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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3287383, member: 652"] Xander Bogaerts is a Boras guy. He took a discount to stay in Boston. He signed a 6 year 120 million deal last year. Your boy Stephen Strasburg is a Boras Guy. He took a deal with the Nationals months before he was going to become a FA. He opted out of that deal. Used the WS run to leverage a better deal as an extension. Boras likes going to the FA market but the guy will do what his clients want. Bogaerts and Strasburg wanted to stay so they took hometown discounts with opt outs in their deals. Mookie wasn’t going to take a discount. He would sign with the Red Sox IMO if they offered him a deal he would get in FA. They never did that. [/QUOTE]