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Team To Watch On Draft Day 1: Toronto Blue Jays

Let’s stay on the theme of the MLB Draft for now.  After all, it is only two weeks away!  One team that should be on every advisor’s mind (if he is advising a player with early round talent), is the Toronto Blue Jays.  The Blue Jays have 10 picks in the first 4 rounds, including […]

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Two Weeks From MLB Draft – Do You Know Who Your Advisor Is?

We are exactly two weeks away from the MLB Rule 4 Draft.  Many college baseball players and high school baseball players are having their seasons come to a close while others are still playing.  Many talented players have already chosen their advisors, but there are also quite a few who have held out until now […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (5/7/2010)

To all the ladies who love themselves some SportsAgentBlog.com, Happy Mothers Day this Sunday!  I am down in South Florida and loving every second of being down here.  This month, I will have my article titled, The Plight of PASPA: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on the Prohibition, published in the Gaming Law Review […]

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MLB Draft Picks, Their Leverage, And Their Advisors

In only a little over a month from now, high school Seniors, Junior College students, and Juniors and Seniors at 4-year Universities will be selected in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft.  The draft, which spans from June 7-9, consists of 50 rounds, including supplemental rounds, but teams do not have to use up all of […]

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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (4/16/2010)

The weather has been beautiful this past week.  I have been soaking up the sun and hitting the courts, trying to get my tennis game back to what it once was.  Carl Krauser made it to New Zealand and is ready to put in some great work for the Waikato Pistons.  Many of our Minor […]

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The Current Status Of Salary Arbitration In Japanese Baseball

No game is growing as fast internationally as professional basketball.  However, baseball is not as far behind as some people may think.  Dynasty recently placed a player in Germany, last year we signed an MLB-affiliated player who played his entire life in Italy, and we were close to signing a player with either a Korean […]

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A Deep Look Into Baseball’s Salary Arbitration System

Ed Edmonds of Sports Law Blog has an good piece in the Marquette Sports Law Review titled, A most interesting part of baseball’s monetary structure – salary arbitration in its thirty-fifth year.  Since deciding that I wanted to be a sports agent, I have studied baseball’s system of final offer arbitration as much as possible.  […]

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Pete Parise’s Spring Training

Derrick Goold wrote a piece (subscription necessary) in BaseballAmerica.com yesterday, with the subtitle: “Parise showing Cardinals everything he has.”  The title – “Well-Traveled Reliever.” Here is a part of the article: By the end of the 2010 season, Parise will have been pitching, nearly uninterrupted, for 32 months. When he reported to his first major […]

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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (3/12/2010)

It may officially be Spring Break, but this week has been no break for me.  Between visiting clients at Spring Training facilities and meeting with parents of potential future advisees, along with a bunch of other business related tasks, I sure have been able to keep myself busy during what has been a relaxing week […]

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Looking Back At Arbitration In 2010

February is a dynamic, short month.  Certain areas of the United States experience their coldest temperatures of the year, but find that near the end of the month, it starts getting warmer and more enjoyable.  Baseball is very similar in the month of February.  The beginning of the month is marked by arbitration eligible players […]