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Friday, February 24, 2006 |
Dodgers Are Teh Suckk
Mike Carminati at Mike's Baseball Rants has a great review of the worst 25 contracts of all time as measured in dollars per win share. Unsurprisingly, there are a number of late-90's/early-oughts' Dodgers in there, starting pitchers all: the recently retired Darren Dreifort, Chan Ho Park, Kevin Brown, Kazuhisa Ishii, Carlos Perez, and Andy Ashby. Of course, it's also probably worth mentioning that Park's real string of sucktitude didn't hit until after Dan Evans sensibly let him and Scott Boras get a big contract from the Rangers, and part of Ishii's lousiness was borne by the Mets. But -- ye gods! -- what a miserable set of starters. Not even Gene Autry had so badly misspent back in the 70's and 80's.
Update: In case you were wondering, here's what the Dodgers rotations looked like while these jokers were collecting their paychecks at Chavez Ravine:
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Hideo Nomo Ismael Valdez Chan Ho Park Pedro Astacio Ramon Martinez |
Chan Ho Park Ismael Valdez Darren Dreifort Dave Mlicki Ramon Martinez Brian Bohanon Hideo Nomo Carlos Perez |
Kevin Brown Chan Ho Park Ismael Valdez Darren Dreifort Carlos Perez |
Chan Ho Park Kevin Brown Darren Dreifort Carlos Perez Eric Gagné |
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
Chan Ho Park Eric Gagné Terry Adams Luke Prokopec Kevin Brown Darren Dreifort James Baldwin (Andy Ashby)** |
Hideo Nomo Odalis Perez Andy Ashby Kazuhisa Ishii Omar Daal Kevin Brown (Darren Dreifort)† |
Hideo Nomo Kevin Brown Odalis Perez Kazuhisa Ishii Wilson Alvarez* Andy Ashby Darren Dreifort |
Jeff Weaver Kazuhisa Ishii Odalis Perez Jose Lima Hideo Nomo |
* Wilson Alvarez mostly earned his suckage with the Devil Rays; he was a very good pitcher for the Dodgers.
** Andy Ashby spent virtually the entire year on the DL while costing the Dodgers $6M in salary.
† Dreifort absorbed $9.4M while spending all his 2002 on the DL. Ouch.
Man, what a waste.
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