Scott Boras, baseball's most powerful agent, urged Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch to fabricate records in an effort to overturn a 50-game suspension for Manny Ramirez, according to a published report.
Newsday, citing two sources familiar with the matter, reported Friday that Bosch told federal investigators that Boras asked him to produce a patient chart as part of an appeal of a 50-game suspension levied in May 2009 on Ramirez, then a Boras client.
Boras on Friday denied the allegations and told USA TODAY Sports he will soon issue a statement on the matter.
Bosch said he and his father, Pedro Bosch, did not keep patient charts on his clients, but that Boras told him to include hcG - a fertility drug - in the patient chart. Boras perhaps was not aware hcG was listed as a banned substance by Major League Baseball.
Newsday also reported that Boras, Bosch said, aimed to cite Ramirez's accidental use of an elderly uncle's testosterone cream, believing it was aftershave, as part of his defense.