Did Ryan Howard pull the biggest jack move in MLB history?

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Nah, his career was taking the same nosedive regardless.
You're probably right, killed might have been too strong a term. Even when he was hitting home runs in 2011 before the injury, his peripheral stats were awful.
 

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Baseball contracts often work this way more than any other sport because of the contracts they're forced to sign early in their careers. They get through smaller deals the first 6 years I think of their career before they can get their big break contract. I think it takes 6 years or so before they're arbitration eligible. Gotta look that up to be exact. Pujols signed the biggest deal at his time for someone before their arbitration year, like a 6 year 107 milli deal. But the Cardinals made a killing because he was the best player in the sport for many of those years. So by the time he gets his next big contract, he's basically getting paid for past performance as much as for the future years.
 

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He was legitimately a top player though...for a number of years.
I guess he probably did have a GOAT come up.

I think Dontrelle Willis was a bigger fraud
I really thought D Willis was gonna run things back then. He was to me the beginning of the end of the good black players.
 
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