{"id":453,"date":"2010-02-13T00:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T04:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2010-02-13T00:32:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T04:32:21","slug":"someone-who-says-no-to-scott-boras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/02\/13\/someone-who-says-no-to-scott-boras\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone who says no to Scott Boras?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well consi<a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com?iid=5826747&amp;term=%5c%22felipe+lopez\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/9\/0\/0\/8\/MLB_Milwaukee_Brewers_8e22.JPG?adImageId=10219841&amp;imageId=5826747\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MLB: Milwaukee Brewers at Los Angeles Dodgers\" width=\"234\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a>dering how he&#8217;s roped in a market for outfielder Johnny Damon I was starting to wonder if there was anyone left in baseball that could say no to Scott Boras.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I was wrong. Actually there was someone who fired him.<\/p>\n<p>Felipe Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>You may know Lopez, 29, as a decent middle infielder but he&#8217;s also one of a list of unemployed major leaguers as the middle of February comes around.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez hit .310\/.383\/.427 with nine home runs and 57 RBI with the Diamondbacks and Brewers last season so it&#8217;s hard to believe there&#8217;s not teams willing to take a chance on him this year. Lopez who had been a Boras client opted to fire the &#8220;super agent&#8221; and has now signed with the Beverly Hill Sport Council.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting because Lopez was second only to Matt Holliday among free agents in batting average and on-base percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Cardinals were known to have interest in Lopez earlier this winter. While Lopez would be an upgrade at either second base or short-stop there is no shortage of infielders currently on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Boras, meanwhile, has spent the better part of the offseason tending to more high-profile clients. He might be the only reason Lopez is without a contract right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well considering how he&#8217;s roped in a market for outfielder Johnny Damon I was starting to wonder if there was anyone left in baseball that could say no to Scott Boras. I guess I was wrong. Actually there was someone who fired him. Felipe Lopez. You may know Lopez, 29, as a decent middle infielder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,218,575],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-felipe-lopez","9":"tag-scott-boras"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}