Scott Boras is again.
One winter, after woefully slowing down his high prospects on the free agent market, Boras secured the richest deal in MLB historical past: Juan Soto’s 15-year, $765 million contract with the New York Mets.
This is not the primary nine-figure contract Boras has negotiated in his profession. In truth, he isn’t even the primary one he is accomplished this offseason. The tremendous agent negotiated a five-year, $182 million deal between Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers two weeks in the past.
Some of Boras’ different purchasers will quickly signal nine-figure offers, as he represents Corbin Burnes, Alex Bregman and Pete Alonso. Boras has additionally helped Yusei Kikuchi, Matthew Boyd and Tyler O’Neill earn wealthy offers and is anticipated to do the identical for Sean Manaea and Ha-Seong Kim.
It goes with out saying that Boras has helped many gamers change into rich over his four-plus many years as an agent. It’s been 24 years since Boras brokered the unique blockbuster deal: Álex Rodríguez’s 10-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers. A-Rod’s ensuing extension was even bigger and remained the very best within the sport by means of 2015. But earlier than Sunday, none of Boras’ contracts ranked within the high seven in baseball historical past anymore.
That mentioned, listed here are the ten largest contracts Boras has negotiated (12 months 1 of every deal in parentheses).
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1. Juan Soto: 15 years, $765 million, New York Mets (2025)
Once once more, Boras can declare to have negotiated the richest contract in baseball historical past. Soto’s 15-year, $765 million deal shatters Shohei Ohtani’s 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers final season, which was additionally the richest in North American sports activities historical past.
For a lot of the offseason, Soto was anticipated to get not less than $600 million. The provides, nevertheless, appeared to blow up within the remaining days of the negotiations. With every passing day, new studies emerged in regards to the quantity supplied by every workforce, with 4 of the 5 finalists reaching the $700 million mark.
The Mets deal additionally provides Boras and Soto some vindication over their resolution to show down a 15-year, $440 million extension supply from the Washington Nationals in 2022. That resolution led the Nationals to commerce him for the San Diego Padres, who later traded him. him to the New York Yankees earlier than the 2024 season.
While Boras has negotiated a number of mega offers through the years, he hasn’t been concerned in a lot of the richer modern-day offers.
Now, Boras has the MLB file once more, and it appears to be like like this one will not be damaged for a while.
2. Bryce Harper: 13 years, $330 million, Philadelphia Phillies (2020)
For a couple of weeks in March 2019, Boras once more negotiated the richest contract in MLB historical past when he helped the Philadelphia Phillies land Harper. At the time, Harper had the same pedigree to Soto. At 26, Harper was already a bonafide star, having received MVP a couple of seasons earlier with the Nationals and a perennial All-Star.
Unlike Soto, nevertheless, Harper’s free company course of was a bit extra laborious. Talks between his camp and groups seemingly stalled for months as at one level there have been rumors that he may take a one-year contract to change into a free agent once more a season later. Eventually, the Phillies stepped up and gave Harper a deal in the midst of spring coaching. The contract has definitely paid off for Philadelphia as nicely, with Harper being the point of interest of its resurgence in latest seasons after being inactive for a lot of the 2010s.
As for the contract file, it was damaged just some weeks after Harper’s deal, when Mike Trout signed a 12-year, $426 million extension with the Los Angeles Angels.
After a number of months of free company, Scott Boras helped Bryce Harper get a contract that on the time was the richest in MLB historical past. (Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB by way of Getty Images)
3. Corey Seager: 10 years, $325 million, Texas Rangers (2022)
Just earlier than MLB went into lockdown after the 2021 season, Boras was capable of make one other $300 million deal. He helped the then 27-year-old Seager get a contract that was the richest in Rangers historical past. Just three years after profitable World Series MVP with the Dodgers, Seager did the identical with the Rangers, possible making the deal price it to Texas.
4. Gerrit Cole: 9 years, $324 million, New York Yankees (2020)
In the aftermath of the Houston Astros’ Game 7 loss to the Nationals within the 2019 World Series, Cole pledged his allegiance to Boras by sporting a Boras Corp. cap when chatting with reporters. Boras repaid the favor, serving to Cole earn the primary $300 million contract for a pitcher in MLB historical past, and with the workforce he rooted for rising up, besides. At the time the contract was additionally the biggest ever when it comes to common annual worth ($36 million). Yoshinobu Yamamoto ended up breaking Cole’s file for the biggest contract ever for a pitcher by $1 million final offseason, receiving a 12-year, $325 million contract to hitch the Dodgers.
