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dland24 said:
The only people who are going to be surprised are the A's fans that think they are going to be anything better than horrible. Beane is still the most overrated GM in the game. Your team didnt improve at all.
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The most overrated gm in the game?? He's managing the A's for crying out loud :lol:. Does he need a top 5 payroll/owner whose willing to spend to be considered an accurately rated gm?
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You can't be serious? :lol:
 
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dland24 said:
Just curious if someone wouldnt mind posting the article on MLB's worst contracts.  Thanks in advance.
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Pujols tops list of MLB's biggest albatrosses (worst contracts)

Albert Pujols and Matt Kemp are two of the many big names that make up Szym's list of worst contracts. Getty Images
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One of the inescapable truths of baseball, like other major sports, is that a player's salary and contract situation are key components of a player's value to a franchise. Even in a sport without a hard salary cap, franchises face their own payroll constraints, though this obviously varies from team to team.

To put together an 88-win team, a franchise needs to cobble together roughly 40 wins above replacement from their major league roster. If a team tries to assemble a roster solely from free agency, baseball's retail market for talent, you'd expect them to have to shell out something in the range of a $260 million payroll. And that's assuming all that talent is actually available in free agency -- the yearly free-agent market is frequently thin at multiple positions -- and, of course, players must actually agree to sign with them.

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Large contracts in baseball are typically guaranteed (or else the player in question would sign elsewhere). When a player with a hefty contract isn't performing, for many organizations, those dead dollars can have a serious effect on a team's ability to acquire the players needed to compete. Even large-market teams don't have unlimited funds and can have their futures affected by a large contract.

Take the Yankees, for example. You can't tell me that in an offseason during which they signed no free agents, the fact that they're paying $25 million to CC Sabathia, $21 million to Jacoby Ellsbury and $21 million to Alex Rodriguez plays no factor in their quiet winter.

So who are these team-killers, players who don't produce enough to justify their pay rate? Which players have contract situations that prevent the team from getting anything in return without agreeing to cover some of the player's salary? And which contracts provide the most serious long-term concerns for their team? Essentially, I'm asking this: Who are the least valuable assets in baseball from a business perspective?

To answer this question, I started out with the ZiPS projections and calculated the difference between the projected long-term performance and how much a team is projected to pay for that performance for every player in baseball, whether from a signed contract or from predicting arbitration-year salaries. That difference, known as surplus value, is expressed in wins rather than dollars; raw dollars can be misleading given that a dollar committed for 2030 (see: Chris Davis contract breakdown) and a dollar committed for 2016 are two very different things.

Now, a computer is good at sifting through large data sets, but it can't know everything about a particular team's situation or how a player is perceived around the league, things that affect a player's ultimate value. A hammer is a good tool for inserting nails, but a poor one for baking a cake. So this list isn't ordered simply by computer readout. There's some personal judgment blended in here as well, which is included in each player's write up.

With that, let's get to Major League Baseball's 25 biggest albatrosses (the 25 best assets will run Wednesday).

Albert Pujols1. Albert Pujols, 1B
10 years, $240M (2012-21)
Guaranteed left: $165M
Surplus value: minus-15.7 wins

It's sad to see Pujols, such a dynamic hitter and a future Hall of Famer on the back of his 2001-2011 stint with the St. Louis Cardinals, sitting at the top spot here, but his contract is a gigantic long-term drag on the Angels, and it's not going anyway anytime soon. The Angels paid Pujols as if they were going to get prime Albert for at least most of the contract, which started for his age-32 season coming off the worst -- albeit still All-Star level -- year of his career to that point, his 5.3-WAR 2011 season.

For this contract to not be a disaster, they needed at least five years of that 2011 Pujols. That wouldn't have made the contract a positive for the franchise, but at least they could point to the early years of the contract as the price they paid for suffering the end of the contract. Instead, the 2011 Pujols has been rarely seen in Los Angeles. Even his 40-homer season in 2015, declared in some circles as a personal renaissance, was an underwhelming season for Pujols; he posted a .307 on-base percentage, a dismal number for a player who has topped a .400 OBP in nine seasons. The Angels now essentially have Pujols for a six-year, $165 million contract for his age 36-41 seasons.

