WHY BORAS MAKES BASEBALL WORSE

The Yankees have enough on their plate… so why does Scott Boras have to call up Brian Cashman and ask about Robinson Cano’s contract now? What’s the reason besides greed? Do you really think Robinson Cano told Boras to call Cashman about erasing his options and try to renegotiate a monster contract for him RIGHT NOW? Do you? Because I don’t. If Cano really did want his agent to do that, Boras wouldn’t have came out later yesterday and told the media he was “kidding” about the Yankees reworking Cano’s contract.

I see Robinson Cano as classy, as a smart baseball man who realizes that the Yankees have a great shot at winning #28 if the Yankees sign CC Sabathia asap. Boras in my opinion brought this on on his own because he has a relationship with the Yankees and felt as though he could come and go as he pleases. Message to Boras; The love is there between Cano and the Yankees, in fact, Robbie probably doesn’t even need you around to negotiate a contract with the team whose system he came through... keep your trap shut. Cano has proven he’s a Yankee star and the Yankees love his maturity since Melky Cabrera left. Believe me, there will be no problem working out a contract when the time comes, but now clearly isn’t the time and I would even suggest that when Cano read about what Boras did, he called him and told him to fix the mess he made.

George King III discussed the Boras backtrack HERE. He also discusses the important fact that Boras also represents Carlos Beltran, Prince Fielder and Edwin Jackson, all names that have recently been connected to the Yankees "rumors" and all names the could possibly wind up in pinstripes according to many media outlets and blogs...this one included.

Look, Boras has a job to do, he does it well, and almost too well. The players with big contracts and big years have proven to be busts as of late and many teams are smartening up to the fact that if teams get locked in for a lot of jack and the player has a terrible season, they're stuck. That's why ARod walked away from Boras, because he realized his agent almost destroyed his life so he cut him loose, renegoiated with the Yankees and finalized a deal. By the way, don't think the Yankees are 100% stupid re-signing ARod. They have 1 thing in mind with Alex and that long term deal, they want him to be the all time Home Run leader in pinstripes. That's it. The problem now is, with Alex breaking down, maybe they goofed, but we won't know that until we get closer to 700.

A perfect example is Jayson Werth and the Nationals. Werth is good, but he’s not $126 million good. Look at the Red Sox and Carl Crawford and the contract he signed. Crawford looked old this season and couldn’t even hit the ball...and this is a lead-off guy. The point is big contracts, big years have to disappear for baseball to get good again and that means guys like Boras need to shut up and re-invent themselves. But not only that, teams need to smarten up. Let’s hope the Yankees take that advice.

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