Jake Arrieta doesn't have a job in early March. That's an absurd statement.
Arrieta won the National League Cy Young Award in 2015 and was an All-Star in 2016. His results took a dive last season, as we'll discuss, but his right arm didn't fall off. He's a high-upside pitcher with the potential to front a starting rotation.
What happened? How did Arrieta plummet from award-winning grace to March unemployment?
The most obvious culprit is his agent, Scott Boras.
Boras has built a legend by landing his clients gaudy paydays. In November, he called Arrieta "a big squirrel with lots of nuts in his trees," per Bob Nightengale of USA Today.