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Alex Rodriguez is no longer be represented by super-agent Scott Boras, the USA Today reported Thursday morning. NBC Sports followed up that report by saying that A-Rod "definitely fired" Boras about a month ago. Both stories say that he's now being represented by Pittsburgh-based attorney Jay Reisinger, who's well known for representing Sammy Sosa and Andy Pettitte when they testified about steroid use before Congress. It's worth noting that Rodriguez is under contract through 2017, and since he'll be 41 in 2017, it's pretty unlikely that he'll be doing much more contract negotiating in his career. Since Boras was his agent when he signed his mammoth 10-year, $275 million extension back in late-2007, he's still due all the commission for his current deal.
Given A-Rod's PED trouble last year, and the fact that Reisinger helped him deal with that whole fiasco, it just makes sense that he'd want an agent who focuses more on this kind of work than negotiation, the way Boras does. Barry Bonds made a similar move in dropping Boras late in his career after he signed his last contract with the Giants.
Losing his highest-profile client is a bit of a PR hit for Boras, but it's not really any skin off of his nose. He's lost a few clients here and there in the past (Felipe Lopez dropped him in February), but he's negotiated huge draft deals for Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper in the last two years and got Matt Holliday the largest contract in Cardinals' history this past offsseason (seven years, $120 million).
Even with the bad PR of losing A-Rod, I doubt Boras is going to have trouble finding clients in the near future.
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