ESPN’s Buster Olney recently chatted with baseball agent Jamie Murphy of TWC Sports on his Baseball Tonight podcast. Notes from the podcast: Murphy represents Nick Markakis, Mark Ellis, David Aardsma and others. Murphy currently lives in Vermont. Murphy is the father of two little boys. About living in Vermont, Murphy said, “this day and age, you […]
Category: MLB Players
Arizona Diamondbacks relief pitcher, Heath Bell, is in his first year with the club. On December 1, 2011, he signed a hefty 3-year, $27 million contract with the Miami Marlins, but as was the case with the vast majority of players signed to large contracts with the Marlins, Bell was on his way out of […]
In July 2011, outfielder Colby Rasmus was traded from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Toronto Blue Jays. Since then, Rasmus has signed a couple of one year deals: a $2.7 million contract in January 2012 and a $4.675 million contract in January of this year. He was represented by Beverly Hills Sports Council for both of those […]
The following article is a guest contribution by Benjamin Haynes, Esq. Haynes is a former Division 1 Basketball Player at Oral Roberts University and currently practices law in the State of Florida. Jay-Z has accomplished a significant amount during his career. Some of these accomplishments include being a multi Grammy award winning rap artist, representing and promoting […]
Focus On Albert Pujols
The following guest contribution was written by Richard Pallarino (@rpallarino). Richard is a student at CUNY-College of Staten Island and Assistant to the Director of Artist Management at Wilhelmina Models. He stayed in red, but for a different organization. At the end of the 2011 season, Albert Pujols signed a back-loaded 10-year/$240MM deal with the […]
Baseball agent Al Goetz of Jet Sports Management has years of experience as an agent, scout (for the Atlanta Braves) and professional baseball player (in the Detroit Tigers organization). He has been affiliated with professional baseball, one way or another, since 1984. With that type of experience, one builds a certain level of clout amongst […]
Outfielder Michael Bourn, right-hand pitcher Kyle Lohse and closer Rafael Soriano all have something in common – each is currently stuck on the free agent market. Another commonality between the trio is that they are represented by Scott Boras of Boras Corp. And in a recent New York Daily News article, Bill Madden wonders whether Boras has “overplayed his hand” […]
A number of baseball players have left baseball agency ACES in the past few months. As documented in the article, “How The Melky Cabrera Chaos Is Affecting ACES Baseball Agency,” the company owned and managed by brothers Sam and Seth Levinson lost clients Nyjer Morgan and Shane Victorino in the wake of MLB and MLB Players Association […]
The Arizona Diamondbacks have re-signed Puerto Rican catcher and MDR Sports Management client Wil Nieves to a one-year, $800,000 contract. “I would like to thank the Diamondbacks organization for placing their trust in me again,” said Nieves following the announcement of his new deal with the Diamondbacks. “I am happy and confident that we have a […]
The following guest contribution was written by Richard Pallarino (@rpallarino). Richard is a student at CUNY-College of Staten Island and a Constituent Aide at the New York State Senate. Josh Hamilton was selected first overall in the 1999 Amateur Draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, touted by scouts as one of the most pure talents to […]