Jay-Z seeks to represent Yasiel Puig, eyeing Athletics' Yoenis Cespedes

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Y! SPORTS

Burgeoning agent Jay-Z is wooing Los Angeles Dodgers star Yasiel Puig, hoping to add the 22-year-old to the growing stable of athletes he represents, two sources told Yahoo! Sports.

Yasiel Puig (Getty Images)
During a mid-June trip to New York, Puig was invited to a party at a club Jay-Z owns after a Dodgers teammate passed along the rapper's contact information, one source said. Between the lifestyle and marketing plan offered by Roc Nation Sports, Puig left the meeting intrigued.
While Puig has spoken with at least one more marketing agency in New York, the prospect of his joining Roc Nation as a client covering both baseball contracts and marketing remains a possibility, sources said.

After signing New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano as his first client, Jay-Z – who made the bulk of his half-billion-dollar fortune in the music industry – has targeted players from other sports: Thunder star Kevin Durant, WNBA rookie Skylar Diggins, and Jets quarterback Geno Smith.
Jay-Z also is known to be interested in signing another Cuban baseball player, Oakland A's outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, according to a source. Next week, Cespedes will be in New York, Jay-Z's hometown, for the Home Run Derby, and Puig could be as well if he wins the Final Vote for the last slot on the National League All-Star team.

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In the song "Crown" on his recently released album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Jay-Z took a shot at prominent baseball agent Scott Boras, rapping: "Scott Boras, you over, baby. Robinson Cano, you coming with me." While Boras declined to fire back, agents around baseball have questioned the wisdom in signing with a fledgling agency run by somebody with no experience negotiating sports contracts. Roc Nation Sports has partnered on the baseball side with Creative Artists Agency.
Were Puig to leave for Roc Nation, his current agent, Jaime Torres, would receive the full commission on the seven-year, $42 million deal signed in June 2012.

Oh what a feeling...

 

[Tuc2DaBoot]

This dude really can't stop fukking winning, can he?

About to scoop up the most hyped up baseball player in the game right now...

 

[pete clemenza]

I'm leary about this

 

[Regular_P]

What exactly had Jay-Z done to make all these players want to sign with him? Do they not remember all the artists on the Roc and what little he did for their careers?

 

[Tuc2DaBoot]

What exactly had Jay-Z done to make all these players want to sign with him? Do they not remember all the artists on the Roc and what little he did for their careers?

Who you think gonna make more money for you and with you? Yasiel Puig, playing for the LA Dodgers, and Robinson Cano, playing for the NY Yankees...

Or Teairra Mari and Memphis Bleek?

 

[babylon1]

are you guys really this gullible? jay z is not a real agent. he is a figure head with a team of attorneys and ex-agents handling the birdseed of the actual deals. dude is a poser. fukk him

 

[SoulController]

barged in the game and already puttin in work

 

[MoneyTron]

are you guys really this gullible? jay z is not a real agent. he is a figure head with a team of attorneys and ex-agents handling the birdseed of the actual deals. dude is a poser. fukk him

Posing for what?

He's already proven the model managing artists under RocNation. He'll get them in the door, have other people do the leg work, and provide the clients with other opportunities outside the normal Nike/Adidas contracts and help find them ways to manage money as well.

This isn't some halfassed Master P sports agency. It'll be done right with CAA behind him.

 

[babylon1]

exactly. he's not a real agent. he's just tying his brand to the player in order to make more money and stay in the news.

the rich get richer. fukk them all

 

[TheNig]

Posing for what?

He's already proven the model managing artists under RocNation. He'll get them in the door, have other people do the leg work, and provide the clients with other opportunities outside the normal Nike/Adidas contracts and help find them ways to manage money as well.

This isn't some halfassed Master P sports agency. It'll be done right with CAA behind him.

That's what folks don't understand they're thinking that he's handling the work like P wad tryna do. Jay has gotta be the smartest man in the world without a high school diploma.

 

[stepbackj34spud]

We gonna have a thread every time this lame dude signs a pro player?

 

[Brozay]

fukk the establishment, i love this shyt

 

[MoneyTron]

exactly. he's not a real agent. he's just tying his brand to the player in order to make more money and stay in the news.

the rich get richer. fukk them all

:jayplease:

So you're mad at Jay for making moves. I see. This seems to be a common theme on the Coli and I have no clue why. Oh well.

 

[YourMajesty]

#NewRules

 

[babylon1]

:jayplease:

So you're mad at Jay for making moves. I see. This seems to be a common theme on the Coli and I have no clue why. Oh well.

because there's a ton of unemployed or under-employed law school grads out there that should be getting positions like this. not a dude who already ate.

really, when is enough ever enough for these greedy fukks?