Kevin Brown signed the first nine-figure deal in MLB history, a seven-year, $105 million agreement with the Los Angeles Dodgers, before the 1999 season, and the new century has brought 64 more such contracts. Despite the relative regularity of $100 million contracts in the sports' modern landscape, observers usually take a moment to collectively pick up their jaws from the floor whenever the newest one is signed. [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now ] That's because it's still a lot of money for a team to bet on one player. As we covered previously in PointAfter's Weekly Rotation , the results can often be disastrous. However, paying the right superstar is usually a franchise-altering move on the other side of the spectrum. Using the same system for last week's look into baseball's five worst $100 million contracts , this time we'll determine which teams spent the least money to reap the most WAR from nine-figure deals. A reminder: the "salary per 1.0 WAR" figure that functions as the centerpiece of these rankings isn't perfect for active contracts with escalating salary structures. In those cases, I used a contract's average annual value (i.e. $100 million / 5 years...