Albert Pujols: Los Angeles Angels’ Quarter-Billion Dollar Bargain

It’s not very often in sports that teams throw out a quarter of a billion dollars on a single player.

In fact, it has only happened two other times – once when the Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to a ten-year deal prior to the 2001 season, and again when the Yankees gave Rodriguez a new decade-long deal following the 2007 season.

One could argue that had the original deal given to A-Rod by the Rangers run its course and not been extended by the Yankees, it would not have been a bad contract.

From 2001 through 2010, A-Rod hi...

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