gotten good returns on his clients, he’s simply running out of teams to bamboozle. If he was representing one of the games top players he could still get a huge contract, but so could any agent.
Name me a player that has lived up to those 100+Mil contracts. Puhols, Machado, A Rod, many of those big signings added up to mediocrity. Only guy that has recently is Harper.
I don’t understand why any player would hire an agent,yeah you might get a bigger contract but the agent gets a bigger percentage. I would rather represent myself and keep all my money.
Boras has been known to take up to 40% of the contract as commission. Trevor Bauer discussed it on Momentum when he tried his hand at player agency due to his disgust for Boras. Momentum only took 6-10% depending on contract size.
With the decline of cable tv and the current streaming model revenue streams for owners are changing. And not necessarily 4 the better. Cant jist keep throwing absurd money around. Notmally i root for the players to get the bag, but with Bally sports bankruptcy ibfeel mlb is in a precarious place
Toronto’s known it for 30+ years. Pat Gillick and Paul Beeston never took him seriously or even his phone calls. It’s why he tells players not to sign there. See AJ Burnett and Marcus Semien. Both hired him in the offseason, and both got fat contracts to underperform elsewhere.
Owners are getting hip to the ten year plus deals after seeing so many big names fall off a cliff by their early 30s. Pujols and Cabrera had some big years but both contracts hurt their franchises compete during the second half of their deals.
If the MLB could get rid of Scott Boras and Angel Hernandez, it would be a massive W for the fans and the sport.
And Manfred
Owners realizing that the juice is just not worth the squeeze. Far too many wasted millions on too many contracts.
especially on pitchers. Look at how the Rangers wasted 185 million on Degrom and his broken arm.
You think? There ain’t been one slam long term signing yet. He wants eight years for guys who aren’t cornerstones. Like snell? You ain’t building a rotation around snell. He’s a compliment. He ain’t an anchor. A four year deal is good for an inconsistent player like that and that used to be the norm but boras kept pushing and teams kept given in until enough of them got burned.
There were already teams who just str8 up wouldn’t deal with you if you were represented by Boras. And now the situation is only escalating.
I think another reason Boras has been unable to spin his usual magic for his players is the fact that one of his signature moves hasn't been working this year. That being, to make an end around the front office and go straight to the owner. Right now, the current owners that aren't skinflints in the John Fisher mold, have spent a sizeable amount of money on their front offices and analytics department. So, they are more inclined to listen to them than in previous years. Also, he burned the Padres pretty badly with the Eric Hosmer deal. In the past, teams were willing to deal with Boras, knowing they would probably lose out on the back half of the deal, but at least they would get premium production during the first two years. From day one, the Hosmer deal was a millstone around the neck of a team that should have been entering their contention window.
All these guys outside of Montgomery have pretty serious warning signs in their advanced metrics, so that’s part of the problem. (For example, Bellinger had pretty weak contact quality despite having a bounce back year)
But it really comes down to players deciding up front what they want - do you want to shoot for absolute top dollar and risk whats happening to these guys? Report late to spring training or not at all, not know whether you need to move your family or get on board with the new team’s strategy etc?
Or do you want to sign earlier to an organization that’s committed to building a successful team around a group, not just one or two guys? And be able to participate in a normal offseason ramp up, team facility, security of location, etc.
So for players who want the second option, don’t use Boras. Because he’s going to try and hold out.
For one Boras is a big reason teams are doing what they are doing. I really hope this is the end of long stupid contracts. The player's name is not worth more than what he can bring on the field at, say, 38 years old and playing like a little leaguer. I am thrilled that teams aren't falling for the Boras trick.
I’m certain cases it is, like if they played their whole career there and they sale tickets but guys crossing over hell no. Whatever chance they give you to win over the next four years isn’t going to make up for the fact that they are going to hurt you over the last six.
I hope all boras players never get a dime
Watching Snell pitch (even on good days) is very nerve wracking. (Padres fan)
Damn only 6 k subs whattt!!! The video quality is great man, keep grinding
Poor Boras. He started the whole A Rod shit back in 2000.
He’s been negotiating huge contracts since the early 90s
arod was a 25 year old megastar. those guys are worth big 10 year deals. that's completely different than the guys he has now that teams aren't caving on. arod was also phenomenal each year of that original contract.
@@tommyfu9271 exactly Arod was 25 years old and the best player in baseball by a lot.
I'm normally all for players getting the maximum amount they can from teams, but there's maximum amount and there's what these guys were asking for.
