At the end of my last article, I mentioned that the St. Louis Cardinals tied up nearly $80 million on a trio of underperforming bullpen arms - Brett Cecil, Greg Holland, and Andrew Miller. Combined, these three relievers provided just 0.2 fWAR in their Cardinal careers.
The Cardinals have clearly struggled with handing out long contracts to relievers or contracts with high average annual values. This may not only be a problem experienced by the Cardinals, though. Before I go any further, I want to give a shoutout to VEB reader and commenter LondonBird for the idea behind this article.