Who are the most overpaid and underpaid players in the MLB?

Question

Who are the most overpaid and underpaid players in the MLB?

Answer 1

Overpaid: Zito and Suppan

Underpaid: Hanley Ramirez and Nick Markakis

Answer 2

Barry zito is the most over played and hes having his worst season. most under payed would be Monro

Answer 3

overpaid barry zito

underpaid kerry wood

Answer 4

-OVERPAID-

C: Ivan Rodriguez, Detroit, $12.38 million

1B: Richie Sexson, Seattle, $15.5 million

2B: Jeff Kent, Los Angeles Dodgers, $9 million – The first of many Dodgers on this list. Certainly not the most illustrious, though.

SS: Derek Jeter, New York Yankees, $21.6 million – He’s on pace for the worst year of his career by a long shot offensively, his defense is subpar even by his standards and he’s the third-highest-paid player in baseball. No amount of leadership can make that worth more than $20 million.

3B: Nomar Garciaparra, Los Angeles Dodgers, $9.52 million

OF: Andruw Jones, Los Angeles Dodgers, $18.1 million

OF: The entire Los Angeles Angels outfield rotation, $54 million – For that much money, you figure Garret Anderson ($12.6 million), Gary Matthews Jr. ($9.4 million), Torii Hunter ($16.5 million) and Vladimir Guerrero ($15.5 million) can do better than their rankings rankings in left-field, center-field and right-field OPS.

OF: Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle, $17.1 million

DH: Gary Sheffield, Detroit, $13.3 million – Another close escape for the $23.4 million man, Jason Giambi. Instead we’re here to celebrate Sheffield’s fragility and another senseless Detroit contract for players nearing the ends of their career. Sheffield’s power is gone, and he didn’t have much else anyway.

SP: Carl Pavano, New York Yankees, $11 million – King of Bad Contracts, we crown thee.

SP: Barry Zito, San Francisco, $14.5 million

SP: Jason Schmidt, Los Angeles Dodgers, $15.2 million

SP: Matt Morris, Pittsburgh, $10.03 million – What a retirement present.

SP: Mike Hampton, Atlanta, $15.98 million

RP: Eric Gagne, Milwaukee, $10 million

RP: Danys Baez, Baltimore, $6.17 million

RP: Derrick Turnbow, Milwaukee, $3.37 million

RP: Mark Prior, San Diego, $1 million

-UNDERPAID-

C: Miguel Olivo, Kansas City, $2.05 million

1B: Kevin Youkilis, Boston, $3 million

2B: Ian Kinsler, Texas, $700,000

SS: Jose Reyes, New York Mets, $4.38 million

3B: Jorge Cantu, Florida, $500,000

OF: Grady Sizemore, Cleveland, $3.17 million

OF: David DeJesus, Kansas City, $2.5 million

OF: Eric Hinske, Tampa Bay, $800,000

OF: Carlos Quentin,Chicago,$400,000

DH: Milton Bradley, Texas, $5.25 million

SP: Aaron Cook, Colorado, $5.13 million

SP: Dan Haren and Brandon Webb, Arizona, $4.05 million and $5.5 million

SP: Justin Duchscherer, Oakland, $1.2 million

SP: Todd Wellemeyer, St. Louis, $1 million

SP: Jake Peavy, San Diego, $6 million

RP: Brad Lidge, Philadelphia, $6.35 million

RP: Kerry Wood, Chicago Cubs, $4.2 million

RP: Doug Brocail and Geoff Geary, Houston, $2.5 million and $1.13 million

RP: Troy Percival, Tampa Bay, $3.9 million

Answer 5

Underpaid: Kevin Youkilis

Another 10 dingers, and he'd be Jason Giambi in his prime. But for $3 million?! Incredible.

Answer 6

Overpaid hands down its Andruw Jones and Barry Zito

Underpaid: Albert Pujols

Needs to retire for the sake of Baseball: Kevin Youkilis

Answer 7

Starting pitchers are vastly overpaid since at best they appear in 40 games and the most wortless signing in the history of worthless signings is Barry Zito.

Underpaid is Jose Reyes and David Wright of the Mets who are locked up real cheap for the next three years.

Answer 8

Pavano and Andruw Jones, a .166 BA is not worth 18 million, too many strikeouts.

underpaid: Kinsler and Youkilis are waiting for arbitration.

Answer 9

arod and jeter are defenatly over paied

Answer 10

overpaid has to be ichiro from seattle he got that huge contrat extension last year all because he hit that inside the park home run and had a good game at the all star game

Underpaid Mark Reynolds of the Arizona Diamondbacks he could be a mvp candidate but he dosent get the attention cause the west is really bad right  now but he is a very underrtated 3rd baseman that can field and bat

Answer 11

Over Mike Hampton hasn't pitched in like 3 years!

Under - Scott Baker Twins ace making no cash!

Answer 12

overpaid

Sammy Sosa (OF, Orioles, $17,875,000)

underpaid

Miguel Olivo, Kansas City, $2.05 million

Answer 13

Overpaid

Carl Pavano

$40 Million dollar contract and he has made a total of 19 starts since signing it (5 Wins)

also Mike Hampton is making about 16 Mill i believe this year, considering he just made his first start of the year

Underpaid

Ian Kinsler-making $700,000 this year. thats it. im sure he will have a new contract next year

Answer 14

Overpaid: A-Rod, nobody deserves thirty million dollars a year to play a sport.

Underpaid: Ryan Howard. Last year he hit 47 home runs and made "only" one million dollars.

Answer 15

overpaid:

Pavano = no explanations needed

Zito - same as above

Hafner - looked worth it at the time but he may not even play this year and I personally believe it was due to 'roids

Underpaid:

Grady Sizemore - he goes all out every single game.