"The acquisition of a franchise talent is not about a wristwatch. That's about all I can tell you. It's not a particular time. It's about the club recognizing the benefit of having that player and how they'll be dramatically impacted by the loss of that player. When that realization takes place, when there is recognition of the player's place in the market, then you have an agreement."
Scott Boras.*
This is interesting considering his client, Johnny Damon initially made a $13 million contract demand to various teams and then turned down a two year $14 million offer from the Yankees. Now various reports say that after being shopped around the league, the Yankees are the only team with any real interest in Damon but now they can only pay $2 million for one year because they already spent all but that in their budget for this year.
Hmmmm.
Isn't Boras supposed to be like an "advisor"? As in, "I will tell you what to do" and, "Just let me handle it".
After all this is over, I guess Damon and Boras only talk to each other through their attorneys.
*To be fair, he said this during the Holliday negotiations but it is does seem to be presented as a general statement of fact.
2 comments:
Love me some Scott Boras. The boat is on fire, going down, sharks are on the water, but everything is A-OK.
I admire the fact he lands outrageous contracts for his clients, but despite the fact that ANYONE would fall for his shenanigans. Not that it's the exactly the same, but some of those deals (ahem, Zito) are the kind of stuff your average fantasy baseball gm or card collector with basic knowledge of the market could have told were stoopidly insane.
Agree 100%.
We have talked about it before but the "phantom team" thing is gut-wrenching laughable.
The only thing about it is that it sometimes works and we have these highly-paid exceutives bidding against themselves because a charlatan tells them "mystery teams" are bidding against them.
See A-Rod/Rangers, Zito as you mention and Holliday (though the Cards probably knew they were alone but paid him mega-bucks for some reason anyway)
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