I have to think Carl Pavano ranks fairly high on that list and I'm not just talking exclusively about baseball players. I'm talking about pro sports free agents. Worst ever.This is a guy who's really had one good season in 10 years (2004, go figure, his free agent walk year). Now, his season is definitely over and his career with the Yanks might be as well. The end result of this is, New York might as well have taken the $39,950,000 they planned to pay him over four years, traded it in for 159,800,000 quarters and flushed every last one down the toilets of Yankee Stadium because, in the words of comedian Lewis Black, every so often, the toilets will back up, AND YOU'LL BE A WINNER!
If his career in pinstripes is truly over, it means Carl Pavanothealthy will have thrown 111 1/3 innings for 399,500 Benjamins. And thanks to ESPN's game log feature, I can calculate his price per pitch over that span. It's hilarious because it's true. Are you ready? Take a deep breath. It's $23,445. PER PITCH! That kind of makes Roger Clemens (OMFQ as he's known in my home) look like a bargain.
And it's not like all those pitches were good either. In fact, of his 1,704 pitches, 594 were balls and those wayward pitches don't come cheap. Here some Yankee fans thought Pavano didn't have any balls, when all along they were paying about $14 million dollars for them.
Technically, in his Bronx days, Pavano only threw 969 pitches that were strikes and not base hits. The Boss paid $22.7 million for those good pitches.
We can also do it by price per out. That comes to $119,611. It doesn't matter how you look at it, the Yanks got screwed and most baseball fans love it. I challenge any of my readers to find a free agent who was a worse bargain.
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i think for sure he is the worst free agent ever. and thats saying a lot because the O's have made some terrible signings in the last 10 years
I can't think of an example in baseball; I think that one takes the cake. However, the Redskins signing of Deion Sanders might have been worse. Not only was he completely unproductive, didn't want to play, and was a locker room cancer, but the Redskins cut Brian Mitchell in order to sign him. All Pavano cost the Yankees was money.
What cracks me up is how many times I've read how the Pavano signing is an example of what a terrible GM Brian Cashman is and how he needs to fired. Like he had some way of knowing what a pussy Pavano was and that he'd be injured his entire tenure. And based on the contracts free agents pitchers got this season $10 million a year for a healthy Pavano would've been considered a bargain.
Quelle est la taille de la source de ces grandes données? google Quelle quantité de données puis-je obtenir, car je soupçonne กูเกิล que ce contenu substantiel a été supprimé de la base de données?
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