Last season, the Tampa Bay Rays paid Charlie Morton $15 million to essentially end his career near his nearby home in Bradenton.
Morton may have been paid $15 million last year but he gave the Rays’ $30 million worth of pitching. He finished third in the AL in Cy Young voting and finished 16-6 with a 3.05 ERA and racked up 240 strikeouts in 194.2 innings pitched.
Morton was a huge part of the reason the Rays were able to overcome injuries to Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow on their way to a 96-win season that ended in Game 5 of the ALDS against the Astros.