I couldn’t let this week go by without writing some kind of eulogy for departing Yankee legend Jacoby Ellsbury. The onetime baseball player was released by the Yankees ahead of the Rule 5 draft deadline, and the team will eat the remaining $26 million owed, bringing an end to one of the most melancholy chapters in Yankee history. Or will they?
The Yankees are planning to straight-up refuse to pay Ellsbury, claiming he used outside rehab when recovering from his laundry list of injuries. I’ll admit, when I first heard the story, I had a rather Sandor Clegane response to the whole organization.