OT Worst Free Agent contract in history?

[dugoutrex]

Gotta be Strasburg.....$245 million for 8 starts. They paid him $35 million this year, the same amount next season and he hasn't pitched since he made one start in 2022.....just horrible.

lots of that $ may be covered by insurance

[brock118]

Gotta be Strasburg.....$245 million for 8 starts. They paid him $35 million this year, the same amount next season and he hasn't pitched since he made one start in 2022.....just horrible.

lots of that $ may be covered by insurance

No it is not covered by insurance. The Nationals felt the premiums were too high. They also tried to buy him out a few years back I believe and I think the agreement was agreed upon in structure but the Nationals changed something that (upset) Strasburgboff and I think it fell through. Something to that effect.

[Gob]

Great examples.

All of which prove IMO that baseball needs to stop guaranteed long-term contracts.

Zero incentive besides pride for these guys to perform.

And far too many don’t have any pride.

No one is forcing the owners to offer a horrendous contract

[ecleme22]

Chris Davis should be mentioned:

2012-2015: 161 HRs. OPS? Around .900 overall, 14.8 WAR

Signs a 7 year deal at 161 million.

2016-2020 (retires without playing last 2 years)
92 HRs, probably a .650 OPS, -2.8 WAR

[JuanAgosto]

Good mentions so far. My top 5 would be:

1. Rendon
2. Bruce Sutter (Atlanta)
3. Kris Bryant
4. Chris Davis
5. Bob Horner replacing Jack Clark.

HM -Nick Esasky (Atlanta) Guy got vertigo and barely played.

[zuck698]

Pablo Sandoval with the Sox and Pavano with the Yanks were huge busts. The money given at those times, for those contracts,were considered pretty large sums for terrible performances.