It’s been an eventful few days for Scott Boras, who has negotiated over $1 billion for his clients this winter including Carlos Correa (13 years, $350 million), Xander Bogaerts (11/280) and Taijuan Walker (4/72) with former Giants and White Sox ace Carlos Rodon still on the market. Detested for his brash, at times ruthless tactics, Boras has never shied away from the spotlight, whether it’s holding court at the Winter Meetings or hamming it up in press conferences, as he did Thursday at Citi Field, sitting front and center as Brandon Nimmo put pen to paper on an eight-year, $162-million contract that should allow him to finish his career in Queens.
After Boras performed for the cameras in New York, laying on the charm with his effusive praise of owner Steve Cohen (“Our game needs goliaths"), he hightailed it up to Boston, making it to Fenway just in time for Masataka Yoshida’s Red Sox introduction at 4 PM ET.
Now it’s not like Boras was traveling from coast to coast like Kirk Herbstreit is known to do during football season, hustling from the set of College GameDay to whatever game he’s announcing for ESPN that night. LaGuardia to Logan is only an hour flight, and there’s no way Boras was slumming it with the casuals flying commercial, almost certainly skipping the headache that is airport security. Still, it’s a lot of ground to cover, especially when all he’s doing is sitting at a table, entertaining a handful of questions from local media before putting out his next fire, wherever that may be.
Is it strictly necessary for Boras to be physically present at all of his client’s press conferences? Probably not. But Boras prefers to be in the room. In fact, he insists on it, an annoyance David Samson had to deal with during his time as Marlins team president, a demand he caved to every time in spite of hating every second of being in Boras’ presence.
“That, to me, was a hard no every time I spoke to him. But if you’ve watched YouTube, you’ve seen him at the table of every press conference I’ve ever done with him. Because at the end of the day, I can’t stand to hear his voice anymore. I can’t stand to negotiate anymore. And he knows that he wants to be front and center, so we give him that because we got the player we wanted,” said Samson in a clip from 2019. “The bottom line is, when you negotiate with Scott Boras, it’s degrees of losing for everyone who’s not a player.”
The Giants have yet to schedule Correa’s introductory press conference, but when they do, you can bet Boras will be at the podium right next to him, waiting for the cameras to pan in his direction.
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