Vernon Wells has been retired from professional baseball for six years now. Selected fifth overall pick in the draft as an year-old, Wells would spend 12 seasons in a Blue Jays uniform.
In the winter of , coming off a Gold Glove, six-win 6. But by , the back-loaded contract weighed heavily on the Blue Jays books as the team looked to go in a new direction under general manager Alex Anthopoulos. Over his year, MLB career, Wells batted.
In retirement, Wells is enjoying life with his family, including his wife, Charlene and their two sons, Christian and Jayce while living close to his hometown of Arlington, Texas. Last month it was announced that Wells was beginning a second career in baseball, this one as a player agent.
Already a subscriber? Log In. Subscribe now to get full access to the new sports page. Must read content, player grades, stuff you can't get anywhere else. View Plans Already a subscriber? Log in. Subscribe Now. Continue reading this story Earning an all-star game berth in , Wells lead the league in plate appearances, hits and doubles while receiving the Silver Slugger award for centre field. Between and , Wells played in games, amassing 82 home runs and a batting average of. Sports journalist David Brown had to say about the move :.
So why, exactly, did then-Angels general manager Tony Reagins make the deal? In , Wells first season with the Angels, he hit 25 home runs with a dismal. He ended up playing just 77 games, before being traded to the New York Yankees at the end of spring training in Similar to the original Toronto trade, the move was viewed exclusively as a salary dump for the Angels.
Wells would end up playing games with the Yankees in , hitting. Late in the offseason, Wells was designated for assignment by the Yankees, later to be released. Feel free to comment with your own nominees. Granted he won 18 games and struck out batters as well. Burnett spent three seasons in New York, leaving with a record and 4. Of course, as soon as Burnett left New York, he returned to form. Burnett went with a 3. Two years into the contract, Crawford has batted.
He has also been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for essentially nothing but relief from said contract. Crawford may yet restore his career to its prior glory, but there is no doubt that the Red Sox' return on their investment is among the worst per-dollar production in the free-agent era.
Now, some may object to his place on this list because he is with a 3. To be worth the money he is making, Santana needed to be among the top echelon of starters on a yearly basis.
He missed all of and made only 21 starts in , going with a 4. In , Santana was No. The Mets paid a perennial Cy Young contender salary and got one great year, two good years, one complete lost season and a bad Technically, Ryan Howard was not a free agent when he signed this monster extension with the Phillies, but this contract might have the worst result of any of the others listed when it's all said and done.
The extension runs from with a team option for Through one season of the deal, Howard has played 71 games, batted. That's points below his career OPS when started. Of course, the writing may have already been on the wall for this deal before Howard tore his Achilles in the playoffs.
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