The Most Important Person in M.L.B.’s Offseason Isn’t a Player

Scott Boras maintains the base of his agenting empire in an office complex in Newport Beach, Calif., but in the afternoons during the baseball season the headquarters shifts location. Sometimes Boras holds court in a suite before games at Angel Stadium. When the Los Angeles Dodgers are in town, as they were throughout October, he stands behind the backstop as a procession of current and future clients, plus suitors for those players, pay him visits.

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The rules of Major League Baseball forbid Boras, or any agent, from stepping onto the field. So people come to him.

In the hours before Game 1 of the World Series, Juan Soto made the short

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