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It's been reported that the market for Matt Holliday is between five teams; the Cardinals, Yankees, Dodgers, Angels and Mets...
With Scott Boras as his agent this will be a long and drawn out process with at least one mystery team and numerous rumors.
But if all shakes out right the Mets could be the only team truly involved in the Holliday sweepstakes.
Lets include Boston since they're on the east coast and a large market team, if they re-sign Jason Bay they'll be out of the running.
It sounds like the Dodgers will out of it, once the Manny option is picked up, which seems inevitable at this point.
The Angels even in losing Vlad have a very expensive outfield in Juan Rivera, Gary Matthews Jr., Bobby Abreu and Tori Hunter. Of course, if they move Matthews' bad contract then there is the chance that they could get involved.
I will consider the Yankees the front runners if they don't resign Damon and/or Matsui, but if they do it could take them out of contention.
When all is said and done it could come down to the Mets and Cardinals, however; it doesn't sound like the Cards will get involved in a bidding war nor does it sound like they believe McGuire will sway Holliday's decision...
Scott Boras' history is to take his clients, especially his top clients, onto the open market. As for McGwire, I am of the opinion that his hiring will not have any significant impact on whether Holliday returns. My guess is that Holliday will be wearing a different uniform in 2010, but one way or another, we are not likely to know very soon. source MLB.com
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If the Mets are left standing as the only team, Jeff will sign him. However, if there is even one other major market team in the negotiations, forget about it; Jeff will back out.
I'd be curious to know, Ed, what Boras' response would be if the Mets (in an admittedly, highly uncharacteristic act) made a pre-emptive, 8-year, $172-million offer. Granted, Boras has been quoted as saying that he considers Teixeira to be comparable players and, on a dollar-to-dollar level, it's not an exact match, but there isn't likely to be a significantly better proposal from another team.
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