• Delusional Cubs Fan

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  Very interesting list.  This is actually the first time I've seen this done for "current existing contracts" instead of doing "all time".  Man, what were the GM's smoking back in 2006?

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44 Worst Contracts In Baseball
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — ... In a post for the Spring Training '09 site, I went team by team and assembled a list of the 44 worst contracts in baseball.  Check it out and let me know what you think. ...

Carlos Lee's contract makes the Top 45 Worst Contracts in Baseball List
The Crawfish Boxes — Carlos Lee's contract makes the Top 45 Worst Contracts in Baseball List It's hard to argue that it doesn't belong. Thankfully, it's the only contract that Astros own on that list.

Yanks Have 3 of the Worst Contracts in the Game?
Pinstripe Alley — Looking only at active contracts, Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors came up with a list of the 45 worst. There are several teams with 3 contracts listed, and that's how many the Yanks have: Jorge Posada, Yankees.  Four years, $52MM ($13MM per year).  Signed November of 2007. Hideki Matsui, Yankees.  Four years, $52MM ($13MM per year).  Signed November of 2005. Kei Igawa, Yankees.  Five years, $46MM ($9.2MM per year).  Signed in December of ...

The WakeUp
LinkedOnSports.com — ... Linked On Baseball   Great article about the worst contracts in baseball.  See any from your team?   Intriguing article on Payroll Efficiency.  How well does your team use its payroll?   ...

[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Davis, Kennedy And Brignac’s 0-fer
Rays Index — ... Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors has put together a list of the 45 worst contracts in baseball for Spring Training ‘09. Why are we mentioning this? Because there is not a single Rays contract on the list. Not even Troy Percival. Of course, all things are relative. [Spring Training '09] ...

Top O' The Order: A random run-in with Johnny Damon's wife
Big League Stew — ... rookie season by a third baseman? RJ says a strong case can be made for our man. [DRaysBay] • Mets fans are already piecing together contingency plans on the chance that Johan Santana's elbow escalates into a full-blown disaster. Paul Byrd, anyone? [Mets Geek] • MLB 2K9 was released at midnight today. Here's an early review. [Fire Jim Essian] • Tim Dierkes takes a look at the 45 worst contracts in baseball. [Spring Training '09]

Links: Funny Phillies, Contracts, Photos, etc.
MetsBlog.com — ... Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors writes a guest post for Spring Training 09 in which he looks at the 44 worst contracts in baseball. ...

Tuesday Rockpile: Todd Helton Back By Week's End?, The Future of Rockies Spring Training
Purple Row — ... Lastly, Tim Dierkes at mlbtraderumors.com lists Todd Helton as one of the 45 worst contracts in MLB.  Have a wonderful upbeat happy day! ...

The 45 Worst Contracts in MLB
The Yankee Universe — ... Tim Dierkes of MLBTradeRumors put together a list of the 45 worst current contracts in baseball, and 3 Yankees make the dishonorable grade: ...

Mets & Yanks Make “Worst Contract” List
Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest — ... Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors listed his 45 worst contracts. The local teams made the list with Luis Castillo, Hideki Matsui, and Kei Igawa. To be fair, I think Igawa is the only one that really makes me scratch my head. There was no reason, other than to match the Red Sox signing a pitcher of Japanese descent, for Cashman to bring in Igawa. I remember every scouting report gave a tepid projection. Matsui was coming off driving in 116 runs and I think this contract looks bad now, but couldn’t be argued in the winter of 2005. The Castillo signing was more out of ...

LOTD: The Death the Cutler for Quinn-Rogers Trade Rumors — and the Mainstream Media
Midwest Sports Fans — ... It’s More Fun to Watch the Media Collapse in Real-Time! — (Orange and Brown Report) And more links from around the sports blogosphere: Is Roberto Alomar telling us the truth? — (Deep Left Field) The Week That Was College Basketball: March 3, 2009 — (Sparty and Friends) Lou Piniella outraged by ESPN analyst’s criticism — (Chicago Tribune) The Worst Contracts in Baseball — (Spring Training 09) 2009 NFL Mock Draft — (My Sports Rumors ...

