Principal agent Boras calls the reconstruction teams & # 039; competitive cancer & # 039;
Principal agent Boras calls the reconstruction teams & # 039; competitive cancer & # 039;
The agent for free agent Bryce Harper and many of baseballThe teams of reconstruction of claims of the best players have become a "competitive cancer" that caused the fall of assistance of 4 percent this season.
While sports officials begin to consider possible changes in the rules to provoke offenses and speed up the game, Scott Boras criticized several clubs that were among the 17 to attract fewer fans this year than last year.
Boras noted that the Louisiana State baseball team had a higher average attendance for their 37 home games than the Miami Marlins for their 81: 10,786 to 10,014.
"Florida fans have certainly brought the MIA to Miami," he said Wednesday in a courtyard outside the general manager meetings.
He said that when "the division clubs arrive in Minnesota, it has become so bad that only one of the Twins appears."
And he criticized the Toronto Blue Jays, who had the biggest decline in major leagues this year, falling by 878,000 fans to 2.33 million.
"They have lost about a third of their fan base due to the blue flu of not attracting attractive players that fans find interesting for their market," he said.
Boras has a vested interest in encouraging spending, wanting fewer clubs to cast veterans in favor of young people and more to deliver lucrative contracts, especially to their clients.
The average attendance of Major League Baseball dropped to 28,830, its lowest level since 2003, after 14 consecutive seasons exceeded 30,000 and six baseball stadiums reached record levels. Boras connected the fall with the non-competitive clubs: there were three teams of 100 losses for the second time since 1985 and the first since a record four in 2002. And there were eight teams of 95 losses for the first time in the history of the big leagues.
"The reality is that they are losing their fan base, and it costs millions and millions of dollars to rebuild the fan base," he said.
Boras is looking for a record contract for Harper, beating outfielder Giancarlo Stanton with a 13-year contract and $ 325 million until 2027 reached with the Miami Marlins, who traded him with the New York Yankees last December. Boras sounded as if he had rehearsed his quotes like a comedian.
"Certainly, the Harper's bazaar has started," he said. "It's fashionable, it's historic, it's elite, it's global, no doubt, and it certainly has inspirations that deal with great shoes and great hair."
Washington made an end-of-season bid before Harper became a free agent at the young age of 26. The Nationals general manager, Mike Rizzo, said that Harper did not respond.
"He's going to take care of his business and we're going to take care of our business," Rizzo said. "We selected it, we signed it, we developed it, it became one of the best players in the league with our uniform."
While the general managers meet with each other and with the agents, the formal sessions are about the mechanics of the sport, and the commissioner Rob Manfred and his staff are concerned about the decrease of the offensive and the increase of strikeouts. The Major League baseball batting average dropped seven points to .248, its lowest level since 1972, the last season before the American League adopted the designated hitter.
Strikeouts set a record for the 11th consecutive year and exceeded for the first time in the history of the major leagues.
"I think the fans like the ball in play a bit more," Chicago Cubs baseball operations president Theo Epstein said. "I appreciate MLB's efforts to think about how to steer the game towards the most attractive product for fans, if that involves the ball in play more, then you will find some subtle ways to influence that."
Los Angeles Angels general manager Billy Eppler does not think alterations are needed.
"I think we should embrace him, I do not think we should fight him," he said. "Why are people attacking more? Probably because pitchers are throwing about 3 1/2 miles per hour more than seven years ago." People are improving with their break-up ball.There is more technology in the game. You want to throw a baseball and practice that for hitters in particular. "
As many teams rotate the end of their bullpens with their Triple-A teams to have more depth for each game, the starting pitcher tickets were reduced to 5.36 from 5.51 last year and 5.89 in 2012, and team relays by The game increased to 3.4 from 3.2 last year and 3.0 in 2012. Tampa Bay began experimenting with a relay pitcher as a "starter" rather than a traditional starter, a move adopted by Oakland and Milwaukee even in the playoffs.
There is likely to be more discussion when the owners meet next week in Atlanta, and the players' association seems open to at least consider the changes, a radical change from its almost constant refusal in recent years. But first MLB must formulate what it wants to propose, a process that is likely to extend through next month's winter meetings in Las Vegas and possibly in January.
"We live at a time when we expect responses very quickly, and I think we should remember that in the history of baseball there have been many different eras, many baseball styles that have been played," said Philadelphia general manager Matt Klentak. "There is a dead ball era, and then the teams begin to adjust their behavior, and suddenly you hit more home runs, and then the teams adjust, and the speed and defense take over the game, and then the teams try to explode. all the data from PITCHf / x and TrackMan data, the game will naturally flow and flow in. To some extent, we need to be patient with the game and let it evolve naturally.
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AP sports writer Bernie Wilson contributed to this report.
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