Way back in the 2017 offseason, the St. Louis Cardinals signed a solidified left handed reliever that they thought would pay out over his age 30 to 34 seasons. So far, Brett Cecil has not even even been close to worth what the team is paying for him. The contract was for four years and $30.5M and at the time seemed like a very fair deal.
Cecil was coming from Toronto, a hitters park, where he played his first eight years of his career pitching for a combined 4.20 ERA sitting at a 1.