Marmol has two years remaining on his contract that will call for a total of $17 million in salary over the 2012 and 2013 seasons.+ Marmol is not the first player that the Cubs invested in heavily only to come up snake eyes. How the Cubs continue to evaluate major league talent so poorly, yet expensively, is anyone’s guess. Even a broken clock is right twice per day. I can’t say that about former Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry, who is responsible for a number of the bad deal for which the Cubbies are on the hook.
| He'll hang his head in embarrassment...all the way to the bank! |
Marmol now joins the following (not-so) elite fraternity:
- Alfonso Soriano, LF, age 36 (.276, 0 HR, 13 RBI; $56,000,000 over three years remaining on his contract)
- Ryan Dempster, SP, age 35 (10-14, 4.80 ERA in 2011; due $14,000,000 in 2012)
- Carlos Zambrano, SP, age 31, traded to the Miami Marlins in 2012 (4.82 ERA in 2011; signed a 5 year, $91,500,000 contract in 2008, all but $2.5 million paid by the Cubs)
The Cubs have other underachieving, overpaid players on the roster, though none crippling the team with the transactional immobilization of the four aforementioned players. The Cubs have nine players on their 25 man active roster earning less than $600,000 per year. The average MLB salary is in excess of $2,000,000.
+ Source of salary information: www.baseballreference.com
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