Scott Boras is back.

One winter after notoriously duping his top clients on the free agent market, Boras has reportedly secured the richest deal in MLB history: Juan Soto’s 15-year, $765 million deal with the New York Mets.

This was far from the first nine-figure contract Boras has negotiated in his career. In fact, this isn’t even the first time he’s negotiated this offseason. The super agent helped negotiate a five-year, $182 million contract between Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers two weeks ago.

Several more Boras clients will soon be signing nine-figure players as he represents Corbin Burnes, Alex Bregman and Pete Alonso. He has also helped Yusei Kikuchi, Matthew Boyd and Tyler O’Neill strike rich deals and is expected to do the same for Sean Manaea and Ha-Seong Kim.

Needless to say, Boras has helped many players get rich in his more than four decades as an agent. 24 years ago, Boras brokered the original blockbuster deal: Alex Rodriguez’s 10-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers. A-Rod’s subsequent extension was even greater, remaining the highest in the sport until 2015. But before Sunday, none of Boras’ contracts ranked among the top seven in baseball history.

Here are the 10 largest contracts Boras negotiated (year 1 of each deal in parentheses).

1. Juan Soto: 15 years, $765 million, New York Mets (2025)

Once again, Boras can claim he negotiated the richest contract in baseball history. Soto’s 15-year, $765 million deal wipes out the 10-year, $700 million deal Shohei Ohtani signed with the Dodgers last offseason, which was also the richest in North American sports history.

For much of the offseason, Soto was expected to command at least $600 million. However, in the final days of negotiations, offers seemed to explode. With each passing day, new reports emerged about how much money each team was offering, with four of the five finalists believed to have offered Soto a deal worth at least $700 million.

The contract also gives Boras and Soto some justification for their decision to reject a reported 15-year, $440 million extension offer from the Washington Nationals in 2022. This decision led the Nationals to trade him to the San Diego Padres, who later traded him to the New York Yankees before the 2024 season.

While Boras has negotiated several rich contracts over the years, he has actually fallen short on the list of richest contracts ever negotiated in MLB history.

Now Boras has the record again and it looks like that record won’t be broken for some time.

2. Bryce Harper: 13 years, $330 million, Philadelphia Phillies (2020)

In March 2019, Boras again negotiated the richest contract in MLB history for a few weeks when he helped the Philadelphia Phillies sign Harper. At the time, Harper had a similar pedigree to Soto. At 26 years old, Harper was already a bona fide star, having been named Nationals MVP and a perennial All-Star a few seasons earlier.

However, unlike Soto, Harper’s free agency process was a bit more arduous. Talks between his camp and teams appeared to be stalled for months, with rumors at one point surfacing that he could sign a one-year deal only to become a free agent again a season later. Finally, the Phillies stepped up and gave Harper a deal in the middle of spring training. The deal has certainly paid off for Philadelphia as well, as Harper has been the focal point of its renaissance in recent seasons after being dormant for much of the 2010s.

As for the contract record, it was broken just weeks after Harper’s contract when Mike Trout signed a 12-year extension with the Los Angeles Angels worth $426 million.

3. Corey Seager: 10 years, $325 million, Texas Rangers (2022)

Shortly before the MLB locked out after the 2021 season, Boras was able to secure another $300 million deal. He helped Seager, then 27, land a contract that was the most valuable in Rangers history. Just three years after Seager won the World Series MVP with the Dodgers, he did the same for the Rangers, so the deal was probably worth it for Texas.

4. Gerrit Cole: 9 years, $324 million, New York Yankees (2020)

Immediately following the Houston Astros’ Game 7 loss to the Nationals in the 2019 World Series, Cole Boras pledged his loyalty by wearing a Boras Corp. cap. wore as he spoke to reporters. Boras returned the favor by helping Cole land the first $300 million contract for a pitcher in MLB history, and growing up with the team he set his sights on become. At the time, the contract was also the largest ever in terms of average annual value ($36 million). Yoshinobu Yamamoto broke Cole’s record for the largest contract ever for a pitcher by $1 million last offseason, earning a 12-year, $325 million contract to join the Dodgers.

