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Originally Posted by molson
His OPS+ also fell off a cliff when he got to Seattle, and each of his 5 years there were all worse than any he's had in any season since. His season average OPS+ in the Seattle years would put him behind 5 current Mariner regulars.
Edit: And is WAR went from 9.6 to 3.2 his first year in Seattle. He wasn't as bad as Richie Sexon but he got the money for that last season in LA and he never got anywhere close to that. There's a reason he could only get a 1 year contract after that.
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The money he got appears to actually have been a bit less than he actually produced for the M's over the course of his deal:
http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx...ition=3B#value
FanGraphs doesn't list his final year contract amount, but according to Cot's it was $13.4M. If you think fWAR is a good measure, then he produced $65.7M worth of value over his M's contract, and was paid $64M.
I think part of the problem here is folks don't really get just how much a great season is worth; you mention him getting paid per his final season with the Dodgers, but that's just not true - if it were, he would have been getting paid $25M+ per year.