San Diego Padres should eat Wil Myers contract
The San Diego Padres have attempted to revive Wil Myers’ career, but with his huge contract and lack of offensive productivity, they need to eat his contract.
Wil Myers has had a bumpy San Diego Padres career that has included an All-Star appearance when they hosted the MId-Summer Classic in 2016, but after that season he has struggled.
The big story for him is his strikeouts. It seemed like he was striking out at least once every game, which meant a majority of the time he was an easy out in the middle of the lineup.
The Padres even tried to bench him to let him just refocus and get some extra practice in off of the curveball machine, but that didn’t even work.
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He seems lost in the outfield at times, and he can’t go back to first base with Eric Hosmer there for the foreseeable future.
So, with that said I think the Padres should just eat his contract and trade him to another team because it seems to me like he is hurting the team more than he is helping them.
The only tricky part about eating his $83 million contract is that in order to actually eat the contract, there has to be a team that is willing to take him on, which is most likely going to be the front office’s biggest question.
If the Padres were to find a team for Myers, they would at the very least be able to save $20-$30 million to either save or spend on some free agents in the offseason like a Gerrit Cole.
People bring up the argument that the San Diego Padres don’t want to eat his big contract, but Wil Myers is not performing and is a hole in the lineup which means they are essentially eating his contract anyway so they might as well trade him to another team.
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I think it would be best for both sides to move on.