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Boras: Review system could settle service time disputes

Published Apr. 23, 2015 12:47 a.m. ET

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A pair of Scott Boras' clients, Kris Bryant and Assison Russell, have been affected by service-time this season and the agent believes he has a solution to the problem.

If it were up to Boras, he's institute a review system, as he outlined to the Chicago Sun-Times.

“I would say the union or somebody may come and make a claim that this player is major-league ready and that to place him in the minor leagues would not be appropriate from a skills standpoint,” Boras told the paper. “And then all of a sudden it’s subject to review by a panel of former managers or baseball experts.”

If this Boras-devised system was in place this season it's fairly safe to assume Kris Bryant would have made the Cubs Opening Day roster and if he hadn't it wouldn't have caused such a big debate as the system would have eventually fixed the problem anyways.

However, Boras knows his system isn't perfect and could create some problems.

“It’s objective in the sense that they’re neutral,” he said. “My point is the only way subjective turns objective is that you’ve got to go to the best-known experts who are going to make an evaluation of what they do.”

But who would be eligible for the system?

“Boras said the process would only apply to players without big-league experience and only apply to decisions out of big-league spring trainings – when theoretically anyone in camp is being given an opportunity to make the club.”

(h/t: Chicago Sun-Times)

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