The 27 Highest Paid Baseball Players — Are They Worth It?

The 27 Highest Paid Baseball Players — Are They Worth It?

The Fiscal Times Staff  // 

27. Jayson Werth

Outfielder, Washington Nationals
2016 Salary: $21,000,000*
Contract: 7 years, $126 million
Projected 2016 WAR: 0.4**
Overpaid/underpaid: If the market value of each point of WAR was roughly $6.5 million for the 2015 season, as estimated by ESPN’s Dan Szymborski, Werth is highly overpaid.

*Data from Spotrac MLB Salary Rankings

** ZiPS WAR Data from Fan Graphs

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