Posted: Thu December 13, 2012 6:10PM; Updated: Thu December 13,
2012 6:11PM Michael Rosenberg Michael Rosenberg>INSIDE BASEBALL
Angels steal Hamilton from Rangers with rare sensible deal
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Hamilton Few players come with as much upside -- or downside --
as Josh Hamilton. Mitchell Layton/Getty Images  The Los Anaheim
Angels stole Josh Hamilton. Actually, they simply paid him what
he is worth. But in baseball's free-agency market, that is a
steal. Nobody pays the retail price in free agency -- everybody
pays more, always. It's like the opposite of Kohl's.  Five years
and $125 million for Hamilton? That sounds about right to me,
and I don't say that about too many big contracts these days.
Albert Pujols's $240 million deal struck me as crazy. So did
Alex Rodriguez's $275 million deal. So did Prince Fielder's $214
million deal.   But this Hamilton deal . . . well, this makes
sense.  How did the Angels sign a perennial MVP candidate away
from a division riv