So Mr. Pujols was awarded the NL MVP yesterday for the second straight year, third in his career. After nine seasons, he has numbers that compare to the likes of Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and all the greats.
The numbers that really matters is 2. As in how many more seasons he's under contract to St. Louis for. 2010 is under contract and 2011 is a club option. Both at a relatively frugal $16M or so. After that, he's a free agent, and is most likely looking at testing the water.
So it's reasonable to expect he wants A-Rod money in the $30M range. Right now, you have to say he's a better player than A-Rod. So he should be compensated as such, no?
Problem is the big players will be down to a couple or three. Assume St. Lou can't afford $30M (they can't) for one player. Then you have to consider these teams as his destination:
Yankees - but they have a long term with Texeira
Red Sox - wouldn't Yankee fans love to see that
Mets - errr, no. Little too rich for the Wilpons I think
Cubs - definitely maybe
Angels - another definitely maybe
Dodgers - depends on the divorce
Interesting.
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