Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Reading Between the Lines


Scott Boras, the agent for Cubs’ starter Jake Arrieta, employed some interesting metaphors Saturday to describe his client’s value.  Boras called Arrieta “a squirrel with a lot of nuts in the tree.  He’s a big-game squirrel.”  The mind boggles.

It also wonders if Boras and Arrieta aren’t worried about impending free agency.  Usually, Boras builds up a client, e.g. Jason Werth,  to Cooperstown status.  But all of a sudden Boras is talking nuts and how the Cubs haven’t turned them down yet.  Is it me, or did the big squirrel just blink?

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