In this article, I want to write about sports agents. Major League Baseball in the United States is different from professional baseball in Asia. Basically, most players have an agent who handles contract matters. In addition to assisting in salary negotiations, some of these professional consultants will also arrange public relations activities, business endorsements, training and protection, etc. All of these are to help clients build their worth and obtain reasonable remuneration in a limited career, and Scott Boras is the most Representative, especially his exciting battles with major teams in the free market every year.
It is undeniable that this year’s off-season free market is not ideal. Many top-ranked stars still have no place to stay. In particular, several of Scott Boras’s big clients have almost no one interested in them. Therefore, they have recently become the target of criticism. A vampire agent is inflating the value of players again, making the team’s road to reinforcements bumpy and difficult. After reading several media reports, I had doubts in my mind. It is natural for players signed by a team to find an agent. Why was it Scott Boras’s fault that he couldn’t sign him?
To a certain extent, what the media is describing is true. As many as four of the top ten free agents at the end of last year are still on the market. These four people are: Cody Bellinger, Matt Chapman, Jordan Montgomery and Blake Snell, each of whom has a strong background. Among them, Blake Snell is a two-time Cy Young Award winner, Cody Bellinger is the 2019 National League MVP, Matt Chapman is an All-Star with both offense and defense, and Jordan Montgomery pitched at the peak of his career last year and helped the team win the World Series championship. However, As spring training is underway, these guys are all squatting at home, hoping that Scott Boras can bring good news about signing.
It’s not Scott Boras’s fault that he has a talent but is not signed by a team. Think about it, many people describe him as a money-hungry vampire and the most evil agent, but don’t forget his The job is to serve customers, and these customers need Scott Boras to create value for them, rather than teach them how to show loyalty to the team and work hard until they are abandoned after their personal skills deteriorate. If he really has a bad reputation, why does he have so many players under his banner, each with a better background than the last? It’s not like they don’t know that Scott Boras’s salary ratio is high, so why are they willing to find him instead of other sports agencies?
To be honest, we really shouldn’t be angry at someone who is working hard, just because you may not see those famous stars when the season starts. You know, the key is still those extremely wealthy team owners. Why do they use a negative attitude to resist recruiting first-class stars? If the Los Angeles Dodgers are willing to spend $700 million to sign a second-rate superstar, there is no reason why other teams would embarrass them by paying $100 million or $200 million. You know, the major leagues play 162 games a year, and the average revenue per game is at least 1.5 million US dollars. If you use a computer to do this, will these bosses have no money in their pockets?
When an agent only works for clients, how can he be a bad person who causes players to miss the ball? Thinking about it from another perspective, assuming that Scott Boras chooses to hastily let his clients sign contracts with the team in order to satisfy the fans and the team, will your ticket price to watch the game be cheaper? You know it’s not. Moreover, Scott Boras does not have the final say on signing the contract. The price and contract content must be agreed by the players. Therefore, there will be contract figures of hundreds of millions of dollars for several years. In many cases, it is the players themselves who request it, not the agent. Asking prices are sky-high.
Since so many players have named Scott Boras, they are interested in his mediating skills, which can be said to be quite famous in the industry. First of all, he is definitely not a broker who will negotiate under the name Scott Boras. Behind him is a powerful Boras Corporation team with more than 80 employees at the Newport Beach headquarters in California, including researchers, statisticians, Mathematicians, financial experts and legal professionals use precise data and marketing techniques to calculate the market value of customers before coming up with a set of figures. In recent years, success has led to Bryce Harper, Corey Seager, Gerrit Cole, Marcus Semien, Eric Hosmer and Anthony Rendon negotiating contracts with extraordinary players. Under the leadership of Scott Boras, the contracts he handled have repeatedly set records in the history of American professional sports, with a total length of approximately 54 years and a total value of approximately US$1.54 billion. This scale makes Boras Corporation one of the most valuable and successful sports agencies in the world according to Forbes magazine.
You may be curious, if you are so good at doing the math, how can the team owner give in so easily? Yes! Therefore, the team also includes marketing personnel, who know how to use their strength to let the outside world see the value of the players. For example, Carlos Correa was seeking a multi-year contract of at least US$330 million in 2022. At that time, the brokerage industry had a difficult time evaluating it and determined that Carlos Correa could not possibly negotiate such a high deal. However, Scott Boras changed hands and flew to the client’s hometown of Puerto Rico. Joining San Juan’s WIPR-TV weekend sports radio show, using the well-known En La Cancha Radio, to talk about how Puerto Rican-born Carlos Correa challenges the major leagues, he mentioned: “Carlos Correa is not an ordinary player, he is a five-timer. , and is very young and promising.” Scott Boras also said in the program that his job is not to decide where to play, how much to pay, or where to go for the players, but to get the bids and leave it to the client to decide, so Carlos Correa and him Which team his wife Daniela wants to play is a very personal process and Scott Boras will not be involved. This show was made because he knew his client was considered a baseball hero in his home country, and it also let Major League Baseball teams know that when they signed a player like Carlos Correa, they would be on the radar of Puerto Rico, and there would be an influx of new recruits in an instant. fans, this is the market value.
2024-02-15 04:08:03
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