Ted Williams Played More Baseball During World War II — While Also Fighting In It — Than Anthony Rendon Has Played During His Massive Angels Contract

With baseball season right around the corner, we're back for another round of one of America's favorite games: finding new ridiculous ways to quantify how terrible Anthony Rendon's contract is. It really doesn't even get talked about enough relative to what a colossal mistake it was by the Angels, but I think I've found my new favorite stat to prove that it might be the worst contract in the history of professional sports.

Ted Williams played more games from 1942-46 while missing three of those seasons to fight in World War II than Rendon has played in his five years with the Angels. Williams also put up a WAR nearly six times higher.

Sure, you can see all the numbers about LA paying Rendon $7 million per home run or more than $500,000 per game since he's been there, but nothing hits like seeing his numbers compared to a guy who took three years off to go fight in the second-deadliest war in American history and then came back and raked again. Rendon can't even play for a month without something going wrong and Ted Williams was slugging .650 while simultaneously fighting the Nazis.

Ballplayers were just built different back in the day, man. Tony Moneybags could learn a thing or two from an American hero like Mr. Williams.