Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
Report From Hades
Boras also disputed the notion that he lost the negotiation and Angel General Manager Bill Stoneman won, even though Weaver dropped his asking price from $10 million to $8 million to $6 million before signing for a figure the Angels offered in late February and refused to come up from.I see Boras follows the technique of the masters, thus declaring victory while withdrawing from the field. I look forward to more such "victories". He had his wins in the prior offseason with shambling hulks like Adrian Beltre and the thus far useless J.D. Drew, whose 10.1 VORP actually puts him behind Juan Encarnacion (in more at bats!), and behind such aging luminaries as Moises Alou and Mike Cameron. After watching Boras mulct the Rangers with signings to A-Rod (who actually had some value, but not nearly as much as he was being paid for) and Chan Ho Park (who wasn't even worth league minimum), witnessing Boras lose a couple is a positive tonic."When you talk about victories, he took a lot less money to play in his hometown," said Boras, who also negotiated Stephen Drew's five-year, $5.5-million deal with Arizona before Monday night's deadline to sign 2004 draft picks. "We could have easily said, 'We want what Stephen Drew got.' You can see the difference between what is a hometown situation and what isn't."
"Now he's playing for a team in his hometown, and that's what he wanted," Jeff Weaver said. "It's a tough process to go through, but he never had an opportunity to sign until recently." [Emphasis mine.]
The Moreno household breaks out the cigars and El Patron añejo. In his creepy William H. Macy outfit, Bud Selig does a little dance. Somewhere, the next crop of Boras clients shivers, the wind that was once at their backs now turns colder, and bites at their necks.
Whether or not that slightly more money was worth hitting his free agent year at age 28 instead of 27 only time will tell.
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