Cole has lived up to his contract in his first five seasons in New York. He was a Cy Young candidate in each of his first three seasons before winning his first Cy Young in 2023. After missing more than two months of the 2024 campaign, he helped the Yankees to their first World Series in 15 years last October.

5. Xander Bogaerts: 11 years, $280 million, San Diego Padres (2023)

Boras saw a Padres team willing to spend after their 2022 NLCS run and pounced. He helped the then 30-year-old Bogaerts land a contract that shocked the baseball world, given the shortstop’s age and the fact that he was not considered a standout talent.

So far, the deal has been a major failure for the Padres. Bogaerts had two of his worst years in the field since joining San Diego before the 2023 season, including hitting .264 with 11 home runs and a .688 OPS in 2024.

6. Álex Rodríguez: 10 years, $275 million, New York Yankees (2008)

Boras helped Rodriguez land a record contract twice. The 10-year, $275 million contract was signed in 2007 after Rodriguez decided to opt out of his previous contract. The announcement controversially came during the Boston Red Sox’s World Series victory over the Colorado Rockies this year. Rodriguez was also criticized for not informing the Yankees in a timely manner that he was considering opting out.

The two teams reconciled in November 2007 and agreed to a deal that kept Rodriguez in the Bronx until the end of his career and again gave him the largest contract in MLB history. Two years later, Rodriguez played a starring role as the Yankees won their final World Series title.

7. Álex Rodríguez: 10 years, $252 million, Texas Rangers (2000)

Seven years before signing his record-breaking contract extension, Rodriguez signed his first megadeal with the help of Boras. Surprisingly, the Rangers pounced and gave Rodriguez a contract that was the largest in MLB history at the time, anticipating that the then 25-year-old shortstop would continue his early path as one of the greatest players of all time.

Rodriguez did his part, winning three MVPs in seven seasons. But the Rangers failed to reach the postseason in each of his first three seasons before making A-Rod available via trade. The Red Sox had made a deal to acquire Rodriguez, but the deal fell through when the MLBPA rejected the team’s and player’s efforts to renegotiate his contract (he had to take a pay cut). Rodriguez was instead traded to the Yankees in February 2004.

8. Anthony Rendon: 7 years, $245 million, Los Angeles Angels (2020)

Boras negotiated two massive contracts for Nationals players in the months following their World Series win in 2019, and each was among the worst contracts in recent years.

Rendon’s was arguably more infamous, as the Angels gave the then-29-year-old a $245 million pact to try to bolster their roster with Trout and a young Ohtani.

However, Rendon’s tenure in Southern California was riddled with injuries and disappointing games. He has played in just 257 games since joining the Angels and has performed significantly worse than the MVP candidate he was in Washington: .242/.348/.369, 22 home runs, 100 OPS+. What’s worse is that Rendon’s contract still runs for two seasons.

9. Stephan Strasburg: 7 years, $245 million, Washington Nationals (2020)

Strasburg was 31 years old and had just won the World Series MVP when the Nationals rewarded him with the richest contract ever for a pitcher. He also received unique perks, such as the team keeping Nationals Park open every day during the offseason so he could practice at the facility.

Unfortunately for both parties, Strasburg’s injuries quickly became too much for him. He struggled with a nerve issue that plagued his final seasons and limited him to eight starts from 2020 to 2022. He subsequently missed the entire 2023 season and retired before the start of the 2024 season.

10. Robinson Canó: 10 years, $240 million, Seattle Mariners (2014)

Soto isn’t the first superstar Boras helped get out of the Bronx. Cano was 31 years old and a perennial MVP candidate when he hit free agency. It was assumed that the Yankees would keep the homegrown talent, only instead he signed a major contract with the Mariners.

Cano still played at an All-Star level in his first few seasons in Seattle, but couldn’t come close to fulfilling his contract and was traded to the Mets five years after leaving New York.

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