The Angels are no longer in the Mark Teixeira business.
Believing that his team was being used merely to drive up prices, Angels owner Arte Moreno withdrew from negotiations with their biggest free agent.
Boras, doing his best “who, me?”, denied the accusations:
“Mark Teixeira enjoyed his time with the Angels and was an integral part of their [...]
The Boston Red Sox are giving 2B Dustin Pedroia a six-year $40.5 million contract with an $11 million option for 2015, thus avoiding arbitration and retaining the rights to the reigning MVP through his prime playing years.
I like the deal for the Sox, generally. The contract is appropriately backloaded, and the 2015 option is nulled [...]
Plax’s self-inflicted injury will have lasting consequences.
I fell in love with Plaxico Burress when, with 45 seconds left in Superbowl XLII, he ran a little flag route to the back corner of the end zone, and caught the Eli Manning pass that buried the hopes and dreams of the New England Patriots.
Better yet, Plax acted [...]
Dave Brown at Big League Stew did a mostly great job putting together this list of the top-ten most outrageous contracts negotiated by MLB superagent Scott Boras.
I say mostly because A-Rod isn’t a fair number one. He’s won three MVPs under his “outrageous” contracts with the Rangers and the Yankees, and will likely be the [...]
Stephon Marbury has a big mouth and no agent, which is a bad combination for a guy looking to get released and hold onto as much of his $21.9 million as possible. From NYTimes:
“Mike had no intentions of me playing basketball here,” Marbury told the paper. “He gave me straight disrespect. It was beyond disrespect. [...]
This isn’t all that bad a deal for the Cubs, considering we’re just one year removed from Carlos Silva’s 4-years/$48 million contract.
From The Sports Network:
“The Chicago Cubs have re-signed right- hander Ryan Dempster to a four year deal. Although financial terms were not revealed, the contract is believed to be worth $52 million.
Dempster returned [...]
The Dodgers have reportedly offered Manny “Being Manny” Ramirez a multi-year contract that would make him the second highest paid player in baseball (with an average annual salary of somewhere between $23 and $27.5 million).
Manny is a hall-of-famer who put together one of the better second halves in recent memory last summer. But he’s also [...]
