http://nypost.com/2014/03/27/with-cabrera-splurge-tigers-fail-to-heed-the-a-rod-lesson/
In today's game of baseball, super-sluggers steal the show. With some of the highest contracts ever paid out going to the guys that can really swing the bat. In the recent offseason, the Seattle Mariners signed Robinson Cano, an ex-Yankee second baseman, to a 10 year deal worth $240 million dollars. In Detroit, two-time defending AL M.V.P. Miguel Cabrera signed an eight year extension totaling $248 million dollars. With two years still left on his contract, his total payout after ten years will total $292 million dollars. Everything seems fine and dandy until you realize that Cabrera signed his contract three weeks before his 31st birthday! By the time his contract runs out he'll be 41 and with recent, high dollar contracts falling through the cracks, it begs the question, why? Looking at the "Alex Rodriguez Example", it makes the everyday baseball fan question how someone could make the same mistake twice. Plus, it is happening all over the league. In Anaheim, the Angels signed first baseman Albert Pujols to a 10 year $240 million dollar deal. It seems as though the game has lost its sense. Organizations are paying players enormous figures while they age past their prime. The league has yet to see one of these deals work out for the better. The game will just have to wait and see, when the old enemy, age, will be conquered.
