Have wagered on MLB for over 10 years now and been very successful doing it. Opinions are like assholes everyone has one and I like to see them, I mean hear them. Well you know what i mean.
The Halladay trade obviously was most beneficial to the Phiillies as I said. The Howard contract will be a bargain if the Phils continue to dominate the NL and Howard continues to produce. Money means nothing to these owners, he was a bargain and the Phils saved themselves a lot of money by extending his contract now rather than letting him test the free agency market and have the Yankmees bring his price up like they do every other superstar.
Then why did they move Lee to clear salary?
And there is NO way that Howards holds up physically through this contract.
In a few years he will be even more of a liability defensively.
This contract is a huge mistake, if the Phillies were in the AL and could put him at DH the last few years of the contract, it would still be a bad contract.