DODGERS NOTEBOOK: AGENTS' ACTIONS QUESTIONED.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer The Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. Players' Association is investigating the matter of the Dodgers' top draft pick Luke Hochevar Luke Anthony Hochevar (born September 15, 1983, and graduated from Fowler High School (Fowler, Colorado). While attending Fowler High School, he was the 2A Player of the Year (senior year). , a right-hander out of the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. whom the club still hasn't signed. Specifically, the union is looking into the conduct of agents Scott Boras Scott Boras (b. November 2, 1952 in California) is a sports agent for professional baseball players. He is the president of Scott Boras Corporation, which holds its headquarters in Newport Beach, California. , who originally was advising Hochevar and now is doing so again, and Matt Sosnick, who became Hochevar's advisor long enough on the evening of Sept. 2 to negotiate a $2.98 million signing bonus that Hochevar initially agreed to but never signed. Hochevar rejoined the Boras Bo·rås A city of southwest Sweden east of Göteborg. It was founded in 1632. Population: 60,900. fold in the wee hours of the following morning. Both Boras and Sosnick cited a gag order A court order to gag or bind an unruly defendant or remove her or him from the courtroom in order to prevent further interruptions in a trial. In a trial with a great deal of notoriety, a court order directed to attorneys and witnesses not to discuss the case with the media—such in declining to comment on the union's upcoming hearing on the matter, which hasn't been scheduled. But two sources with knowledge of the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the investigation is on-going. Former major-league outfielder Garth Iorg, whose Knoxville, Tenn., home Hochevar was visiting on the night in question and whose son, Volunteers outfielder Eli Iorg, is a Sosnick client who was taken with the 38th overall pick (two ahead of Hochevar) by Houston, spoke out on Sosnick's behalf on Monday night for the second time in the past week. Hochevar claimed during a phone interview with the Daily News last week that Sosnick badgered him with several phone calls to Eli Iorg's cell phone that night and that Hochevar eventually agreed to accept one of those calls so he could tell Sosnick to stop contacting him. It was during that call, Hochevar said, that Sosnick said he could get him almost $3 million. But Garth Iorg disputed that account during a phone interview with the Daily News Monday night. ``That's not even close,'' he said. ``Matt called my cell phone, and I answered, and I talked to Matt for a while. He asked if Luke was there and would he talk to him. I said I would ask him, and Luke said sure. That's the only call I'm aware of. Luke walked outside and talked for 30-40 minutes, with no arm twisting or anything like that. That's not the way Matt works.'' |
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