Albert Pujols

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by clementefanoh

another tortured, passive- aggressive (or maybe, just plain aggressive) slam from the all knowing stache! Since you know everything, stache, i guess the debate is over on albert pujols...
Except it isn't. First of all, he's a "dumpster fire" who is "embarrassing himself"- but you "really like" him? Strange way to express admiration...
Here's a novel approach. Since a relatively quiet guy who has had a storied career just achieved a major milestone, how about we enjoy it (or merely acknowledge it, for heaven's sake) rather than flex our keyboard muscles tearing him down? Jeesh. News flash for the stache- lots of wonderful players deteriorate over time. Did you truly expect him to maintain his stl pace with the angels? If he had done so, he'd have 800+ home runs and 2500+ rbi (and yes, i'm rounding off- you can do the o/c math). I'm sure pujols is devastated that he didn't meet your statistical models.
When pujols retires, he'll have 660+ hr, well over 3000 hits, 2000+ rbi, and a career batting average right around .300. So, it's accurate to say he is one of the all time greats, not merely that he "was on his way to becoming" one.
I'll close by saying i'm no fan of stl or the angels, but i can certainly recognize a deserving first ballot hof player when i see one. Trent king

a huge +1

[Mike D.]

Can’t blame a guy for playing out his agreed upon contract, especially considering how underpaid players are in the first 6 years of their careers. Always amazed how people side with the billionaire owners over the millionaire players.

Nobody seems to be calling for contract renegotiations when a player outperforms their contract. Those are just “team friendly” and “good business”.

The Angels could have released Pujols at any point. The fact that they haven’t shows they still think he’s worth the roster spot.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Its these moments im glad the baseball season was not canceled. Salvages the stats for the counting stats records and also provides some interesting yearly/daily achievements.

Funny we should blast all the people and critics who said should cancel the season. Tons of jobs saved and helps economy yet not a peep of people saying they were WRONG. If players got sick and died, you would of heard no end of 'told you so'

Easy to take a position that if you are wrong nobody criticizes you. Its hard to take a position when you will be criticized immensely if wrong. Please remember that on the next big decision when there are 2 sides.

The easy side should get very little credit for being right when no criticism when wrong.

[Jim65]

Many great players hang on way past their prime. If Pujols still wants to play and enjoys playing while making a tremendous amount of money to do so, who is anyone to tell him that he shouldn't?

[mouschi]

I love Pujols for the player and person he is. It'll be sad when he hangs it up! I agree that he isn't producing like he was, but we only get special players for a short amount of time. It will be a sad day in baseball when he retires.

[timber63401]

0 percent of people on here would hang it up if there were in his shoes playing a game making millions and millions of dollars. The day he signed everyone with half a brain knew he wouldnt be worth what they were paying him the last 5 years or so of his contract. Blame the Angles not Pujols.