Anthony Rendon seasons may already be over in latest Angels injury disaster

At this rate, it’s more surprising to hear Anthony Rendon will actually play a baseball game than not.Spring training has barely started and the oft-injured, rarely active Angels third baseman’s season is already in jeopardy due to hip surgery that will sideline him for a “significant” stretch, general manager Perry Minasian told reporters Wednesday.Rendon had a recent setback in his rehab and now might further solidify his claim for owning the worst contract in baseball and perhaps of all-time.It’s actually fair to wonder if Rendon will ever play again considering he, well, doesn’t play much to begin with and is entering the sixth season of his seven-year, $245 million pact.Rendon has appeared in just 257 games with the Angels spanning five seasons, topping out at 58 during the 2021 season.He’s missed 68.3 percent of Angels games since signing the deal.Rendon actually cleared the one-third mark last season by playing in 57 games, but that didn’t provide much help since he had the worst year of his career.The former Nationals star posted career-worsts in average (.218), on-base percentage (.307), slugging percentage (.267) and OPS (.574), while tallying zero homers and 14 RBIs.Rendon has a grand total of two homers across his last 421 plate appearances.He landed on the injured list three times last season, first being sidelined in April with a left hamstring strain, missing time after suffering lower back inflammation in July and ending his season prematurely due to a left oblique strain sustained in September.Rendon owns a .717 OPS with the Angels, compared to his .859 mark with the Nationals.Making it all the worse is Rendon openly admitted that baseball isn’t his end-all, be-all, which isn’t the best thing to say when you are rarely around to do the job you’re being $38 million per year to do.“It’s never been a top priority for me,” Rendon said last February, according to The Athletic.“This is a job.

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