Kansas City Royals officals expected the now 34-year-old Omar Infante to stabilize the second base position after signing him to a four-year, $32 million deal in 2014. Instead, he sputtered to a .632 OPS season in 2014, and an even worse .552 OPS in 2015.
In fact, Inftane was so bad that KC Royals manager Ned Yost benched him in September in favor of rental Ben Zobrist. Infante became pretty much a useless spare part during the Kansas City Royals post-season run to the 2016 title.