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[Eli's Gone]

For Scott Boras, the offseason is finally over. It wasn't a good time.

https://sports.yahoo.com/scott-boras-finishes-offseason-to-forget-with-jordan-montgomerys-1-year-deal-044015216.html

The 2023-24 MLB offseason will be remembered by many as the winter in which Shohei Ohtani signed his record-shattering, 10-year, $700 million contract. Or for the Los Angeles Dodgers' overall $1 billion offensive on the free market. Or for the New York Yankees landing Juan Soto in a blockbuster trade with the San Diego Padres.

It was a lively offseason, but the storyline that took the longest to develop was that of Boras and his big four free agents. Boras entered the winter counting half of Yahoo Sports' top 10 free agents as clients: reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell; former MVP Cody Bellinger; playoff hero Jordan Montgomery; defensive ace Matt Chapman; and Korean import Jung Hoo Lee.

Lee quickly signed a $113 million deal with the San Francisco Giants, and that was absolutely a win for Boras. However, the four other players were expected to sign deals bigger than that.

None of them did.

Instead, all four of them took their free agencies into late February or March, then signed shorter-term deals with opt-outs that give them the ability to retest the market next offseason if they perform as well as last year. Montgomery was the last to sign, agreeing to a one-year, $25 million deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday. Suffice to say, that was not Boras' plan

The guaranteed money doled out to the top 10 free agents shows how badly this went (Boras clients in bold):

Shohei Ohtani: 10 years, $700 million
Yoshinobu Yamamoto: 12 years, $325 million
Aaron Nola: seven years, $172 million
Blake Snell: two years, $62 million
Cody Bellinger: three years, $80 million
Jordan Montgomery: one year, $25 million
Sonny Gray: three years, $75 million
Matt Chapman: three years, $54 million
Josh Hader: five years, $95 million
Jung Hoo Lee: six years, $113 million

[fung_derf]

Whenever you read rumors of long term deals with Boras's clients, that's just him fishing.
Seems, either GMs are onto him, or it just doesn't work any more.
I'm expecting a lawsuit from him vs the teams....of course that would be a dangerous move for him.
I'm happy Monty found a deal, I hope he fires Boras immediately. Also happy Monty is out of the AL.
Don't know how we couldn't make a 1 year deal happen.
Of course we only paid Lorenzen $4.5 million for a 1 year, so financially anyway, we won.....let the comparing of the two seasons begin