Scott Boras Slams MLB's 2020 Coronavirus Draft Plan; Says it Hurts Young Players

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Longtime baseball agent Scott Boras said MLB's decision to freeze the signing bonus pool for drafted players while also requiring them to accept deferred bonus money over the next two years "sends the wrong message" amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Boras told Bob Nightengale of USA Today he believes the league is unfairly using the COVID-19 crisis to take advantage of incoming prospects.

"It is amazing to me when our nation is in a position of peril that one of the attack points always continues to be the poor drafted players," he said Friday. "For owners to do this to these young men, who are so passionate about baseball, is something that they need to examine their…