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
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competing importance player stature talks understood
With all of the talks he had with American and Dominican players, he got a feel for this and made the right decision. I think he understood the importance of a player of his stature competing in this event.
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When they drafted Pelf, he had thrown a lot of innings. We all felt he would benefit from a break, so we didn't even really start serious talks until January.
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They had a conversation early in the week. They exchanged some dialogue, and they're going to talk again later.
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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.
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I haven't talked to Greg about it, and he drives the train here.
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He spoke to the commissioner and the Major League Baseball Players Association last week and they talked about the benefits of his participation in advancing baseball both nationally and internationally.
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Alex has received calls from Major League Baseball and the Players Association asking him to meet to discuss the matter. He has agreed to talk with them to discuss the WBC.
exhaust move situation yankees
We're going to try to exhaust the situation with the Yankees before we move forward.
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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,
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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.
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That's up to the individual player. I think any major league player realizes that ... they've got a career, a future and a reputation inside the game. I don't know what a player will have to gain by disclosing historical facts that have nothing to do with his career.
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We received offers from a number of teams, and we're in the process of going through deal points as to Carlos' future contract,
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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.
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I don't want the world and Minnesota fans to think that Kyle was in any way pushing this situation. He was willing to settle.