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Varitek = Dumb
Topic Started: Jan 26 2009, 10:23 AM (92 Views)
Rudy	Jan 26 2009, 10:23 AM Post #1
Let's Go Blue! Posts: 7,059 Group: Founding Members Member #9 Joined: Jan 10, 2008 PSN ID rudyjuly2	Coming off a $40 million, four year deal, he obviously thought he would get a lot of money in the open market. He was wrong. He'll turn 37 in April and just batted .220 last year. The funny thing is that he declined arbitration. MLB sources said he probably could have got a one year deal for $10 million or more if he accepted it but he wanted more years. Now the Sox have offered him a one year deal for $5 million with a $5 million dollar option for year two IF the Sox pick it up. That math doesn't look good and he has days to accept this offer. Furthermore, he didn't realize (not mentioned in this article) that if he declined arbitration that any team that signed him would have to forfeit a first round draft pick which further hurt his value on the open market. For a veteran with Boras as his agent, how could he have not known this? Oh well. I like it when greedy players do stupid stuff like this. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090125&content_id=3770668&vkey=hotstove2008&fext=.jsp



TedDXZeke	Jan 26 2009, 12:49 PM Post #2
CoFounder Posts: 13,762 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jan 9, 2008 Xbox Live Gamercard DXZeke PSN Tag DXZeke PSN ID DXZeke	Rudy Jan 26 2009, 10:23 AM Coming off a $40 million, four year deal, he obviously thought he would get a lot of money in the open market. He was wrong. He'll turn 37 in April and just batted .220 last year. The funny thing is that he declined arbitration. MLB sources said he probably could have got a one year deal for $10 million or more if he accepted it but he wanted more years. Now the Sox have offered him a one year deal for $5 million with a $5 million dollar option for year two IF the Sox pick it up. That math doesn't look good and he has days to accept this offer. Furthermore, he didn't realize (not mentioned in this article) that if he declined arbitration that any team that signed him would have to forfeit a first round draft pick which further hurt his value on the open market. For a veteran with Boras as his agent, how could he have not known this? Oh well. I like it when greedy players do stupid stuff like this. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090125&content_id=3770668&vkey=hotstove2008&fext=.jsp The "Captain" of the Sox was great at calling games, but he's just horrible with the Bat now. He's been great in the Locker Room, but someone else will step up. He's not worth 10 million.... hell, the 5 million per year is nice. And yeah, it's great to see a player that uses Boras make a stupid bone headed move!



Dawdler	Jan 26 2009, 01:57 PM Post #3
Wielding the BanHammer Posts: 7,855 Group: Moderator Member #8 Joined: Jan 10, 2008 PSN Tag Dawdler612 PSN ID Dawdler612	it seems to me that Boras only really cares about his clients that can bring him in a nice chunk of change. Varitek and others that are on the decline must get handled by Boras's lemmings



Rudy	Jan 26 2009, 02:01 PM Post #4
Let's Go Blue! Posts: 7,059 Group: Founding Members Member #9 Joined: Jan 10, 2008 PSN ID rudyjuly2	But look how Boras handled the A-Rod situation with the Yankees. He basically got fired by A-Rod because he never wanted to leave. Opting out cost A-Rod money too since Texas got off the hook and the Yankees dropped their offer. Kenny Rogers also fired Boras last year for how he was handling his Tiger contract. Kenny said he wanted back in Detroit and meant it. Boras tried to float rumours about him leaving or other teams wanting him to drive up the price but Dombrowski didn't fall for it and Kenny fired Boras because of it. Boras was able to get his clients a lot of extra money in years past by lying about competing offers and everyone knows the crap he pulls now. It doesn't work anymore. Chicago's GM said he wouldn't sign any player represented by Boras since he was such a liar.



CMH	Jan 27 2009, 11:43 AM Post #5
Risk It All Posts: 703 Group: Staff Member #46 Joined: Jan 14, 2008 PSN Tag LeftPaw17	Look at what is happening with Manny. Ramirez gave up $20 MM a year for two years (two options I'm sure the Red Sox would have picked up) to test the free agent market. He wanted to act up, not play hard, so he got himself traded in exchange for those options getting dropped. Now Manny will be lucky to make half that in two years. Boras gave him poor advice.



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