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Agent Spotlight
Scott Boras
The most influencial agent in baseball.
Sports Agent Plus/January, 2014
Education,
Graduated from the University of Pacific where he recived his PHM in 1977.
Received his J.D from McGeorge School of Law in 1982.
Backround
Scott Boras is one of the most powerful and influential agents in the field of baseball and has negotiated over $4 billion in contracts in his career. He represents players such as Alex Rodriguez (up until 2010), Barry Zito, and Stephen Strasburg. The Boras Corporation, founded by Scott Boras, consists of four companies focused solely on baseball. It is also the leading agency in baseball. Scott Boras is what you might call an owners nightmare because he will always raise the cost of his player over what most would agree the worth of the player actually is. Boras is notoriously known for having young athletes hold out after they are drafted to get very large contracts. Boras is hated by many fans for turning the game of
baseball into an auction and who ever has the most money wins games, aka the Yankees. Boras is a huge name in baseball and has negotiated some of the biggest contracts in the sport. He is loved by some and hated by others, but no one can deny him the fact that he is great at what he does, he gets athletes big contracts.
Sports Agency
Scott Boras is the founder of “The Boras Corporation”
Biggest Client
Up until 2010 Scott Boras Represent Alex Rodrigues, but currently one of Boras’s biggest clients is Prince Fielder.