He won the NL batting champ, his 2nd sb title and a gold glove. For that he got $50 million over 5 years.

With some luck tonight my powerball ticket will win me $50 million a year for 30 years.

New Age adage: Singles hitters drive Lexus; HR hitters drive Ferraris.

You have a point but it sure seemed like Dee was betting against himself. Not only was he "only" making $12.4 M AAV but he gave up two FA years to do it. Now he is not a FA until he is 33 and speed ages poorly so even if he continue to play this well he is very unlikely to make a killing latter.

Of course $50M will have him set for life so maybe that was right for him.