Poll Worst Contract in MLB History

[Deep Dish Pizza Goat]

Arod averaged 50 HRs and 130 rbi in Texas, while missing one game in 3 years what are we talking about here?

 

[HammerDown]

How ANYONE can possibly vote for that Bonilla contract is totally beyond me. Bad contract, sure, but hardly even top 100 worst. It keeps getting trotted out every year by a bunch of people who simply don’t understand finances.

It wasn’t a bad contract, it was one of the worst in baseball history.

 

[SU Nittany Tide]

It wasn’t a bad contract, it was one of the worst in baseball history.

And a big part of the reason it happened was because the owners were some of the people getting swindled by Bernie Madoff. Why not defer a million a year when you think you are making way more back holding onto it for the time being.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

Bruce Sutter hasn’t played since the late 80’s, was cooked and terrible with the Braves and the Braves just finished paying off his contract a few years ago

 

[fordman84]

Arod averaged 50 HRs and 130 rbi in Texas, while missing one game in 3 years what are we talking about here?

That contract was unheard of and Texas as garbage when we got him. Everyone knew Texas paid a premium to bring him in. It was about double what was expected, similar to what we are seeing with Ohtani.

 

[fordman84]

It wasn’t a bad contract, it was one of the worst in baseball history.

It is one of the worst in any industry. To continue to pay a sizable amount decades after employment ends is hilarious.

 

[fordman84]

A-Rod performed for the Rangers and they got the Yankees to take on the entire contract. The extension A-Rod signed with the Yankees is far worse than the one he signed with the Rangers

Not the entire contract, Texas kept $67m in liabilities. But then ARod signed an extension not too much later that removed that off our books.

It was a contract Texas literally couldn't pay, that's how bad it was.

 

[navamind]

Chris Davis didn't make the cut?

Davis put up -2.7 WAR, and that's with a 3.3 WAR season at the beginning. 66 OPS+ in 1453 PA before he was mercifully Old Yeller'd.

 

[rsw626]

Only ways out of that contract are bankruptcy, personal conduct violation (not even sure of that) or death (not sure about that either).

Going by recent history, the Dodgers obviously have a very lenient definition of that.

 

[BadMotoWeazal]

$2.00 a second... No man is worth $2.00 a second

 

[Kburjr]

$2.00 a second... No man is worth $2.00 a second

...and not many women.

 

[HammerDown]

...and not many women.

It's not so expensive if you only need 30 seconds.

 

[huskers1217]

Even then…$700M for an Outfielder is like $300M too much and that’s if he is the best Hitter in the game.

this 700 million for a top rate DH and an ACE is pretty good.....but he will never live up to the contract

 

[ralphiewvu]

Carl Crawford got a 7 year like 150 mill deal with Boston and proceeds to have the worst season of his career to that point. Dude didn’t last 2 seasons in boston. He’s gotta be included on this list.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

Carl Crawford got a 7 year like 150 mill deal with Boston and proceeds to have the worst season of his career to that point. Dude didn’t last 2 seasons in boston. He’s gotta be included on this list.

Would have been, but the Dodgers bailed y’all out on a ton of bad contracts

 

[ralphiewvu]

Would have been, but the Dodgers bailed y’all out on a ton of bad contracts

That was heaven watching the dodgers take him and Becketts contract because they wanted Adrian Gonzalez lol.

Also was a big part of helping Boston win in 2013 imo.

 

[fordman84]

Ohtani deferring $68m of his $70m every year, so $680m total.


This is without a doubt the worst contract. Going to take nearly 3/4 of a billion out of Dodger owners pockets right now, and keep it out for 10 years. OUCH.

 

[DragonFromTo]

A-Rod performed for the Rangers and they got the Yankees to take on the entire contract. The extension A-Rod signed with the Yankees is far worse than the one he signed with the Rangers

 

[Bender]

Davis put up -2.7 WAR, and that's with a 3.3 WAR season at the beginning. 66 OPS+ in 1453 PA before he was mercifully Old Yeller'd.

WAR is a dumb fucking stat.

 

[Bender]

Ohtani deferring $68m of his $70m every year, so $680m total.


This is without a doubt the worst contract. Going to take nearly 3/4 of a billion out of Dodger owners pockets right now, and keep it out for 10 years. OUCH.

the fact he's deferring makes the present value of the deal less than initially reported. don't think i've seen anything that shows it takes that money out of their pockets now. I'm sure they'll still be able to make that money work for them.