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Earlier this week, the Phillies gave first baseman Ryan Howard a contract extension through the year 2016. This contract makes him the second highest-paid player in baseball and seems to ensure that he will be a member of the Philadelphia Phillies for the foreseeable future. They locked up one of the franchise’s greatest players for years to come. This should be a good thing, right? Not if you believe the statheads. Who are the statheads? The statheads (or sabermetric experts, as they’d prefer to be called) rose to prominence in the early 2000s with the book Moneyball by Michael Lewis. Moneyball showed how the Oakland A’s realized that they couldn’t compete financially with the larger market teams such as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. If they wanted to re ...

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