The Los Angeles Angels have finally agreed to buy Anthony Rendon out of his nightmare $38million contract – coming as relief to the team’s disgruntled fanbase.
Rendon signed with the Angels back in 2019 on a staggering seven-year, $245m deal after the best season of his career with the Washington Nationals, which saw him record career-best numbers as the team became World Series champions.
Yet after LA made him the highest-paid third baseman in the game, the former Washington star only played in about a quarter of all possible games across six seasons with the Angels due to injury.
And after missing the entirety of the 2025 campaign with a hip injury that required surgery, Rendon’s disastrous spell in Anaheim has officially come to an end.
The Angels have agreed to pay the final one-year, $38m on his contract over the next three to five years, allowing both parties to finally move on.
News of Rendon’s departure is music to the ears of the team’s supporters, who have branded his contract one of the worst in sports history. Â
The Angels have finally agreed to buy Anthony Rendon out of his nightmare $38million deal
Rendon has barely played for Los Angeles since joining on a $245m contract back in 2019
One user wrote on X: ‘A historic disappointment.’
‘The worst contract in sports is now done,’ said another.
‘He should be paying them back,’ claimed a third.
A fourth put: ‘having to pay this guy is disgusting’.
While one simply concluded: ‘Heist of the century’.
While he put up a solid season in the Covid-shortened 2020 campaign, the following four years were sub-par at best from Rendon.
He only appeared in 205 of a possible 648 games from 2021 to 2024 – slashing just .231/.329/.336 as he sustained injuries to his groin, knee, hamstring, shin, oblique, back, wrists and hips.
In February, the team announced Rendon would miss the entire 2025 season as he spent most of the time rehabbing at his home in Houston.
He hasn’t hit a home run for the Angels since July 1, 2023 and never played in more than 58 games in a single season for the Angels.
Rendon also publicly stated that he only had a limited interest in baseball – admitting it wasn’t his foremost priority, that he didn’t care about accolades or attention, and revealing he viewed it as merely a job.
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LA Angels fans rejoice as team buys polarizing veteran Anthony Rendon out of his $38million contract