{"id":571490,"date":"2026-02-14T03:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/571490\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:59:27","slug":"why-carlos-correa-turned-down-bad-bunnys-wbc-insurance-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/571490\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Carlos Correa turned down Bad Bunny’s WBC insurance offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad Bunny offered to pay Carlos Correa\u2019s insurance for the World Baseball Classic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball, the Astros and his agent, Scott Boras, told the Astros infielder to think again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all told me it was a bad idea,\u201d Correa told The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cThey all told me the insurance company that was proposed to me had cases where they were not paying players back. Since it was not approved by MLB, not approved by the organization and not approved by my agent, I could not sign my life away with something that three people that I trust are telling me not to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BadBad Bunny performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show at Levi\u2019s Stadium on February 08, 2026 in Santa Clara, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Correa, one of several players not cleared to play in the tournament, still expressed his appreciation for Bad Bunny\u2019s offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot that he\u2019s that involved,\u201d Correa said of his countryman. \u201cHe tried to do everything possible \u2026 I\u2019m deeply grateful that he tried that hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, offered to pay the insurance for Mets star Francisco Lindor, who was also denied<\/a> by National Financial Partners, which is the insurer for the WBC.<\/p>\n

Team Puerto Rico was hit hard by insurance issues, with Blue Jays right-hander Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos and Twins catcher Victor Caratini also not being cleared.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"CarlosCarlos Correa #1 of the Houston Astros looks on during the game between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Saturday, September 27, 2025 in Anaheim, California. MLB Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

So much so, that the team was nearly forced to withdraw from the tournament<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Puerto Rico will host the first round of the WBC in San Juan from March 6-11 in a pool that also includes Canada, Colombia, Cuba and Panama.<\/p>\n

The wave of insurance denials comes after a wave of high-profile injuries during the most recent tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ex-Mets closer Edwin D\u00edaz missed the entire 2023 season after suffering a harrowing right knee injury<\/a> in that year\u2019s WBC.<\/p>\n

Jose Altuve also broke his thumb in that year\u2019s event, which took him out for several months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny offered to pay Carlos Correa\u2019s insurance for the World Baseball Classic.\u00a0 Major League Baseball, the Astros…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,52631,5,3225,139,54,3211,4,1785,185,4820],"class_list":["post-571490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-bad-bunny","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-correa","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-mlb","tag-music","tag-sports","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116066986683651457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}