Outside The Confines: The Scott Boras show goes virtual

Laat week when MLB’s Winter Meetings went all digital, I got a few things wrong. For one, I mistakenly believed that there might actually be some movement on the freezing free agent market. The other mistake, it turns out, is that I suggested that sports agent Scott Boras might not be able to give one of his famous impromptu press conferences.

On Tuesday evening, he proved me wrong by taking his own meeting online, and in true Scott Boras fashion, it was full of insane metaphors and built like a never before practiced standup routine.

Below, some of the invited press share the highlights.

For starters, a thought I don’t necessarily disagree with:

Then things, well... they got strange.

I’ll just let the rest of these Scott-isms speak for themselves.

I could probably spend all day posting reactions to Boras’s call, but I’ll leave you with those for now and we’ll move into the links for the day, where most of the buzz is still about the Cleveland Baseball Team finally changing their name... well, eventually.

• Stephanie Apstein explains why the team should not wait until 2022 to make the change, but should make it now.
• Michael Baumann of The Ringer says (rightly) it’s about time the Indians changed their name.
• Mike Axisa looks at the history of Cleveland’s team “nickname” and their troubled past with the name and Chief Wahoo.
• Michael Rosenberg takes an optimistic approach, looking at how the Cleveland decision might help create more change down the road.
• ESPN gives us everything we know so far about the Cleveland name change.
• Should the Nationals consider trading Max Scherzer? It might seem crazy, but with a year left on his deal, Mike Axisa explains why it might make sense.
• With a similar eye towards big-name trades, Ken Rosenthal posits some big moves that smart teams might still make this offseason. (The Athletic subscription required.)
• Kim Ng shares the journey that brought her to the Marlins.
• Jay Jaffe continues to explore this year’s Hall of Fame ballot, this time with a focus on the One and Dones.
• If ever you have wondered who the biggest star traded by each of the 30 MLB teams was, David Shoenfield has you covered.
• Levi Weaver gives us the incredible story of Tom Grieve, aka “Mr. Ranger.” (The Athletic subscription required.)
• Free agency has come to an end for David Dahl, and Tony Wolfe explores how strange it is for him to have landed with the Rangers.
• More than just a loss of sports, Marc Delucchi shows us precisely what communities are losing when they lose a minor league team. (Baseball Prospectus Premium required.)
• Good guy Shane Bieber visits the Cleveland Clinic.
• If you ever wanted Jose Canseco to follow you on Twitter, your moment is here.

And tomorrow will be a better day than today, Buster. Make it so.