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The best and worst MLB free-agent signings of the past decade

From 2012 to 2021, MLB teams spent a collective $16.66 billion on free agency. Thirty-one players received deals valued at $100-plus million and another 55 received $50 million or more. Some of those deals paid huge dividends -- Max Scherzer's seven-year contract with the Nationals was the best of the big-money signings. Many of those deals did not come close to working out as teams hoped.

Of the 10 free agents who received the biggest contract each year, two won a World Series -- David Price with the Red Sox in 2018 and Scherzer in 2019.