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After months and months of uncertainty, we finally got a decision by Bryce Harper and he is headed to the Philadelphia Phillies for a 13 year 330 million dollar deal.

No opt out in that contract, no trade clause, no deferred money. It's all the biggest contract per dollars in the history of Major League Baseball.

In fact, here are the largest contracts in pro team sports history. According to our buddy Darren Revelle, Bryce Harper got 330 million from the Phillies.

Jean Carlos Stanton got 325 million from the Yankees, Manny Machado, 300 million from the Padres, including that being a 10 year 30 million dollar per contract.

Arod is on here twice first for a $275 million deal with the Yankees and second for a $252 million deal with the the Rangers and the Yankees.

Now to put that into perspective for Bryce Harper, he's going to make $44,929 per plate appearance based on how many bats he's had so far in his career.

And this is wild. He's going to make nearly $157,000 per game for the next 13 years of Major League Baseball, which is just wild in the extreme to think about that being possible.

Now, a couple of things also on top of this contract. It actually isn't that bad of a deal for the Phillies in this context.

He's only making $25.4 million per year and it sounds like a lot of money. But if you look at the top salaries in the NBA, where guys are regularly making over 30 million a year.

And if you look at the top salaries in the NFL, where a guy like Aaron Rogers is making over 30 million dollars a year, while they aren't long multi-year $25 million a year deals, it actually doesn't seem to me that at the end of this deal, like the Phillies are going to be looking around saying, oh my God, I can't believe we paid this much money for Bryce Harper.

In fact, if you put this in the context of, and I think it's kind of important to do, when you put this in the context of inflation, this is not even one of the 10 biggest baseball contracts of all time.

I think what Bryce Harper wanted here was to be able to say I'm signing a deal for the most money of all time. I think that was his goal the entire off season.

And according to Bob Nightingale, these were his final three offers. The Dodgers who had emerged as the favorite down the stretch offered him three years, $135 million or $4.168 million.

I think I probably would have taken that if I was Bryce Harper and gambled on myself, because you would have been coming back to the market around the age of 30.

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