Barry Zito. Vernon Wells. Mike Hampton.
It doesn't matter how much money is at stake, Major League GM's make a lot of mistakes. Few names prove as much better than the three players listed above.
Some bad moves are avoidable. Some are not. But every off-season, ever trade deadline, some General Manger is going to make a move he thinks will help his team only to see it backfire and eventually cost him his job.
2010 has certainly not been immune to bad deals. Adrian Beltre, Marlon Byrd, and Vladdy may have been terrific pickups for their current teams, but free-agency is a zero sum game. Somebody always loses.
Hind-sight is 20-20, and with that in mind, let's rank the 20 worst deals of the last year, from the 2009-10 off-season to the 2010 trading deadline.
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