Bad contracts hurt the product on the field and on tv. Giancarlo Stanton can’t run or stay on the field but he’s making $32 million a year and had a negative WAR last year (and is projected for 0.9 this year). It is an egregiously bad contract.
These backloaded contracts are bad for business. One reason the NFL is so popular is because teams generally aren’t saddled with horrific long term contracts. The Redskins could release Carson Wentz with two years left on his contract. Imagine if his contract had been fully guaranteed and a team felt obligated to play him.
Baseball owners have realized these huge backloaded contracts are bad for business. Boras needs to adjust his expectations.
I'm a Dodgers fan and have been a long time and I think they spent a little money this off season. I do hope Bellinger continues to find his swing again and continues to have success tho.
Boras is the most extreme end of something that is all around good for the game. Team execs used to collude to limit players options in free agency all the time to keep salaries down and pocket a bigger chunk of the revenue. Free agency of today is a much more fair bidding process because of agents pushing to get their guys a bigger share. Its part of the checks and balances of the league. Alas, Boras is the least likely to compromise and is typically the one who waits longest in the game of chicken. Eventually that just reaches a logical endpoint of team owners/GMs just saying screw it. There's give and take to it all.
Let's be real here, the league doesnt have a salary cap. However much a team does or doesnt wanna spend isn't simply "cap space that could be spent elsewhere" like the other big 3 sports.
there’s no cap but teams do have budgets. a lot of teams set their budget way lower than they could and should, but nobody has infinite money.
@@pizzaparity This is true but like a lot of teams use this as an excuse to just run with extremely low payrolls and that's entirely on ownership and management, not agents pushing for their client. The A's profit quite a bit because they run a shoestring budget so even their incredibly low revenue which is their own fault to begin with still yields a significant net positive despite being an unserious team.
If you combined Blake Snell and Cody Bellinger, would Cake Snellinger be better than Ohtani?
GOTTA Love a Completely, Somewhat Random Question Like That!! Lol
they could each shine one of ohtani's shoes.
Snell is a trap. He REQUIRES an excellent defense behind him to function and most teams don't have that. Snell should have taken that deal with the Yankees because that was the most he will ever see as a player. The market has contracted slightly this offseason and Boras WAAAAY overplayed his hand.
The "NEEDS a good defense" is really not true though. His FIP the past few years has been very good, and the reason his WHIP was so high last year is he had a lot of walks, meaning he let guys on only to strand them a lot.
The real issue is that he just doesnt pitch enough innings. He limits damage excellently of his own skill (even though having HSK and Tatis helps) but he averages 5.2 innings a start, partly because he throws plenty of Bs, meaning a team needs faith in their bullpen on any of his starts.
Snell lacked confidence until one day his coach said, why are you getting upset by walking batters? Are they scoring? No. Then stop worrying about it. He then molded walks into his game. He is no longer afraid to throw balls to get people out, especially since they aren't scoring anyways. He's worth25 mil a year, just not for 9 years
@@mikenoble3715He's not worth $25m with how many innings he's good for.
Blake Snell wanted to come to the Mariners. He’s from Seattle and would love it. The Mariners (rather shockingly) are in such a good position with their pitching that they dealt away their expensive contract in former Cy Young winner Robbie Ray and basically said “nah, we good” to reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell.
Which is an astonishing position for a team to be in, but all their pitching is home grown young guys under team control for a while plus Luis Castillo who they traded for but have for a pretty decent price for several years to come!
Big brain players moved to CAA from Boras, where it’s still just as corrupt, but at least you get your money!!! (See: Bryan Reynolds’ extension and Lucas Giolito to Boston as examples)
I don't think either of these two will bring their contract value to their new teams, so I would steer clear entirely.
Giants just signed Snell😊
Go Giants!!!...👀⚾💯😎
Owners and players don't like Scott boras ..they not give to Scott boras
If players didnt like him they wouldn't have him as their agent.
