Worst FA signings ever...

[TheMatrix31]

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How about Hideki Irabu?

[Birdsonbat]

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Tino was bad, but Scott Cooper was worse.

Scott Cooper was a trade, and he was only here one year. Cards had to deal with Tino for two, then paid someone to take him for the third year of that contract.

[stripmallp]

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Scott Cooper was a trade, and he was only here one year. Cards had to deal with Tino for two, then paid someone to take him for the third year of that contract.

Looked it up, your right. I don't know why I remembered it being a FA signing. That will have to go down as my 3rd worst trade I can remember in Cardinal history. The first 2 being the Van Slyke trade and the Lance Johnson for Jose DeLeon trades.

[Jistic]

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1990 Cubs, going for it all.

SP Danny Jackson
LF George Bell
CL Dave Smith

If you are a Cub fan and around back then, I don't even have to explain to you that pain of that entire high priced F/A class.

[SportsTop]

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Aren't some of these selections a little rushed? Shouldn't the player at least have moved on to another team after failing at his current team to qualify?

Beltran? After a season and month? Get real.

[Chuck]

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Andy Morales, hands down. $5 Million, these were his career numbers.

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/M/andy-morales.shtml

[stripmallp]

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I have to agree that the Beltre and Beltran contracts aren't complete busts just yet. Beltran was never a super-star player even though he got super-star money. He was a really good player who played great down the stretch and in the playoffs before his FA off-season. Beltre is still a mystery. He played great during the WBC and I thought he was gearing up for a really good year and then thud. I wouldn't write him off just yet.

[yucatan]

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Can't believe nobody's mentioned Eric Milton getting paid $25 million over 3 years by the Reds to throw batting practice to opposing hitters.

[Shauk25]

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Jeremy Burnitz 7 million to be friggin terrible.

[nyisles16]

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Bud Black - Giants... Vince Coleman - Mets

[PDex]

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The forgotten flop of the 2000 or 2001 (ARod, Dreifort, Hampton) free agent class: Todd Hundley to Cubs. I don't think he hit over the Mendoza line as a Cub.

[SPTO]

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I'll give another Blue Jays flop:

Randy Myers

'nuff said.

Even tho the numbers were ok they were highly deceptive as he was a disruption to the clubhouse and generally wasn't very reliable.

[Dice]

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Jamie Navarro signed for $5mil/year deal with the White Sox in 1997.

[ehh]

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Bobby Bonilla to the Mets (1st time)
Bobby Bonilla to the Mets (2nd time)
Bobby Bonilla to the Mets (and I think there may have been a 3rd time?)
Carlos Baerga to the Mets (spell check)
Ken Griffey to the Reds (he has barely played for the team but I would have signed him too...so I guess this one doesn't count )

Alomar was a trade. Only the Mets could take an all star and have him turn into a scrub within 2 years. See Baerga mentioned above.

LOL, I was waiting for a Met fan to come in here and vent. Mo Vaughn was an FA too, correct?

[Thrasha]

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LOL, I was waiting for a Met fan to come in here and vent. Mo Vaughn was an FA too, correct?

I believe it was a trade