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Rosenthal: How the Cody Bellinger deal could affect Scott Boras’ other top free agent clients

Rosenthal: How the Cody Bellinger deal could affect Scott Boras’ other top free agent clients

This can’t be what Scott Boras wanted. And now that the first of Boras’ Big Four, Cody Bellinger, has reached an agreement on a smaller-than-expected contract, that can only encourage teams pursuing Boras’ other top free-agent clients to hold the line. The opt-outs from Bellinger’s reported three-year, $80 million free agent deal with the Chicago …

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Rosenthal: Shohei Ohtani brand — Free agent value is as much about business as baseball

Whenever this ends, however this ends, the explanation for Shohei Ohtani’s record contract won’t simply be “he’s good at baseball.” Ohtani, 29, is more than that, a cultural phenomenon that transcends the game, a sports version of Taylor Swift or, at the very least, Lionel Messi. Maybe his free agency is just a ruse, a …

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