albert pujols salary next year?

Either way it's a sickening sum that makes ordinary mortals start counting how much these Demi Gods are paid per pitch and why they should cheer for people who wouldn't cheer for them to do well in a game that children play for nothing.

The Cardinals have a $16M option on Pujols for 2011, and they'll activate that as long as he's breathing. Given that, he won't be eligible for free agency until after the 2011 season.

Yeah, the Howard deal means that Al is going to get a monster payday, but he was going to get that regardless; it's just a bit easier to hang a speculative number on it now. The real side-table winner in the Howard aftermath is Prince Fielder. It's common expectation that the Cards will hold on to Pujols no matter what, but the Brewers and Fielder is a lot shakier ground. Is he really franchise-cornerstone material, like Mauer and the Twins, and they'll go nearly any lengths to retain him? Or will Milwaukee make a whole-hearted but conservative effort to sign him and expect him to leave? Fielder is going to get big, big money now, but no one knows from where.

He deserves 35 million dollars per year. That would be if he was a Free Agent RIGHT NOW and if he had Scott Boras as his agent and the team that wanted to sign him was the Yankees.

But realistically... he will probably get a 10 year extension around 230-250 million dollars. (If A-Rod got another extension bigger than his original contract, the Cardinals need to dish out money and keep the greatest player in the 2000s)

No way he gets anything lower than 23 million. (which is Teixiera salary) I also doubt that he will get anything higher than 27 million per year.

To be honest, it will all depend on the structure of the new contract. If they feel they can't meet his demand they may pick up his option and try to trade him; however, I think that has ZERO chance of happening.

His stats are right behind Ryan Howard's and he has a better batting average and fewer strikeouts. He will do real well when he signs as will his agent.

As much as I'd like to see Albert in Fenway Park, he will be a Cardinal for his entire career.

The question grow to be requested many circumstances previously...even though it really is a tremendous question now, because that's totally appropriate. The playing cards are going nowhere..that's no longer all Pujol's fault, yet he will take a number of the blame. i imagine he would bypass to the Cubs..on a marginally decreased funds, because his value will drop...or his value will be re-assessed. The playing cards are stuck with Matt vacation's settlement..in the adventure that they signal Pujols, they could't signal all and sundry else...and they might choose pitching, it type of feels they are going to. So the answer is..60% he is going..40% he remains.

Well, he's better than the highest paid players in the game already, and his comment after only three years in the league was, "no hometown discounts." He got a hundred million dollar deal out of that. It might take almost three times as much to keep him around. I wish I were kidding. If the Cards don't give it to him, somebody else will (Angels? Red Sox?).

I thik the Cardinals are going to look at what the Phillies did with Ryan Howard and get this out of the way. 6 Years at $180,000,000 sounds about right to me.

30 million

whatever the guy asks for, if he ever leaves the cardinals it would be a very sad day for baseball. plus, hes not a total douchebag like, say, a 3rd basemen on the yankees...