A few people have said Wright's on field play has not been worth the roughly 17.25 mil he will be making a year. Let's take a look using the WAR to dollars formula. Popular consensus says that a player is worth about 5 million dollars per win he adds to the team. So a player with a WAR of 2 should get paid ten million bucks. Let's take a look at Wright's history.
Year
|
WAR
|
Dollar
Value (in millions)
|
|
2004
|
2.5
|
12.25
|
|
2005
|
6.2
|
30
|
|
2006
|
5.2
|
25
|
|
2007
|
8.8
|
45
|
|
2008
|
7.1
|
35
|
|
2009
|
3.5
|
17.25
|
|
2010
|
4
|
20
|
|
2011
|
1.9
|
10
|
|
2012
|
7.8
|
40
|
According to these numbers Wright has earned a salary greater than 17.25 mil in all but two seasons, one of which was his rookie year. I am not always bullish on Wright. He tends to strike out a lot and go on long slumps and regress as the season goes on but at the end of the day I am a numbers guy and Wright's number are elite. For those worried about how Wright may look in future seasons I suggest you read my projection article from last month, good things should be in Wright's future.