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If CIF adds state baseball championships, Scott Boras might help

April 8, 2026

The CIF will likely have its first state championships for baseball next school year.

If so, sports agent Scott Boras is ready to help.

Boras created the Boras Classic tournament 14 years ago, partly to fill the void since California didn’t have state championships for baseball. There is a Boras Classic in Northern California and one in Southern California, and the winners of those tournament meet in a state championship game.

The CIF State Federated Council, the CIF’s legislative body, votes later this month on a proposal that would establish CIF State championships in baseball and softball starting with the 2026-27 school year.

The Boras Family Foundation that has supported children’s charities across the nation could assist in making CIF State championships in the diamond sports thrive.

“We don’t want to interrupt anything CIF is doing,” Boras said Tuesday at Mater Dei during the first day of the Boras Classic Southern Section tournament. “Perhaps we could sponsor it.”

Boras is proud of what the tournament has achieved for California baseball – the Boras Classic Southern Section tournament is regarded as the best high school baseball tournament in the region – and for baseball players.

“I think we’re up to 6,200 Division I commits in the 14 years of the tournament,” Boras said. “Six hundred and fifty of our players have been drafted and $325 million in scholarships have been given to these young men.”

Boras has an eye on expanding Boras Classic baseball to Texas and Georgia. A Boras Classic tournament in Arizona was started a few years ago.

The Boras Family Foundation organizes youth sports clinics and organizes high school athletes’ holiday visits to hospitals and Ronald McDonald House.

He wants to make sure that Boras Classic players understand that while baseball can open doors to academic opportunities, those academic opportunities often will be more important than the athletic opportunities.

Boras was a college baseball player at the University of the Pacific and played minor-league baseball until a third knee surgery curtailed that dream.

“I had a college professor who told me, ‘I know you’re doing well in sports,’” Boras recalled. “But what happens in your life above your shoulders is going to have more to do with your life than what happens below your shoulders.’”

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