Rangers and Millwood
Jeff J. Snider Sports
Wow, the Rangers are signing Kevin Millwood. A lot of people didn’t think this would happen for the Rangers, because they have had a bumpy relationship with Scott Boras every since they gave two of his clients, Alex Rodriguez and Chan Ho Park, about a billion dollars each, then finished in last place for the next several years. The Rodriguez deal was flat-out stupid, but the Park deal is the one that really broke them, because he, unlike A-Rod, completely failed to produce.
So now the Rangers have given Millwood, another Boras client, an almost identical contract: five years, $60 million (just $5 million less than Park’s five-year contract). So what are the Rangers seeing that makes them confident that Millwood will produce better than Park did? Well, let’s look at the differences:
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