Finding the Worst MLB Contract of the 2010's 

WTF? How?

@@CardinalDoctor He hit .267 in 2018 in Oakland at age 34 so it was enough for the Mets to sign him for 2 years $20 million. His legs basically gave up since he's 34 and he's been on the IL most of the time with knee issues.

Wait, he had at bats for the Mets?

The Phillies paid David Robertson quite a bit of lettuce to throw about four pitches, too. :D

The Mets and shit contracts are like PB&J

Outta Here Baseball thanks! It’s really a shame what happened to Howard

@@SportStorm23 Especially as Howard was a very nice guy and a fan favorite. But, as a Phils fan it's something to expect. The Phils are like the Cubs before the 2010s, the team most likely to be the NL's doormat, especially from the 20s to the 40s.

He tore his achilles in 2011, his left meniscus in 2013, and he re-injured that knee in 2015. His huge deal meant the Phillies didn't have any promising prospects at the position until Tommy Joseph came up in 2016, and he wasn't too much better than Howard hitting .200. And those of us in Philly just wanted to see our World Series heroes while we were on the obvious decline after the front office decimated our development system. I gave the management group the benefit of the doubt for years but I'm losing patience with them. Bad time to be a Phils fan.

@@paulbbryan On the contract, the Phils just wanted him lockred in as he was still a good hitter. Or, he was until the injuries and the opposition putting the shift on him. As for prospects, that's on management, and I doubt Ryan being given a low or high contract has anything to do with that, that have to do with scouting of future players, and whether the prospects are used as trade bait. And sadly, management just plainly sucks right now.

Howard was really overrated. He had like 4 or 5 good years. Struck out a ton and was a complete rally killer for the majority of his career.

Except no one other than the maker of this video thinks that's remotely possible. What a joke.

@@josephtelegen8754 nobody ever thought Chris Davis could win the mvp dumbass

appleman lol at least they have money to burn compared to other teams

Prince fielder ring a bell?

Luke DuBois wtf?

Lol

Ya...i think the recent 10+ year over 300M contracts are all bad. Even if they're great and "young" too much happens in the game, MVP players get injured and are never the same. Matt Kemp for example, and yes, Bauer even in roids wasn't better that season, east coast bias in those voting standards need to be addressed. Kershaw was ribbed of it least 2 cy young awards. Don't start with postseason mishaps, it's about the regular season and nobody discusses Peyton Manning and his postseason mishaps either. BTW Kershaw has that one post season where he was lights out before a team used techniques via buzzers and trashcans to relay off speed pitches to the batters and he had zero swing and misses on his curve which that year he had one of the highest swing and miss rates on. But Hey, even though the other team has an illegal advantage the dodgers justdidnt do enough, right guys? Sorry the Dodgers didn't choose as an organization to cheat at the plate, at that disadvantage they still made it to game 7 against buzzing and beating cheaters. Hey, why was game 7 in Los Angeles? Cause they were the best team that year. And I kind of wish now they did cheat. Cause knowing the world series title wasn't going to be stripped and zero players punished (although let's all be honest, if an LA team is accused of that shit it's blacksox all over again and then some). Anyways ya, #beamastros

he should have bunted down the opposite direction until they stopped lol. it's not rocket science

He also tore his Achilles in the last ab of the 2011 NLDS. He wasnt the same after that.

At least he has WUPHF.com

Stealthy Mongoose he wouldn’t make it to first base

@@MotorCityPhoenix313 his ego got in the way of thinking reasonably

Never say never

You got my vote

Les Moore you’d have to be a bigger dumbass than all the GM’s who penned these contracts if you vote for Biden.

@@johndim11 wow, you went out of your way to bring politics into a baseball video.

Oops

Paco they’re looking better now at least

SportStorm yes Mike Hazen has done a wonderful job as our GM

Paco I still thank you guys for the Gregorius trade. Until 2019 that is.

2011*

MrLeoni2 I was definitely surprised too

@@SportStorm23 Well, I can't wait to see you explain it in a future video, and not just because I've been a Phillies fan since 1969. (Oh, the pain, the pain.)

@@MrLeoni2 Phillies had a really nice 00's

@@samuelrs5138 Yes, they did.

I feel like if he hadn't have cut out contracts that haven't expired, Pujols would definitely top the list. Dude flat fell on his face after leaving StL

vamp9 thank you!

Can't accumulate negative WAR if you take 3 whole years off lol. Man I hated that signing right from the jump.

That was worst contract ever

Fox McCloud I appreciate that

Walk- Offs I appreciate that, thanks!

You could do the reciprocal, then, and do WAR per $10,000,000 spent.

Yeah I wouldn’t put him with Chris Davis or Albert Pujols yet, he’s raking this season

1:10 Oh

8:56 There he is

True. Texas pays part, Detroit pays part, and the insurance company pays part.

Barry Zito?

Right...... Uggla would at least get on base with walks though.

Dillon Mundy Hosmer could be worse in the coming years

That is not how averages work

It’s divided by two. Both wars have equal weight

Ice u dont get my point

Alex Hussey if one website gives an amazing player an 8 WAR for the season and one gives a 3 to a player of the same caliber then the one that gives the 8 will have more weight. Thats the problem

JCPOTATOBENJY Ya If one site gave a 3 and the other gave an 8, the average is 5.5. Thats (8+3)/2. Both 3 and 8 are 2.5 away from 5.5; that’s what makes it an average. You could say that the score of 3 weighs down the average war (-2.5) just as much as the 8 boosts it up (+2.5); that’s what makes it an average. If one had more weight it wouldn’t be an average.

lmaoooooooooooooooooooo

Yup then giants signed him for vet minimum in 2017 and still on the team hit 14 homers on the bench last season

Ay o he’s on the first chart, I just didn’t mention him. Check the link of data in the description

And now he’s in Boston.

Elsbury was one of those players who we as baseball fans swear was garbage when in actuality he was at least serviceable and just marginally above replacement level.

@LION TAMER do I have to put the obligatory lol after this to make it not serious