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Brian, your disdain for Boras knows no bounds. I say that based on the many many disparaging posts you have made about him. I’m not really fond of most agents either but this almost seems to be personal. Anything you would like to share?
I have often noted that Boras is exceptionally good at his job. He exploits the system to the advantage of his clients. The only time I met him 1-1, he was very personable.
In this particular case, I think Harper’s importance is being overly-inflated, but that is the agent doing his job. I sense some of the slowness in the market caused by the big two may be hurting other players, but again, that is their problem to work through. However, if you think Boras is being mistreated, feel free to defend him.
Then you are going to have to be specific about what remarks you are referencing when you accuse. If you are referring to the rumor post, of course, I have no idea if Boras or his associates really slipped the news about Harper’s supposed multiple contract offers from Washington, but I do understand how the rumor mill can work. Sometimes the media gets used to deliver messages. You see the same national reporters with information that seems to be coming from agents. Other times, news is leaked from teams, though in this case, I do not understand why the Nats would want that. Anyway, I am not sure why you view this as a critical comment about Boras, though. Like I said, he is just doing his thing (if he was even involved here). We just need to keep matters in perspective as these are very high stakes poker games.
Brian Walton
Context is important. For those who do not subscribe, here is what I wrote. It seems very clear and I stand behind it.
Just before this, Derek had mentioned Cabrera as a possible Kevin Siegrist-type of reliever. I offered this as part of a consideration that he could be more.
My bad. I should have said “a scouts viewpoint” or someone else’s view on Cabrera.
I like the comps to Siegrist and Martinez though. Kind of tells you where he falls if everything goes right.
Back to Harper, I do think he will be worth his contract. You just don’t see a guy this young hit the market and we were willing to pay Stanton for 10yrs through his age 38 season or whatever and, rather than compare Harper to Trout or Rodriguez, I see him as a better bet than Stanton.
Does anyone else feel that Mozeliak would be putting his job on the line by signing Harper? Mo has had a pretty poor run of late, one more colossal long-term fail and its lights out. Of course, the same goes with Machado.
Mo more likely putting his job on the line by NOT signing Harper, since he to chicken to do it and if Cards miss post season again after not doing so….see yeah fool MO!
I am surprised I have to reiterate this point every now and then. On items of hundreds of millions of dollars of importance, what matters is what Bill DeWitt Jr. wants.
Brian, I didn’t view my comments as an accusation. It was more of an observation. I really don’t want to scroll back through this board and copy/paste all of your comments about Boras. I was just curious as to what led you to view him in such a negative light. I’m not trying to defend him. I could care less about him. No need to be defensive about it.
Perhaps there could have been a less challenging way of asking the initial question, as you did later. I did my best to answer, anyway, while aiming it back into the context of this thread, but that was considered defensive. Sorry I missed giving you what you wanted.
Looks like things are starting to come to an end on the two big FAs. This question doesn’t have anything to do with the Cardinals, but would 10, 330 get it done with Harper? If so, I could see him back with the Nationals.
Philadelphia #Phillies emerge as clear-cut favorite to land Bryce Harper after 5-hour meeting as #Nats interest fades barring sudden change of heart. https://t.co/0j5B5Pu2Gg
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) January 14, 2019
yea it seems its phillies or dodgers. personally I don’t think Philadelphia is gonna win their division and I don’t think they are a good fit for harper so hes gonna end up just as unhappy there. I think where a player plays can matter far as how they perform. if I was him, id go to the dodgers if its reasonably close far as their offers.
I wouldn’t assume that the Phillies will sign Harper. The Phils might be throwing that out there just to put pressure on Machado to accept their offer. I think they want Machado more than Harper.
I complained in another thread about commenting on Machado/Harper and now I am doing it myself. …ugh
We will see how this question is answered in St. Louis this weekend…
Fan question to Joe: “What are the chances of Bryce Harper?” Maddon, no pause: “Not going to happen.” Jim Deshaies: “Lets move on”
— Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) January 16, 2019
I’d say they could use him in the batter’s box more than in right field. ?
Like the rest of y’all, I don’t see any way it happens though.
We already have our starting right fielder as announced by the FO….. Dexter Fowler. How can you improve on that?
No one loves mystery teams more than Heyman.
phillies, nats and chisox are the only 3 teams known to be in on bryce harper. but fwiw, word is, several teams are said to be waiting in the wings. the word "waiting" suggests this may yet take awhile.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January 16, 2019
My guess would be that it’s only one team possibly waiting in the wings….and it wouldn’t shock me in the least if Atlanta is that team.
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