Seriously how can he lose by doing this. Look at the craziness that has followed THE marquis free agent of this years MLB offseason. The Cardinals are desperate to retain him, last night the Marlins. Again the FLO...MIAMI FREAKING MARLINS are offering him a 10 year $220 Million dollar deal. (more on them in a later post) We live in South Florida, Twitter and Facebook were buzzing with one name. Pujols. And for a small short lived moment, it looked like Miami just might pull it off. In fact Cardinals officials had resigned to the fact that Albert was taking his talents to South Beach. Right now it looks like he just used Miami to extract every red cent out of St Louis. But the possibility looked very real 24 hours ago.
Instead now the Marlins are out, the Cardinals are the front runners. But there are still teams trying to make a play. The numbers being thrown around are outrageous. 10 years? Are you kidding me? A contract of that length will take him into his 40s, well into his 40s if he's actually later on in his 30s like some people think. What are teams thinking signing a power hitting 1b into his 40s? He has hit his peak, he isn't going to get better. And yet these contracts will have him earning 20 million+ in 2019. This is crazy talk!
I am serious when I say that as well, he is well worth the money. But the 10 years is the real kicker in this whole thing. In the end the Marlins won by losing out on Pujols, Because if he flopped in Miami and his numbers started to decline, NO WAY are they going to be able to dump that contract in a trade. And whoever gets Albert will have the same situation. That contract is a rest of his career contract. Whoever gets him is stuck with him unless they are willing to eat Millions. And I know what you are saying, how can a team get "stuck" with Albert Pujols? With a contract that size there will most likely be one fan base going "we could get somebody really good if we could just unload Albert's contract" a sad but very realistic possibility.
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