Drafting Stephen Strasburg No. 1 overall in the MLB Draft was the easy part. Now the Nationals are staring at potentially (OK, likely) two-plus months of negotiations with his adviser, agent Scott Boras.What are the rest of us left to do? Sit and wait. Gawk at the numbers and rhetoric likely to be thrown out from the Boras camp. Cross our fingers and hope Nationals president Stan Kasten -- one of the more hard-line pro-management executives in the game -- gets in on the fireworks.
That might be fun for a week, but two months? Nah. So the MLB FanHouse gang decided to spice things up the best way we knew how -- by gambling on it.
The rules are simple: Each member of the staff submitted a figure for the total guaranteed value, including bonus, of Strasburg's contract with the Nationals (presuming of course he signs); The Price Is Right rules are in effect. To the winner goes a heavy dose of pride and bragging rights. After the jump, you can see a visual representation of all of our guesses and can leave your own in the comments*.
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| The Official MLB FanHouse Strasburg Pool | ||
|---|---|---|
| Staff | Boras Bucks | $Mil |
| Josh Alper | $25M | |
| Knox Bardeen | $23.5M | |
| Jon Bois | $50M | |
| Jeff Fletcher | $15M | |
| Tom Fornelli | $22.1M | |
| Dan Graziano | $14.9M | |
| Andrew Johnson | $27M | |
| Pat Lackey | $22M | |
| Ed Price | $21M | |
| Matt Snyder | $30M | |
| J. Wheatley-Schaller | $18M | |
* All members of Boras Corp. and relatives of Stephen Strasburg prohibited from participating.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-11-2009 @ 10:00AM
keithstbird said...
This kid is overrated he is going to be just another kid with a good arm but that dosent mean anything. I believe he will crumple under the lights of Mlb. And I do believe it is insane the amount of money these people make. If they supposidly love the game over them a contract of say 300,000 a year and see if they will still play I know I would I love to play all sports and I would never sign a contract like that. This kid will be sent to the minors to play with the minor league team for the rest of his career
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6-11-2009 @ 11:16PM
royvb said...
The Nationals should hang tough on this one. Offer a fair price and stick to it. If the kid and his agent won't take it, he can just sit for a year and watch MLB.com or study Japanese. Then in 2010, when the Nationals will assuredly again have the number one pick again, they can draft him again and offer him 20% less. I don't see hos Boras has any leverage in this one.
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6-12-2009 @ 1:45PM
theseigeinator said...
6 year deal worth 28 mil (all guaranteed)
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6-12-2009 @ 1:54PM
theseigeinator said...
can't draft the same guy 2 years in a row without their permission
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6-12-2009 @ 2:13PM
SUSasskuash said...
I say the final contract is $23mill guaranteed, another $15 worth of incentive bonuses. The "Boras Number" (total potential value, regardless of how unrealistic some of hte incentives are)= $38mill.
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6-12-2009 @ 3:37PM
Mark said...
While it will never happen any new player should have to play for the league minimum with incentives. Make them earn it
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6-16-2009 @ 3:25PM
2121 said...
Really dopey comment. I am sure that if he was your kid that you would feel the same way. Or, when I graduated college, if every offer that I got in my field was incentive only. If you don't like the market based economy in which people get paid what the market will bear, then you should move to a socialist republic.