How many long-term obscene-amounts-of-money, baseball contracts have there got to be before Major League baseball teams stop offering them…and then passing the costs along to fans?
Max Scherzer is a pitcher. He is 30 years old and has been in the majors for seven years. He has won 20 or more games in a season one time. His earned run average has been below 3.00 one time. And the Washington Nationals just handed him a 7 year, $210 million dollar contract.
Did they notice that Justin Verlander, who is in the middle of a 10 year, $219 million dollar contract has been no more than a pretty good pitcher for the past two years?
Or that C.C. Sabathia, with two more years to go on an 8 year, $182 million dollar contract has been a disaster for the past two years?
Or that Masahiro Tanaka, signed through 2019 for $155 million dollars, was injured, missed half his first season, and no one knows if he will ever be the same quality he was before that injury — or whether he will need season-ending surgery this year?
And that is before we get to Carl Pavano, and position players like Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, etc. (yes, the Yankees are foremost on the list of teams that screwed up).
Do these people ever learn?
Apparently not.
