Signs 5 year $125 million extension - I think he is worth it pretty consistant power hitter
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Awesome!!! Now we need to lock up Werth!!
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Howard must have a good agent because he's not worth that much.Comment -
Do not hold your breath waiting for them to sign Werth. Think they have Dominic Brown penciled into RF next yearComment -
If he would have gone the Free Agent route he would have got more than 25 mil perseason - Averages 50 HR 140 RBI per year.Comment -
I would like to see them do that but unless Ibanez picks it up there will be no market for a 39 year old player making 12 mil. Do not think they are going to sign Werth (or they would have by now) they say they need to stay within 140 mil budget.Comment -
Howard a tad overrated
not a strong fielder by any means
can not hit when it matters
warm weather hitterComment -
He strikes out a lot. His fielding was much improved last year. He starts off slow but get hot at the end of the year when it matters. Pujols should use this contract as a starting point, he might get 27 - 29 million.Comment -
I can't wait to see what Albert gets. He certainly has earned it.Comment -
this is a ridiculously awful contract. There is no way that Howard should be signed to that level of a deal for that long - there are far to many risks involved --
Easily the worst signing since the Zito deal.Comment -
he's also 30 going on 31 by the end of the season, he 'might' be worth the money now, doubt it though cause he's not really a complete player with the glove at first base like a teixeira with similar dollars and his gold gloves. he definitely won't be worth that money by the end though. big power hitters have proven it time and time again, and i'm a red sox fan and have experienced it firsthand with mo vaugh and god bless him, but david ortiz's collapse has been awful in the past couple years and he's 34 right now. Howard will be turning 31 the day after Ortiz turns 35, so at the end of this deal when Howard turns 36 and is making $25 million talk about the contract then because i can guarantee it will not look good at allComment -
Howard is not a fat lazy guy jacked up on steriods like the other 2Comment -
Hopefully his numbers will not slip too much
He is a high risk at that rice because he strikes out a lotComment -
Prince Fielder may get a similiar deal to Howard he is a Free Agent after this year - There are only a handful of players in MLB that can hit 45+ homers a yearComment -
Nose job candidate with new found funds. The width of his nose is longer than JJ Golds cock.Comment -
if mo vaughn was on steroids there would have been even better numbers for him, and howard at one point was very much so fat, so much so that he had to go on a ridiculous weight training program to lose the weight or else he wouldn't have gotten to this point to get this kind of contract
hence now that he has the dollars, he might not be as motivated anymore, and even if he doesn't get fat again, he still strikes out a TON and will lose bat speed as he ages meaning his average will drop even more and he'll strike out even more just like every other aging hitter steroids or not
and regardless if there is no positive test yet for howard, doesn't mean he's still not doing it, same with pujols, because of the steroid era everyone has to be suspected now whether it's fair or not and until the baseball union allows hgh testing and an accurate enough test is made then who knows how many guys are using that right now
here's a sample from an article last year
"Howard was getting fat. Not just a wee plump, either. Between the long 2008 season and the celebrations for Philadelphia’s championship, Howard was carrying around 275 pounds on his 6-foot-4 frame. He knew the history of fat hitters, too. Mo Vaughn and Cecil Fielder and countless others faded in their early 30s, waistlines expanding and hitting zones contracting. Howard turns 30 in November. He refused to peter out like the others. So Ryan Howard, the one legitimate threat to the single-season home run record, the man who hit 200 faster than anyone in history, did something drastic.
And it might just save his career."
i love ryan howard, drafted him on my Fantasy team, i don't want to see him decline either, just like i didn't want to see ortiz go down, but i'm stating facts, and it happens
steroids aren't all that, arod is presumably not on them anymore and his numbers are still just as good as ever at the end of the year, maybe a couple less homers, but overall, not that big of a deal, steroids or not it still won't help you from striking outComment -
Ortiz was a platoon player got on the roids and became a feared hitter after he is off the roids is a platoon player again. Arod 35 HR and 100 RBIS still a great player but not what he once was. You are blind if you dont think steroids affected baseball in a major way. HGH may be the only thing out there now but does not have the same affect as the multi-steroid cocktails taken by the Bonds, McGwire and the rest. Howard is in great shape the last 2 years. he may tail off the final year or 2 but that is the price you pay if you want to contend for championships. If Howard would go to Free Agency he would have made more.Comment -
It was revealed on December 13, 2007 in the report by Senator George J. Mitchell that Vaughn had purchased steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs from Kirk Radomski, who said he delivered the drugs to him personally. Radomski produced three checks, one for $2,200 and two more for $3,200, from Vaughn, one of the latter dated 6-1-2001, and another dated 6-19-2001. Radomski said that the higher checks were for two kits of HGH, while the lower one was for one and a half kits.Comment -
That is a big contract no doubt!!Comment -
Ryan's a beast & he won't get lazy. These guys are hungry!Comment -
bottom line, howard is not worth the 2nd highest dollars per annual average in the league. there's no way you can argue that he is. not now, and definitely not when he's 34/35/36. i don't really care about this year or the next year, i'm saying the contract as a whole is a terrible amount of money for how his career will likely go. in 750 games he has 892 strikeouts, albert pujols has twice as many games almost at 1417 with 1/3 less strikeouts at 584..none of the regarded big sluggers in this league have an average of more than 1 strikeout per game; a-rod, braun, fielder, teixeira, adrian gonzalez, and historically ones that do have the quickest declining careersComment -
I agree with fish that Howard should not command the second highest salary in baseball. Does this contract serve as further proof that the market is beginning to rebound?Comment -
Baseball is about scoring runs and you need a big run producer in the middle of the lineup, when they start deducting runs for strikeouts you might have a point. 50 bombs 140 RBIS in the drug testing era is not something that many players not named Pujols or Howard can accomplish. The Red Sox will not be serious contenders again until they get that middle of the lineup run producer. When they unload 1/2 their minor league system and back up the brinks truck for Adrian Gonzalez you will see that, and he averages about 35 Hrs and 100 RBIS and he is considered a star.Comment -
Now he can get fat again!Comment -
you are all NUTS...NO WAY IS HE WORTH 25 mill a year...TOTAL JOKE!
$125 to howard, $112 to holliday then big poo-daddy better get $200 million for 6 yearsComment -
I don't think Howard is gonna age well. They won't like the end years of this contract.Comment
