The Diamondbacks’ Worst Contracts: #3, Todd Stottlemyre

Jan 7 2023 by AZ Snake Pit

 

Hard to live up to a contract when you can’t stay on the field.

Date signed: November 1998 Length: four years (1999-2002) Cost at time: $32 million Adjusted 2022 cost: $100.80 million Production: 1.3 bWAR Negative value: $90.40 million How the player got there

Stottlemyre is a rare player to be picked in the first round of the draft twice... in the same year. For up until 1986, as well as the June draft, there was a January one, for high school and college players who graduated in...

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