{"id":71837,"date":"2025-11-27T06:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71837\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T06:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:39:20","slug":"mlb-team-agrees-to-end-worst-contract-in-baseball-history-with-245m-flop-set-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71837\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB team agrees to end ‘worst contract in baseball history’ with $245m flop set to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JAKE FENNER, US SPORTS WRITER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 17:31 EST, 26 November 2025 | Updated: 17:34 EST, 26 November 2025 <\/p>\n

The Los Angeles<\/a> Angels are in the process of buying out the contract of third-baseman Anthony Rendon – with fans rejoicing the end of the ‘worst contract in baseball history’.<\/p>\n

Rendon is in the final year of a seven-year, $245million deal and is owed $38m in 2026. Now, according to ESPN<\/a>, the team will be releasing Rendon from his deal as the player is expected to retire.<\/p>\n

Rendon spent the entire 2025 season recovering from hip surgery and did not play a single game.<\/p>\n

It’s not clear what the structure of his buyout will be – with an increasing likelihood that he will accept deferred money.<\/p>\n

Rendon signed with the Angels in 2019 after the best season of his career – where he had career-bests in home runs (34), RBI (126), batting average (.319), slugging percentage (.598) and OPS (1.010) in a World Series-winning campaign with the Washington Nationals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles then made him the highest-paid third-baseman in the game with that $245m deal. Immediately it did not pay off for the team.<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Angels are set to buyout the contract of third-baseman Anthony Rendon<\/p>\n

\"Rendon's <\/p>\n

Rendon’s $245million deal was viewed by fans as one of the worst deals in baseball history<\/p>\n

Across the seven years of his deal, Rendon only played in about a quarter of all possible games for the Angels.<\/p>\n

While Rendon put up a solid season in the Covid-shortened 2020 campaign, the following four years were sub-par at best.<\/p>\n

He only appeared in 205 of a possible 648 games from 2021 to 2024 – slashing only .231\/.329\/.336 as he sustained injuries to his groin, knee, hamstring, shin, oblique, back, wrists and hips.<\/p>\n

In February, the team announced Rendon would miss the entire 2025 season as he spent most of the time rehabbing at his home in Houston.<\/p>\n

He hasn’t hit a home run for the Angels since July 1, 2023 and never played in more than 58 games in a single season for the Angels.<\/p>\n

Rendon also publicly stated that he only had a limited interest in baseball – admitting it wasn’t his foremost priority, that he didn’t care about accolades or attention, and revealing he viewed it as merely a job.<\/p>\n

\"Rendon <\/p>\n

Rendon singed a seven-year deal with the Angels in 2019 and played in only a quarter of the games he could have been available for due to a myriad of injuries all over his body<\/p>\n

\"He <\/p>\n

\u00a0He also publicly declared baseball was ‘merely a job’ to him and that it wasn’t a priority<\/p>\n

Now, fans were celebrating the departure of the player and remembering how poorly his contract aged.<\/p>\n

‘Worst contract in the history of the mlb. Guy didn’t even want to play baseball,’ said one user on X.<\/p>\n

Another joked, ‘An all time heist. Congrats to Rendon.’<\/p>\n

‘Will go down as possibly the worst contract of all time,’ said another.<\/p>\n

One comment read, ‘This dude turned into one of the most unlikable guys super fast. What a speedrun.’<\/p>\n

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