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• Hal Steinbrenner believes 'scrappy' Yankees can win with $189 million payroll

  plans also include a significant investment in Robinson Cano , despite the turmoil he caused earlier this season in dumping Scott Boras for a new agency headed by rapper Jay-Z , who is working with CAA's point man, Brodie Van Wagenen."We've had several conversations   Read more »

• Matt Harvey won't be fazed by prospect of facing Stephen Strasburg

  fearsome one that Harvey has faced. And, of course, there is the fireballing Strasburg.The two share the same agent, Scott Boras , but Harvey said he doesn't know Strasburg well. They've trained at the same facility in Newport Beach, Calif., and crossed paths   Read more »

• Robinson Cano leaves Scott Boras, signs with new agency headed by Jay-Z

  -- and the signing of Cano as a client -- was officially announced Tuesday morning.Cano was formerly represented by Scott Boras.At this point in my career, I am ready to take a more active role in my endeavors both on and off the field, Cano said in a press   Read more »

• Robinson Cano's father wants him to be a 'Yankee forever'

  Fla. -- With all due respect to his beloved father, Robinson Cano sounded as if he'll leave the negotiating to Scott Boras . Jose Cano, the bullpen coach for the Dominican Republic World Baseball Classic team, spoke to reporters early Monday afternoon as his   Read more »

• Robinson Cano knows he'll get paid but isn't focusing on it

  Of course, all of it eventually will be about money, which would have been the case with or without the presence of agent Scott Boras , hired by Cano two years ago. Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner recently said there had been "a conversation   Read more »

Around the web

• Bryce Harper homers in return to lineup, alleviating concerns about concussion

  in place in 2011. On Wednesday, the Washington Post‘s Adam Kilgore reported that both the Nationals and Harper’s agent, Scott Boras, said that Harper did not suffer a concussion. Head athletic trainer Lee Kuntz told Kilgore that Harper had undergone two SCAT2   from Sports Illustrated Read more »

• The Nats Are Still Pretending Bryce Harper Doesn't Have A Concussion

  Harper walked off under his own power, and later in the evening, a little too quickly, Nationals officials—and agent Scott Boras, oddly—announced that he had passed a concussion test. A "rung bell" then, or as hockey would put it, an upper body injury. “I   from Deadspin Read more »

• St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Trevor Rosenthal switches to agent Scott Boras

  relief pitcher Trevor Rosenthal has announced that he has switched agencies and that he is now being represented by Scott Boras. That's not a big deal in the short term because Rosenthal isn't even eligible to go to salary arbitration for the first time until   from Belleville News-Democrat Read more »

• Bryce Harper ‘day to day’ after X-rays come back negative

  and left knee. Tests Monday night determined he had not suffered a concussion, both the Nationals and Harper’s agent Scott Boras said. Harper “will be sore but fine,” Rizzo said in a text message. “Day to day.” Harper has yet to address his condition. Tuesday   from The Washington Post Read more »

• Bryce Harper's all-out style could make him another Pete Reiser

  field wall, suffering a laceration that required eleven stitches and a jammed shoulder. The good news, according to his agent Scott Boras, is that Harper did not suffer a concussion. But this is not Bryce Harper's first collision with an outfield fence. In   from Josh Ellis Dallas Cowboys Blog Read more »