Inspired by recent thoughts of Steve Phillips (not the philandering former-ESPN baseball analyst, rather the philandering former GM of the New York Mets) and his unhealthy past obsession with Mo Vaughn and his contract, I started to think about current "bad paper" contracts in the MLB, and after some research I can confirm that horribly-structured contracts do exist.
Now, what follows is not what you would call an "objective" ranking of bad contracts. Sure, statistics might be given to illustrate just how little a certain player's production correlates with his salary, but there are very few (if any) objective qualifiers for this list of bad MLB paper (except for money, duh).
However, one aspect that was scrutinized was contract length: there are no players on this list that have contr ...
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