I mean, this is just strange, right? News broke around 11:45 pm EST that Manny Ramirez and agent Scott Boras rejected the Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-year, $45 million offer Thursday – an offer that at this point seemed more generous than anything.
In case you don’t know, teams are in spring training actually playing games and looking ahead to starting the regular season in just over a month’s time. Translation: it makes no sense why this isn’t done yet.
What exactly are Ramirez and Boras waiting for? An injury to a key Yankee? Someone to find $50 million and an extra season under their couch cushions? The Red Sox to come running back? It seems pretty obvious there isn’t a hot market for the future Hall-of-Famer or else he would have been inked by now, so turning down yet another deal like this seems foolish.
He’s 36 years old and if motivated to mash, has a few good years left in him. But what has transpired over the last 12 months is both sad and a blueprint for future stars on the right and wrong way to do business. Had Boras not been involved, the chances are pretty high that Ramirez would still be entrenched in Fenway Park for the next two seasons at $20 million per.
Instead, the ManBor combo is looking for a larger pot of gold when a perfectly acceptable one has been right in front of them for quite some time.
Josh Nason founded the New England and media centric sports blog
Small White Ball in 2007. He can be reached at josh [at] smallwhiteball
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