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Rep 1 Agency acquires Peter E. Greenberg and Associates, clients like Ronald Acuna Jr.
Oct 7, 2019; St. Louis, MO, USA; Atlanta Braves center fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. (13) hits a ground rule double in the ninth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals in game four of the 2019 NLDS playoff baseball series at Busch Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports

Rep 1 Baseball has agreed to acquire Peter E. Greenberg and Associates, making it one of the largest agencies in the game. It now has over 60 major league clients on its roster and more than 150 in the minors.

Rep 1 already counted Edwin Encarnacion, Rafael Devers, Luis Severino and Eloy Jimenez among its high-profile players before this acquisition, as reflected in MLBTR’s Agency Database. It will now add the likes of Ronald Acuna Jr., Starling Marte and Gio Urshela, among other familiar names in the bigs.

It’s been an active past year on the contract front for several of the aforementioned players. Encarnacion signed a one-year, $12M deal with the White Sox this offseason. He’s now teammates with Jimenez, whom the White Sox last March inked to a then-record contract for a player with no MLB service time (six years, $43M). The Yankees’ Severino (four years, $40M) and the Braves’ Acuna (eight years, $100M) also joined in on the 2019 extension bonanza. 

Devers, who had a star-caliber 2019 with the Red Sox, could be next, but the 22-year-old still has one more season left before he’s eligible for arbitration.

This article first appeared on MLB Trade Rumors and was syndicated with permission.

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