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"Can't buy what I want because it's free...
Can't buy what I want because it's free..."-- Pearl Jam, from the single Corduroy -
Considering that Gagne lost, I'm wondering just how much of a chance to win Pujols would have had if they went to arbitration.
I would say that a $2.5 mil increase over the previous record would have have been enough for Albert (that is, using the same reasoning the Gagne aritrators used). -
Exactly...Originally posted by Iowa_Card@Feb 20 2004, 07:01 AM
Considering that Gagne lost, I'm wondering just how much of a chance to win Pujols would have had if they went to arbitration.
I would say that a $2.5 mil increase over the previous record would have have been enough for Albert (that is, using the same reasoning the Gagne aritrators used).
Add in that Soriano signed for a little over $5,000,000 this year, and I think the team's odds of winning were pretty good.
Not that Pujols' isn't worth the $10,500,000 compared to some of the veteran guys out there, but among players with his length of service, he'd have been far ahead of anyone else - and that's apparently what arbitrators look at...Comment
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