Andres Gimenez's contract with the Toronto Blue Jays has quietly turned into one of the worst in baseball, and the numbers behind that claim are hard to argue with.
Gimenez is owed $23 million per year in 2027, '28 and '29, a guaranteed $69 million for his age 28 through 30 seasons.
Middle infielders historically don't age well, and his projected WAR over those three years sits at just 2.0 total, working out to $34.5 million per WAR, more than three and a half times the league rate.
That math produces a projected surplus value calculation of negative $49 million, essentially dead money attached to the back half of this deal.
Bleacher Report's 2026 review of every team's worst contract named Gimenez as Toronto's worst deal, pointing to his OPS collapse from .837 to .616 and defensive value that's real but diminished at shortstop compared to second base.
Gimenez is hitting .228 this season across 95 games, numbers that back up the "very expensive, below-average offensive player" label attached to him.
That decline matters even more given what Toronto gave up to acquire him in the first place.
Why the trade compounds the contract problem
Toronto sent Spencer Horwitz and Nick Mitchell to Cleveland in that deal, giving up a productive bat on cheap years and a prospect who's now Cleveland's 11th-ranked player in their system at just 22 years old.
That combination, surrendering real prospect capital while also absorbing a contract already projected to lose value, is a rare kind of double miss in trade evaluation.
It's a bit like trading away a reliable used car and paying extra cash on top, just to take home a vehicle that was already worth less than the trade-in.
Does Gimenez's elite defensive value at shortstop offer enough of an offset to make this deal defensible, or does the offensive collapse simply overwhelm whatever glove work he still provides?
Toronto sits at 46-54 this season, and this contract now looms as a real long-term burden regardless of how the rest of this year plays out.
Whatever Ross Atkins does at this year's deadline, the Gimenez decision remains a swing that's aged about as poorly as any move this front office has made.
Is Andres Gimenez's contract really one of the worst in all of baseball right now?
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