7 years, $126 million. To be clear this is what Jason Werth signed for NOT Carl Crawford. Let me just say I don't care one bit about the Nationals and I wasn't even that excited for the Sox to get Jason Werth but it is just too ridiculous that the Nats would pay this much for this guy that I couldn't not blog about it.
Hitting in the middle of one of the best offenses in baseball, this guy still could never even muster up 100 RBI. He hit .296 last year but his career average is still .272. He hit twice as many homers at home than he did on the road. He is a righty, but his AVG. is 20 points lower against lefties. O yea, and he's 31. I could understand this signing for a team that has no budget and is ready to win now, (i.e. Red Sox/Yanks/Phillies) but for the Nationals this makes NO sense. They are at least 3 years away from being competitive which is when this guy will be hitting .250 and 25 homers for $18 million. Just gonna be a killer salary for a team that should be trying the Rays model of developing young talent that can be gotten on the cheap rather than trying to outbid the big boys.
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