"Carl Pavano is still a colossal disappointment, the appropriate butt of countless jokes and hands down the most overpaid athlete in Yankees history. Heck, he's probably the most overpaid athlete in New York sports history."
You know what's funny?
Pedro Martinez is still inexplicably given credit for giving the Mets "credibility," or something.
As for the most overpaid athlete in Yankees history (I can only speculate that Baumbach has a gigantic list of overpaid non-athletes in Yankees history -- personally, I think Willie Randolph was probably overpaid all those years standing at third base with his hands on his hips yelling, "run home, run home"), it may very well be Carl Pavano.
It also may be Kei Igawa, and Igawa is on the current Yankees' roster. Or it may be Mike Witt. Or it may be Pascual Perez -- you'd have to use 1990 dollars, to be fair about it.
Or it may be Jim Abbott, relatively speaking -- was Jim Abbott the highest-paid pitcher while he was going 20-22?
I may go with Abbott. Or maybe Barfield. Or maybe, ummm, maybe Steve Kemp.
How could you forget Steve Kemp, big free agent signing, being sent to the minors?
It's kind of tacky and nonsensical to compare injured players to healthy players, don't you think? Barfield was bad just because he was bad. Kemp was sent to the minors in the prime of his career, not because he had to recover from major surgery.
I'm not going to completely defend Pavano, for the love of Christ. Pavano was a bad signing from day one. But is he more overpaid than Allan Houston? Is he more overpaid than Yinka Dare?
Probably not.
"After a brief chat, Girardi let Pavano continue, and he recorded the final two outs of the inning with ease. It was an upbeat end to a thoroughly surprising positive night.
Now let's see him do it again."
Pavano has more wins in the 2008 season than Kennedy and Hughes combined.
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