Even though the 2010 season is long over, the fans’ memories are sharp, and the performances of the players in 2010 have not been forgotten. In particular, its the players who flopped that are stay on the fans’ minds, and the coaches too! They will either be looking to replace them or at least to work vigorously on improving their performances for the 2011 season! So let us take a baseball scoreboards look at the top 5 players who wore the (not so honorable crown) of worse players in the 2010 season.
1 – Pedro Feliz – with 11 seasons in MLB with 4 different teams and a World Series win alongside the Phillies under his belt, this guy still fell short last season! May be its time for him to call it a day, but then again if you are making $4.5 million a year with the Astros why would you? Once upon a time he was a 20 HR player, but sadly the baseball scoreboards showed that he reduced himself to a walk rate of 3.3%, .994 fielding and a line of .221/.246/.296
2 – Carlos Lee – another Astro on the list, seems like the Astros were very unlucky last season! He started off his season with an OPS of .453 and was able to improve it only slightly to .666 by May, with a WAR of -20. His walk rate was his career’s lowest of 5%. He was never a strong fielder and with his batting slump, he was practically useless to the Astros last season. Seems like the Astros paid too big a portion of their hard earned revenue to 2 of the worst players in 2010.
3 – Trevor Hoffman – before 2010 he was almost as good enough a player to qualify for the hall of fame. Now, at 41, he suddenly seems a bit too old for the game. The player to have 595 saves to his name was only able to make 5 out 10 last season and currently has a stabbing 9.00 ERA and a WAR of -.09 in just 22 innings.
4 – Carlos Quentin – 2 years ago he was considered MVP material, but now, with a line of .216/.307/.394 in the last season, he proved everyone wrong, in the wrong way! Sure, every good player has a bad year at least once, but they don’t just crash and burn like he did! With a WAR of -1.3 and his ability to strike out 18% of the time, he is proving to Chicago what he doesn’t want them to know, that he dispensable!
5 – Randy Wolf – after his 2009 season, the Brewers rewarded him with a 3 year $27 million contract. Guess Wolf saw it as an opportunity to start sucking, because since then he has done exactly that! His walk rate reached to 4.5 per 9 and a WAR rate that touched -.6, although surprisingly his ERA wasn’t that awful, at 4.79.
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