'Super Agent' Boras Shock Remarks, "Two MLB Clubs affiliated with Korea are confident of its establishment in the near future."

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Scott Boras (74), a "big hand" and super agent in the Major League Baseball (MLB), has presented an unconventional blueprint for the Asian baseball market. Beyond simple event games, it gave a detailed prospect that major league clubs based in Asian cities, including South Korea, will be established.

Boras appeared on the baseball podcast "The Show" run by the New York Post on the 24th (Korea Standard Time) and had in-depth conversations with prominent local baseball reporters such as John Heyman and Joel Sherman about MLB's future business model. At the meeting, Boras made a shocking statement, emphasizing the importance of the Asian market in relation to the MLB Secretariat's "Expansion" plan.

Boras said at the end of the interview, "I am fully confident that there will be MLB franchise clubs in Asia in the near future," and even mentioned the specific allocation plan.

According to Boras' plan, a total of seven major league clubs will be established in Asia alone. His theory was that four teams should be established in Japan, two in Korea, which has the world-class baseball fever, and one in Taiwan. This is an unconventional design to expand MLB's scope to Asia beyond simply holding opening games such as the "Seoul Series" and the "Tokyo Series" in Asia.

Boras is a representative agent who is relatively familiar with Asian players. Not only Korean players such as Lee Jung-hoo (28, San Francisco Giants) and Kim Ha-sung (31, Atlanta Braves), but also Japanese players such as Kazuma Okamoto (30, Toronto Blue Jays) and Tatsuya Imai (28, Houston Blue Jays).

As they are well aware of the Asian market, they seem to judge that they also have a financial foundation and infrastructure. If up to seven clubs are established in Korea, Japan and Taiwan as Boras envisioned, this is expected to be the realization of a "true World Series" in which baseball talents around the world play on the MLB stage with minimal time difference and travel distance constraints.

Of course, practical barriers remain, including distance traveled and consultations with players' unions. In particular, after the end of the 2026 season, the secretariat and the players' union have to sign a new labor-management agreement (CBA). However, since Boras has led to several massive contracts and institutional changes that seemed impossible in the baseball world, this "Asian club founding theory" is interpreted as a strong business suggestion for the MLB secretariat beyond vain.

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