LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — It’s Day 3 of baseball’s Winter Meetings, which meant it was time to find Scott Boras a place to stand.
The sport’s most prominent agent addresses the media for an hour or so on the Wednesday of each Winter Meetings, but the assembled horde of cameras, microphones and recorders can stretch six deep. Last year he commandeered a stairwell; this year it was a camera trunk.
Boras has a way with words. He compared the Miami Marlins, who just traded Giancarlo Stanton and his $295 million salary, to a pawn shop. He said the New York Mets “have to get to the vault, because the ATM has limits.