In a move that makes all the more sense as to why the Yankees would be willing to eat the remaining $26 million on Jacoby Ellsbury’s original seven-year, $153 million pact, the Bombers have informed Ellsbury and his agent, Scott Boras, that they have converted his contract to a non-guaranteed deal.
How’s that, you ask? Well, according to Ken Davidoff of the NY Post, since being out of commission since 2017, Ellsbury was treated without the Yanks’ permission by Dr. Viktor Bouquette of Progressive Medical Center in Atlanta, GA.
Therefore, it doesn’t take a detective to figure the Yankees knew precisely what they were doing when they gave the 36-year-old Ellsbury his walking papers on Wednesday.