with the Orioles, was Chan Ho Park with the Texas Rangers. Homeboy made around 50 million in parts of 4 seasons from 2002-2005 with the Rangers and only won 22 games, that's more than 2 million per win.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/park...

Albert Belle was a bust for the Orioles, because they signed him to a 5 year contract, and he only played 2 seasons - 1999-2000. He got paid almost 40 million more for 2001-2003, 3 years that he was technically retired, but didn't announce his retirement because he wanted to get paid, he was injured.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bell...

Same exact thing with Mo Vaughn with the NY Mets. He made around 47 million dollars from 2002-2004, but only played the 2002 season and briefly played in 2003.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bell...

Same thing with Lenny Dykstra with the Phillies. He signed a 24 million dollar contract to play with the phillies from 1995-1998. But he only played a total of 102 games from 95-96, and sat out 97 and 98, but still got paid his full 24 million.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bell...

Park was pretty amazingly bad. Just couldn't stay healthy.

Nick Esasky with the Braves -- signed a big-money (for the time), three year contract, came down with unspecified vertigo over the winter, slapped a handful of singles, and never played again. Health-related flop, kinda sad.

Apparently everyone forgot about Hideki Irabu. When a player is a MONSTER bust, it's refered to as pulling an Irabu, Pretty much says it all. Report It

I think Clemens was the biggest waste of money. He really put one over on the Yankees this year. JD Drew is making 14 mil a year and he's been a disaster for Boston. Report It

Dykstra helped the phillies to the World Series. Vaughn with the Angels or the Mets was pretty bad, but what about Arod at $25 with anyone?

I would think that 5 $5 mil players or a $10, $10 and $5 would be better.

Chan Ho Park though, wow, right on the money.

Edgar Renteria with the Red Sox in 2005, that was a bust.

Gregg Jefferies with anyone. He was THE most hyped rookie bust in my lifetime. He never amounted to NEAR the hype he received coming into the big leagues.

I wouldn't consider Belle a bust, he put up some big numbers for Cleveland. How about Brien Taylor, #1 draft pick by the Yankees in 1991. He never got to the majors after hurting his arm in a bar fight.

The Mets traded Nolan Ryan to the Angels for Jim Fregoi. Fregosi had been an All Star 6 or 7 times as a shortstop during an era when a shortstop who could hit at all was a rarity. He never really got started with the Mets and was never a full time player again. We all know what Ryan did.

Clemens this year got about $4 million per win.

Jose Canseco....everywhere.

I definately would not even think about throwing Renteria out there. He batted .287/10/72 the year before with the Cardinals. The next year was .276/8/70 with the Red Sox. That is not enough of a drop to be considered a huge bust.

Now you want a bust, I will take the big 3 high priced pitchers the Rockies signed from 1998-2000.

Denny Neagle:
(1995-2000) - 89-47 3.81 ERA
Col (2001-2004) - 19-23 6.12 ERA

Mike Hampton:
(1997-2000) - 63-31 3.27 ERA
Col (2001-2002) - 21-28 5.76 ERA

Darryl Kile:
(1996-1997) - 31-18 3.49 ERA
Col (1998-1999) - 21-28 5.98 ERA