Free agent reliever Rafael Soriano is set to replace agent Scott Boras,
according to James Wagner of the Washington Post (Twitter link). It is not
clear whether he has chosen a new agent.
Soriano hopes to sign a deal and return to big league action, per the report.
He has been inactive for the first two months of the year despite plenty of
apparent interest. Presumably, the fact that he has yet to do so had
something to do with the parting.
Boras has negotiated Soriano’s contracts since the fall of 2010 — as Marc
Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times then reported on Twitter — and has done rather
well for his now-former client. Soriano has earned a total of $49MM over four
years, exercising an opt-out clause negotiated into his deal with the Yankees
and overcoming a qualifying offer to find better money over two years with
the Nationals (though a significant piece of that was deferred).
Most recently, the Marlins were said to be dabbling in the Soriano market,
though no deal was completed and the team apparently no longer has interest.
MLBTR’s Charlie Wilmoth provided a complete look at the possible suitors
last weekend (with our readers voting the Cubs as the odds-on favorite to
bring him in).