Why...what the actual...like, it's often said that there's no such thing as a bad one-year contract, but...wow. Why give a guy that much money to rehab a TJ on the field and then sign somewhere else? It's stupid even in isolation. The draft-pick implications just make it worse.
Its not the contract, its that an organization with one of the most bare farm systems just gave up a second round pick and international pool money for one year of Syndergaard