August 27, 200421 yr Surely they should have seen this coming. http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbac...826drew-On.html
August 27, 200421 yr This could turn out one of two ways. It could turn out ok and be drafted again high next year like his bro. Or it could turn Matt Harrington like, yuck.
August 27, 200421 yr This could turn out one of two ways. It could turn out ok and be drafted again high next year like his bro. Or it could turn Matt Harrington like, yuck. I believe Weaver hasn't been signed yet either, yet another Boras client to go down that route.
August 27, 200421 yr I dislike boras very much, but for the most part he does his job so you have to give that to him.
August 27, 200421 yr i could be wrong but i remember bruce levine talking about the owners getting borasss out of baseball. hes the reason contracts went nutz. no team will negotiate with him, and any team that drafts a player of his is taking a hudge risk. i think its time that scott borasss learns that he cant control baseball.
August 27, 200421 yr This has everything to do with the new ownership group down in AZ... They've installed Jeffrey Moorad as president(?). The way I heard it, The D'Backs still need league approval, or approval from league owners, before Moorad is official. In the mean time they don't want to do anything to upset the apple cart. i.e. paying a draft pick too much money, thus setting a bad precedent. Paying too much would make other owners mad. They are essentially forgoing signing Drew in order to install Moorad as Prez.
August 27, 200421 yr This has everything to do with the new ownership group down in AZ... They've installed Jeffrey Moorad as president(?). The way I heard it, The D'Backs still need league approval, or approval from league owners, before Moorad is official. In the mean time they don't want to do anything to upset the apple cart. i.e. paying a draft pick too much money, thus setting a bad precedent. Paying too much would make other owners mad. They are essentially forgoing signing Drew in order to install Moorad as Prez. The way I understand it, they ran Colangelo out of Dodge City BECAUSE he drafted Drew against their wishes. So the fact that they are not going to sign him was totally predictable based on that. I think this is a case where the D'Backs people with the greenbacks decided to cut their losses on the Drew selection. They'll get a comp pic between rounds one and two next year.
August 29, 200421 yr People in Phoenix will be hanging on and clinging to that World Series Title of 2001 much like people in Chicago hang on and cling to that Super Bowl Championship of the Bears in 1986. When you know that your franchise and favorite team will suck for years to come, you have no choice. The D-backs won't sniff the playoffs for probably another decade.
August 29, 200421 yr This could turn out one of two ways. It could turn out ok and be drafted again high next year like his bro. Or it could turn Matt Harrington like, yuck. matt harrington screwed himself, with his agent, who was not boras at the time, told him to stay out. it wasn't until last yr that boras got on as his agent, however i think and iirc, the assessment of harrington skill did not prgross and he lost many yr of development.
August 29, 200421 yr Yep I wasn't using Harrington just because of Boras. I was using him as a player that didn't sign a couple of times and it did him absolutely no good. He has been in the independent leagues a few years and is just about the forgotten man now.
August 29, 200421 yr Yep I wasn't using Harrington just because of Boras. I was using him as a player that didn't sign a couple of times and it did him absolutely no good. He has been in the independent leagues a few years and is just about the forgotten man now. yeah i am sorry, i didn't mean to say that you meant boras with that, i just wanted to update some of the other posters opinion. my bad.
August 29, 200421 yr Oh its not a problem, I know you weren't correcting me or anything. And even if you were, I need to be corrected alot anyways :-).
August 29, 200421 yr Oh its not a problem, I know you weren't correcting me or anything. And even if you were, I need to be corrected alot anyways :-). same here.
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