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Jose Valverde to Marlins report gets shot down, called “a typical ploy by Scott Boras”

Boras thinking

This morning Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes reported that the Marlins were close to signing Jose Valverde to a one-year contract, but an hour or so later Clark Spencer of the Miami Herald talked to a source who called the report “utterly false.”

Spencer now has a further update, writing that “not one, not two, but three sources I spoke with shot down the rumor.”

Adding to the fun? Valverde is represented by agent Scott Boras, about whom one of Spencer’s sources said: “This is a typical ploy by Scott Boras to attempt to create a market that doesn’t exist for his players, trying to drum up attention when no market exists.”

I hope the entire HardballTalk readership didn’t just simultaneously die of shock.