Wednesday, Trevor Bauer asked MLB super agent Scott Boras to basically mind his own business, focus on his own clients, and stop meddling in players union affairs.

Right on cue, with the return to play standoff unfolding very publicly now, we get a memo from Boras to his players, leaked to the media and published by the Associated Press.

Here’s part of what Boras says:

“Remember, games cannot be played without you,” Boras wrote. “Players should not agree to further pay cuts to bail out the owners. Let owners take some of their record revenues and profits from the past several years and pay you the prorated salaries you agreed to accept or let them borrow against the asset values they created from the use of those profits players generated.”

…

“Owners are asking for more salary cuts to bail them out of the investment decisions they have made,” Boras said. “If this was just about baseball, playing games would give the owners enough money to pay the players their full prorated salaries and run the baseball organization. The owners’ current problem is a result of the money they borrowed when they purchased their franchises, renovated their stadiums or developed land around their ballparks. This type of financing is allowed and encouraged by MLB because it has resulted in significant franchise valuations.”

…

“Owners now want players to take additional pay cuts to help them pay these loans. They want a bailout,” he added. “They are not offering players a share of the stadiums, ballpark villages or the club itself, even though salary reductions would help owners pay for these valuable franchise assets. These billionaires want the money for free. No bank would do that. Banks demand loans be repaid with interest. Players should be entitled to the same respect.”

Nice leak by Boras. Sneaky bastard! He’s really good. Gotta give him that.

As for the content of the memo itself, of course he’s making valid points. And a lot of the players want owners to open the books to get a real look at the numbers before agreeing to take what they feel is a second pay cut, even though it’s really a cut on top of a prorated salary figure they agreed to back in March.

From a macro perspective though, the average five-figure earning American is just watching this unfold and thinking, “please just figure this shit out before you drive more people away from baseball.”

By the way, this also just dropped: