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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
Epic SABR takedown of Eric Hosmer by Dan Symborski:
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-padr...-base-problem/
Essentially he was negative WAR value his two years. The only player in the last 35 years of data who had two awful years and got a 3rd year as a FT regular, Roger Cedeno, lost his job afterwards.
It’s a series of stats, but boy is that contract a Pujols-level albatross. ZiPS now predicts his next 6 years will be worth 1.8 wins. TOTAL. |
Thank God the Padres saved DM and us from making that mistake. I doubt it would have gotten him fired and even if it did I don't think him getting canned would be worth the burden that a shit contract like that would have put on us. Hell, Ian Kennedy and Alex Gordon's contracts combined aren't anywhere close to as bad as Hosmer's. Talk about a guy that got paid and said "**** it, let's see if I can dig a hole to China by pounding the ball into the ground!".