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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Alonso is making 7.4M this year.
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Oof well that is indeed a lot more than 400K. But 2m on top of 7.4m is still a HUGE carrot on a stick. The HR derby is 1 night, and he can make orders of magnitude more on that 1 night than he can in 1 night of regular or postseason Mets baseball. My mistake was comparing HR money to full season money when the real comparison should be this 1 night at the plate vs any other 1 night at the plate.
Ultimately the idea is there is so much money on the line, all participants should be going full-on full-blown try-hard. Except I guess that age fraud Pujols who made himself a hero in the midwest and a vampiric villain in Anaheim, to the tune of 250 million horribly spent dollars.