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Cancer insurance is usually a separate policy. I know Lloyds of London is the one who specializes in this kind of oddball one off insurance so who knows what is possible here and what the Sox felt was worth paying to cover.

If anything, I bet it does the opposite.

Wow. Hope for the best, baseball is secondary.

Look if getting called out by Michael Jordan didn't change anything, this is a bug on his windshield.

Sox are worth 1.76 billion, and lost $10m in 21 https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2022/03/24/baseballs-most-valuable-teams-2022-yankees-hit-6-billion-as-new-cba-creates-new-revenue-streams/?sh=e126d51600a2

The last part is fair.

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INteresting. Not much on him.

I can't believe people actually put money into this.

Ordinarily I wouldn't care too much about Hamilton, but I wonder with the new base running rules, new bases, and new defensive rules, maybe his value without his bat goes way up. Especially if we have a manager that is skilled enough to take advantage of it.

Without details, this is a solid depth move.

Last I knew the Twins offer was like $280m.

we are now on two of the biggest spending teams in baseball who seem to feel that this is a pretty real risk.

$30 million a year in dead spending would be disastrous to Minnesota.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/yankees-eye-pirates-bryan-reynolds-amid-unrealistic-asks/

Not to mention, insurance cost is tied to risk. A policy like this is probably insanely expensive anyway, even if it was insurable. The quants who do those things for a living are really good at making sure the insurance companies come out ahead on everything in the long run.

It is nice to move on.

Invite to spring training I could get with. He at least has had some success in recent years. I think the physical would be key here. If he really is physically unable, that probably excludes him.

And unfortunately it is a complete lack of transparency and honest that leave people with educated guesses and speculation. Of course local media could ask a hard question, but that won't happen.

With the circumstances around his departure, there is WAY more to the story than is being told. What we know adds up very cleanly to something bigger than we know.

No one has any problem with positional versatility. But in specifically Eloy's case, we have seen him injure himself multiple times playing defense. It is not an overreaction to that exact history to want him out there as absolutely little as possible so as to keep him healthy as a hitter. Also there is no problem at all with any other player on the roster playing in other positions which their skillsets allow them to learn and play to a level that doesn't hurt the team when they play that position. There should be some common sense built into that idea. Sticking horrible players in a position to fail and excusing it as "positional versatility" is just another way to excuse stupid decision making.