Is he ruining the game by jacking up salaries, or just doing his job.
2007-06-22 03:47:14 · 12 answers · asked by Craig S 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
I admire his ability to secure large contracts for his clients. His job descritpion is to serve the best interest of "his client" not baseball. No different than an attorney, he must do whatever it takes to put his client in the best position financially. He makes the most by leveraging the greed of the large market teams.
His effectiveness would be greatly diminished with a hard salary cap like the NFL. He would no longer be able to "freeze" out small market teams from top level players. He couldn't help the rich get richer because their would be a finite number of dollars to spend for each team.
Boras is the whipping boy for the greedy big market owners. Many large market fans would be the same people that would like us to do away with the electoral college. Level the playing field and Scott Boras is just another agent.
2007-06-22 04:35:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
His interest is to make his gamers wealthy which in turn makes himself wealthy. that's the unfastened company device at that's best! he's extremely good at what he does. the situation human beings have with him is that he would not endear himself to the followers or the media. yet guess what? He might desire to supply a crap. He, and the gamers he represents, are the best of the foodstuff chain and we undesirable commonplace "Joe" followers at the instant are not something greater effective than pal for the sharks. i'm specific his 10% comission from the numerous gamers he deals with has made him as plenty funds as any volume A-Rod has been in a position to pocket. Boras IS a maximum cancers of types because of the fact what he has controlled to do is place many gamers on a pedestal. Baseball use to be a interest the place the gamers have been available. Boras has helped to alter all that. The gamers at the instant are, not fan friendly. that's not basic to love somebody that may not even nicely known your life.
2016-12-08 16:22:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you look at it from a business stand point he is doing what he is supposed to do...in a society run by Capitalism you have to go for the most money that you can. That being said he is also dealing form within a very fragile ecosystem that is Sports. In Baseball he can get a team to pay too much for one player but what does it really do for a team or a player to have one star say in TEXAS for 252 million that is not winning and not in the playoffs, your marquee guys need to be on display in October!
I would say he is doing his job for his players but ruining the financal status of Baseball and joeopardizing the future. He is preying on the fact that owners are stupid and will spend money on anything that is presented good to them!
2007-06-25 02:48:45 · answer #3 · answered by bdough15 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is the best agent going today, nobody even comes close. I am surprised that the owners let him have as much power as he does. A few years back he did not make Magglio Ordonez's medical records available and Detroit still gave him like $12 mil a year even though they knew he was coming off an injury. At the end of the day the owners dish out the cash but Selig should step in when he withholds valuable information like this.
2007-06-22 04:20:36 · answer #4 · answered by hurricanes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's at the top of his game because he's shrewd and knows his business like no one else. Sure, he is jacking up salaries and has more power than baseball should allow him, but you can't blame him for doing as much as he can to make money for himself. If you were an agent, you would do the same because the higher your client's salary, the more money in your own bank account.
2007-06-22 04:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by dwmatty19 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, he convinces players they are worth way more than they are then he sells it to the GMs. I really felt sorry for Greg Maddux after his contract in Atlanta ran out and Boras was trying to get him $12 mil a year.
ARod's deal in texas meant, in no circumstances, that Texas would compete. Arod wanted to win, but his own agent and his own contract guarenteed that he couldn't. Texas couldn't do the $150 mil budget that they would have needed for them to win and paying Arod 25 of 70 mil just won't do it.
That's why I laugh when players say they want to win a championship, then ask for so much money.
So, to me, Boras and 'the boss' are the two biggest issues in baseball and I have said it before and I will say it again.
Two truths in baseball. The Yankees with an 'average' salary would suck and almost any team that spent $200 mil on players would outperform the Yankees.
2007-06-22 03:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by brettj666 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think he is ruining the game for some teams and making it easier for others. There are many teams who refuse to sign/can't afford to sign his clients because he just keeps pushing for more and more. People sign with him because they know that they will get better money and will most likely end up with a better farm program/team. I would refuse to sign with him out of respect for the game and just the sick feeling I get to my stomach when I think about that name. Agents are typically scum to begin with, but this guy is bottom of the pile scum in baseball.
2007-06-22 03:52:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Him, along with Donald Fehr, are ruining the game by being greedy little monsters.
At the same time, you cant blame for wanting to make some money---just not at the expense of the fans.
2007-06-22 03:50:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
He's doing his job. Getting the most money for players. He's the best in his business. Wouldnt you want him to be your agent?
2007-06-22 03:54:54 · answer #9 · answered by joe w 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He consistently beats the owners at their own negotiating game.
2007-06-22 04:01:05 · answer #10 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