Originally Posted by
t-wizzle
Miguel Cabrera got paid like $300-400k for his first 4 seasons when he killed it. Then he got $7 mil in arbitration. This was all while he was hitting well into the .300s and hitting 30+ homers and driving in 115.
Pujols was a .330 hitter hitting 35+ and driving in 130 runs when he was getting paid well under $1 mil his first three years. Then his 4th year was arbitration and he got $7 mil (not exactly worthy of that kind of production).
Andrew McCutchen same deal his first few years. Robinson Cano. Ryan Howard. The list goes on and on. The young stars typically are vastly underpaid until they get past arbitration and like I said, get their first opportunity at a big payday as they approach the age of 30 (every player is different obviously but you get the point).
Not really sure why you're trying to go to battle with me over this but okay.