Your baseball client’s contract is about to expire and you and your interns are crunching numbers to make sure that he is properly valued in the upcoming negotiations with various organizations. This client is a position player, so your standard statistics of batting average, home runs, RBIS, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage will be computated […]
In the past, I have recommended Kenneth Shropshire’s and Timonthy Davis’ The Business of Sports Agents as a must read for any aspiring or current sports agent. In fact, I have referred to the book as The Sports Agent Bible in prior discussions. I still recommend that it should be on any sports agent’s bookshelf; however, a requirement […]
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans evened up the Mills Cup Finals 1-1 after defeating the Potomac Nationals last night by a score of 6-4. The Pelicans jumped out to an early 6-0 lead, but then the P-Nats relievers kept the Nationals in the game while their batters started to heat up. Kyle Gunderson was one of those […]
Last October, agent Scott Boras and slugger Alex Rodriguez made news when Boras announced that Rodriguez would be opting out of his contract. Boras was ridiculed for the timing of the announcement and Rodriguez was portrayed as just another greedy player wanting more money. The majority of Yankee fans could care less if Rodriguez returned […]
Monta Ellis is starting to make the news again today following his surgery last Wednesday on his left ankle, which will leave Golden State’s starting point guard on the bench for at least three months. Baron Davis is gone, and the Warriors were banking on Ellis to step right into his role, signing Monta to […]
And Dan Leatherman promises to help make that dream a reality. This time, the Potomac Nationals High A team had a barrage of hits and scored a boatload of runs, while shutting down their opponent, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. The Nationals are looking to win the Mills Cup, handed out to the victor of the Carolina League’s […]
The NL leading Chicago Cubs are up for sale. The surging Cubs have looked great lately, despite the team’s unlucky history over the past 100 years…making their stock the highest it has been at in a while. The owners of the Cubs, the Chicago Tribune company, is in HUGE debt from taking their many companies […]
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Frost Left Out In The Cold
Barring an agent from a training camp may come off as extreme, but not when the agent in consideration is one who once quit the profession after becoming the target in a murder-for-hire plot involving one of his clients (Mike Danton) and is still awaiting trial on sexual exploitation charges. I am talking about the same guy who a […]
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Leatherman In 2008
Stan Goldberg of The Frederick News-Post reports on Dan Leatherman’s success in 2008: WALKERSVILLE’S Dan Leatherman had an outstanding year as a relief pitcher with the Hagerstown Suns and his season is not over. The right-hander was called up to Potomac for the Carolina League playoffs. It didn’t take him long to see his first […]
Daunte Culpepper announced on Wednesday morning that he would be retiring from football at the age of 31. Culpepper announced his decision in an e-mail stating: “After taking a long look at my career and my personal convictions, I have decided to begin early retirement from the NFL effective immediately. Since the beginning of training […]