Robinson Cano2. Robinson Cano, 2B
10 years, $240M (2014-23)
Guaranteed left: $192M
Surplus value: minus-11.1 wins

Unlike the Pujols contract, I didn't think this contract would show up on this list at all, much less this high in the ranking. While the contract got off to a good start with Cano's .314/.382/.454 performance in 2014, he was a mess during the first half of 2015, hitting .251/.290/.370. That was likely well below any reasonable expectation of Cano, but his .331/.387/.540 recovery in the second half seems optimistic to the same degree, given that it necessitated a .350 BABIP, a number Cano didn't even touch in his prime.

Is there a chance this contract improves? Sure, but second basemen don't typically age well, and we're talking about a contract with $192 million remaining.

Prince Fielder3. Prince Fielder, DH/1B
9 years, $214M (2012-20)
Guaranteed left: $90M
Surplus value: minus-9.1 wins

The guaranteed remaining and surplus value already include the fact that the Tigers will pay $30 million ($6 million for each of the next five seasons) of Fielder's remaining contract, which lowers the cost for his existing team. If not for those dollars, Fielder would place No. 2 on this list.

Much was made of Fielder's comeback season in 2015, and while just about anything would be better than his disappointing and injury-plagued 2014 season, Fielder's bounce-back campaign didn't even earn him 2 WAR, either by FanGraphs or Baseball-Reference's reckoning. Simply put, a 126 OPS+ is nice but hardly amazing, and Fielder is a disaster when forced to play first base. With limited value as anything but a designated hitter, you're already cutting out half the league as potential homes for Fielder. The ZiPS projections for Fielder, which are aware that he had a career-best BABIP in 2015 and is heading into his decline years, projects only 4.1 WAR for Fielder over the rest of his contract.

Matt Kemp4. Matt Kemp, OF
8 years, $160M (2012-19)
Guaranteed left: $72M
Surplus value: minus-9.0 wins

The bright spot here is half of Kemp's contract is over, and with the Dodgers paying $3.5 million per year of his contract from 2016-2019, the total sticker value for his deal is down to four years and $72 million. He's still not even remotely worth that, though. Despite the preseason delusions that Kemp would play better in a corner outfield spot than he had in the past if he wasn't moved all over the place, Kemp's defense in right remained a disaster, and a 111 OPS+ doesn't cut it for a high-paid player who doesn't contribute much defensively.

Last year, the battle cry against the naysayers of the trade that sent Kemp from the Dodgers to San Diego was that he had a big second half in 2014. Well, Kemp again had a better second half than first half in 2015, but that kind of analysis is the baseball equivalent of telling yourself you'll exercise twice as long tomorrow because of the cheesecake you're eating today. Whereas the Dodgers picked up $18 million of Kemp's $21.25 million price tag last season, now the Padres owe him $18 million for each of the next four seasons. Ouch.

Miguel Cabrera5. Miguel Cabrera, 1B
8 years, $248M (2016-23)
Guaranteed left: $248M
Surplus value: minus-11.1 wins

While Miggy was limited to 119 games last season, mostly due to a calf strain and recurrent back problem, he still produced at an MVP-like level when he did play. So what in the world is the two-time American League MVP, 10-time All-Star and first Triple Crown winner (2012) since Carl Yastrzemski doing here? Well, let's just say even a great picture can have a bad price.

It would be unfair to dismiss the organizational pressure the Detroit Tigers were under to keep their franchise player for the rest of his playing career. When they moved to extend Cabrera in March 2014, Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Max Scherzer had just turned down a sizable contract offer and thus appeared headed to free agency following the '14 season, and there was a significant concern about retaining the team's most important hitter before the end of the team's championship run. While the loss of one player usually doesn't single-handedly end a dynasty, the Tigers faced a 2016 future in which they would need to replace Cabrera to maintain relevance, and they weren't going to get any help from their farm system, either directly on the field or indirectly via trade. They would have needed to sign a Cabrera-like producer anyway, so why not just sign Cabrera? It makes sense.

But in extending Cabrera to a contract extension two entire seasons before they needed to, Detroit brought a lot of additional risk into the mix in return for the knowledge that they'd have Cabrera at first or eventually DH for the next decade. This was the sin of the Phillies in making a similar extension to Ryan Howard, the contract that now-former Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr. will have as a black mark on his permanent record.

