Discussion: Which Contract Would You Get Rid Of?

Carlos Silva is on an awful contract with the M's. Something like 4 yrs, 44 mil. Yuck!

Oliver Perez

Carlos Silva for sure

lol. obviously, Zito and then Rowand. Then Bruce Bochy's.

Julio Lugo.

JULIO LUGO IN A SECOND!!

Oh God -- I'm with you on Carlos Silva. I was relieved to see him put on the DL. That's sad.

Kosuke Fukudome 12 mill playing like 2 mill.

I'm trying to think of this as an O's fan, and I really don't think we have that horrible of a contract on the roster. I mean, sure Danys Baez is making $7.167MM, and Melvin Mora is making $8MM, but they both come off the books at the end of the year (assuming Mora doesn't have his option exercised).

If you're forced to get rid of somebody, I'd say Mora, just because he's pretty much worthless when it comes to trade value, where as Baez is going to bring a return of one or two prospects.

Honorable mention for Koji Uehara because they're essentially paying him $5MM each year for the next two years when he's probably going to end up as a long reliever. But, he represents a gateway to the Far East (or so we've been told) so the PR hit would be quite bad.

Padres - Short-term, I want Giles out of here, but I think Chris Young's contract is worse. 2 years left at about $12M? No thanks...he's maddeningly inconsistent and injury prone. I love the guy, but I'm tired of watching this song and dance.

Gary Matthews Jr. 50 Million/ 5 Years.

Austin Kearns, worst player ever

Dontrelle Willis and Nate Robertson are horrible and shouldn't even be in a minor league uniform let alone a major league one.

carl pavano?

Julio Lugo, in a heart beat, but only if it were back in 07

its to bad selig is such a conservative baseball candy ass and doesnt believe in changing anything, this would be amazing!

I'd go with Eric Chavez. He's gonna retire and he makes 11 mil a year. The A's need to spend the money on someone that plays.

Milton Bradley looks pretty bad. He has all these nagging injuries and I'm not sold he can play the field every day.

Zito, Rowand, Pierre (even though he's playing well now he's not worth that contract)

Eric Byrnes.

Currently Scott Linebrink. 4 years/25 mil. I would save it for another year, though.

Lugo or Drew for Red Sox

I'm just not sure Lugo
is carrying enough dough
to get the best bang for the
buck...

I say Drew or Dice K...

luis castillo
not only is he crap
but his contract also didnt allow us to sign the o dog this past offseason

Kei Igawa, worst contract on the yanks by far.

If you get Julio Lugo off my team you will have convinced me religion is not a sham and that there is really a god

Jason Schmidt. Easy.

I hate to go against the grain of Red Sox fandom here, but the Sox can afford to just part ways with Julio Lugo right now. With J.D and Dice-K each owed $28 million after this year (J.D. over 2 years, Dice-K over 3) my preference would be to get out from under Dice-K...unless they could coax him into a trade to a team with a pitcher friendly ballpark (like San Diego or Seattle).

dice k has a ntc and just give him the rest of the year off come back freash next year.....he has 38 wins last 2 yrs, not the worst signing

"Carlos Lee, 6 years/ 100 mil?

All of the Astros money is locked up on three players."

I believe you mean 4 players (Lee, Oswalt, Berkman, and Tejada), but it is more that Drayton doesn't want to spend, as compared to the Astros not having the money.

I would cut Kaz's sorry butt.

carlos lee
kaz matsui
and cecil cooper

I think all M's fans can unanimously agree on dumping a certain oversized pile of crap otherwise known as Carlos Silva.
Please keep him on the DL for as long as possible; any day without Silva on the mound is a good day...

I gotta disagree, Angel.

Drew is raking in $14-15M a season through 2011. Injuries should be part of the consideration. His numbers aren't just mediocre, they're outright replaceable. Lumping in this season's 60 ABs, Drew (over two seasons) looks like this:

HRs - 19.5
RBIs - 80
H - 140
SBs - 5
AVE - .271
OBP - .388
OPS - .857

Were it not for his playoff heriocs, Lugo's contract and Drew's ability to take a walk, he'd be the subject of daily WEEI fodder.

"I don't think JD Drew merits dumping. He gets hurt a lot but save for his first season, he's been a very productive hitter. He is overpaid, but so are most major leaguers."

Agreed. I like having Drew. He hits well overall, draws a ton of walks and plays incredibly underrated defense. He also keeps his mouth shut. I really like Drew.

Scott Proctor for the Marlins... it's hard to complain when you're payroll is as low as ours, but he's the 2nd or 3rd highest paid player on the team and won't play an inning under the contract...

