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Worst current MLB contracts....

Goodsport40Goodsport40 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭
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According to USA Today:

MLB's worst contracts

When will these teams learn not to give this kind of $$$ to players?

Never, I guess!image


Robert

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Currently the worst one is Albert Pujols LOL
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    I think the Mets are still paying Bobby Bonilla. Does that count?
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,658 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think the Mets are still paying Bobby Bonilla. Does that count? >>



    Bonilla is STILL getting paid??? You got to be kidding me!
  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,840 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ah yes, UBER-TOAD has made the list of worst MLB contracts...with honorable mentions to Mr. Crawford and Boston's best golfer (hey, my time off is mine)...#19.

    5.John Lackey, Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox shelled out $82.5 million over five years in hopes he could help bring another World Series to Boston. He instead is going down as one of worst, and underachieving pitchers in Red Sox history. His greatest fame may be his role in the chicken-and-beer clubhouse escapades. He was 14-11 with a 4.40 ERA in his first year with the Red Sox, and it's only gone downhill from 2010. He was 12-12 with a 6.41 ERA last year, and is out for the season with Tommy John surgery.

    But hey, as long as Lackey is around, the fat contracts for Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett won't be considered the worst on the team.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,492 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I think the Mets are still paying Bobby Bonilla. Does that count? >>



    Bonilla is STILL getting paid??? You got to be kidding me! >>



    he negotiated a great contract that was a win-win at the time. He gets (I think) a couple million per year for a number of years and the Mets saved during his playing years.
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  • GootGoot Posts: 3,496

    What a deal for Bonilla.

    Bonilla
  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭
    Mauer, Santana, Zito, Ichiro
  • CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭
    When the Twins gave Mauer that deal, I couldn't believe it. I didn't think he'd fall off this much this fast, but hey...he's not in an M's uni, so whatever
  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    Mauer stll has a long career ahead of him.Whats the issue with Ichiro?I would say there are teams out there that would grab both contracts in a heartbeat.
    Pitchers are always a risk.I agree that Zito and Santana are overpriced.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭
    The issue with Ichiro is that he's a 38 year old, $18mil/year slap hitter that has lost a step. And, I am a supporter of his, but not his price.
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Worst MLB contract has to be viewed from the perspective of the team paying the player the big bucks. If you view the same contract from the perspective of the player who is being paid (and from the perspective of the players in general) it is one of the best contracts.

    Same thing, only reversed, when you have a cheap contract in place for a player that is producing at an All Star level (i.e. Tim Lincecum of the Giants was making less than $1,000,000.00 per year before he signed his current contract). Under that scenario the player thinks the contract is the worst and the team thinks it is the best.

    Stepping outside of MLB, one of the best contracts (or worst depending on your point of view) ever to arise in US pro sports came about in the mid 1970's when the NBA and the ABA merged. The merger involved the ABA going out of business, four ABA teams entering the NBA [Nets, Pacers, Spurs and Nuggets], all other ABA teams going out of business and the ABA players not on the four teams being absorbed into the NBA through a dispersal draft. One of the ABA teams that folded was the St. Louis Spirits. The owners of that team went along with folding up shop; however as a result of the drafting of the contract between the two leagues that allowed for the merger the owners of the Spirits after the fact won the lottery. I do not remember the precise details but certain wording of the contract [which was not haggled over during the negotiations, which was probably inserted into the contract draft by the drafter without much if any thought to the impact of the wording, which was probably not thought about at all by either side when reviewing the draft and when signing the final version of the contract] ended up resulting in the owners of the St. Louis Spirits receiving (probably form the NBA) yearly payments computed according to a formula. As time has passed and the league revenue has increased, the size of the yearly payments has increased. The payments are to continue into the future without any ending (or until the NBA goes out of business). The owners of the St. Louis Spirits do not have to do anything at all. Each year they (and now probably their heirs) simply wait for the check to arrive in the mail and take it to the bank to cash it.

    Wish I had a contract like that.image
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