Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports is including to grow, adding more and more star athletes in various sports. This time he heads back over to Major League Baseball.
via HardballTalk:
Following in the footsteps of fellow MLB players Robinson Cano, CC Sabathia, and his teammate and countryman Rusney Castillo, Red Sox outfielder Yoenis Cespedes will now be represented by Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports.
Cespedes was previously represented by Adam Katz of Wasserman Media Group, who negotiated his four-year, $36 million deal with the Athletics in February of 2012. He has one year remaining on that deal, so he’s clearly preparing for what next offseason will bring. Alex Speier of WEEI.comreports that Brodie Van Wagenen will serve as as the point-person in regard to a contract for Cespedes, so this is a similar arrangement to what we have seen with Cano and Castillo.
Cespedes, 29, batted .260/.301/.450 with 22 home runs and 100 RBI over 152 games this season between the Athletics and Red Sox. Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe wrote over the weekend that Boston could make him available in a trade as they attempt to address their current outfield logjam.
