Name Some Players Who Starred For Their Teams But Flopped When Signed Away By Another Team To A Big Contract

[Thepokermanifesto]

Vin Baker does soften some of the seattle blows.

 

[MinnesotaEconMajor]

Andre Rison.
Javon Walker.

 

[cutacrossshorty]

Two guys that were upper tier baseball players that probably still would've been great after signing big free agent deals:

Ken Dayley
and
Nick Esasky

Both guys came down with "vertigo" and were out of baseball shortly thereafter.

 

[TomGshotput]

Mike Hampton- I thought he sucked before, so I don't know if he counts.

Worst sports contract in history

Does Griffey Jr count or was that a trade?

 

[paftraft]

Chuck Klein was 28 & in his prime when he was traded to the Cubs before the 34' season. No player in baseball history had a better 1st 6yrs than Klein. His BA for those 6 yrs. was .359. In '29 his 1st full season he broke the NL HR record. IN '30 he scored 158 runs to this day a NL record & become the 1st NL players to hit 40 HR's in 2 straight seasons. In his sub par '31 season he led the NL in HR's, RBI's & SLG. PCT. In 32 he won the NL MVP award & in '33 he won the triple crown.
6 Hall of Fame years and he went to the Cubs & never led the league in anything again. His stats became almost pedestrian. He was a flop but took the 30,000 from the Cubs that Phila couldn't pay

 

[lax_gunman]

as a bos fan...gagne even though it was like two months, and givens...either one still playing?

 

[nimue77]

Milton Bradley
Alfonso Soriano

 

[OnWisconsin]

ryan leaf

 

[SundayTiger]

Deion Sanders
Jason Taylor
Adam Archuletta