Nationals' $245 million, $140M free agent signings ranked as 2 of worst in MLB history
These are a pair of painful deals.
Nationals' $245 million, $140M free agent signings ranked as 2 of worst in MLB history originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Washington Nationals haven't gotten all their contracts right in recent years.
And when you crunch the numbers, massive deals for Stephen Strasburg and Patrick Corbin simply didn't work out in the long haul. Corbin comes with the caveat that he helped the Nats win a World Series in his first season before a total fall off. Strasburg simply couldn't outrun injury troubles.
Still, $245 million (7 years) for Strasburg and $140 million (6 years) for Corbin are ranked as two of the five-worst free agent contracts ever by ESPN's Bradford Doolittle in a new article out Friday. MORE: Aaron Judge's case as the greatest right-handed hitter of all time And yes, Strasburg was technically a free agent, even though he chose to return to the only team he'd ever known. "It was a supremely bad contract given at the wrong time to a superstar pitcher coming off one of his best seasons," Doolittle writes.
"Pitching injuries suck. Strasburg won a lone game after signing this deal. " Corbin will always have that ring, and the Nationals won't totally regret his deal for that specific reason.