A look at every $100 mm+ contract: the good, the bad and the ugly
For the last few years, I’ve been tracking all the contracts in baseball history over $100 mm, in a somewhat outdated thread in the MLB Forum. This Fall I’ve been updating and refining my analysis, using a methodology I created in a thread I started this summer analyzing all the Orioles’ contracts of $20 mm+. Basically, it involves comparing the dollar value of the contract with the WAR value, using the market value established by Fangraphs for the years in question. Fangraphs only started
Here’s my 2021 update to this thread (see the OP for an explanation of methodology and color scheme) . In MLB history, there have now been 92 contracts that were $100 mm+ when they were signed, through the 2021 season (this excludes the Lindor contract, which doesn’t go into effect until 2022). The actual value of a few of those fell below $100 mm due to the partial 2020 season, but I left them on the list and show both the original and revised value.
Of the 92, I now count them this
