Part 12/19:
A recurring theme is Scott Boras, the infamous player agent renowned for skillfully creating bidding wars. The host mocks Boras’s public declarations—such as describing Cody Bellinger as a “rare bird” and insisting multiple teams are interested when, in reality, Boras is driving up the price.
He snidely notes Boras’s tendency to “inflate the market,” leading teams to overpay out of fear of missing out. Specifically, he criticizes Boras’s description of Bellinger’s market, labeled as “big step toward the playoffs,” when teams likely see him as a solid but not game-changing player.
He sobers the audience with the reality that such declarations are strategic—they prompt overbidding, benefitting the agent and his clients, but often do little to genuinely inform team decision-making.