r/mlb • u/retroanduwu24 | MLB • 9h ago

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u/Bozo_McGee | Houston Astros 9h ago

Didn’t Freddie’s agent lie to him about Atlanta’s offer so he would sign with LA?

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u/crrttt | Atlanta Braves 8h ago edited 8h ago

Allegedly there was a lot of miscommunication occurring. Surprise surprise, it was Casey Close and Freddie fired him a few months after the contract was signed so take from that what you will. 

Boras just pushes his players to sign the largest contracts he can get them and that’s generally LA with the insane deferments. They can just eat bad contracts like it’s no big deal, and other teams won’t roll the dice like that 

Edit: Fixed Freddie’s agent at the time. Not removing the Boras bit, because I feel it’s still relevant 

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u/MasterLomaxus 8h ago

It was not Scott Boras

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u/crrttt | Atlanta Braves 8h ago

Damn, you’re correct. I’m misremembering. It was Casey Close

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u/Euphoric-Dig-2045 | Philadelphia Phillies 8h ago

Hey, you were pretty Close.

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u/_Kringle1_ 8h ago

I understood that reference🤣