HOT STOVE, COOL SAND

now imagine what Pujols will look like.

the pirates have signed erik bedard!?

are players allowed to play shortstop in a wheelchair

Jeter (TM)

Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal
Buerhle to #Marlins: 4 yrs, $58M. #MLB

lawl

up until two months ago i thought Buerhle was overrated!

so do the fish have no choice but to trade HanRam now?

are they going to be selling crack at the new park to pay for this?

lawl again

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/818185/Pool1.gif.opt.gif

wtf is that?!

is that Chevy Chase?

marlins still looking in on wilson & prince

Miami out of Pujols hunt... Angels and Cubs still in?

it's angels.

RT @espn: Wow. RT @SportsCenter: Breaking News: Report: free agent 1B Albert Pujols agrees to 10-year contract with @Angels

WHAT

WHAT THE FUCK

ho

lee

shit

He probably won't be the highest-paid Angel in 2012.

i'm kind of relieved.

<3 pujols (performance on the field), but the thought of paying him $20 million plus when he's 38, 39, 40, 40+ years old is just ridiculous.

damn, they're giving him 250

well now!

or even 260? yeesh

lolbaseball

this + Wells = how can they afford to pay anybody else on their team?!

apparently they signed a new tv deal that may bring in as much as 150m a year

10/250. yikes.

he could perform at that level, but i wouldn't have given him that much

i'm sure he'll be worth it for maybe 5 years - but what is the best production MLB has seen from a 40 yr old?

Bonds I'm thinkin'

if they get CJ Wilson their payroll is in red sox territory.

best production at 40 is probably someone like hank aaron or barry?

Ted Williams: .328/.458/.584, 4.8 WAR (fell off a cliff at 41 tho)

i think it was a lose-lose for STL, maybe this is the best-case scenario out of the two difficult choices? i could see the dude falling off quicker than 5 years, tbh.

whoa

dodgers traded dana eveland to the orioles to get back some of that pr juice from the angels. suck it arte!

this contract isn't really about how bad he plays in his 40s, it's really about whether he's gonna be good enough in the next 4 or 5 years to offset that -- and that's still possible

everyone is saying that cj to the angels is a done deal

cj to the angels for 5/75

It was weird that SBN had the Cubs as the other rumored Pujols contender last night. Why would Theo go near such a contract?

The Angels are the new Marlins

(and by new I mean "today's")

man. this team stealing the Marlin's thunder.
just trying to figure out their finances is boggling my mind right now.

xpost - drive the price up for the Cards?

just for fun i looked up other well-known players 40 yr stats...

Hank Aaron: .268/.341/.491, 2.4 WAR
Bonds: .362*/.609*/.812*, 11.9 WAR!!!
Ty Cobb .339/.408/.511, 1.7 WAR
Willie Mays: .271/.425/.482, 6.4 WAR
Frank Robinson: .237/.385/.508, 1.0 WAR
Frank Thomas: .240/.349/.374, -0.1 WAR
Honus Wagner: .252/.317/.317, 4.2 WAR
Stan Musial: .275/.354/.486 1.9 WAR

my coworker is convinced Pujols is actually 34, btw. not a lot of guys playing at 44 to compare!

Thomas was pretty productive at 39, I think.

Passan has been bringing up A-Rod, like that is the one comparison to make.

and i agree that the contract isn't about how he'll play at 40-42... right now. but in 7/8 years it will be.

pujols is getting elite money when he could be entering his "very, very good but no longer all-time great" phase.

Now there's a rumor about a Bailey-Trumbo-others deal.

It was weird that SBN had the Cubs as the other rumored Pujols contender last night. Why would Theo go near such a contract?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:10 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah... i'm not sure if we'll ever find out if there was a third team in there or not. i don't think the cubs needed to be bidding the cardinals up considering what the marlins and angels were doing

I think the idea is that Pujols' market value was something like $40/$45 million in his *peak* years, and that Pujols has outperformed his past contracts more than any player ever.

Still, I cannot believe the A-Rod contract has 6 more years to go, it's already looking like one of the worst contracts in baseball, but coming from the team that willingly traded for Vernon Wells this is probably not much of a concern

i would like to see the Angels payroll projections for the next decade in chart form!

jered weaver did his team a serious fucking solid by taking a team friendly deal this season. what a bro.