Interesting article about the caution a club should take before signing a player to $100+ million deal. Some quotes in it from Mark Rodgers, the agent that negotiated the Mike Hampton deal. There is also some insight from O’Dowd about how it was a bad signing.
You can read the whole article here: http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/mlb-contracts-100-million-deals-albert-pujols-prince-fielder-yu-darvish-jose-reyes-can-they-live-up-020812