It?s Just Boras Being Boras

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Although this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone in the world of baseball, but if this report is true, super agent Scott Boras hasn’t been returning the Red Sox phone calls concerning free agent catcher Jason Varitek per this article from Boston.com over the weekend. It was recently thought that the Red Sox and Boras had a pretty good relationship going these days after the overpaying of RF J.D. Drew and the aquisition of Japanese star pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka before the 2007 season, both Scot Boras clients. After those signings, it seemed as if Boston had a newly formed amicable relation with Boras, one that might give them slightly better treatment than their peers in dealing with Boras clients in the future. Then there was the handling of the Mark Teixeira free agency in this off season that seemed to realign the balance of the team/agent relationship back into its usual uncomfortableness as the Boston ownership group were le...