The baseball offseason is characterized by the free agency movement, where players sign with teams for top dollar. It seems as if every year, another free agent breaks the record for biggest contract. When these major deals in particular don’t work out, then they hurt the organization big time.
It seems to happen all too often; a player is signed to a major contract only to fail miserably, whether it’s due to injury or ineffectiveness. Even as early as last year, we could find contracts that did not work out, and now that salaries have exploded, this will continue to happen. As for these 50 free agent busts, they’re just happy that, for most of them, they’re past this experience.