Back in February of 2021, the Royals signed Hunter Dozier to a four-year, $25 million extension. From the beginning, the deal looked like a head-scratcher, with Dozier coming off the shortened 2020 season with a 99 OPS+.
Sure enough, with two years and nearly $17 million remaining on the deal, the contract looks quite bad—and that’s without even mentioning the $10 million club option for 2025—with no buyout, praise Babe Ruth.
In the past two years combined, Dozier’s been worth negative 3.1 WAR while inexplicably getting nearly 1,000 at-bats. This season alone, his OBP is barely above .