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Boras skewers MLB's 'rotten eggs' of tanking, hopes new CBA cures 'noncompetitive cancer' creeping through game

FILE - Sports agent Scott Boras, wearing a jacket with his personal logo, speaks at the Major League Baseball winter meetings in San Diego on Dec. 10, 2019. Boras, baseball’s most influential agent said the sport was the victim of a “competitive cancer” caused by teams unloading veterans to accumulate draft picks and said the Atlanta Braves’ World Series title was a direct result of tanking. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Gregory Bull

CARLSBAD, Calif. — As he arrived for his annual meeting with the media at the General Manager Meetings, agent Scott Boras brought notes on the analogies he scripted to describe his free-agent clients.