Scott Boras famously makes up these big crazy notebooks for his free agent clients, talking up their skills, their marketability and all of that. This past winter we heard about how Carl Crawford’s agent, Brian Peters, made up an iPad presentation (along with a free iPad) for teams interesting in his client’s services. I always wonder why agents think that baseball teams with sophisticated scouting departments and oodles of video on everyone would want such things, but I think we get a good idea of it in Ken Rosenthal’s notes column this morning:
It’s to impress the clients, right? To make the player (a) feel like he’s awesome; and (b) feel like the agent is going working his butt off on his behalf. It’s a client retention device, not a marketing device.
Or am I nuts?
