Prominent sports agent Scott Boras ripped Major League Baseball for allowing teams to tank seasons in order to acquire high draft picks and top prospects.
Boras, whose clients have been impacted by a sluggish free-agent market during the current MLB offseason, referenced the 1919 Chicago White Sox in comments this week to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (via ESPN.com) about the current state of rebuilding organizations.
"We kicked people out of the game when they tried to not win," he said. "We have to get rid of the noncompetitive cancer.