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Posted: **11 Nov 2025 17:27 pm**

I'd say Rendon which has one more year to run at $38.5 mill. Since he didn't play a game in 2025, it's possible he may get $77 mill for ZERO games played. So far his years with the Angels totaled 22 homers, 126 RBIs and 3.9 WAR, for which he has received over $200 mill.

Aren't we glad Mo didn't sign him

Posted: **11 Nov 2025 17:45 pm**

HorseTrader wrote: ↑11 Nov 2025 17:27 pm I'd say Rendon which has one more year to run at $38.5 mill. Since he didn't play a game in 2025, it's possible he may get $77 mill for ZERO games played. So far his years with the Angels totaled 22 homers, 126 RBIs and 3.9 WAR, for which he has received over $200 mill.

Aren't we glad Mo didn't sign him

Yeah, that’s gotta be right near the top with Strasburg. Josh Hamilton is probably in the top 5.

Posted: **11 Nov 2025 18:29 pm**

Kris Bryant 7yrs $182mm 17 Hr 61 RBI in 4 years.

Posted: **11 Nov 2025 18:36 pm**

HorseTrader wrote: ↑11 Nov 2025 17:27 pm I'd say Rendon which has one more year to run at $38.5 mill. Since he didn't play a game in 2025, it's possible he may get $77 mill for ZERO games played. So far his years with the Angels totaled 22 homers, 126 RBIs and 3.9 WAR, for which he has received over $200 mill.

Aren't we glad Mo didn't sign him

This one……loser doesn’t even like baseball…..enjoys cashing the checks though

Posted: **11 Nov 2025 19:45 pm**

Chris Davis 7/161 was atrocious. As part of the settlement he gets paid until he's 51. This year he received 9.5mm, and he will receive smaller payments through 2037. Unlike Rendon Davis liked baseball but fell into a 54 AB hitless streak. It was painful to observe someone fall off a cliff like that.

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 06:31 am**

Mike Hampton in Colorado was the first one that I remember going terribly bad from the beginning.

But the Angels have a LOT of contenders for the title.

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 06:47 am**

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.

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 08:00 am**

russellhammond wrote: ↑12 Nov 2025 06:47 am 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.

I forgot about Strasburg, So Rendon and Strasburg tied for worst.

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 08:29 am**

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.

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 09:37 am**

Mort Gage wrote: ↑11 Nov 2025 19:45 pm Chris Davis 7/161 was atrocious. As part of the settlement he gets paid until he's 51. This year he received 9.5mm, and he will receive smaller payments through 2037. Unlike Rendon Davis liked baseball but fell into a 54 AB hitless streak. It was painful to observe someone fall off a cliff like that.

they took away his 'meds'

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 15:37 pm**

Jose Abreu is in there somewhere..

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 15:43 pm**

Does Dewitt Mo previously and mo extending oli count?

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 15:47 pm**

I remember there being quite a lot of people here dying for us to sign Davis. That one seemed like a terrible idea from the start. That guy had more red flags in his profile than a May Day Parade in Moscow.

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 16:45 pm**

Bomber1 wrote: ↑12 Nov 2025 08:29 am 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.

Paint with a broad brush much?

Posted: **12 Nov 2025 17:14 pm**

Strasburg, dude actually had surgeries to try to fix including having a rib removed and some neck tendons or muscles, I mean he just didn't say "I'm hurt, pay me"...he tried but was just broken. Rendon on the other hand seems brittle. So I'd go with Rendon as the worst contract.

Posted: **13 Nov 2025 00:01 am**

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