Nats GM, Jim Bowden’s $10M Boob Job

 
Last summer Nats’ GM Jim Bowden, the omnipresent egomaniac, decided to give Dmitri “Hot Plate” Young a $10 million contract. Young was in the middle of earning the NL’s Comeback Player Of the Year, that much is true, but why give a huge contract to someone who could have been signed for less at the end of the season. It is not like anyone would pay much for a player with limited skills who has had problems dealing with success in the past. The team if they really wanted him could have bid for his services as a free agent. The Young contract I suspect was Bowden’s way of giving himself a slap on the back for giving Dmitri a chance when MLB was turning their back on the underachieving, overeating trouble maker. D-Young pays them back by sitting on his fat ass all winter and not picking up a bat or doing a single sit up. Now Nick Johnson is back and Young is testing the dughouse infrastructure in the Nats’ new house. Just as no one could have predicted a year ago that Young ... [link]

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