Carlos Lee! Who in their right mind gives out that kind of money to a guy who doesnt even run out ground balls?!

As an Orioles fan, Chris Ray. He was a closer, now we have George Sherrill. Then he was a set up man, now we have Jim Johnson. He never comes out of the bullpen and slips in and out of Triple A since coming off Tommy John surgery. Get rid of his contract and sign a young third baseman.

I think thats a ridiculous idea... you dish out the money, you pay for it.. no "oops!" contracts..

that reminds me of school when teachers say they would drop your lowest grade of the marking period.

Silva was moved to the 60 day DL. I would LOVE to get rid of Silva, but it seems that Z will play the talent and not the contract, which makes Wakamatsu's job 100% easier. I think the worst contract in baseball is #1 A-Rod because he's really only worth about $12MM with the PR nightmare he comes with. #2 goes to another Yankee, Burnett is injury prone, over-paid, and he is a league average pitcher... If it wasn't for his WS championship, he'd probably only be worth $7MM per season, but they pay him based on his success, not on his numbers... It's for the same reason Bedard will re-sign with Seattle for about $60MM/5 years. I'd even pay the difference of the contracts and take a Carlos Silva for Dontrelle Willis deal straight up. Willis still is struggling and Silva dominates the AL Central. The best would be for the league to eat the Silva deal and to be honest, they should impose a penalty for eating the bad deal, like one less premium player in the following free agent signing period. Like ditch Silva and you can draft 1 less type A or type B player in the following offseason. Keep teams like Detroit and NYY from signing stupid deals and asking the league to bail them out.

Also MLB would never do this because the player's union would immediately kill it. If it were to go into effect in some fantasy world., I'd say every team gets to use it once a decade, and maybe teams could be punished by having the ability taken away for that decade.

Clearly not to the same scale as a Carlos Silva, Barry Zito, etc. deal... but even if it's only two years, $9MM for Nick Punto is an absolutely pathetic joke.

Bill Smith should be run out of town, and Ron Gardenhire should be slapped upside the head for lobbying to get his best friend on the team re-signed when the Twins already had plenty of offensively inept, switch-hitting, speedy shortstops around (see: Matt Tolbert).

As much as I love Todd Helton, that contract is an absolute killer. Wish the Rockies could get rid of that contract, and sign him to something more reasonable and shorter.

Oh, and the Yankees are going to be regretting A-Rod's contract in the next 2-3 years, if not now.

chicago white sox.
Scott Linebrink rhp
4 years/$19M (2008-11)

CARDINALS: Troy Glaus 4 YR/ 45 Million....man we could get someone good with that!

Most definitely Lugo.

Not sure why Eric Chavez isn't high on the list. He made 11M this year going 3 for 30. He will make another 14M or so if he never plays again, which he won't. At least with the other bad contracts, the player still has a chance to contribute (Wells, Zito, Silva, Matthews Jr.).

Plus, if this happened in the NBA recently, it was because they have a salary cap. MLB would never do this, since it would be rewarding the teams making the biggest mistakes, while teams like Florida and TB get penalized for making sound decisions.

Billy Wagner deffiently deserves a mention. $10 million for about 1 month of pitching this year. Even when he does play you cannot count on him to get a big save. Omar could use that $10 million on a bat and a relief pitcher.

Fat chance trying to get back that posting fee from Seibu. I think the best you can do is get the 30 mil or so left out of Daisuke's contract.

Personally I'd get rid of Lugo. I have no hope of Lugo doing anything for the Red Sox. I have some hope of Daisuke being decent coming back from the dl.

Cardinals

Ya, Glaus for sure. Thanks for deciding to get your shoulder fixed right before the start of the season

Also, Pineiro...He's been okay this season but 7.5 mill? No thanks.

And I wouldn't mind having the 1 mill back from Matt Clement and Juan Gonzalez from last year's failed experiment.

""while teams like Florida and TB get penalized for making sound decisions."

What? It's not like they're being forced into being cheap. If they want to spend money they can, but don't make excuses for something they can already do.

Classic overreaction missing the point. "

You used the word penalized, don't try to turn this around on me, Mr. Strawman.

How about 3?

In order -
soriano
bradley
fukudome

As a Mets fan I would like to get rid of either Castillo or Perez contract. We could/should have Lowe & Hudson in those spots instead. Stupid Minaya

Red Sox get rid of Julio (Useless) Lugo but the overall worst contract is Zito. What were the Giants thinking?