The good news is that Cabrera is far better than Howard ever was. In fact, Howard had only a single season in his entire career in which he hit as well as Cabrera's average season. But there's bad news here as well, as you might have guessed from Cabrera's high rank here. Eight years for any 33-year-old is an extraordinary risk, and even as great as Cabrera has been, it's hard to envision anyone giving him anywhere near that type of contract if he had been a free agent this winter. Cabrera's projections going forward aren't actually that much better than Yoenis Cespedes, thanks to the latter's significant defensive contributions -- and that edge dissolves rapidly past the next few years -- and Cespedes signed a sub-$100 million contract with a one-year opt-out to give himself a better chance at a larger payday next year. A quarter of a billion dollars is a lot to gamble on an aging slugger with a bad back.

Pablo Sandoval6. Pablo Sandoval, 3B
5 years, $95M (2015-19)
Guaranteed left: $75M
Surplus value: minus-7.9 wins

All the talk the past few days about Kung Fu Panda has been about his considerable gut, but let's face it, even at the best of times, Sandoval was never exactly a lean, ripped physical specimen. That said, until last year, he had never had a season in which he hit as poorly as his 2015 line (.245/.292/.366). His last "down season," back in 2010 (.268/.323/.409), at least left him as a contributing major leaguer, something you couldn't say about the 2015 version with the .658 OPS and the defense at third that made him look like Roger Dorn at the beginning of the movie "Major League."

The most perplexing thing about Sandoval's contract is just how pointless the original signing was. Signing just him last offseason may have been arguable; ZiPS wasn't enthralled with him and projected him to be worse than Chase Headley, but at least thought he'd be a league-average player in Boston. But signing Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez was just puzzling, with little reason for Boston to bring in someone to block the most obvious position at which to play Hanley. Obviously we can't blame Sandoval for Ramirez's awful defense in left, but it's hard to accept that he has any trade value at this point. Boston would happily let someone claim Sandoval on waivers for free, something no team was foolish enough to do in August and is unlikely to do now.

Joe Mauer7. Joe Mauer, 1B
8 years, $184M (2011-18)
Guaranteed left: $69M
Surplus value: minus-7.5 wins

The Twins have dealt with some bad luck on this one, given the persistent effects of Mauer's most recent concussion while still lingering. If Mauer could still catch, he'd be worth a lot closer to the three years and $69 million remaining on his deal -- ZiPS would evaluate him as being worth a three-year, $62 million contract if he could catch -- but of course it's a moot issue. The reality is that playing catcher endangers Mauer's health, not just in the sense it wears down his knees, but in the actual "living his life" context.

So Mauer is now a first baseman, and a first baseman he'll remain for the length of his career, most likely. But when it comes down to it, teams pay dollars for performance, and Mauer at first base hitting like James Loney instead of John Olerud just doesn't generate many wins on the playing field, and that's what teams pay out the millions for.

Ian Kennedy8. Ian Kennedy, SP
5 years, $70M (2016-20)
Guaranteed left: $70M
Surplus value: minus-7.6 wins

(Note: Kennedy does have an opt-out after the 2015 season, in which case he'd receive a total of $13.5 million.) A league-average starting pitcher typically puts up an ERA+ around 96, meaning that a league-average ERA in their ballpark and league is about 96 percent of their actual ERA (relievers tend to have better ERAs than league-average). And when was the last time Kennedy put up a league-average ERA for his league and park? In 2012.

People have suggested that Kennedy's ERA might look fine in Kansas City because the Royals have a terrific outfield defense. That's accurate, of course, but that value would be from said outfield defense, not anything Kennedy does. I also share the notion that pitching coach Dave Eiland is some kind of warlock, using dark Lovecraftian magic to wring solid performances out of pitchers such as Edinson Volquez, Chris Young and Joe Blanton. But again, that's Eiland's value, not anything Kennedy does. If the Royals were to trade Kennedy at the point they were allowed to, presumably they're not sending along their pitching coach and outfield to go along with him.

Yasmany Tomas9. Yasmany Tomas, OF/3B
6 years, $68.5M (2015-20)
Guaranteed left: $63M
Surplus value: minus-7.1 wins

Tomas was an immediate beneficiary of the hot trend of signing Cuban hitters to big contracts in the aftermath of the White Sox and Dodgers coming off quite well with the Jose Abreu and Yasiel Puig signings, respectively. The first unanswered question we had about Tomas was whether or not he could handle third base defensively in the majors -- and he couldn't. His offense wasn't much better, with Tomas hitting only .273/.305/.401 with fairly hideous plate discipline (17 walks, 110 strikeouts in 426 plate appearances).

