Angels News: Writer Lists Halos Former Star on ‘All Overpaid Team’

Not what he once was in the slightest.

Moving to the 60-day injured list that knocks him out of game action until September at the very earliest, Anthony Rendon's Halos tenure continues to spell disaster for everything but his wallet. 

The former World Series champion in Washington D.C has another injury-plagued season in Anaheim for one more ugly year of one of the worst contracts in baseball, according to one writer. 

But since the beginning of 2021, Rendon has appeared in just 148 games, batting .235 and slugging .364. During that same time, Miguel Cabrera has batted .255 and slugged .351 while appearing in 312 games. So, Rendon has spent roughly two-thirds of the past three seasons on the IL, and on the off chance he isn’t injured, has merely produced at a well-past-his-prime Miggy level. All while making so much money that the Angels might not be able to re-sign their once in a lifetime superstar this offseason. That is brutal.

via Kerry Miller, Bleacher Report

Comparing Rendon's contract to Miguel Cabrera and Stephen Strasburg is fair comparison considering the ineffective play for the former and the injury history of the latter. 

However, Rendon's attitude toward the team and his tumultuous relationship with the media surely sets this contract apart from the rest. 

Cabrera won two MVPs and was a Triple Crown Winner for the Tigers that reached a World Series. 

Strasburg won the World Series MVP for those famed Nationals in 2019 and Washington chose his skill against those of Rendon's as a hitter. 

For Strasburg's former teammate at third base, Rendon's Angels tenure has been nothing short of an abject failure both on and off the field. 

Though paid like one of the best in the game, Rendon has been anything but that since coming to Anaheim in yet another failed veteran acquisition from Arte Moreno and company.