Top Ten Worst Contracts in Sports

[Fat Elvis]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/spt--ta...write-off.html

The list:

10. Lamar Odom, Dallas Mavericks -- Mavericks on the hook for $8.9 million
9. Matt Cassel, Kansas City Chiefs -- Has a six-year, $62.7 million contract
8. John Lackey, Boston Red Sox -- Has a 26-23 record, and a 5.26 ERA with Boston
7. Scott Gomez, Montreal Canadiens -- Scored 11 points in 38 games this season
6. Vernon Wells, Los Angeles Angels -- Batted .218 last season
5. Greg Oden, Portland Trail Blazers -- Played 82 games in five seasons
4. Barry Zito, San Francisco Giants -- Left off Giants' 2010 playoff roster
3. Rashard Lewis, Washington Wizards -- Earned roughly $22 million for low production this season
2. Wade Redden, New York Rangers -- see the details
1. Adam Dunn, Chicago White Sox -- see the details

[veist]

Originally Posted by Fritz88

Castle is handicapping an entire franchise. Can you say the same about the other two?
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A) He's not crippling the franchise because we're not stuck with him for contractual reasons, the team could've moved on several times and didn't. B) His contract is not nor was ever a financial albatross, it was bad but it didn't touch $100M in guaranteed money like those three do. Castle's contract has been terrible without a doubt but the only thing that let it be terrible was a combination of him being just mediocre enough to keep them out of contention to replace him in the draft and management not being willing to dump him and endure being terrible enough to replace him in the draft. Those other three guys when they're getting paid $20M+ a year and sucking their teams are only going to have two options pay them or trade them for someone else's terrible contract.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Los Pollos Hermanos

Personally, I think the Kevin Kolb contract seems as bad or worse.

Not really.

The Kolb contract was backloaded and had an escape clause.

The Cardinals stupidly failed to exercise it, but the contract itself gave them far more wiggle room.

The Cassel contract, OTOH, being a frontloaded monstrosity that had its roster bonus in an awkward 'in-between' spot, is just an absolute abortion of a contract. It was a trainwreck from the second it was signed.

Very few of us could ever make a decision that costs our boss anywhere near the money that Scott Pioli made with that Cassel deal and still keep his job. Yet there he sits, still evidently beyond all reproach.

I know a lot of you like to crack on Pioli but the grounds have never looked better.

[qabbaan]

A lot of idiots screamed for the Royals to sign Adam Dunn.

[qabbaan]

Originally Posted by Frankie

Wow, Pioli has given THE WORST CONTRACT IN THE NFL, according to this.

Scott Gomez and Vernon Wells are worse deals for the teams though. Gomez is an average player being paid like a superstar. Wells is a well past his prime player being paid like he was in his prime.

Cassel is just a bad QB being paid like an average one because the team has no other options.

[The Dawg]

#1. The Kansas City Royals roster

[BoneKrusher]

Originally Posted by Fat Elvis

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/spt--ta...write-off.html

9. Matt Cassel, Kansas City Chiefs -- Has a six-year, $62.7 million

and Pioli gets to be a GM.

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by qabbaan

Scott Gomez and Vernon Wells are worse deals for the teams though. Gomez is an average player being paid like a superstar. Wells is a well past his prime player being paid like he was in his prime.

Cassel is just a bad QB being paid like an average one because the team has no other options.

$60 million is not an average QB contract. He had a one year resume with the Pats. Prior to that he had been a career backup in the pros and college. It was on a whim that he was drafted with a flyer 7th by Pioli. I think Pioli was trying to prove it was another genius pick.

[veist]

Originally Posted by whoman69

$60 million is not an average QB contract. He had a one year resume with the Pats. Prior to that he had been a career backup in the pros and college. It was on a whim that he was drafted with a flyer 7th by Pioli. I think Pioli was trying to prove it was another genius pick.

Matt Flynn just got 3/$20 on ~120 career attempts. Nobody is arguing the deal was anything approaching good, just that its merely bad for an NFL contract which has nothing on bad NBA and MLB contracts.