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IIFID said:
His salary will keep him from becoming a Royal. The Phillies aren't going to eat the amount of salary necessary to open Walmart's checkbook. Plus he really has declined over the last 3 years.

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Here's something that I have not heard a single talking head, sports person talk about. With the crackdown on PED's everyone has seen a reduction of HR's and power in general. But what nobody seems to talk about is how some of these guys are going to chit much, much faster than anyone expected. There seems to have been a false sense that a guy could hit well into his 30's and it was normal. Now that PED's can't prop these guys up they have the double whammy of not having the PED's and having to deal with the problems taking them created (soft tissue breakdowns and joint problems).

I guess the only way you can talk about it is to bring up guys like Howard and none of them have the balls to even hint that some of these guys were users. In reality, the vast majority likely used PED's to some degree. And now we see the results...

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