Phils renew Howard, setting salary record
Apparently the Phillies and Ryan Howard were not able to agree on a long-term contract, so the team renewed the first baseman today with a one-year $900,000 deal, a major-league salary record for a player with one-plus years' service.
The previous high belonged to pitcher Kerry Wood, who earned $690,000 with the Cubs at a similar point in his career.
Just as Howard knocked Albert Pujols from the league Mvp throne, so, too, is he ahead on the salary curve, since Pujols reached the $900,000-a-year plateau after two-plus years' major-league experience.
Howard, a year away from arbitration eligibility, is coming off a season in which he hit a team record 58 home runs and drove in 147 runs.
Apparently the Phillies and Ryan Howard were not able to agree on a long-term contract, so the team renewed the first baseman today with a one-year $900,000 deal, a major-league salary record for a player with one-plus years' service.
The previous high belonged to pitcher Kerry Wood, who earned $690,000 with the Cubs at a similar point in his career.
Just as Howard knocked Albert Pujols from the league Mvp throne, so, too, is he ahead on the salary curve, since Pujols reached the $900,000-a-year plateau after two-plus years' major-league experience.
Howard, a year away from arbitration eligibility, is coming off a season in which he hit a team record 58 home runs and drove in 147 runs.
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