According to Passan, the Marlins told longtime scout Marty Scott that his contract would not be renewed on Oct 16. At the time, the 64-year-old former Marlins vice president was in a hospital bed recovering from colon cancer surgery. “Derek Jeter doesn’t owe me anything,” Scott told Passan. Scott told Passan that he was able to secure health insurance through COBRA and hopes to schedule his kidney-transplant surgery for January. “The ironic thing about all this is in their playing days, my two favorite athletes over the past 20 years were Brett Favre and Derek Jeter,” Scott said.

Source: Washington Post December 01, 2017 18:33 UTC