Top 10 MLB Contracts And Their Postseason Stats
A Blog By Dean
Some people will read this title and immediately think it is a hit piece against Aaron Judge. It isn’t! Although he did inspire the idea. No, I felt this blog should come out before this World Series ends. Frankly, this is me showing I can write about something, not the Red Sox or Yankee bashing. With that, I would like to plug my “The Comeback” review which is sitting in the drafts and will come out this afternoon :).
I wanted to examine the “Top 10 Contracts In MLB History” and see their postseason numbers. So, I used Stathead (the paid version of Baseball Reference) to make some spreadsheets that I then had Casey Byte (my AI bot) analyze for me. I then added the number of rings that each player won.
My first takeaway is the number of rings across this Top 10. It is a total of only four! Of those four, they all came from two players. Now, this number will change by tonight with the Dodgers winning in five. Still, seven of the ten players will not have a ring.
What does this mean? In the grand scheme of things, there is nothing, but I thought it would be fun to look at. I can’t critique the contracts because without paying these guys for the regular season, you would never see them in the postseason.
1. Shohei Ohtani - $700M (10 Years)
Batting Average: .246
Home Runs: 3
RBIs: 10
OPS: .815
At-Bats: 57
Number Of Rings: Zero (at the moment)
2. Mike Trout - $426.5M (12 Years)
Batting Average: .083
Home Runs: 1
RBIs: 1
OPS: .600
At-Bats: 12
Number of Rings: Zero (at the moment)
3. Mookie Betts - $365M (12 Years)
Batting Average: .259
Home Runs: 8
RBIs: 32
OPS: .772
At-Bats: 286
Number Of Rings: Two (Almost Three)
4. Aaron Judge - $360M (9 Years)
Batting Average: .198
Home Runs: 15
RBIs: 32
OPS: .737
At-Bats: 217
Number Of Rings: Zero
5. Manny Machado - $350M (11 Years)
Batting Average: .215
Home Runs: 11
RBIs: 27
OPS: .714
At-Bats: 191
Number Of Rings: Zero
6. Francisco Lindor - $341M (10 Years)
Batting Average: .263
Home Runs: 8
RBIs: 21
OPS: .823
At-Bats: 156
Number Of Rings: Zero
7. Fernando Tatis Jr. - $340M (14 Years)
Batting Average: .375
Home Runs: 6
RBIs: 12
OPS: 1.328
At-Bats: 48
Number Of Rings: Zero
8. Bryce Harper - $330M (13 Years)
Batting Average: .280
Home Runs: 17
RBIs: 34
OPS: .995
At-Bats: 193
Number Of Rings: Zero
9. Corey Seager - $325M (10 Years)
Batting Average: .254
Home Runs: 19
RBIs: 48
OPS: .799
At-Bats: 299
Number Of Rings: Two!
10. Giancarlo Stanton - $325M (13 Years)
Batting Average: .269
Home Runs: 16
RBIs: 35
OPS: 1.019
At-Bats: 130
Number Of Rings: Zero
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