MLB Team Uses Two Quarter Horses to Seal the Deal With Second Baseman

In Texas, we deal in horses. But it might seem strange that horses played an integral part in the MLB Texas Rangers signing a 6-year extension with their second baseman, Roughned Odor. Strange, but entirely true.

The Texas Rangers recently announced that Odor agreed to a 6-year, $49.5 million deal that included a special bonus, a 4-year-old Quarter Horse mare named Smokin’ Hancock Drift and her newborn foal.

It seems when Odor wavered in negotiations (for a deal some commented was $3 million below market value) Texas Rangers Managing Partner, Ray Davis, who also raises Quarter Horses in Denison, TX., brought the mare and foal into the bargaining process.

Learn more by reading this piece from Sports Day from the Dallas News.