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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Offering the undisputed best player in the game an annual salary that isn't in the top 5 of the game is so ****ing ludicrously stupid it's beyond the scope of human imagination. Who in the Cardinals organization could possibly think this is a good idea? Who?
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It's a hell of a lot better idea than offering a guy that is going to be 32 when the contract starts $300 million.
It's rumored to be the 3rd highest valued package ever offered
and contain an equity stake in ownership of the team after he retires. Yeah, what an asswipe offer that is.
Oh, and that was also based on a 10 year deal. The rumor was that the first package offered was something like 10 yrs, $225 million (hence him not being that high in the AAV). From there, the Cards tried to dial it down to 8 yrs, $200, etc...
The man is not 27 years old. He's a 32 year old first baseman with heavy legs. If you want to make a PR argument, fine, that's one I'll listen to. But there's absolutely no baseball argument to be made that Albert Pujols should get the highest AAV in the game for the next damn decade. It's just a stupendously stupid baseball decision at that point.
We made the playoffs 1 time in the last 4 years with Albert at 1b. Something tells me we can manage that without him.