The election of Barack Obama to a second term as President of the United States has some baseball agents posturing about how their players will be affected economically (via taxation) and team executives responding in kind. Recently, Ronald Blum of the Associated Press spoke to several baseball influencers who opined on the subject with differing […]
Common questions from individuals who wish to be sports agents include, (1) should I go to law school? and/or (2) should I get a masters degree in sports management? A much less frequent question asks whether one on a “sports agent track” should seek an accounting degree or at least seek the help of one […]
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has long been represented by agent J.D. Smart. Smart was an agent at Hendricks Sports Management until recently leaving to join Excel Sports Management, which has a baseball division run by industry veteran Casey Close. Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com has reported that Kershaw will remain a Smart client and […]
MDR Sports Management is the only baseball representation firm in Puerto Rico and Latin America representing Hispanic players. Baseball agent Melvin Roman founded the company in 2006 after serving as Vice President of Latin America Baseball for the now defunct CSMG Sports in Chicago, Illinois. At CSMG, Roman assisted in negotiating mega contracts for MLB players like Edgar […]
Last Wednesday, Milwaukee Brewers reliever Francisco Rodriguez and his former agency Wasserman Media Group agreed to a settlement (reportedly over $2 million) that dismissed a pending lawsuit, which included claims of malpractice and fraud by baseball agents Arn Tellem and Paul Kinzer. Rodriguez switched from Wasserman to Scott Boras over a year ago. Just prior to […]
Major League Baseball pitcher Ervin Santana is back to being represented by Bean Stringfellow at baseball agency Proformance. This is his second stint with Stringfellow, whom he left in June to become a client of Wasserman Media Group. However, Santana returned to Stringfellow (and colleague Jay Alou), prior to the recent announcement that Santana was traded by […]
On October 6, baseball pitcher Roman Colon elected to become a free agent. Twenty-three days later, the Dominican-born professional baseball player filed a lawsuit against his former sports agent John David (J.D.) Smart and Smart’s former employer, Hendricks Sports Management, LP. Colon says that the agent and agency should pay for failing to inform him […]
It has been well-documented that Melky Cabrera, who has been suspended 50 games for use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) is a client of ACES baseball agency, a company owned and managed by brothers Sam and Seth Levinson, and that the company has been under investigation since it was discovered that a person associated with […]
The following article is a contribution by Tyler Nepote. Tyler is currently a junior at Wichita State University double majoring in Finance and Management in pursuit of law school. On February 29, I had the privileged of writing a guest article on SAB titled, Agents and Advisors: An Athlete’s Perspective, wherein I interviewed four collegiate athletes all going through the […]
Last week, I reported that Detroit Tigers outfielder Brennan Boesch terminated his representation relationship with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to be represented by Scott Boras of Boras Corp. While Boesch is a nice addition for Boras Corp., the company also recently lost a client. Washington Nationals pitcher Edwin Jackson left Boras and signed with The Legacy Agency (TLA). Jackson has been a […]