LAS VEGAS — A Scott Boras appearance is about presentation as much as substance. The superagent’s famously elaborate metaphors carry as much meaning in their figurative structure as their literal message; it’s the former, after all, that draws so much attention to the latter. So it’s hard to imagine that there was anything accidental about Boras’ choice of location for his annual address to the media at baseball’s winter meetings.
He didn’t opt for the Mandalay Bay’s convention center, where the league’s offices have set up shop alongside a reporters’ workroom. He didn’t pick a location around the edges of the building’s casino, where ESPN’s Baseball Tonight has had a television set all week.