Stark: Howard’s Case Is Historic
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Rob Harding
ESPNs Jayson Stark writes an interesting piece on how 1B Ryan Howard’s arbitration hearing could set the precedent for future stars to cash in. Howard was awarded 10m after only 2 full seasons in the big leagues. To put this into perspective, Albert Pujols was awarded 7m in his first year of arbitration eligibilty in 2004.
As Stark notes, guys like Hanley Ramirez and Prince Fielder have to be licking their chops at this.
Omar Minaya signed Mets young studs Jose Reyes and David Wright to longterm deals in the summer of 2006.
Great Job by Omar smelling that this would happen, now we don’t have to go through any of this with either of them..
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