Scott Boras Thinks He Has a Plan to Bring Back Baseball Quickly But He Really Doesn't At All

Scott Boras' plan to bring back baseball isn't a plan at all. It's an idea based on setting some sort of self-serving precedent that would only harm the American public.

For starters, Boras' blueprint would begin almost immediately be separating players into groups of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 and those who haven't. Then, they'll report to some version of Spring Training just as they normally would, with pitchers and catcher arriving first in Florida and Arizona.

We admire Boras' audacity, but the flaws with such a plan begin from the outset. First, there isn't nearly enough testing to keep all players safe. Boras would rather not wait on the pharmaceutical industry to create a vaccine, which he made very clear in an interview with CNBC. By moving forward on his own timeline, he's putting athletes in danger to move forward both he and his clients' bottom line.

Sure, no one wants to lose money, but Boras' plan has many of the same steps as the precedent MLB floated just weeks ago. Rather than going public with a very similar idea, Boras ought to let Rob Manfred and Co. test out their thesis with health professionals along for the ride, instead of trying to circumvent the process to save a few weeks of game action.

Boras claims his clients and MLB players as a whole are far more unlikely to contract and suffer severe health ramifications as a result of COVID-19 than the rest of the population. While he's right, he contradicts this statement a mere minutes later by assuming MLB can be a model for the entire country to eventually return to work.

Baseball players are not like most of us. They're in phenomenal shape and are therefore less likely to perish from such a virus. This is why a return to some level of normalcy is even considered in sport.

The rest of us must wait, and hope athletics can provide us a distraction. We can only hope Boras isn't picked to lead such a charge.