Tomas' saving grace is that having just turned 25, he's not so old that his case is completely hopeless, but with his game looking more like that of a Triple-A slugger than a major league contributor so far, it's hard to find many teams optimistic enough to take him on.

Hanley Ramirez10. Hanley Ramirez, 1B
4 years, $88M (2015-18)
Guaranteed left: $66M
Surplus value: minus-5.4 wins

Well, Hanley has a $22 million vesting option for 2019, but best-case scenario, it's only three more years. He was barely an adequate shortstop, but not an unmitigated disaster and could fake the position well enough that it didn't seriously dent his offensive value. Hanley was an unwilling third baseman for a year in 2012, and while his performance there wasn't much better than at short, if Boston could get Ramirez to buy into playing third base, he might still have had positive value for the team in 2015. Instead, they started the deal by using him in left field, a position he had never played in the majors and one that might not necessarily have allowed the Red Sox to get value from the contract, given his up-and-down offense in recent seasons. Ramirez's problems at shortstop didn't stem from not being athletic for the position, but more for poor defensive instincts. That followed him out to left field, and now Boston is moving him to first base, a position with high offensive requirements.

Boston might be able to move Hanley in the right situation, but it would be tricky.

Ryan Howard11. Ryan Howard, 1B
5 years, $125M (2012-16)
Guaranteed left: $35M
Surplus value: minus-5.3 wins

Howard being "only" 11th here doesn't reflect any positivity about his performance in 2016, simply the reality that most of the contract is now behind him. Still, with a year left on his contract, a team claiming him on waivers -- an implausible happenstance -- would have to pay him $25 million and the $10 million buyout for his 2017 option. Given that Howard hit .229/.277/.443 in 2015 and .223/.310/.380 in 2014, is 36 years old and has no defensive value, signing him for even one-tenth of his remaining policy would be a poor idea.

Shin-Soo Choo12. Shin-Soo Choo, RF
7 years, $130M (2014-20)
Guaranteed left: $102M
Surplus value: minus-9.0 wins

ZiPS isn't a fan of Choo, but I remain of the belief that the computer is having trouble with Choo's 2014 season, in which he played through a number of injuries and likely has a baseline performance greater than ZiPS does (ZiPS has him at only 1.9 WAR for 2016 and declining from there). No, the Rangers couldn't get anyone to take on the five years and $102 million remaining on his contract for free, but he's still enough of an on-base machine that I suspect the Rangers could get something in return without paying the entire freight. Maybe it's just my typical sunny optimism.

Jacoby Ellsbury13. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
7 years, $153M (2014-20)
Guaranteed left: $110.7M
Surplus value: minus-7.6 wins

If the Yankees were to trade Ellsbury (they're not), they'd likely have to throw in some cash to make the deal work, but again, we're past the total loss part of this list. Despite the 32 homers in 2011, Ellsbury has never really been a power hitter, so while lefty power hitters tend to fare well in Yankee Stadium, Ellsbury's line-drive swing could fare quite well for a team with a large outfield, like the Giants. Ellsbury's Gold Glove days are behind him, though he remains at least a competent defensive center fielder, which means, at least theoretically, that flexibility keeps the number of suitors higher than some of the more limited players higher on this list.

Ellsbury has a no-trade clause, but the situation that would lead the Yankees to want to trade him -- the team absolutely imploding -- is likely a situation that would make him amenable to waiving his no-trade clause. Most players end up waiving their no-trades for other considerations; players like Brandon Phillips are the exception.

Justin Verlander14. Justin Verlander, SP
7 years, $180M (2013-19)
Guaranteed left: $112M
Surplus value: minus-7.0 wins

As of about seven months ago, Verlander would have absolutely made the top 10 on this list, but after missing the first two-plus months of the 2015 season and then pitching poorly his first few starts, he came back to put a up a 3.38 ERA and a 3.49 FIP in 20 starts for the Tigers after June. His strikeout rate of 7.6 per nine innings didn't approach "classic" Verlander, who once led the league witH a 10.1 K/9 rate, and there's no team that would offer him a four-year, $112 million contract (what's left on his original deal) if he were a free agent, but if Verlander can eat innings with a 3.70 ERA or so, he's still a contributor to a team and thus has at least some value remaining.

