MLB’s super-agent, Scott Boras, spoke to a plethora of reporters at the GM Meetings on Wednesday and intimated a distaste for how the free agent market is progressing.
“The industry is in competitive hibernation,” Boras said. “When you go to the zoo and half the bears are asleep, you’re not able to enjoy the zoo.”
And with regards to his biggest client, he sees no reason teams shouldn’t be calling him. He thinks and rightly so that “if there were a major league Christmas, 30 stockings would clearly want a lump of Cole.”
Boras is the agent of Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg, Anthony Rendon, Rick Porcello and many other free agents this offseason. He was sure to note that he doesn’t foresee geography being a factor in any of his free agent’s decisions.
“Competition has to be mandated in the next CBA,” Boras added knowing that how the previous two offseasons have gone. He even noted that he wanted to “talk about the impeachment of analytics,” clearly citing it as his believed cause for the stagnation of free agency.
With regards to the game’s popularity and changes being made, he criticized the league for its poor job in engaging younger fans while raising prices for their more dedicated ones.
