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Prince Fielder retiring

Odds are there is an insurance policy on him by the Rangers. Or, had he stayed with DET, the same. So really the salary won't be an issue if he is retiring for medical reasons.
 
Rebbiv said:
Odds are there is an insurance policy on him by the Rangers. Or, had he stayed with DET, the same. So really the salary won't be an issue if he is retiring for medical reasons.
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do the Tigers get any relief since they are paying part of his salary?
 
Fielder is of course still under contract through 2020 and has almost $100 million left on his contract (with the Tigers still paying $6 million per). It remains to be seen whether Fielder is simply retiring and walking away from all that money, whether the Rangers will release him and pay him what he's owed, or whether a settlement between team and player will be reached that allows the Rangers to get out from under the full financial obligation.
 
-- Though the Rangers have an insurance policy on Fielder that pays 50 percent of his salary in the event of a long-term injury, they will not recoup any money in 2016. There is a 90-day deductible period before they can file a claim, and there are not 90 days left in the season.
-- Because of the deductible, the Rangers recouped just a little more than $2 million of the $24 million owed to Fielder in 2014.
-- Fielder is under contract until the 2021 season, so the Rangers are on the hook to pay him for at least the next four seasons. But if he has surgery, there are questions about how he would respond to a second neck surgery, the potential limitations in flexibility it might cause and how he would respond now that he's two years older than the first.
 
I doubt he is just walking away from the money...I can't believe anybody would do that.
 
I speculate he is retiring out of a) self-preservation or b)inability to play anymore.
 
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/08/prince-fielder-likely-to-announce-retirement.html
Prince Fielder’s Career Likely Over.
MLBtraderumors

2:07pm: Rosenthal clarifies that Fielder is not technically retiring (Twitter links).
Doctors won’t permit him to play, so the proper designation for his situation is that he is medically disabled.

Retiring would cause Fielder to renounce the money in his contract, which is not what will happen in this case.

Like father, like son: If Prince Fielder retires, he'll end his career with the same amount of HRs as his dad (319).
 
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kalinecountry said:
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/08/prince-fielder-likely-to-announce-retirement.html
Prince Fielder?s Career Likely Over.
MLBtraderumors

2:07pm: Rosenthal clarifies that Fielder is not technically retiring (Twitter links).
Doctors won?t permit him to play, so the proper designation for his situation is that he is medically disabled.

Retiring would cause Fielder to renounce the money in his contract, which is not what will happen in this case.

Like father, like son: If Prince Fielder retires, he'll end his career with the same amount of HRs as his dad (319).
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It will probably be no different than what happened with Albert Belle. CLE kept him on the 40-man roster (60-day DL) just to recoup some money from the insurance contract. If they release him, they cannot collect.
 
So he can't play, ever. But because he's not retiring he gets paid? Bad system.
 
kalinecountry said:
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/08/prince-fielder-likely-to-announce-retirement.html
Prince Fielder?s Career Likely Over.
MLBtraderumors

2:07pm: Rosenthal clarifies that Fielder is not technically retiring (Twitter links).
Doctors won?t permit him to play, so the proper designation for his situation is that he is medically disabled.

Retiring would cause Fielder to renounce the money in his contract, which is not what will happen in this case.

Like father, like son: If Prince Fielder retires, he'll end his career with the same amount of HRs as his dad (319).
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and fat & out of shape.
 
Big Daddy was good in Detroit. Had a nice career here.. 1990, still very memorable.
 
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Remember when everyone in the world said this was a terrible contract to give out because his weight was almost surely to cause health problems down the line?
 
His conference was sad. Not being able to go out on your own terms it's tough.

His son looks like he could continue the tradition in 12 years.
 
Btw, the dumbest question maybe ever..

Fielder kept his spirits up despite the sadness of retiring, and was even able to deftly fend off one of the stupidest questions ever, with a reporter asking Fielder, "Do you understand what Lou Gehrig was going through in his famous speech?"

What?
 
Mitchrapp said:
Btw, the dumbest question maybe ever..

Fielder kept his spirits up despite the sadness of retiring, and was even able to deftly fend off one of the stupidest questions ever, with a reporter asking Fielder, "Do you understand what Lou Gehrig was going through in his famous speech?"

What?
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Were I the boss of that reporter, he/she would be unemployed today. EDIT: Unless, in his statement, Fielder said, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
 
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