The Importance of Disability Insurance on the Strasburg Deal

The Nationals do not have any disability insurance on Strasburg's contract. According to four people familiar with the situation, the premiums would have been extremely high. I don't know exactly how anomalous the decision not to invest in that was at the time or just how much it would have cost them given his history. It is kind of like a funny coincidence when you think through, you know, if we are assessing contracts on the basis of did the player in question sort of provide value and produce war commensurate with the value of the contract?