Snell's insane babip of .250 something along with the ERA being well over a run lower than his FIP is not something that can be paid for, its a perfect storm of outcomes to get that lucky, and teams know that. Ive seen others argue that snell didnt deserve the cy young last year, im not willing to go that far, but i understand the argument.
exactly. he's super inconsistent and walks a ton of guys. he also doesn't go deep into games at all. if you give him a 7 year deal he'll probably have or 1 or 2 great years when everything bounces his way,
Snell is the absolute embodiment of “I see ball, I throw ball”
Good article and commentary. Never been a fan of Boros. Cody? Being a Dodger fan. Watch this kid come up. When he went free agent looking for big money, all of my Dodger buds knew he wasn't going to get it. Baseball is a difficult game difficult to play. Tough to be somebody's critic. But for whatever reason injuries or personal life the guy went into the tank for about 2 to 3 years. They expose his weaknesses at the plate. Baseball is a difficult game. Like you reported-- How do you know this guy is going to go to into the tank again. Baseball is it difficult sport. I'm not putting Cody down. But Otani was worth the big money. For 5 years he could hit lefties and righties across the plate. Equal average. He's the real deal. We do miss Cody's glove in the outfield. He covers a lot of ground & an excellent arm. Probably takes .50 off some pitchers' eras
Ehhh you’re missing starting at a tree and missing the Forrest. Ohtani is worth 700M because all of Japan will be watching every game he plays. He’s literally going to put billions in both the MLB and LAs pockets. No player on skills alone is worth that, period.
Boras is a clown.
About bloody time.
The agent an old friend has long called 'Boring A**hole' has had his day, and then some.
Boras usually gets shut down by the Dodgers' management, because tyhey don't like his tactics. He recently praised the Dodgers front office, which is really strange. It make me think that he could be trying to sell Snell to them, using sugar instead of vinegar. But I don't know that he's the type of pitcher they want. He walks too many, and he can't go beyond 5 innings.
For the deal that Belli got, I would’ve been fine if the jays picked him up. It would’ve been an extra 16 mill on top of what we are paying kiermayer, who plays better defense and had a nice bat last year, so I see why the jays stuck with what we have, but Belli could’ve provided the lefty pop we lost with Belt.
Playing devils advocate here as I agree totally with this take. My counterpoint is the 2019 Nationals which were built from a lot of Boras contracted players. It can work for the big markets but overall the teams are looking for value
The advanced analytics are working against some of these guys now. Imagine if they had this level of analytics in , let's say, the 90's. I remember the Astros signing Doug Drabek and Greg Swindell back in the day. That would've never happened if they had this type of info.
I hate what's happened to baseball. $47 to attend a Spring training game. Don't think I could afford to go to a Diamondbacks regular season game.
You keep hearing Snell to the Phillies the Philadelphia area reporters are not reporting only saying what Media is saying. It seems the only media reporting Snell maybe to the Phillies is Scott Boars i would be shocked if the Phillies sign him
As a Mets fan I can suggest that the 43 million per years deals Scherzer and Verlander got, and failed, the owners might use that as part of their thinking in this. And the fact that NO athlete should be making 40 million dollars a year.
As a Yankees fan, I wanted Bellinger. He’s still young. He’s obviously not Juan Soto but we gave up a lot of pitching depth. Boras asking for 200$ made us pivot to Soto.
Yeah, my dad wanted him with Yankees too.
Nobody seemed excited to sign Snell. Not just teams and players, but even fans didn't seem all excited. Maybe its Boras fault, maybe Snell should have signed with the Yankees, but it is still a 2 time Cy Young award winner we are talking about. Baseball fans need to get out of the weeds of the numbers when looking at the bigger picture.
I'm not for any team paying any player 200mil. Even digging up Babe's grave and finding a young Ruth, no. That's why you can't afford to take a kid to a game anymore. Even with empty stadiums, they expect a middle class family to take out a loan to buy season tickets. Losing your young base baseball.
Speeding up the game helped, now stop the hockey fights and players arguing every call. This is just to keep the tv contracts for us older guys. The teens could care less.
NBA to follow and eventually Football but that will take a bit more time.
So glad the M's never even sniffed Snell, yeah great story kid comes home to play but the pitching staff is so young and rounded already he would have been a distraction.
His Free Agents this year were not worth it. If he would have been Ohtani’s agent, he would have done well of course.
Scott Boras been doing this shit since Chanho Park of the Dodgers.
Even before.
Boras overplayed his hand and we're seeing the breaking point of pricing guys to the point no one can afford them
Michael Conforto was the beginning of the end for nonsense deals. Post-steroid era took years to adjust contracts for aging players. Now we are seeing a next level stat cast adjustment.
Sit at home and make nothing or fire Scott Boras,that’s what every team should say.
if the marlins payed either of these guys instead of literally anyone else id be pissed
The owners are finally waking up. Almost too late.
If MLB teams are looking for deal, I'll not only play for free, but pay them to play for a team. Since I'm 5'5"," 73 years old, and Jewish, I will also satisfy their DEI requirement. The only downside is that my ERA is likely to match my age.
