The Most Overpaid Baseball Players for the 2006 Season
Which Players Made the Most for Doing the Least in 2006?
Jeff Bagwell (Astros) - collected $19.3 million in salary , without recording a single stat for the year.
Mike Hampton (Braves) - didn't throw one pitch all year and collected $14.5 million in salary.
Chan Ho Park (Padres) - went 7-7 with a 4.81 ERA, while "earning" $15.3 million. Arguably worst free agent contract in history is finally over.
Bartolo Colon (Angels) - 1-5 with a 5.11 ERA in 56 innings, while earning a cool $14 million in salary.
Hideki Matsui (Yankees) - just 172 at bats on the year, while earning a $13 million salary.
Kerry Wood (Cubs) - earned $12 million in salary for going 1-2 in 4 starts, with a 4.12 ERA.
Mike Sweeney (Royals) - 217 at bats, with a .258 average, and a .438 SLG, while earning $11 million in salary.
Gary Sheffield (Yankees) - earned $10.8 million in salary for playing in just 39 games all year, and
stunk it up in the playoffs too.
Eric Gagne (Dodgers) - pitched in a grand total of 2 games while earning a $10 million salary.
Ryan Klesko (Padres) - earned $9 million in salary for 4 totals at bats.
Matt Clement (Red Sox) - went just 5-5, with a 6.61 ERA in 65 innings, while earning $9.8 million in salary.
Russ Ortiz (Arizona/Orioles) - managed to go 0-8, with a 8.14 ERA, while earning a $7.9 million salary.
Derek Lee (Cubs) - after parlaying a career year in 2005 into a big contract, he batted just 175 times last year while earning a cool $9.4 million in salary.
Eric Milton (Reds) - 8-8 with a 5.19 ERA in 152 innings, while earning a $9.8 million salary.
Dmitri Young (Tigers) - before getting released, he batted 172 times with a .250 average, and earned $8 million in salary last year.
Odalis Perez (Dodgers/Royals) - went 6-8 with a 6.20 ERA, and earned $8.75 million in salary.
Carl Pavano (Yankees) - never threw one pitch and earned $8 million in salary. Third New York Yankee on the list.
Edguardo Alfonso (Released) - made $8 million in salary for doing nothing last year.
Kaz Matsui (Mets/Rockies) - earned $8 million in salary for batting .267, with a .310 OBP in 243 at bats.
Mark Mulder (Cardinals) - went 6-7 with a 7.14 ERA in 93 innings before being shut down for the year due to an injury, while making $7.75 million in salary.
The New York Yankees get the Award for paying the most in salaries for the least amount of payback in 2006, for having three players on the list.
Published by Statsman
Love stats. From Economics to Sports. View profile
How to Get the Woman in Your Life to Love BaseballMy nice new boyfriend had a dark side, and that dark side, fellas, was called baseball. Oh, dear, I was dating a guy.- The World Baseball Classic and Why It's Great for BaseballThere is a lot of criticism towards the World Baseball Classic. Personally, how could something that involves baseball being played at its highest level by the best players in the world be a bad thing?
- Baseball's Vic Wertz, Charlie Root and Dale Mitchell- Remembered for What They Did...Vic Wertz, Charlie Root and Dale Mitchell all had solid baseball careers, but became footnotes in history for what happened to each of them in World Series play. This article shows they were much more than that.
The Social Impact of Japanese BaseballThis institution that is Japanese baseball goes much further than a box score, a pennant race, or the corporate ties that all Japanese professional baseball franchise are attach...- Baseball Book of Firsts Covers Every Kind of First in BaseballBaseball Book of Firsts is a book that contains information on who did what first in baseball history from being the first manager to institute cut-off plays to the first player to wear sunglasses. Fascinating and ed...
- A Strat-O-Matic Baseball Memoir
- Untouchable Baseball Records
- Retrosheet and Baseball Almanac
- Minor League Baseball: A Cheap and Fun Alternative to the Majors
- Alexander Cartwright: The True Founder of Modern Baseball
- Steriods and Baseball
- A Need-to-Know Basis: Cheating Methods in Baseball
5 Comments
Post a CommentPlayers making money for doing absolutely nothing?! What are these team managers thinking?
I agree, I wouldn't put injuries as a reason for calling someone overpaid. Hideki Matsui in particular is a great player who is worth every penny, he just had a freak wrist injury early in the season. That doesn't make him overpaid, just unlucky. In general the term overpaid in sports means a player who gets more money than his talent calls for. You can't just look at statistics and nothing else.
And surprisingly, Meat Hook (Dmitri Young) was more valuable once we cut him! Mike Hampton: $14.5M for not throwing a pitch...sounds overpaid to me!
This list looks pretty good...however, some choices may have been a little uninformed...Mike Hampton, for example, was out with Tommy John surgery...The Braves had enough faith in his return that they kept him on board...special circumstances were not taken into account on the list...him aside, good list!
haha kaz matsui. man he sucks