18
2011
Jose Reyes On Switching To Boras: “No Chance”
An article by Craig Lerner
Speaking with reporters at Cii Field before today’s game, Jose Reyes addressed the report by FOX Sports Ken Rosenthal that he may be considering changing agents to Scott Boras.
“No chance,” Reyes said, about the possibility of switching agents. “We talked a couple of times on the phone. He’s always tried to get me since the minor leagues, but like I said, I’m happy with my agents.”
Original Report 2:00 AM
According to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports, Scott Boras, the industry’s most influential agent, is speaking with Reyes about becoming his representative, according to major league sources.
Boras prefers his clients to establish their values on the open market. The Mets are unlikely to keep Reyes unless he accepts a lesser deal.
Agents are free to speak with rival agents’ clients; the talks between Boras and Reyes violate no rules. The players’ union only requires agents to disclose all contact with players on 40-man rosters that they do not represent.
Reyes met with agents in spring training, a source said, and apparently was considering a change at that time.
With Boras to advise Reyes going forward, it would mean that Sandy Alderson’s window to re-sign the Mets shortstop has come to an end and that Reyes will most assuredly become a free agent.
Nobody expects a cash strapped Mets organization to get into any protracted bidding wars with as many as eight or more interested teams according to Buster Olney of ESPN.
Adding insult to injury were the remarks owner Fred Wilpon made in an interview with the New Yorker:
“He thinks he’s going to get Carl Crawford money,” Wilpon told the New Yorker. “He’s had everything wrong with him. He won’t get it.”
Sources also told Rosenthal that the Mets thought they could retain Reyes on a three-year deal in the range of $45 million of $50 million, but now recognize that such a goal is unrealistic.
I can’t even imagine Jose Reyes playing for any other team but the Mets.
This is going to be agonizing.
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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Sandy Alderson = FAIL
Men Maniac = NO CLUE
Can somebody explain to me why its Sandy Alderson’s fault that Jose Reyes may go to Boras? I don’t really understand that… seems like a reach to me.
Maybe we can find other things to blame Alderson for? Such as, the economy, gasoline prices, the 1988 Mets, anything else?
Correction:
FRED WILPON = FAIL
A Boras/Reyes union would have nothing, NOTHING to do with Sandy Alderson. But certainly Wilpon’s idiotic comments a few weeks ago have A LOT to do with it. Thanks Fred! Thanks A LOT, you JERK.
Completely agree. Fred is a real moron. Maybe he wanted to push Reyes out the door. As an owner he has single handedly brought this team down and is completely ignorant about how to go about building a competitive team.
But apparently he is good at alienating great players. Same as M. Donald Grant.
You have to understand that Met Maniac is on a mission to blame Alderson for every single thing he can dig up. Anything at all, whether he had anything to with it or not.
After repeatedly bashing Omar Minaya over a period of years he has now switched his attack to the new GM and all of a sudden regards Minaya as if he was Pat Gillick, Bobby Cox or George Weiss.
What a laugh. Minaya and Madoff backrupt the Mets and Alderson gets all the blame. HA HA, good one Maniac.
If any of the guys Omar had signed to expensive contracts could have dragged themselves onto the field or weren’t completely useless when on it we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
If Reyes doesn’t remain a Met it will have a hell of a lot more to do with Fred Wilpon, Omar Minaya, Bernie Madoff, Luis Castillo, Moises Alou, Billy Wagner, Oliver Perez and Jason Bay than it does with Sandy Alderson.
Only an idiot or someone with an agenda couldn’t see that.
This is no place for logic and facts. Thanks for posting the small sample size too, that’s just the beginning.
Oh boy…that guy…I want Reyes to stay as much as the next guy, but with Boras overseeing the talks, he might bankrupt the club. But if Reyes loves playing for the Mets as much as he says he does, maybe he’ll be willing to bypass Crawford money for “just” Beltran money, which is still $120 mill. But will Boras take that? Probably not. Oy.
This front office wanted to get into a protracted game of waiting these negotiations out and now look what happened. They never even made one phonecall to Reyes’ agent, no contact what so ever that’s what Alderson said two days ago. This is sickening. The embarassments just keep coming for this team.
Well….might as well kiss Reyes goodbye now.
Given the financial plight of the Wilpons, the New Yorker interview, the possibility of Reyes contracting with Scott Boras as an agent, the Mets need being sold to an owner who knows what they are doing! Fred and Jeff don’t have a clue! t’s time to boycott this team until that happens. This is a disgrace!
3 years for $45-50 million…why don’t The Mets just slap Reyes’ kids in the face…it would earn the same result.
He’s the next Yankee shortstop. The Yankees know they need Jose to compete with the Red Sox, the Yanks always have the money and Reyes gets to stay in New York. Painful scenario but where am I wrong? (Jeter is the face of the Yankees and will move on in an executive position or the broadcast booth.)
Goodbye Jose.I guess we will have to lose without you.Should not be that hard.Even when you are all world,we are still a sub .500 team.Why spend 120 mill for a guy we know will break down in a year or two?
Hey I love watching Reyes play and think hes never been better BUT you cant pay him 23 mil a yr or something like that. Sadly the Mets didnt sign him to a longer term contract but the chips are totally stacked on Reyes side right now. The reality is some team will give him crazy money and they will get burned if its a 7 yr deal
Sadly this is modern baseball were its all about the money.
I actually think the mets screwed Reyes when they signed him long term the last time. They gave Wright a much sweeter deal, and I remember reading that Reyes was not too happy about it at the time. Could he still harbor some resentment? Don’t let that infectious smile fool you, folks. For all his talk about focusing on baseball and not his contract, we still hear Boras rumblings. jose is not the naive ingenue we all think he is. And this kind of production may indeed have everything to do with this being a contract year.
let me add that if he does bear any buried malice toward the mets for getting shorted on that contract, I fully support his position.
I don’t think Reyes holds any ill feelings toward the Mets w/ regard to his current contract. When he singed that contract his ability to remain injury free was still a question. Given his leg injuries/issues in the minor leagues I’d say the Mets and Reyes came to a fair deal. The Mets locked Reyes up for a few years and Reyes got the financial security any young player w/ a hx. of injuries would love to have. That contract is over and Reyes is moving on to the next phase of his major league career and ready to blossoms into the games most consistent offensive productive player in the Major leagues who also plays excellent defense.
The ball is in the Mets court. Reyes is not obligated to take less money from the Mets simply because they can not afford to pay him market value. I don’t see the signing of Reyes as complicated as some people on this board. If the Mets want Reyes they will offer him fair market value. If the Mets don’t want Reyes they will offer him less than fair market value.
No one ever said running a Major League baseball team was easy. If the Wilpons truly want to have a winning team in New York other than the New York Yankees they will find a way to sign one of the the leagues most offensive productive player. There will be more “josereyes contract decisions” that the Wilpon’s will have to make in upcoming years. My guess is that The Wilpon’s want to re-sign Reyes but will not because right now winning is not a priority for them. As I have said many times I believe that the priority fr the Wilpon’s right now is rehabilitating their finances. It sucks.
Everyone needs to relax and stop believeing everything Heyman, Rubin and Rosenthal say. How many times can you keep falling for their stupid rumors? Even a monkey knows better than to stick his hand in the fire a second time.