Jose Reyes15. Jose Reyes, SS
6 years, $106M (2012-17)
Guaranteed left: $48M
Surplus value: minus-4.5 wins

The Rockies agreed to take Reyes' contract off Toronto's hands in return for getting better prospects in the Troy Tulowitzki trade, a wise notion given that there are limited number of ways for a team to outright buy prospects. Colorado's other notion, that Reyes would put up superficially pleasing numbers and they could turn around and flip him for something in return? Not so much.

Reyes' defense has dropped off the map in recent years, to the point at which he really shouldn't be playing at short, and he's no longer the dynamic offensive player that led the National League in triples four times. Throw into the mix the uncertainty of his alleged domestic-abuse incident -- both the suspension and morality of having him on your team -- and Reyes has little trade value. Only the fact that the contract is almost over keeps Reyes from skyrocketing up in these rankings.

Elvis Andrus16. Elvis Andrus, SS
8 years, $120M (2015-22)
Guaranteed left: $103M
Surplus value: minus-5.6 wins

Where most of the contracts up to this point are older players who received contracts in free agency out of irrational exuberance, Andrus was a spritely 24-year-old when this extension was signed before the 2013 season when he was coming off his second four-WAR season, preventing Andrus from possibly leaving Texas after the last two years of team control. It's hard to fault the Rangers too heavily at the time, given that Andrus did hit .286/.349/.378 in 2012 and played excellent defense at shortstop, but after a solid 2013 season, Andrus' defense began to decline considerably, while his offense never developed further.

Now a 27-year-old who isn't the player he was at 20, Andrus remains a positive contributor, but one not worth the $103 million he's owed and unlikely to have trade value without him being in the top tier of defensive shortstops.

Ryan Zimmerman17. Ryan Zimmerman, 1B
6 years, $100M (2014-19)
Guaranteed left: $62M
Surplus value: minus-7.0 wins

Remember above when we talked about the risk of signing a player to an extension that starts multiple years after the ink is dry on the signatures? If Zimmerman's contract, signed before 2012, covered 2012-2017, his deal wouldn't be much of a problem for the Nationals. Through the 2011 season, Zimmerman had been one of the best defensive third basemen in baseball and had a .288/.355/.479 line, with a 120 OPS+. The first two years of his extension have seen Zimmerman as an injury-prone first baseman who has hit .261/.321/.459, with a 110 OPS+, instead, and the Nats would have trouble finding many takers as a result. There's probably some chance that with good health, he'd be an adequate first baseman overall, but he's not likely to earn his remaining dollars.

Matt Cain18. Matt Cain, SP
6 years, $127.5M (2012-17)
Guaranteed left: $47.5M
Surplus value: minus-6.6 wins

Cain has made a career out of outperforming his peripherals, with the difference between his 3.27 ERA and 3.65 FIP through 2012 being significant when considering he had more than 6,000 batters faced. Even if that difference didn't continue, the Giants would have managed, but after two years of elbow/forearm problems and general ineffectiveness, Cain's job status for a team expected to contend is in a bit of peril. Of the 328 pitchers who threw 50 innings in 2015, Cain ranked fourth worst in baseball in percentage of hard-hit balls at 36.4 percent. The Giants are rightly not counting on Cain these days, and if not for the fact that there are only two years remaining on his contract, Cain would have ranked quite a bit higher on this list.

Jayson Werth19. Jayson Werth, OF
7 years, $126M (2011-17)
Guaranteed left: $42M
Surplus value: minus-5.8 wins

One of my least favorite contracts at the time it was signed, Werth's 2012-2014 performance (.303/.394/.479, 9.4 WAR) looked to give the Nats fighting odds of the contract working out or at least not being a significant loss. Werth's post-2011 revival came crashing to a halt in 2015, however, as he hit .221/.302/.384 and missed time with a broken wrist. Only two years remain on his deal, but players Werth's age -- he turns 37 in May -- aren't typically promising bounce-back candidates.

Victor Martinez20. Victor Martinez, DH
4 years, $68M (2015-18)
Guaranteed left: $54M
Surplus value: minus-5.5 wins

What could go wrong signing a 35-year-old DH coming off the best season of his career? Um, that was a rhetorical question. Yes, Martinez could certainly have a comeback season and get back to at least his 2013 level of play (.301/.355/.430), but that's not an impressive line for a player who contributes nothing on defense. The one bright spot is that 2014 isn't that long ago.

