Ryan Howard is still looking to become the next $100 million dollar man. Jason Stark of ESPN.com wrote an interesting article about Mr. Howard. You can read the whole thing here.
PHILADELPHIA — How many dollars is a 58-homer man worth these days?

Hey, thanks for asking. That’s a verrrry hot topic in the baseball business at the moment — since one of those 58-homer men just happens to be roaming the earth as we speak. And he’s (gasp) contract-less.

The 58-homer man in question is named Ryan Howard, of course. (You were expecting maybe Neifi Perez?) And the size of Howard’s next contract, once he finally reels it in, is a big issue for three reasons:

1) Howard is already on the third agent of his brief career, after leaving Larry Reynolds this winter and signing on with Casey Close, from the sports division of the Creative Arts Agency’s show-biz powerhouse.

2) His employers, the Phillies, just agreed Sunday to give Howard’s face-of-the-franchise co-star, Chase Utley, a seven-year, $85 million, wedding-day extension that will tie him up through 2013.

And (3) it has been more than three whole weeks since a player signed a $100 million contract, here in this crazy, everybody-wins-the-Powerball winter of 2006-07. So aren’t we about due for another seismological contract event?