Boras Wants 12 Years For A-Rod?
From George King:
Is Alex Rodriguez set to sign the final contract of his career? A pact that would dwarf the record-setting 10-year, $252 million he inked following the 2000 season?
According to agent Scott Boras, Rodriguez getting a 12-year deal isn’t out of the question and painted a picture where the team committing a dozen seasons to his client would make money with Rodriguez.
“In 2000 the YES network didn’t exist,” said Boras, who insists regional sports networks have changed the financial landscape of baseball, providing deep revenue streams. “Now it’s worth $3 billion to $3.5 billion easily. What is it going to be worth in 12 years when Alex will be at the end of his career, chasing records and people wanting to say, ‘I saw him play.’ ”
Asked if Rodriguez was going to seek a 12-year deal, Boras didn’t deny it. And since it’s generally been assumed that Rodriguez, 32, will be looking for $30 million a year, that’s a whopping $360 million.
“The key thing for Alex and his family is that he wants to be in the place where he is going to end his career,” Boras said. “He wants to be in one spot with a positive chance to win a World Championship.”
A 12-year deal where he will be ages 40-43 in the last 4 years of the pact? No way, if it was my call. Not at that price-tag.
I wouldn’t do that either. In fact, I don’t think that any team would give him 12 years.
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This is all about trying to set the market ridiculously high, so that when he does sign his deal the other team will think it’s a bargain, or at least be able to act like it is. Once you set the market at 10 years, if he signs a deal for seven or eight, it looks like he compromised with the team and wasn’t out for maximum dollars. At least that’s the way I read it.
Jeremy said it perfectly.
Boras gets money for his clients, but he’s still a clown. It’s amazing that people continue to fall for his nonsense.
He seems to get a little bit more absurd each year.
A-Rod will end up with the biggest contract in history (more than likely). He could get that contract with ANY agent. Why he has such love for this buffoon, who turns every negotiation into a circus, thereby causing the public to dislike his client, is beyond me.
exactly Jeremy. it’s like when your wife/girlfriend says, ‘Let’s go to some musicals, how about 5?’, and you say 3, and she says ‘Great! I’ll get the tickets,’ and you knew she was aiming for 3 all along.
Why he has such love for this buffoon, who turns every negotiation into a circus, thereby causing the public to dislike his client, is beyond me.
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Because the buffoon gets results…
I’d like to see the team that gives Rodriguez what he’s looking for. The numbers being thrown around are pretty wild.
Because the buffoon gets results…
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Like I said, any agent can get A-Rod the contract he wants. Anyone. So why stick with the clown who creates bad press with his nonsensical statements in the media? I don’t think any fan begrudges Alex’s right to make as much money as he can, but you hear Boras spout this total and complete insanity and it makes you turn again him AND his client. If A-Rod employed Arn Tellem or the Hendricks Brothers, negotiations would go on behind doors and you’d never hear a word. You wouldn’t have daily press clippings saying “A-Rod’s greatest could potentially solve world hunger and bring about world peace.”
Alex already has image issues and Boras makes it a million times worse.
Look for something like a 7-8 year extension tacked on to the existing contract at ~26/MM to start and ~30/MM later on. Everybody can claim victory (except the Rangers who are still on the hook for ~30MM over the next three years, and are getting zero for it). Boras gets to say I told you so on the 30MM number. Look at it this way, Yanks owe him ~16MM/yr for the next 3, plus 7 more years at an average of 27MM. That’s 237MM over 10 years out of pocket for the Yankeesor ~ 24mm/yr (less than his current contract (so the Yankees can claim “restraint”). For any other team to match that, they need to bring 267MM to the table over 10. Can’t see that happening. Really comes down to if A-rod does, or does not, want to play in NY.
This is just like buying a car. The dealer puts this price on the window sticker and you say, “No, I’ll give you this much,” and back and forth it goes.
Remember when he wanted Damon to get 7 years? He got about half of that (and even that was a mistake).
Alex already has image issues and Boras makes it a million times worse.
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IMO, I think those issues are perceived, or at the very least, overblown.
If Rodriguez was really concerned about protecting his image, this whole affair would have been treated differently. I’d go as far to say that we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
Time for this circus to put up its tents in another town.
Move on, move on. This team can’t even make it to a WS with this circus. Time for something different. And while it isn’t all Alex’s fault, I never wanted him here and would be glad to see him gone.
Bora$$ makes things sound so simple, but YES wasn’t built because of Alex, it was in the works long before that deal. Growth was always going to happen, just as attendance has been going up since 1996. Yet Bora$$ has laid claim to Alex’s presence as driving Yankees attendance ever upward.
Move the big top elsewhere, please.
Looks like someone’s switched from Boras from smoking crack to huffying paint fumes.
How does a statistically inferior player like Lowell get it done in the postseason (against the opposing ace, no less), while A-Rod struggles so badly? Is there really no such thing as “clutch hitting”? I am starting to think that we should just let whoever (Angels, RS, etc.) have A-Rod for 30+ million, and score a “bargain” with Lowell instead.
How does a statistically inferior player like Lowell get it done in the postseason (against the opposing ace, no less), while A-Rod struggles so badly?
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Random statistical variation. Other than this year’s ALDS, he hasn’t done much in his postseason career, which includes the 2003 NLDS, NLCS, and WS. Actually, in the NLDS that year he posted an .804 OPS