Baseball's Most Underpaid Players
Tom Van Riper, 05.10.11, 05:00 PM EDT
Why is Albert Pujols looking to break the bank?
Maybe because no one was more underpaid last season.
為什麼Albert Pujols要撈一筆大的？大概是因為去年沒人比他更超值。
Will Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols get a 10-year, $300 million deal
on the free agent market this winter? It's tough to say. Pujols is baseball's
premier hitter of the last decade, but he also plays a position that's deep
in offensive talent and, at 31, he's off to a slow start this year (.248
batting average; .743 OPS). He'll surely get a great deal, but many teams
figure to shy away from paying him megabucks until he's 40.
紅雀一壘手Albert Pujols這個冬天在自由球員市場，拿的到10年、3億的合約嗎？
難講！
Pujols是這個棒球世代最強打者之一，在這位置他展現出極優秀的打擊天份。但本
季棒子很慢熱，擷自四月底只有0.248的 BA，跟0.743的OPS。確定的是他仍然會獲
得一份大合約，但付這麼大筆的錢付到他40歲？許多球隊依然卻步。
But while projecting ahead is tricky, putting the recent past into
perspective isn't. Even though he made $16 million last season, enough to
place him among the top 2% of MLB wage earners, Pujols stands as baseball's
most underpaid player for 2010. With his typical monster year (1.011 OPS, 42
homers, .312 batting average), Pujols rightfully should have earned almost
$44 million.
儘管世事如棋，王老師莫測，有過去這些成績卻不難預估Pujols的未來。雖然上季
他拿一千六百萬，足夠讓他身價晉身全聯盟前2%，但他依然是2010最超值的球員。
去年打出的鬼神數字(1.011 OPS, 42 HRs, .312 BA)一如往常，而這些數字讓他有
權拿到差不多四千四百萬的年薪。
The most underpaid players at some of the other positions: Milwaukee second
baseman Rickie Weeks, Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal and Toronto
catcher John Buck，In Pictures: Baseball's Most Underpaid Players
各守備位置的超值球員如下：
1B-Albert Pujols
2B-Rickie Weeks
SS-Rafael Furcal
3B-David Wright
OF-Jose Bautista
OF-Matt Holiday
OF-Nick Swisher
DH-Jim Thome
C -John Buck
To determine the most underpaid players we turned to Baseball Prospectus'
Value Over Replacement Player (VORP) scores, which use myriad statistics to
weigh a player's productivity compared to the expected production of a
minimum salaries rookie. In 2010 the average player in Pujols' service
class