Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just call him Fat Contract Albert.
Mr. Pujols is going to Anaheim, where he should officially change his name to Albert Pujol$. Sorry to be snide, but weren’t we all hoping this free-agent story would turn out differently?
This was A-Pujols, not A-Rod. He was a good soldier, not a soldier of fortune.
Pujols had everything a ballplayer could dream of in St. Louis. Everything, it seems, except an extra $30 million guaranteed.
That would make a huge difference in most people’s bank account. Baseball players, of course, aren’t most people.
Pujols had already made an estimated $104 million in his career. The Cardinals were reportedly offering him $220 million over 10 years, though only the first nine were guaranteed.
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