Scott Boras
Scott Boras
Scott Dean Borasis an American sports agent, specializing in baseball. He is the founder, owner and president of the Boras Corporation, a sports agency based in Newport Beach, California that represents roughly 175 professional baseball clients, including many of the game's highest-profile players. Boras has brokered many record-setting contracts since 1982, and many of his clients, including Shin-Soo Choo, Jacoby Ellsbury, Prince Fielder, Matt Holliday, Alex Rodriguez, Max Scherzer, and Jayson Werth are among the highest paid in the game...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 November 1952
CitySacramento, CA
They were doing this for market purposes, not to help the team individually. It's never in best interest of an individual club to disclose which player they're going to tender or not tender. The free agent market has been artificially manipulated by owner conduct.
I heard some very serious things today that made me think there are going to be some clubs that are going to be very aggressive in the free-agent process.
I talk to whoever the club wants me to negotiate with. But I do think that's the longest period I've gone without ever talking to a GM.
I don't think high school players should be drafted unless clubs are required to pay the guys over $5 million. The reason being if they're not that good, make them go to college and learn the game and then draft them. But if you draft a high school player you have to guarantee his future. And if the player is not that good the team won't take the risk. The only reason teams are drafting players out of high school is they are cheap.
It was just something that was very difficult to work out.
I'm not often surprised by numbers, ... I was surprised by some of what we came up with in regard to Johnny.
They want to hear from all parties sometimes before they make a decision.
We're going to try to exhaust the situation with the Yankees before we move forward.
We had a situation where we knew Alex was going to be traded -- but we had to wait and see where he would end up. So we had an oral understanding, a bridge.
The Yankees have never addressed or spoken with me in regard to any off-field activities regarding Alex Rodriguez. And the Yankees have never spoken to Alex regarding any of his off-field activities,
The thing I'd say about that is that if Alex is a hypocrite, then everyone who is American and has parents of different heritage and wants to be respectful of that is a hypocrite, too. If that's being a hypocrite, then I'd want to be one. Alex was thoughtfully considering a difficult decision and was trying to make the right decision for him and his family.
I don't know why people are writing the Cubs aren't in it because they have to trade Sammy Sosa first.
They had a conversation early in the week. They exchanged some dialogue, and they're going to talk again later.
It wasn't just economics that went into this decision. It was really about winning. With his skills and the skills of the Yankees, it was really a good fit.