Carlos Correa breaks silence on Bad Bunny’s ‘bad idea’ for the WBC

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13 February 2026 at 23:46

Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican-born music icon whose Super Bowl halftime show was the fourth-most watched ever, thought he had a good idea when he offered to pay for the insurance of two players on his native island so they could compete in the World Baseball Classic.

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Several officials inside baseball disagreed.

Puerto Rican infielder Carlos Correa told Chandler Rome of The Athletic that Major League Baseball, the Astros and Correa’s agent, Scott Boras, did not approve of letting Bad Bunny pay for his WBC insurance.

“They all told me it was a bad idea,” Correa said.

Carlos Baerga, the retired Puerto Rican infielder, reported last week that Bad Bunny offered to pay insurance costs for Correa and Francisco Lindor, who were denied insurance through the payer selected by MLB.

Lindor and Correa were hardly alone in their inability to get insured. Jose Altuve was not included on Venezuela’s roster because of an insurance denial, the Associated Press reported.

Despite Bad Bunny doing them a solid he could easily afford, Correa will remain in the Astros’ spring training camp when the WBC commences in March.

Meanwhile, Lindor will be on the rehab trail in spring training. Earlier this week, the Mets announced he would have surgery on his hamate bone.