Five Tigers make the list of the worst contracts in baseball
It's Just Sports — Spring Training 09 : Five Tigers make the cut on this list, and yes, that gives them more bad contracts than any team in baseball: Gary Sheffield, Tigers. Two years, $28MM ($14MM per year). Signed November of 2006 as part of trade from Yankees. Jeremy Bonderman, Tigers. Four years, $38MM ($9.5MM per year). Signed December of 2006. Dontrelle Willis, Tigers. Three years, $29MM ($9.66MM per year). Signed December of 2007. Dave Dombrowski has made many shrewd deals but his recent extensions have hurt the team. Nate Robertson, Tigers. Three years, $21.25MM ($7.08MM per year). Signed ...

The Worst Contracts In Baseball (Spring Training '09)
Gaslamp Ball — The Worst Contracts In Baseball (Spring Training '09) No Padres on the list, so we've got that going for us.

Stinking contracts and the stinking teams that give them
Uwe Blog — ... By the way, I did a Texas Rangers Spring Training preview for http://www.springtraining09.com/. So you can go there and read what I have to say and completely disagree with it. **** Actually, this is a pretty nice site if you want to get a pretty comprehensive look at each Major League team and their prospects for 2009. Included today was a list of the 44 worst contracts by MLB Trade Rumors' Tim Dierkes (an interview casualty here). The good news: The Rangers "only" had three and, actually, they should only have two. Andruw Jones' ...

Round 'em Up: Tuesday (03/03/09)
Milwaukee Brewers Blog - Bernie's Crew — ... Bill Hall and Jeff Suppan make the list for the 45 Worst Contracts in Major League Baseball.  Big shocker.  Tim Dierkes makes a great point when he notes that 2006 was a black hole for free agent signings. ...

Forty-four really bad contracts
ESPN Feed: neyer rob — Tim Dierkes lists the 44 worst contracts currently in play. But before we get into the ugliness, let's hear a big hip-hip-hooray for the Rays, the Phillies, the Marlins, the Braves, the Pirates and the Padres; none of those teams are currently saddled with an albatross contract. But the Phillies deserve perhaps just a small hip-hip-hooray, because they do have ...

The WrapUp
LinkedOnSports.com — ... year, but that’s another issue entirely. Here are the top 5 stories that we linked to today: If you haven’t heard of Lester Hudson, you may come NBA draft time. Fighting in the NHL – Would it save it? No. Would it make the sport better? Oh yeah! Stats about MVP’s of the past Great article about the worst contracts in baseball.  See any from ...

How Do You Explain These?
The Spot Starters — We all struggled through the 2009 season.  Some people paid a lot of money for tickets to games and got robbed of their money as the team limped through the campaign.  It could be worse:  At least you’re not paying for the team. Tom Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors fame put together a list of the 44 worst contracts in baseball.  I was talking to Ian about the list and I believe we both that it contained a flaw or two.  That being said, lists like this are never perfect but are almost always fun to read. Of the 44 contracts on the list only one team had ...

In the News (3/4)
Right Field Bleachers — ... - MLBTradeRumors.com has 45 of the worst contracts in baseball. The Brewers have two and I bet you know who they are. That’s right: Suppan and Hall. ...

The worst contracts in all the land
River Avenue Blues — ... thought this week as he ran down his list of the 45 worst contracts in baseball. Tim lists two current members of the Yanks’ 40-man roster and one guy DFA’d last year: ...

The Phillies Contracts are Comparably Awesome
The Sports Complex — ... Tim Dierkes of MLB trade rumors recently put together a list of the worst 44 contracts in Major League Baseball. 24 teams were represented, 8 appear twice, and three unfortunate spenders grace the list three times. The Phillies are none of them. ...

Bad Baseball Contracts and the Teams That Give Them
The Big Lead — ... Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors compiled the 45 worst contracts in MLB.  Not surprisingly, the number of putrid deals correlates with a teams’ lack of success. ...