Cole fulfilled his contract throughout his first 5 seasons in New York. He was a Cy Young candidate in every of his first three seasons earlier than profitable his first Cy Young in 2023. After lacking greater than two months of the 2024 season, he helped the Yankees attain their first World Series in 15 years final October .
Gerrit Cole obtained the biggest contract ever for a pitcher in December 2019 with the assistance of Scott Boras. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
5. Xander Bogaerts: 11 years, $280 million, San Diego Padres (2023)
Boras noticed a Padres workforce able to spend after their 2022 NLCS run and pounced. He helped a then thirty-year-old Bogaerts obtain a contract that shocked the baseball world contemplating the shortstop’s age and the truth that he wasn’t seen as a transcendent expertise.
At this level, the contract was a significant failure for the Padres. Bogaerts had two of his worst years on the plate since arriving in San Diego earlier than the 2023 season, together with hitting .264 with 11 homers and a .688 OPS in 2024.
6. Alex Rodriguez: 10 years, $275 million, New York Yankees (2008)
Boras helped Rodriguez obtain a record-breaking contract on two events. The 10-year, $275 million pact was signed in 2007 after Rodriguez opted out of his earlier deal, making the announcement controversially in the course of the Boston Red Sox’s World Series win over the Colorado Rockies that 12 months. Rodriguez was additionally criticized for not informing the Yankees forward of time that he was contemplating retiring.
The two sides reconvened in November 2007, agreeing to a deal that stored Rodriguez within the Bronx till the top of his profession and as soon as once more gave him the biggest contract in MLB historical past. Two years later, Rodriguez performed a starring function because the Yankees received what stays their final World Series title.
7. Álex Rodríguez: 10 years, $252 million, Texas Rangers (2000)
Seven years earlier than signing his record-breaking extension, Rodriguez signed his first megadeal with the assistance of Boras. Amazingly, the Rangers stepped in and gave Rodriguez a contract that was on the time the biggest in MLB historical past, trusting that the then 25-year-old shortstop would proceed his early path as one of many biggest gamers of all time.
Rodriguez did his half, profitable three MVPs over the course of seven seasons underneath the deal. But the Rangers failed to achieve the postseason in every of his first three seasons earlier than making A-Rod accessible by way of commerce. The Red Sox had a deal in place to accumulate Rodriguez, however the commerce fell by means of when the MLBPA rejected the workforce’s and participant’s efforts to renegotiate his contract (he would have taken a pay reduce). Rodriguez was as an alternative traded to the Yankees in February 2004.
Alex Rodriguez signed the biggest contract in MLB historical past when he joined the Rangers in 2000. (Gary Barber/ALLSPORT)
8. Antonio Rendon: 7 years, $245 million, Los Angeles Angels (2020)
Boras negotiated two large offers for Nationals gamers within the months after they received the World Series in 2019, and every proved to be among the many worst contracts lately.
Rendon’s was in all probability extra well-known, because the Angels gave the then-29-year-old a $245 million pact to attempt to bolster his lineup round Trout and a younger Ohtani.
However, Rendon’s tenure in Southern California was full of accidents and disappointing video games. He has appeared in simply 257 video games since becoming a member of the Angels and has produced a lot worse outcomes than the MVP candidate he was in Washington: .242/.348/.369, 22 homers, 100 OPS+. Even worse, Rendon nonetheless has two seasons left on his contract.
9. Stefano Strasbourg: 7 years, $245 million, Washington Nationals (2020)
Strasburg was 31 and had simply received World Series MVP when the Nationals rewarded him with the biggest contract ever for a pitcher. He additionally obtained distinctive advantages, such because the workforce permitting Nationals Park to stay open every single day within the low season so he might practice on the facility.
Unfortunately for each groups, Strasbourg’s accidents quickly turned an excessive amount of for him. He handled a nerve concern that plagued his remaining seasons, limiting him to eight begins from 2020 by means of 2022. He then missed all the 2023 season and retired earlier than the beginning of the 2024 season.
10. Robinson Canó: 10 years, $240 million, Seattle Mariners (2014)
Soto is not the primary celebrity Boras helped usher out of the Bronx. Cano was 31 and a perennial MVP candidate when he hit free company. It was assumed that the Yankees would hold the native expertise, solely he signed an enormous cope with the Mariners as an alternative.
Cano nonetheless performed at an All-Star degree throughout his first few seasons in Seattle, however got here nowhere near fulfilling his deal and was traded to the Mets 5 years after leaving New York.
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