I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.
Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
I have a great agency! It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.
You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.