Blogging the Bloggers: Awesome pranks, hilarious email and more
The Scores Report - The National Sports Blog — ... the Yankee Stadium proposal prank? Never heard of it? Well, check out that link first, and then check out this video of the prankee’s sweet, sweet retribution. - SPORTSBYBROOKS explains how the Washington Capitals are “tapping” into their female fan base. - HOGS HAVEN “hacked” into Redskins’ GM Vinny Cerrato’s email. Hilarious. - SPRING TRAINING ‘09 lists the 45 Worst Contracts In Baseball. Did your least ...

BtB's Readers' Worst Contracts Project
Beyond the Box Score — ... with his post about the 45 worst contracts in MLB.  In BtB's quest to tackle mainstream topics from a saber point of view, I'd like to create a similar list, with BtB readers determining the 25 worst contracts.  Here's how I see the process working: ...

Wednesday Walewanders
The Daily Fungo – Detroit Tigers Baseball: Yesterday and Today — ... to this list of The Worst Contracts in Baseball and, no, the entire Tigers roster does not appear. But there is some significant Detroit representation: five lousy contracts. Take a peek for yourself. What do you think? How bad is it? ...

A Large Regular — Bad MLB Contracts Interesting list of the worst 45 contracts in baseball. I have to agree with some of the comments - I think all things considered Alex Rodriguez's contract needs to be on the list. HT The Big Lead

Bronx Bombers News & Notes
Zell's Pinstripe Blog — ... Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors mentions the 45 worst contracts in all of baseball. Three Yankees contracts made the list.They are: Jorge Posada Four years, $52MM ($13MM per year). Signed November of 2007. Hideki Matsui, Yankees. Four years, $52MM ($13MM per year). Signed November of 2005. Kei Igawa, Yankees. Five years, $46MM ($9.2MM per year). Signed in December of ‘06. ...

Bunt singles: Perry impresses, Bonderman throws
Detroit Tigers blog — ... decision to to bypass any games before March 16 has irked several folks. I wonder if it’s the economic climate that kept the media away, or if it’s short-sitedness that Tigers fans salivated at the idea of seeing several Venezuelans play thei Detroit teammates. (DesigNate, Old English D, Bless You Boys) The Oakland Press’ Jim Hawkins does not think some of the Tigers contracts were as bad as Tim Dierkes thought. (Eye of the Hawk, Spring Training 09) Related posts No Related Post

Links of the day 3/5/09
The Victoria Times — Are there any Twins who maintain one of the worst contracts in baseball? (yes) The NFL players gone missing story only gets sadder The Twins would be at batting practice right now, but they need to catch up on the Bachelor first.

What's Next for Michael Cuddyer?
Twinkie Town — ... fame) listed Cuddyer on the 45 Worst Contracts In Baseball piece that he did for the Spring Training '09 site, and right now it's hard to dispute.  Considering the return on the investment to this point, and the percentage of team payroll that $8 million constitutes, it's a legitimate listing.  Fortunately, putting on a good show this summer would put that kind of criticism to rest.  Or at least quiet it down a bit.  Then there's the Gomez/Span/Delmon Young triangle, and none of them are going anywhere. ...

MLJ Correction: Dave Roberts
Major League Jerk — ... I mean, come on.  While I don’t agree with all the names on this list of the 44 worst contracts in existence, the ones for the Giants seem pretty spot on: ...

Around The Web: Manny Aftermath
Fire Ned Colletti Now — ... Spring Training 09: Tim Dierkes has a list of the 44 worst contracts in baseball. Only Jason Schmidt and Juan Pierre made it for the Dodgers. I suppose Andruw Jones missed out on a technicality. ...

The Red Report: Francisco Cordero
Red Reporter — ... He opted out of his contract at the end of 2007, which proved to be a smart move.  The Reds, desperately needing bullpen help, signed Cordero to the largest contract ever for a relief pitcher, 4 years and $46 million.  Although it is considered one of the worst contracts in baseball by some, Cordero helped turn Cincinnati's bullpen, one of the worst in the majors in 2007, into one of the league's best in 2008. ...

On-paper Tigers
Angels blog — ... This is what happens when you lead the league in unmovable contracts. Remember when the Tigers had famous people playing for them? ...