LAKELAND, FLORIDA (TICKER) —Gary Sheffield ripped Scott Boras at Detroit Tigers spring training camp Thursday, calling his former agent a “bad person.”
Sheffield has been involved in an ongoing feud with Boras stemming from a dispute regarding the $39 million deal he signed with the New York Yankees more than four years ago.
Sheffield claims he independently negotiated the three-year contract with the Yankees in December 2003, months after firing Boras. But Boras subsequently filed a lawsuit, claiming that the All-Star slugger owed him approximately five percent of the deal.
Never one to back down from a war of words, Sheffield fired the latest volley against Boras on Thursday, claiming he has grown tired of missing spring training games to deal with the case. The designated hitter missed four exhibition contests last season and likely will miss at least one early game this year.
“It’s probably personal with him,” Sheffield told reporters Thursday. “But when it’s done, it’s going to be personal with me. It’s going to be the ugliest thing you’ve ever seen.
“Certain people you don’t mess with - and I guarantee you, I’m one of them.”
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