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Found October 05, 2011 on ObsessiveGiantsCompulsive:
PLAYERS: Scott Boras,  Jason Heyward,  Adrian Beltre,  Jose Altuve,  Jeff Keppinger,  Michael Choice,  Henry Rodriguez,  Thomas Neal,  Trayvon Robinson,  Mark Reynolds,  Wily Mo Pena
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox,  Atlanta Braves,  Texas Rangers,  Houston Astros,  San Francisco Giants,  Seattle Mariners,  Baltimore Orioles

Angel Villanova is back with the Giants. Read this article on it, on Yahoo. One minor quibble, only quibble since it was never verified, but the Giants reportedly only outbid the Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox. One rumor was that the Mariners actually outbid the Giants by a lot, I believe the figure was $3.0M vs. the Giants $2.1M, which is probably why Villalona's agent, Scott Boras (yes, that agent) promptly announce that he was going to sue the Giants for not including him in the negotiations, whereupon the Giants stated that Villalona had the proper representatives for the Giants to execute a legally signed contract, so if Boras has a problem with how it went down, he should speak to Villalona. Since I heard nothing about it afterward, Boras probably licked his wounds with a big chunk of the $2.1M. (at, say, 10%, that's $210K vs. $300K, at 15%, $315K vs. $450K, the difference of which is probably pocket change in the big scheme of things for Boras).Reportedly, the Giants s...
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