http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/02/17/a-young-agents-attempt-to-make-it/ A blog for sports agents: Discussing sports business news, Sports Law, and other interesting sports related material Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/02/17/a-young-agents-attempt-to-make-it/comment-page-1/#comment-119366 dustman Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:39:12 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=4256#comment-119366 You would think that the best attorney and advocate in the athlete rep business today knows that the standard minor league contract is seven years in length, not six. Furthermore, players are not "beginning" to receive guaranteed contracts to put them on a 40 as drafted players. This has been happening for years - it's called a "major league contract" - and there have been over 40 in the last 20+ years in the draft. You would think that the best attorney and advocate in the athlete rep business today knows that the standard minor league contract is seven years in length, not six. Furthermore, players are not “beginning” to receive guaranteed contracts to put them on a 40 as drafted players. This has been happening for years – it’s called a “major league contract” – and there have been over 40 in the last 20+ years in the draft.

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