Usually talking, it is not an enormous deal when gamers change brokers. It occurs quite a bit. One agent change this week, nonetheless, is elevating eyebrows. Astros third baseman Alex Bregman is reportedly leaving his company, one which has ties to LeBron James. In response to one report, Bregman is making the change as a result of James is producing a documentary concerning the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal. 

The Houston Chronicle has extra: 

Bregman and his agent, Brodie Scoffield, have parted methods, an individual with data of the state of affairs advised The Chronicle on Tuesday.

Scoffield previously ran Tidal Sports activities Group. Klutch Sports activities Group acquired the company in April to be its baseball wing, briefly placing Bregman below the identical umbrella as basketball famous person LeBron James. James’ agent Wealthy Paul based Klutch Sports activities Group. Scoffield negotiated the six-year, $100 million extension Bregman signed in February 2019.  

So Bregman was briefly tied to LeBron by Klutch Sports activities and Scoffield. Additionally tied to LeBron is Uninterrupted Sports activities, James’ media firm, which as famous is placing collectively a documentary sequence concerning the sign-stealing controversy that immersed the baseball world this previous offseason. 

The sequence — per Variety — says it should “transcend the baseball diamond to discover bigger themes of greed, dishonest, corruption, sportsmanship, and social media activism.” It was introduced Uninterrupted was choosing up the sequence final week. 

Talking of which, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic writes: 

The involvement of James’ media platform Uninterrupted in a brand new docuseries on the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal was maybe not the one cause Bregman left Brodie Scoffield, whose firm final month turned the baseball arm of James’ company, Klutch Sports activities. However the sources mentioned it was an overriding issue — on the very least, the final straw. 

The 2020 season is up within the air proper now, however previous that, Bregman is ready to make $13 million in each 2021 and 2022 earlier than the wage skyrockets to $30.5 million for 2023 and 2024. He is set to hit free company after the 2024 season. Within the meantime, some agent is about so as to add a prolific new shopper, although the brand new agent will not become profitable off Bregman’s present deal.