Scott Boras is suddenly the Mariners hype man that fans didn’t know they needed

For decades, Scott Boras has played the role of MLB’s ultimate showman: part lawyer, part economist, part carnival barker armed with a thesaurus that could power a small city. But this week at the GM Meetings, the super-agent didn’t just command the room. He took over the entire oxygen supply, setting off his annual word-soup fireworks display while taking casual aim at half the league.

And somehow, in the middle of inflating markets, and comparing players to piper-leading gods and airborne reptiles, he did something no one expected: he talked up the Seattle Mariners like he’s been secretly moonlighting as their PR director.

Scott Boras’ wild GM meetings show somehow ended with a Mariners love letter

If you follow Boras every year, you know the drill. He strides into whatever hotel lobby baseball has rented, surrounded by recorders, cameras, and executives pretending they’re not listening. Then he starts cooking. But this time was different. 

This time he was on one, even by his standards — dropping alliterative grenades, slinging metaphors like he was being paid by the syllable, and hyping his clients with the zeal of a man who absolutely knows he’s about to control the entire winter market. Yet, tucked between the cartoonish bravado and the self-aware showmanship, Boras offered one notably grounded, surprisingly earnest assessment…and it was about the Mariners.

Before we get to that part, let’s give the man his flowers. He was in midseason form. Pete Alonso became the “power piper,” leading teams toward a “playoff-parched plethora” of possibilities. 

It didn't stop there. Cody Bellinger was suddenly a “middle-of-the-lineup merlin,” cooling concerns behind Aaron Judge like an Ice Man summoned from an ‘80s blockbuster.

Dylan Cease wasn’t just a frontline arm — he was “exclusively electric,” because of course he was. It was an afternoon of Boras letting the alliterative theatrics fly while priming the pump for preposterous nine-figure paydays. Purely par for the Boras course.

And then came the curveball: thoughtful, earnest, market-friendly praise for the Seattle Mariners.

As relayed by Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times, Boras said the Mariners “have realized that they’re very close to something really good,” adding that their proximity to the finish line should “potentiate…more grand thoughts about greater acquisitions than not.”

Even the vocabulary (“potentiate”) felt like overkill, but it was sharp, and more telling because it was directed at the Mariners’ future shopping habits.

Here’s the real takeaway: Scott Boras doesn’t hype teams for fun. He hypes teams when it benefits his clients. And, by extension, himself. If the biggest agent in baseball is publicly buttering up the Mariners, it’s because he sees a ripe opportunity. He sees a roster on the cusp, a budget that finally has room to expand, and a fanbase starving for the exact kind of “greater acquisitions” he specializes in selling. That’s not charity. That’s intentional.

And that matters because the Mariners haven’t done meaningful business with Boras since the mid-2000s — Adrian Beltre and Jarrod Washburn feel like fossils at this point. For nearly 20 years, Boras Corp and the Mariners have crossed paths mostly as rivals in the same negotiation room, not partners. 

That could stay the same this winter, but the budget reality Jerry Dipoto hinted at for 2026 suggests this could be the first real window in ages for a reunion. Maybe they don’t land a Boras client this offseason. Maybe the timing is still a year early. But Boras talking about Seattle like they’re a sleeping giant is not nothing.