The factors are: 1. huge contract with no-trade clause; 2. warm weather; 3. huge hispanic population. The only cities he listed as ones he could be traded to were Miami, LA and Houston. Warm cities with large hispanic populations. I'm telling you right now, I'm going to effing hate the effing rally monkey.
That's going to really hurt the Angels eventually. At least AROD was 25 when he signed his 10 year deal and the Rangers finished last all 3 seasons he played in Arlington. Albert is allegedly 31 and even if he still plays well, it won't be long before that contract becomes a lead weight across the neck of the Angels.
Didn't MMP cost about 250 million to build? So Pujols could live in his own stadium and have it paid off in 10 years...
For sure one would have to pay their dues bigtime(if they're an average player and don't make the jump to the majors pretty quickly) but the 3-5 years in the minors could be compared to college(they're getting paid at least-**** pay is better than no pay) and they get a fairly decent signing bonus out of high school (or college if one decides to go there).
Baseball Tonight guys speculating that Cards are going to go hard after Fielder...I'm guessing the Rangers will too.
maybe they'd like to give up some sweet prospects for wandy. i'd be happy to accept elvis andrus in return.
i think the reason he insisted on a no trade clause is because he doesn’t want to end up in New York.
That would great for the Astros, if they became the bottom feeders of the AL WEST. He probably earns his contract for 3 more years and then we'll start seeing declines. Just in time for Stros to make their move. 2015 AL WEST CHAMPIONS: HOUSTON ASTROS
Being a Blue Jays fan sucks........they will spend when they become good......problem is they won't become good until they spend.
A 10 year deal with a no-trade clause is CRAZY TALK! LA may have won the Pujols sweepstakes for the next 3 or 4 years, but Florida could be the ones laughing in about 5. But, if the Angels can win one or two championships in that timeframe, then I suppose it would all be worth it.
from wiki: The winner's curse is a phenomenon akin to a Pyrrhic victory that occurs in common value auctions with incomplete information. In short, the winner's curse says that in such an auction, the winner will tend to overpay. The winner may overpay or be "cursed" in one of two ways: 1) the winning bid exceeds the value of the auctioned asset such that the winner is worse off in absolute terms; or 2) the value of the asset is less than the bidder anticipated, so the bidder may still have a net gain but will be worse off than anticipated.[1] However, an actual overpayment will generally occur only if the winner fails to account for the winner's curse when bidding (an outcome that, according to the revenue equivalence theorem, need never occur). So despite its dire-sounding name, the winner's curse does not necessarily have ill effects in practice.
Pujols has 5 good years left.. And then the Angels will feel about him how we now feel about Carlos Lee. 25 mil a year for .280 AVG, 20 HR, 80 RBI, .800 OPS.
I blame Mozeliak, the Cards GM. Kurkejian(sp?) said it best today, if the Cards had sorted Pujols out before the season, he would still be donning a Cards jersey. They made him an underwhelming offer and he shut down talks for the season. The belief is that he harbored some distaste for the way they didn't try to sort out the contract situation earlier on.
They supposedly offered him 9 years, $200 million before the season. I'd hardly call that an underwhelming offer.
Bad move. 31-going-on-36 in reality. Just saying. At least A-Roid was young (25) and could deliver and yet how did that turn our for the Rangers? Alfonso Soriano? No-Trade Clause? Ouch! That will hurt in 3 years when Pujols become Carlos Lee 2.0. Oh, and we are you stalking us?
