Outfielder Gary Sheffield showed up to Tigers’ spring training Thursday to do the usual. You know, some light jogging, stretching…ripping agent Scott Boras.
Sheffield and Boras have been in dispute for five years, since Sheffield fired Boras in 2003. Sheffield later negotiated his own contract with the New York Yankees, but Boras claimed he should get a portion of that deal because of the work he had done on Sheffield’s behalf. Sheffield had to miss four spring training games last year to deal with the case, and he said he is having to attend to it again this spring.
“It’s probably personal, but when it gets done it’s going to be personal with me,” Sheffield said.
Sheffield won’t mention Boras by name, but he left no doubt who he was talking about when he said this morning that he would tell other players to stay away from the super-agent.“I’m going to warn everybody,” Sheffield said. “It’s going to be the ugliest thing you’ve ever seen. There’s certain people you don’t want to mess with — and I guarantee you I’m one of them.”
Sheffield later said that his dealings with Boras were “total hell,” and he twice referred to the agent as a “bad person.”
Them are fighting words.
