The similarities are there. You would have to be completely blind to not see them.
Back in the tail end of 2013, the New York Yankees received what they believed to be a steal, snagging Jacoby Ellsbury on a seven-year, $153 million deal from the clutches of free agency. We all know how that turned out.
Ellsbury ended up missing the past two seasons of baseball and played a total of just four seasons in pinstripes before the Bombers finally cut the cord. His career with the Yankees was, in short, a disaster.