OT: All Time Worst Contract Team

by nvsfg on Jun 19, 2008 11:15 AM PDT Comment 31 comments

How about a little "off day" distraction ? On Bugs and Cranks yesterday one of the contributers posted the All Time Worst Contract Team. I'm sure you can imagine the current Giant listed on that team.

Comment starter: Do you agree with the writers list ? Can you create an All San Francisco Giants Worst Contract Team ? The team need not be based on dollar value. Player performance does factor. Trades may be included. Difficulty: You may not include Barry Zito.

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by gianator on Jun 19, 2008 11:18 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Not a bad list, but the best part is all the Dodgers on it! And I feel vindicated that I was adamantly against the notion of signing Gary Matthews after a career year. I feel good about that.

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by JRPhillips on Jun 19, 2008 11:41 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

For a second, I read the subject as “All Time Worst Contact” team and was already compiling a long list of Giants to add to the list.

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by Natto on Jun 19, 2008 11:53 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I have a hard time believing that Gagne’s one-year deal with the Brewers is the all-time worst contract for a closer. Mark Davis anyone?

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by Stuttering John Tamargo on Jun 19, 2008 12:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Armando Benitez.

That is all.

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by i did my job on Jun 19, 2008 12:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

How could he be left off this list?

Only 900 games until the end of Zito's contract

by thehavenot on Jun 19, 2008 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Matthews Jr. and Juan Pierre

It’s funny that Sabean was into trying to get both of these guys during that off-season. And then ended up with a pretty bad contract for the center fielder he did get.

Only 900 games until the end of Zito's contract

by thehavenot on Jun 19, 2008 12:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Flip....Flip....Flip

That’s me flipping a coin on the Roberts/Pierre/Matthews Jr. deals.

The Giants didn’t get away clean by any means, but less damage with Roberts. We just wasted a little bit of money. The Dodgers and Angels. Ouch ! Dave Roberts is not playing due to injury (surprise !). Pierre is not playing due to the massive suck muscle.

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by nvsfg on Jun 19, 2008 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Om the other hand, a lot of people thought Sorinao would be a bust, and it would have been nice to get him.

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by Goofus on Jun 19, 2008 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ah, but Pierre is taking AB’s away from the vaunted Andruw Jones, whose suck muscle and belly have swollen to massive proportions…

by tyrannoman on Jun 19, 2008 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Where is Chan Ho Park?

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by groug on Jun 19, 2008 1:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

A little south of Candlestick, I think….(insert rim shot here)

by tyrannoman on Jun 19, 2008 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

(you asked- thank Goofus)

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by hairball on Jun 19, 2008 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I love that site.

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by EliminateMe on Jun 19, 2008 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not sure what I have to do with this, but that’s pretty funny.

I like that picture of the old guy doing the rimshot with the words “ba doom shhh” that someone posted a coule of weeks ago, too.

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by Goofus on Jun 19, 2008 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He’s pitching for the Bums against Sabathia on Sunday

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by SoFa King Mike on Jun 19, 2008 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

As to bad Giants contracts, in addition to Benitez, I’d mention Edgardo, Matheny (although mostly because of the injury), Neifi, Osvaldo Fernandez, Benard, Shinjo.

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by Goofus on Jun 19, 2008 1:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I don’t think the Giants’ spent much $$ on Shinjo. I know they traded Estes, but I thought he was making less than a mil.

by tyrannoman on Jun 19, 2008 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Making us watch Shinjo and his funky swing makes it a bad contract whether the team paid him or not.

by paboperfecto on Jun 19, 2008 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The swing was bad, but man those wristbands…

by tyrannoman on Jun 19, 2008 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Definitely Alfonzo

4 years / $26M for what turned out to be the last four years of his career. It’s easy to forget just how bad it was because the Angels took the worst year of it in the trade ($8M for a guy who went 5-for-50 and was released after 18 games).

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by EliminateMe on Jun 19, 2008 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Wristbands were Bad, But Check Out The Shoes !

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by nvsfg on Jun 19, 2008 1:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Where can I get a pair?

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 19, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs