coolhandluke121 wrote:DrugBust wrote:coolhandluke121 wrote:I actually think the Angels just did the Cards a huge favor. Time will tell, but I think Pujols is gonna be a terrible contract several years down the road.
Key word there. It might be a bad contract eventually, but not for a good long while.
If I'm right about him using HGH, we could easily see a decline as early as next season. I'm not saying it will happen, but if Pujols is never an all-star again I will be less surprised than 99% of baseball fans and observers.
Who knows when he'll show really noticeable decline. It could be 2 years from now, 3 years from now, or 5-6 years from now. This stuff is nearly impossible to project with any level of certainty. Last year a 37 year old Berkman posted a .959 OPS.
So yea, no question that at some point in the contract, any team that gave Pujols a 10 year deal would be looks at some years where the contract is a big albatross. That said, if say Albert helps lead the Angels to a World Series title or two, does that cover for the Angels 3-4 years at the end of the deal where he's making 25 million and barely productive at all? Or if the Cardinals fall just short of a another title over the next 4-5 years that maybe they'd have won with him, what is that worth?
Lastly, from an Arti Moreno perspective, he might night even choose to keep owning the Angels 5-10 years from now. Then Pujols would be the new owner's problem as that new owner inherited Albert's worst decline years.
I'm simply glad that Brewers pitchers no longer have to face him about 15-20 games a year.
