Last off-season the Atlanta Braves announced they had come to terms with free agent Rafael Furcal on a three-year contract... but less than 24-hours later Furcal had signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. In the aftermath of that episode, Braves President John Schuerholtz stated that the Braves would never again do business with Furcal's agents, the Wasserman Group, headed by super-agent Arn Tellem.
As a side note to this, if we had signed Furcal, then we would have moved Kelly Johnson to left field, we never would have signed Garret Anderson, and Martin Prado may never have emerged as a bona fide major league starter at second base. And we might have traded Yunel Escobar somewhere. Things tend to work out for the best sometimes, as Furcal layed an egg in 2009.
Here are the free agents this off-season who are represented by the Wasserman Group, and are therefore off-limits to the Braves (courtesy of MLBTR):
Wilson Betemit
Aaron Boone
Nomar Garciaparra
Jason Giambi
John Grabow
Rich Harden
Shawn Hill
Reed Johnson
Jason Kendall
Hideki Matsui
Jason Michaels
Guillermo Mota
Vicente Padilla
Wily Mo Pena
Joel Pineiro
Matt Treanor
Randy Wolf
Omar Vizquel
I must say that there's no one I really want on that list, so for this year at least, no harm, no foul.
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Oh dear. I don’t know how we’ll ever make it without them.
/sarcasm
J-Freak - November 11, 2009
We can’t get Padilla. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
But in all seriousness our team lacks a real bonafied crazy.
McCann and McWill - November 11, 2009
Vanilla flavored Tootsie Rolls make me feel like i am going to barf
esadb - November 11, 2009
Great list of blah players.
Some super agent. He’s got "great’ players there.
taney71 - November 11, 2009
DFA McCann and sign Kendall.
TradeAndruw - November 11, 2009
ha
Kendall did keep our postseason hopes alive for an extra 45 minutes or so.
Scott Coleman - November 11, 2009
YES. We'll have a leadoff hitter!
nick9314 - November 11, 2009
No Vinny Padilla???? DAMNIT!
justincredubil02 - November 11, 2009
I’ve always thought Harden might flourish in a closers role and Grabow/Mota are mediocre bullpen pieces, but beyond that, it’s pretty much chaff.
call_me_chipper - November 11, 2009
I’d take Matt Treanor, just so we could post pics of Misty May after a win
Rhyno18 - November 11, 2009
I was just about to say something about her.
cbwilk - November 11, 2009
TradeAndruw - November 11, 2009
lucky, lucky dude
eaheckman10 - November 11, 2009
Why haven’t I been watching this sport?
cbwilk - November 11, 2009
boinnnnng
Scott Coleman - November 11, 2009
Great pic, I vote for both of them on our team next season, providing that they wear those same outfits in the field.
Holty_Panthers_Fan - November 11, 2009
Super Agent what a joke the Wasserman group is.
Oh man Jason Kendall, John Grabow, Reed Johnson whooaaa man just a same we will not be picking up those pieces of crap.
Super Agent Arn Tellem plz he is a bigger joke that Boras except Boras get the real dollars and has the real talent.
Holty_Panthers_Fan - November 11, 2009
If it means anything..
I did my internship with the Wasserman Group’s basketball division during the summer of 2007, and I could have sworn that Yunel Escobar was a client.
Mighty Healthy - November 12, 2009
You interned with them? /banned
cbwilk - November 12, 2009
According to Cotts’s Basball Contracts he and Moylan are. I wonder what that means for his future as a brave. I hope nothing.
Bmacbandwagon - November 12, 2009
actually
Omar wouldnt be a bad pick up as back up infielder he can play the middle .
~~banditwolf~~ - November 12, 2009
What the hell man, I wanted mo fo Wily Mo…. ok terrible joke, sue me lol
mad_dog_maddux - November 12, 2009
Wily thought it was funny:
cbwilk - November 12, 2009
Grabow’s the only guy on this list who’s midly interesting.
Yakker - November 12, 2009
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