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i seriously dont see how the pujols contract can be worse. i mean yea, its bad. but the hamilton one has to be worse, considering he did less than howard and now the angels are paying you guys for him to be on the DL
but pujols has produced like a 13.5 WAR up to date, including a 4.8 WAR in his first season with the angels, which is only 0.4 behind howards BEST season when he won MVP.
even as bad as howard is, pujols would have to produce like a -3.5 war (per year) for its entirety to be worse than howards. which clearly wont happen. even in pujols' injury season he still was 1.5 war, which howard hasnt come close to during his contract, and hasnt eclipsed since 2009.
We would rather be where we are with Howard, than where you are with Pujols LOL. 100 out of 100 times...no brainer.
You're sitting on another 6 years and $165M for Pujols.....who is already old as fuck and a shell of his former self. We at least get rid of Howard after this year, regardless of how bad he is it's a temporary problem for us.
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It's sad to see Pujols, such a dynamic hitter and a future Hall of Famer on the back of his 2001-2011 stint with the St. Louis Cardinals, sitting at the top spot here of worst contracts in baseball, but his contract is a gigantic long-term drag on the Angels, and it's not going anyway anytime soon. The Angels paid Pujols as if they were going to get prime Albert for at least most of the contract, which started for his age-32 season coming off the worst -- albeit still All-Star level -- year of his career to that point, his 5.3-WAR 2011 season.
For this contract to not be a disaster, they needed at least five years of that 2011 Pujols. That wouldn't have made the contract a positive for the franchise, but at least they could point to the early years of the contract as the price they paid for suffering the end of the contract. Instead, the 2011 Pujols has been rarely seen in Los Angeles. Even his 40-homer season in 2015, declared in some circles as a personal renaissance, was an underwhelming season for Pujols; he posted a .307 on-base percentage, a dismal number for a player who has topped a .400 OBP in nine seasons. The Angels now essentially have Pujols for a six-year, $165 million contract for his age 36-41 seasons.
This post was edited by Sixers on May 24 2016 08:48am