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
He took a lot less to come back to the Yankees because he values the Yankees tradition.
My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins.
On the other side, I do think there’s a melding in there. There are situations -- I’ve done contracts for Carlos Gonzalez, or just recently I did one for Elvis Andrus -- to where there is a melding of the club’s wants and the player’s wants where you do things in advance of free agency.
People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value.
Drew is a player that comes along once every 20 years. Not even Barry Bonds can be compared to J.D. Drew.
The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.
People call me all the time and say, “Man, your players aren't signed yet.” Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak.
If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.
I don't think there was any question that they were going to sign the player.
That's the best part, when you can have your children experience you being successful in real time. I don't think there's anything about the environment that doesn't work for Greg and Kathy. Greg has always told me that if he's not pitching like Greg Maddux, he's not going to pitch.
They want to hear from all parties sometimes before they make a decision.
It was just something that was very difficult to work out.
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.
It was basically not a raise. It was something that really changed his feelings about Boston. In his mind, that offer put him in a position that was difficult for him. He was surprised by it.