Baseball Business Journal: Scott Boras And The Strasburg Effect

  As a supporter of the Milwaukee Brewers I was impatiently waiting to see how the negotiations between Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals would unfold. Rumors were circulating that Scott Boras, Strasbug's agent, was asking for a $30 million deal that would eclipse any previous contract for a player chosen in the Major League Baseball rookie draft. In the end Strasburg and the Nationals agreed to a four-year $15.1 million deal that still ended up being the most lucrative in history for a drafted rookie. The reason why this topic was of particular interest to me was that as a fan of a team that can not afford to spend big money on players, or buy its way to a postseason, I was wondering what a big contract between Strasburg and the Nationals would lead to in the future. I was even more concerned based on the fact that this deal was for a player who has not proven anything to anyone in professional baseball. That would be like a fresh college graduate, who attend...