Post by zzoshop on Aug 29, 2012 10:15:34 GMT
Worst MLB contracts are obvious
The waiver wire is crackling and humming, making this an optimum time to identify the worst contracts in baseball, players nobody wants because they just like the cheap baseball jerseys . Funny how a player can go from priceless to pariah, sometimes only months after signing.Waivers remind us of the most ridiculous contracts because the murky process is a lot like big fish languidly swimming far beneath the surface of the ocean. Big fish that aren't good eating.
Players placed on waivers ¨C which are supposed to be kept secret ¨C often have bloated contracts no other team is willing to take on. Once a player is ignored by every team, known as passing through waivers, he can be dealt just like before the July 31 non-waiver trading deadline. Alex Rodriguez will be paid more than million a year through age 42.Most waived players get a hard look by a few teams, and often when a player is claimed they want to the cheap nhl jerseys
, his team allows the 48-hour waiver period to expire because there was never any intention of letting him go.
Occasionally the offering team and claiming team can cut a deal ¨C Cody Ross was acquired by the Giants this way in 2010 and became a World Series hero.Once in a while a player with a huge contract is claimed, as the Dodgers did with Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee on Friday. The Dodgers had to be willing to take on the $110 million or so Lee is owed through 2016 if the Phillies consented. As it happened, the Phillies did no such thing, mostly because they simply can't reconcile that their much-hullaballood signing of Lee 18 months ago was irrational overspending.
Overspending, of course, occurs every year, and players wear the cheap mlb jerseys with ridiculous price tags flow through waivers, drawing nothing more than laughs from general managers around baseball. Here are 11 players so wildly overpaid they can't be given away, worst first:Vernon Wells, Los Angeles Angels; signed through 2014, owed million: Trading for Wells before the 2011 season was unfathomably stupid. The Angels gave the Blue Jays Mike Napoli and Juan Rivera and got back an $84 million albatross.
postby:doris20120829
The waiver wire is crackling and humming, making this an optimum time to identify the worst contracts in baseball, players nobody wants because they just like the cheap baseball jerseys . Funny how a player can go from priceless to pariah, sometimes only months after signing.Waivers remind us of the most ridiculous contracts because the murky process is a lot like big fish languidly swimming far beneath the surface of the ocean. Big fish that aren't good eating.
Players placed on waivers ¨C which are supposed to be kept secret ¨C often have bloated contracts no other team is willing to take on. Once a player is ignored by every team, known as passing through waivers, he can be dealt just like before the July 31 non-waiver trading deadline. Alex Rodriguez will be paid more than million a year through age 42.Most waived players get a hard look by a few teams, and often when a player is claimed they want to the cheap nhl jerseys
, his team allows the 48-hour waiver period to expire because there was never any intention of letting him go.
Occasionally the offering team and claiming team can cut a deal ¨C Cody Ross was acquired by the Giants this way in 2010 and became a World Series hero.Once in a while a player with a huge contract is claimed, as the Dodgers did with Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee on Friday. The Dodgers had to be willing to take on the $110 million or so Lee is owed through 2016 if the Phillies consented. As it happened, the Phillies did no such thing, mostly because they simply can't reconcile that their much-hullaballood signing of Lee 18 months ago was irrational overspending.
Overspending, of course, occurs every year, and players wear the cheap mlb jerseys with ridiculous price tags flow through waivers, drawing nothing more than laughs from general managers around baseball. Here are 11 players so wildly overpaid they can't be given away, worst first:Vernon Wells, Los Angeles Angels; signed through 2014, owed million: Trading for Wells before the 2011 season was unfathomably stupid. The Angels gave the Blue Jays Mike Napoli and Juan Rivera and got back an $84 million albatross.
postby:doris20120829