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Albert Pujols (Official Thread)

Jake;2059946; said:
Then what are you asking?

Are you suggesting he's going to retire before his contract is up? If I wanted to try to read minds I'd get married, again. :wink2:

I'm saying that within the 10 years of this contract the Angels are going to move him to someone (probably Baltimore because Angelos and his retard sons LOVE taking on ridiculous contracts for washed up players) when Pujols is 39 and only a DH.
 
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Bucklion;2059970; said:
327.5 million for 2 players? I have never understood the Angels, and I still don't. Pujols is obviously a great player, but this looks like the Rangers with ARoid to me.

I think they just extended Jered Weaver this past year too.

With Weaver, Ervin Santana and now CJ Wilson, the Angels have more pitching in those three then the Rangers with AFraud ever did.

It will be all about how they build their bullpen and if they can figure out the end of the games.
 
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Diedre Pujols is out of her fucking mind - ESPN
"The offer that people have seen on television I want to tell you what, listeners especially, had that offer been given to us with a guarantee, we would have the (Cardinals) bird on our back," Diedre Pujols told 99.1 Joy FM, a St. Louis-area Christian station that received some of its initial funding from Albert Pujols.

Diedre Pujols, speaking with interviewer Sandi Brown, who is her friend, said the couple initially had no plans to ever leave St. Louis or the Cardinals, the only team the first baseman had ever played for.

"When it all came down, I was mad. I was mad at God because I felt like all the signs that had been being played out through the baseball field, our foundation, our restaurant, the Down Syndrome Center, my relationships, my home, my family close," Diedre Pujols told the station. "I mean, we had no reason, not one reason, to want to leave. People were deceived by the numbers."

She indicated the key moment was the Cardinals' initial offer of five years and $130 million.

"When you have somebody say 'We want you to be a Cardinal for life' and only offer you a five-year deal, it kind of confused us," Diedre Pujols said. "Well, we got over that insult and felt like Albert had given so much of himself to baseball and into the community ... we didn't want to go through this again."
 
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After over-paying A-Rod, Pujols, and numerous others on multi-year $100M+ contracts that turn out to be bad investments, wouldn't you think the owners would learn something?

Apparently not:

Mariners have agreed with Robinson Cano on a 10-year, $240M contract

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer...-are-closing-in-on-a-deal-with-cano-225m-plus

Nope, too much money out there. A salary cap plus better revenue sharing is about the only thing that will reign it in and bring some needed parity back into the game.
 
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Nope, too much money out there. A salary cap plus better revenue sharing is about the only thing that will reign it in and bring some needed parity back into the game.
There are 14 teams with payrolls over $100M. Nine of them missed the playoffs, including seven of the top ten (1,3,6,7,8,9,10). Five teams with payrolls under $90M made it. Three of which were under $70M.

If any team in the league can't win, it's not because they can't spend nine figures on Jacoby Ellsbury, it's because they're poorly run.
 
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Nope, too much money out there. A salary cap plus better revenue sharing is about the only thing that will reign it in and bring some needed parity back into the game.

Parity? My Orioles made the playoffs because of improved pitching, much improved defense and timely hitting in 2012. The Indians did virtually the same this past season. St. Louis has made a mini-dynasty out of finding scrap heap and never heard of guys who show up, play well and then become playoff MVPs. Tampa made a run in the mid/late 2000s with a payroll below $50 million. Pittsburgh had the 4th lowest payroll in the MLB this past year. Meanwhile, two of the worst teams in the MLB - Toronto and Chicago - were 10th and 9th in highest payrolls.

Just because the Skanks are throwing around money like a drunken sailor doesn't mean the system needs to be reformed. They can try to turn every game into a slow pitch softball game, but the league has changed in focus and in execution. Now it's about speed, defense up the middle and pitching. Where are the Skanks week? Defense, especially up the middle is average to below average. Outside of Ellsbury, they have zero speed except for Bret Gardner who is constantly hurt. And their best pitcher last year was either Pettitte (retired), Crispy Creme (Fat and overpaid) or Phil Hughes (gone).

You can't win the pennant or even the AL East with one good pitcher and a bunch of nobodies unless something weird happens like in 2012 when the Orioles went 29-2 or something dumb like that in 1-run games and 78-0 or whatever it was in games they were leading after the 7th inning. That doesn't happen. The Yankees will spend all of this money and will be very lucky to be .500 next year.
 
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Apparently the Yankmes have offered Shin-Soo Choo a 7 year, 140 million contract. What...the...fuck...

And they signed Brian Roberts :slappy:

The average age of the Skanks infield (if we include ARoid) is 35 (35.2) years old by opening day and by the middle of the season (Jeter, ARoid and Tex all have birthdays before August 1st), the average is nearly 36 years old (35.8). There is no way that will remain intact.
 
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