http://www.blogging-baseball.com/2007/01/21/utley-phillies-7-year-85-million-deal-winwin-for-years-to-come/ All-time baseball highlights and real-time commentary. Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.blogging-baseball.com/2007/01/21/utley-phillies-7-year-85-million-deal-winwin-for-years-to-come/#comment-922 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:33:17 +0000 http://www.blogging-baseball.com/2007/01/21/utley-phillies-7-year-85-million-deal-winwin-for-years-to-come/#comment-922 [...] Where mega-bucks are concerned, Blogging Baseball reports the facts non-judgmentally because as abhorent as I see free agent mega-bucks as being, I also see this era as the pendulum swinging in the other direction from the decades in the 20th century where players were relatively underpaid, often to the degree of indentured servants — similarly destructive to the game in it’s time.  (Boy, would I have loved to have a  $3.2 million, 5 year deal like Pete Rose got from the Phillies early in the free agent era.)  But, in all fairness, when players like Alex Rodriguez ink multi-year deals for $250+ Million, then Chase Utley’s 7 year, $85 million deal seems comparatively economic and a win/win for player and team and seemingly economically representative of the player’s comparative value in today’s bloated, hyper-inflated market.  But now, back to the game and it’s purity — the strikes, balls, base hits, stolen bases, double plays, strikeouts, homers and highlight film plays. [...] […] Where mega-bucks are concerned, Blogging Baseball reports the facts non-judgmentally because as abhorent as I see free agent mega-bucks as being, I also see this era as the pendulum swinging in the other direction from the decades in the 20th century where players were relatively underpaid, often to the degree of indentured servants — similarly destructive to the game in it’s time.  (Boy, would I have loved to have a  $3.2 million, 5 year deal like Pete Rose got from the Phillies early in the free agent era.)  But, in all fairness, when players like Alex Rodriguez ink multi-year deals for $250+ Million, then Chase Utley’s 7 year, $85 million deal seems comparatively economic and a win/win for player and team and seemingly economically representative of the player’s comparative value in today’s bloated, hyper-inflated market.  But now, back to the game and it’s purity — the strikes, balls, base hits, stolen bases, double plays, strikeouts, homers and highlight film plays. […]

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