Rusney Castillo21. Rusney Castillo, OF
7 years, $72.5M (2014-20)
Guaranteed left: $56.5M
Surplus value: minus-6.2 wins

A lot of what was said about Tomas (above) can be repeated here. Another player signed in the aftermath of Abreu/Puig, it's worth remembering that Castillo had only two seasons in Cuba in which he hit like someone who would translate well to the majors, the most recent being 2011. While there's definitely upside here and his early struggles could be attributed to the fact that life as a Cuban defector is a tough adjustment, the fact remains that he had a .647 OPS in Boston and just a .722 OPS at Triple-A Pawtucket. There are enough "ifs" here that the contract could work out, but if Castillo were a free agent right now, there isn't a chance he gets a $10 million-a-year contract.

Carl Crawford22. Carl Crawford, LF
7 years, $142M (2011-17)
Guaranteed left: $41.75M
Surplus value: minus-5.0 wins

Only two years remain in a deal that has been a disaster since day one; Crawford is a fourth outfielder at this point, and still owed almost $42 million. He might end up on another team if the Dodgers don't think he's one of their five best outfielders, but it'll likely be the Dodgers paying the freight.

Ervin Santana23. Ervin Santana, SP
4 years, $55M (2015-18)
Guaranteed left: $40.5M
Surplus value: minus-3.7 wins

(Note: Santana would make an additional $14 million in 2019 if he passes his physical.) The Minnesota Twins apparently were so excited about how well Ricky Nolasco worked out that they decided to do it again, overpaying for another middling starting pitcher in Santana. I'm being facetious, of course. Santana is a durable pitcher who can adequately eat innings -- his low-inning count in 2015 is due to a suspension for PEDs -- but he has a very low ceiling at this point.

David Wright24. David Wright, 3B
8 years, $138M (2013-20)
Guaranteed left: $87M
Surplus value: minus-4.4 wins

Unlike some of the others on the list, I think there's a good chance Wright can be a significant positive contributor again given that he did in fact hit quite well (.289/.379/.434) after coming back from the back problems that ruined most of his 2015 campaign. But we can't simply ignore injury problems for a player in his 30s, especially when the injury stems from a degenerative issue that could very well recur in the future. We also can't ignore the fact that there are five years and $87 million remaining in Wright's deal.

Homer Bailey25. Homer Bailey, SP
6 years, $105M (2014-19)
Guaranteed left: $86M
Surplus value: minus-3.8 wins

The talented Bailey turned the corner in 2012 and finally pitched like the Reds expected when they drafted him with the seventh overall pick in the 2004 draft. It wasn't a fluke, but neither was the fatigue that plagued him in 2014 and early 2015; he was eventually diagnosed as having a torn ulnar collateral ligament, which resulted in Tommy John surgery. The recovery rates for pitchers with elbow surgery are much better than, say, shoulder surgery, but it's still a source of a great deal of uncertainty. Bailey is owed a minimum of $86 million over the next four seasons and for a similar amount this winter, teams paid pitchers who didn't just miss a year with major surgery, such as Mike Leake, Jeff Samardzija and Wei-Yin Chen.
 
Thanks for posting Retro.  Appreciate it.  I still contend that Joe Mauer is the most overpaid player in baseball.  He ranks 8th on the list but I personally think a .266 hitter who hits 10 homeruns a year is a statline that can be replicated by AAA first basemen.  
 
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Can't help but think the O's deal with Fowler is a steal. Although his fielding is awful
 
Ortiz wants a standing ovation from Yankee stadium. I will smash something in my house if I see that ****. MFers better boo their ***** off and do a steroid chant. **** that fat piece of ****.
 
madj55 said:
Ballerific703 said:
Ortiz wants a standing ovation from Yankee stadium. I will smash something in my house if I see that ****. MFers better boo their ***** off and do a steroid chant. **** that fat piece of ****.
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Considering the type of fans the Yankees want in their stadium, I bet he does get a standing ovation.
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Yup and that scares me. Old Yankee stadium would have been a no go for sure. This new one, smh.
 
JumpmanFromDaBay said:
I read an article that Yankees will not take print at home tickets this year. What a joke
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Scan the phone only? Who still prints? I either digital or the legit, team printed ones



Homer contract was such bad timing for the Reds. Unfortunate that out of their pitchers he was the first up for FA and they were still contending
 
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