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Special General Managers

All of the major sports news sources were covering the announcement of the 2007 Forbes Business of Baseball report a couple of days ago. Personally, I do not believe that the report is all that important for agents to dissect. The value of the Yankees is $1.2 billion, the Marlins had an operating income of $43.3 million last year, and many argue about the study’s validity.

Instead of wasting your time looking at the numbers, go ahead and take a look at the Forbes.com Baseball’s Best General Managers section. These are the guys that you will have to sit down at the negotiation table with when you hopefully sign your first baseball client. It helps knowing a bit about the person you are in negotiation with. Omar Minaya looks scary!

-Darren Heitner

By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.

4 replies on “Special General Managers”

I think you are sort of on point in that the Forbes report may not be very instructive. However, check the article via the link below, which was in the Wall Street Journal recently:

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=57971

Also, Darren, where are you thinking about going to law school? For aspiring sports agents, what will they really learn in law school courses that they can use when representing clients?

And, my man, you never got to my other questions. Maybe take us through how you would go about representing a player in this year’s NFL Draft (like that tight end from some other Florida school) and a player entering this year’s NBA Draft (maybe an underclassman who is a borderline first round pick). Keep it real and good luck taking over one city at a time…

Jordan-

I’ll make sure to check out that Wall Street Journal article. Thanks for the tip!

Also, I have not officially declared where I will be going for law school. To use a sports analogy, let’s say that I have made a verbal commitment, but I have yet to sign. Rumors on ESPN say that I will be staying with my orange and blue boys at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

And I will get to your questions. I have them all saved. If there is a slow news day in the next couple of weeks, I will make sure to get to them. I am finishing up finals and will be graduating on May 6th. Then I will be doing Birthright in Israel from May 13-24. Afterwards, I will have all summer to work on this blog and “taking over one city at a time.” 🙂

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