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I can't think of a worse value for the dollar contract so far. Writing off over $20MM must have been painful. Stokes may be a nice bullpen arm, but the Angels sure ate an unprecedented amount of dollars.

Was Neagle or Hampton's contract this bad? I can't remember.

Neagle's was 5/$55M. Hampton's was 8/$121M.

Arizona released Russ Ortiz when he still had $21M remaining on his deal.

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Barry Zito and his 7 years for $126m is still the worse so far, when factoring in performance. Zito in 3 years with the Giants is -

31-43, 4.56 ERA (97 ERA+), 1.430 WHIP

He's under contract for 4 more years with a 5th year ($18m) becoming vested 200 IP (2013), or 400 IP (2012-2013) or 600 IP (2011-2013). I can see the Giants dumping him in the later years...

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Jason Schmidt's deal rivals any of the aforementioned. He's been paid multi millions for each start he's made for the Dodgers.

Darren Dreifort and Carl Pavanos are pretty bad. Notice how most of these are pitchers. You can find terrible contracts for position players like Mathews and Pierre, but the horrible ones are mostly for pitchers.

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Darren Dreifort and Carl Pavanos are pretty bad. Notice how most of these are pitchers. You can find terrible contracts for position players like Mathews and Pierre, but the horrible ones are mostly for pitchers.

Another reason to give preference to "growing the arms" and buying the bats.

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Darren Dreifort and Carl Pavanos are pretty bad. Notice how most of these are pitchers. You can find terrible contracts for position players like Mathews and Pierre, but the horrible ones are mostly for pitchers.
I agree with you about the pitcher contracts, but my beloved Cubbies have 5 more years of an aging Soriano. :(
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Jason Schmidt's deal rivals any of the aforementioned. He's been paid multi millions for each start he's made for the Dodgers.

And if I remember correctly, the Orioles were hard after Schmidt at the time. That's one occasion where I'm glad we fell a little short.

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