Snell has two cy young awards in 8 years 191 stars and 0 complete games. As a general manager I wouldn't take a chance on him!!!
he also walks too many guys and is super inconsistent . teams would have to be insane to give him a long term deal.
Course, the walks are why he doesn't go deep into games.
Um like um teams not willing to pay what players are asking for. Just like me unwilling to pay what teams are asking for tickets. Owners pointing the finger at players, and me pointing my middle finger at owners.
If Snell was smart he’d take a similar deal that Belli got and stick with the Padres. I believe a lot of his success was due to his pitching coach Ruben Nebila. Ruben is one of the best in the biz
If Niebla is so great what happened to Snell the first two years with the Padres after winning CY in Tampa?
@@JumboJuneau He was in Tampa for 2019 and 2020. They didn't have Ruben Niebla in 2021. They had Larry "Tommy John Surgery" Rothschild. In 2022 they got Ruben and Snell's ERA went from 4.2 to 3.2 Then in 2023 it went from 3.2 to 2.2. The Ruben experiment has been successful with Snell so far.
Boras’ clients simply aren’t that great this year. Matt Chapman, great glove and inconsistent bat. Bellinger, nice glove and he bounced back last season after a few terrible years at the plate. He needs to have at least one more prove it season. Snell, a 2-time Cy Young winner, but he walks a lot of batters and doesn’t go deep into games. He’s a 5 inning pitcher. Montgomery won a career high 10 games last season and has 38 career wins. Was Boras expecting to get him $30 million per season? In years past Boras has bamboozled a few teams with similar type players. As 1/2 the teams usually don’t entertain him and many of the other teams have not gotten good returns on his clients, he’s simply running out of teams to bamboozle. If he was representing one of the games top players he could still get a huge contract, but so could any agent.
Name me a player that has lived up to those 100+Mil contracts. Puhols, Machado, A Rod, many of those big signings added up to mediocrity. Only guy that has recently is Harper.
I don’t understand why any player would hire an agent,yeah you might get a bigger contract but the agent gets a bigger percentage. I would rather represent myself and keep all my money.
Boras has been known to take up to 40% of the contract as commission. Trevor Bauer discussed it on Momentum when he tried his hand at player agency due to his disgust for Boras. Momentum only took 6-10% depending on contract size.
With the decline of cable tv and the current streaming model revenue streams for owners are changing. And not necessarily 4 the better. Cant jist keep throwing absurd money around. Notmally i root for the players to get the bag, but with Bally sports bankruptcy ibfeel mlb is in a precarious place
I bet Dodgers wouldn't deal with Seager because of Boras. 😅
165 million? I wouldn’t have signed either. My family would starve (if ya know, ya know).
Heh, well that did work for Sprewell😂
@@DemonKingBadger We have a winner lol
Kind of clickbait. Not enough about Boras
Took long enough
snell got greedy Yankees offered him 150 million for 6 Yankees said not enough now he can't get a job and he went down too 60 million
I stopped watching baseball because of the crazy money and large market dominance with huge patrolls
Boras is exactly what is wrong with sports.
None of these players are worth this money. See if the Dodgers paid for another Kevin Brown.
All MLB TEAMS SHOULD SHUN HIM AND BORAS THIS SEASON FOR BEING GREEDY.
Snell to Astros
I still believe Scott Boras will win.
Boras has always been a bullshit artist. Amazing it took teams this long to figure it out.
Toronto’s known it for 30+ years. Pat Gillick and Paul Beeston never took him seriously or even his phone calls. It’s why he tells players not to sign there. See AJ Burnett and Marcus Semien. Both hired him in the offseason, and both got fat contracts to underperform elsewhere.
Good
25 years to late
Scott Boring 💤
Scott Bore Us
Scott Snoring
Scam BorAss
Trevor Bauer for cheap
Nope 👎 not my Padres
Stupid! Nobody wants Snell! It's not the fault of his agent!
Owners are getting hip to the ten year plus deals after seeing so many big names fall off a cliff by their early 30s. Pujols and Cabrera had some big years but both contracts hurt their franchises compete during the second half of their deals.
Need a new agent boys!!!! He had over valued you both and you are now holding the bad!!
THEY ARE NOT WORTH IT SORRY
Ohtani is not the best player in the game. So overrated. Come on man. He's a DH for the most part. That's it.
Oh god please be bait
Teams are now colluding against baseball players ****** there’s your actual headline stop being a sheep
😂😂😂 he has a couple of guys who still haven't signed and they are pitchers less than 3 weeks till opening day not good
The Angels joke was funny but jokes on you the Angels only overpay for position players 🥲