Baseball's Most Overpaid Players

GARY MATTHEWS JR., COME ON DOWN!

 

Don't hate Captain Fantastic.He's hitting .313 .387 .465 this season his field% is .990.

He's 6th in active batting average, 5th in hits, 4th in runs scored.

OTOH he's made $161,000,000.00 in career earnings, to date

 

Word.

 

Without even looking, it's Carlos Silva and it's not close.

Best value of anyone not overperforming while making the league minimum is probably Longoria or Morneau.

 

Yeah, and Morneau's making 8 million or so this year, which is why I included the caveat.

I mean, the young guys who are vastly overperforming their contracts really don't count toward determining the best value, in my mind. Gotta be someone who actually earned a contract and delivered. Or, a guy like Longoria who the Rays locked down early and is delivering.

 

I liked that Big Papi is worth $-5.5 Mil. Guy is paid to do one thing--hit. Can't even do that.

 

Eric Byrnes and Oliver Perez are making $12 million this season.

Kerry Wood and Jake Westbrook are making $10M.

 

Link doesn't work.

 

It's so weird to see one of these lists without Mike Hampton on it.

 

Carl Pavano and Mo Vaughn belong on a list of the recent past.

 

Not sure who is the "most," but if the check is signed by Bill Bavasi, the likelihood that its too fat increases exponentially.