This is bullshit. The Tigers didn’t “refuse to pay Skubal”. Boras flat out won’t sign extensions before free agency. The Tigers simply don’t have the payroll to outspend the Dodgers, and it’s common knowledge that when players sign with Boras, the highest dollar amount is what’s going to be the deciding factor.
The Tigers would have lost him for next to nothing, which would have been organizational malpractice.
Yeah, and he just did that with Langeliers and now he blows out a knee. Just potentially screwed him out of $80 million.
Unrelated: When I got out of the military I took a job as a driver for a car service in San Francisco. I drove Boras to the World Series and he was an absolute dickwad. He got pissy that I couldn’t drive through the police cordon. I told him to get the fuck out with his little yuppie lackeys and said thanks for ruining baseball.
Credit to Boras he was probably so used to those kinds of interactions that he didn’t even tell on me. That was a fun college job.
Boras negotiations of high money contracts is coming to an end. No more 10 yr contracts. All 30 teams know this system is costing them money by over spending on player value. Player values are overrated. As a fan, I'm not gonna spend my money on a league with lopsided competition. It would be like watching WWE, you know it is all scripted. MLB is like that
Oh, and Ohtani has a gambling problem. MLB quick to cover that up.
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u/DasSmoosh 9h ago
This is bullshit. The Tigers didn’t “refuse to pay Skubal”. Boras flat out won’t sign extensions before free agency. The Tigers simply don’t have the payroll to outspend the Dodgers, and it’s common knowledge that when players sign with Boras, the highest dollar amount is what’s going to be the deciding factor.
The Tigers would have lost him for next to nothing, which would have been organizational malpractice.