Boras just didn’t have the horses this off-season, the strategy doesn’t work as well when the demand for your guys literally isn’t there.
I’m fine with the Cubs not going after Chapman, this feels like a typical Giants signing and it won’t move the needle for them. But it’s clear at this point that the market is pretty depressed for the guys still left out there, no reason not to go get Snell or Montgomery if you can get them on a short term deal.
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Sounds like has a lot of regrets about how his career played out. Particularly this part about signing the big deal with the Rockies.
But Bryant insists that the genesis of this unlikely marriage is more closely tied to a set of rushed circumstances — and perhaps his misjudging the state of the Rockies’ farm system, and how ready they were to compete.
Bryant began discussions with the Rockies before the lockout started late in December 2021. When it ended three months later, everyone was reporting to camp. But not him. And because of that, he felt the need to make a decision.
“It’s like, ‘Oh shoot, I need to get there,’” Bryant said. “There were other teams interested, but I didn’t want to wait around. … It was a completely different situation for a lot of free agents at the time. I guess I didn’t do as much research into the prospects as I could.”
It’s a decision that he now has to live with for the next five years.