Date signed: November 1998
Length: four years (1999-2002)
Cost at time: $32 million
Adjusted 2022 cost: $100.80 million
Production: 1.3 bWAR
Negative value: $90.40 million
How the player got there
Stottlemyre is a rare player to be picked in the first round of the draft twice... in the same year. For up until 1986, as well as the June draft, there was a January one, for high school and college players who graduated in the winter. Todd was the first overall pick in January 1985, but did not sign (his brother, Mel, went at #3 and did become an Astro). He re-entered the draft for the larger June phase - there were only 69 players chosen in January - and Todd went #3 overall there, selected by…
