Originally Posted by
jacksonianmarch
You do know Boras isn't his agent anymore, right?
IIRC, the Yankees offered 7yrs and $175 mil or so. $25 mil a year is probably appropriate for him. I highly, highly doubt any team is going to beat that. If they do, they can have him. I think we have learned since signing Giambi and going for the big time, expensive, big name players that you don't win titles that way. We had a core team from 95-01 that didn't have one gigantic mercenary name on it sans Clemens. We go out and get Mussina and Giambi, and all of a sudden, we cannot win the big games. We only made it worse when we added ARod and Sheff, etc. We have won 1 title since 2000 and have bought umpteen big time players in the process, many of whom had HOF credentials. What Cashman has been trying to do is set a value for certain players and find the few that he thinks he needs to have regardless of cost. And he needs Hal to stay the fuck out of it. If he gets that, then I think we get Cano at a reasonable rate. If Hal steps in, we get another mega contract that we regret in 3 years time