Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 04, 2005
More Than Just an Agent

Scott Boras is more than just an agent:

Scott Boras is on a building binge. His company of 40-plus employees is expected to move into a completely redone three-story, 20,000-square- foot building in April. The final cost is expected to surpass $10 million.

After that, he hopes to begin construction on a permanent home for the Scott Boras Sports Training Institute, which he opened in 2003 to better monitor his clients' year-round training regimen.

The fitness institute sprung to life after Chan Ho Park pulled a hamstring muscle during spring training in the first season of his five-year, $65 million deal with the Rangers. Park's hamstring problems and subsequent back problems may have been significant factors in his poor performance with Texas.

Boras realizes that his livelihood depends on his athletes performing their best. Scott does everything to keep them at the top of their game.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:34 AM | Agents | TrackBack (0)
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The fans pay. We who go to see any of his players, watch or listen on a media outlet, buy a hot dog, park
a car, purchase siding for the exterior of our house,
or maybe a potion to re-grow hair--we pay for those
mansions.

Posted by: susan mullen at December 4, 2005 06:11 PM

boras: good for his clients, bad for everything else in baseball

Posted by: benjah at December 5, 2005 06:33 AM

Let's see, ten-mill-plus divided by twenty g's... where's he building this thing, the moon?

While it's a little unsettling that an agent has dunned enough scratch from his horses to ante up ten million for a facility, there's no doubt the Chan Ho Park thing was a "learning experience" for him. Park has unfortunately been a disaster since Boras inked Texas to the deal, and it's hard to think Scott didn't get a little on him.

Posted by: Bob Kunz at December 6, 2005 04:39 PM
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