Column: Scott Boras is 71. How much longer does baseball’s most famous agent plan to work?

Agent Scott Boras during a news conference for the Giants’ Jung Hoo Lee in San Francisco last December. Boras has been an agent for 41 years. It was scorching hot the other day at Angel Stadium. Scott Boras did not need to be there, chatting up players several hours before a game between two of the three worst teams in the American League. He did not need to be there the previous day, when he did the same thing.

And he certainly did not need to be in Modesto over the previous three days, perspiring even more, as he looked at minor league players. Boras, the most famous agent in baseball, employs about 150 people. No doubt one of them could have checked out the Nuts. (No, really, the Modesto…