[quote name="LumRaiderFan" post="1142604" timestamp="1323401274"] [quote author=bullets13 link=topic=92836.msg1142449#msg1142449 date=1323388788] Pujols deserves all the money he'll get... for probably 5 years. and then after that, the angels will go from paying him a little more than he deserves to wishing they'd never made the deal by the end of his contract when he's putting up Jim Thome numbers. [b] I'm not saying he won't still be decent at that time, but there's no way that he'll still be a superstar in 7 years, or that he'll even be more than pretty good in 10.[/b][/quote] They probably said that about Nolan...but there is only one Ryan Express! [/quote] Carlos Lee contract comes to mind Maybe the contract is structured with less financial burden on the back half