With the $11.5M he is due to receive this year, Rafael Montero will have been paid almost $42M during his career. He has accumulated -0.4 career bWAR. Has any player with negative career bWAR made more?
I took a brief look through and found a few notables, but nobody even close to Montero.
Mike Matheny: -0.5 bWAR, $18.7M career earnings
Yuniesky Betancourt: -2.4 bWAR, $15.75M career earnings
Hunter Dozier: -2.6 bWAR, ~$26M career earnings (bRef doesn't list a salary for his rookie season of 2018, so I'm figuring something close to his 2019 salary)
Austin Hedges: -1.6 bWAR, $26.4M career earnings (counting his 2025 contract for $4M)
Anyone you can think of who got close to or exceeded Montero's total earnings with a negative career WAR total? (And we're looking FULL career - Chris Davis earned $138M from 2017-2022, with -5.8 WAR, but his career WAR is 11.8, so he doesn't qualify, for example)
And, of course, Montero could put up a 0.5 WAR season and get himself off this list.
Edit
/u/MidwestBlood with Jordan Lyles at -2.5 bWAR and $52M which takes a commanding lead over Montero! Completely missed him.
Edit 2
And /u/BaseballsNotDead with Yasmany Tomas at -2.5 bWAR and $68.6M to go ahead of Lyles!