Baseball brehs...how many big long-term contracts are actually working out ?

[Michael's Black Son]

Play football brehs

Baseball money is the longest of them all without question and teams are STILL throwing out these insane deals.

 

[FaTaL]

ok there's Kershaw...but hes special, dude is the best pitcher since Pedro I think. also Miggy.

but then I look at shyt like

Pujols...monster contract, underperform right away and keeps getting worse
Cain....last two years been shyt
Posey...still ok numbers for a catcher but if he cant catch it will be a disaster, already mediocre as a defensive catcher
Verlander...
Prince Batter...
Howard...
Mauer...same as posey, but already not catching
Reyes
Ethier
Arod

Hamilton
Tex
BJ Upton

seems like every long-term big contract already starts failing in like second or third year and by the time it expires shyt will be a snowball

@HHR particularly interested in your view on this

to be fair the giants are idiots, he had that bone chip problem last year and should of gotten that take care of last offseason

 

[FTBS]

No such thing as "not working out" when you have no cap and the depth in terms of farm systems that teams have.

 

[Cladyclad]

I'm all for players gettin theirs. But baseball is a sport where a great player can't really dominate. A pitcher plays every 5 days. A hitter could be taken out the game completely. Bonds used to get like 5 pitches to hit a week. If u do anything like that in any other sport u will get murdered. For example that cac team that doubled Steph Curry in college every play. They got that azz whipped tryin dat sh1t. Steph had 3 shots but his team won by like 30. I just don't understand how gm's pay players 20plus mil in baseball