if AROD fires his agent he wont have to pay him 15 mil a year for that 30 mil a year contract. That means teams only have to pay 15 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to sign agent-less AROD. Wouldnt you do that??? You save your team , fans and god forbid AROD i.e. yourself some money!!
DO IT AROD!
2007-11-02 08:17:12 · 7 answers · asked by jasonpickles 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
because the information Nazi's at YAHOO say so
2007-11-04 03:08:37 · answer #1 · answered by Mike_Hustle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
agents are a help and a curse to to baseball. The negotiations are more complex now than they were yrs ago and they are more inticate, it takes someone that is specialized to handle a players fianancial and endorsements. But I think that agents often give bad advice to players just to pad thier bottom line, while they may know about contracts, clauses and bargining, they know nothing about baseball history, traditions and fan loyalty. Scott Boras's rreleasing the opting out during the World Series is a cas in point..also he proposed a 9 game world series with 2 games in neutral site. Anyone with an ounce of baseball savvy knows that is a cockamamie idea. When they make thier 5-10% of deal, its often big money and they dont realize that a game with the kids can cost the average person a couple of hundred dollars, and thats not cheap to the majority of fans. Salary increases are written into ticket prices. While I recognize they are a necessary evil, and if you didnt have them, the players wouldnt probably get a fair shake from the owners (look at salaries before free agency), I wish they had the common sense to realize that they are dealing with a historical institution that people love, and that thier onfield heroes make more in a yr than most fans will make in a lifetime
2007-11-02 16:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by allenmontana 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
His agent isn't getting 15 million a year. He only gets 5 to 10%. If he didn't have an agent has nothing to do with the amount of $$$ the team would save. A-Rod would just more $$$ for himself & wouldn't have to pay an agent for handling the talks with owners of baseball teams.
2007-11-02 15:51:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't like A-Rod as much as the next guy, but his manager Boras is the one who managed to get him the millions and millions and millions of dollars that his is currently getting and will continue to get in the future.
So say what you will about A- Rod and that snake Boras - he is a pretty good ruthless snake of a manager who doesn't back down for his clients. Why in the world would A-Rod not be happy with the results he is getting him.
2007-11-02 16:08:54 · answer #4 · answered by soxak 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why would you think the agent is getting $15 mil a year for negotiating that contract?
Agents get 5-10%, that's it
2007-11-02 15:30:58 · answer #5 · answered by brettj666 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Scott Boras is well-known for taking only 5% commission on negotiated contracts. That means $1.5m per year on a $30m salary, not the half you suggest.
2007-11-02 15:38:56 · answer #6 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Would you turn down this type of money? Besides, agents don't take 50%. Only the IRS does that. OOPS...Did I say that?
2007-11-02 15:57:57 · answer #7 · answered by rdrssuk 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