Anyway, there is also a darker concern. Baseball injuries and ailments have long been treated as the team’s issue, and players are routinely given medical evaluations before they are accepted as part of any trade deal. But, in the case of medical information that is not so readily available, like EEG recordings, the situation gets murkier. Baseball has already found itself in hot water in recent years for conducting DNA tests on prospects from Latin American countries to properly determine their ages. But in a few years, this could begin to seem trite. At Sloan, in fact, one of the sponsors
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