With the Major League Baseball season now 60 days away, the Cardinals made some news over this past week, first by not signing Jeff Weaver, and allowing him to walk and sign with the Seattle Mariners.

Then more recently the Cardinals signed outfielder Preston Wilson to a one year, one million dollar contract. This is a good sign. Fairly cheap, and Preston will do a good job in the outfield for the Cardinals.

 The news on our man Albert Pujols has been quiet, as we will have more on his "community service" trip soon!

At the age of 27, Albert is entering his 7th full season of professional baseball, all with the St. Louis Cardinals. We here at www.albertpujolsclub.com thought we would put Albert's career so far into perspective compared to four of arguably the best baseball players of all time. We will break each down individually, and are going to assume that our boy Jose Alberto Pujols played until the age 40, which is 13 more full seasons, which gives him 19 total years, and using Albert's averages so far to determine where he will fit in. 

 

Albert Pujols Career Stats:

6 seasons

933 games

3489 at bats

748 runs

1159 hits

260 doubles

12 triples

250 homeruns

758 rbi's

493 walks

394 strikeouts

.332 batting average

Babe Ruth's Career Stats:                                       

22 seasons 

2503 games

8389 at bats

2174 runs

2873 hits

506 doubles

136 triples

714 homeruns

2217 rbi's

2062 walks

1330 strikeouts

.342 batting average

Hank Aaron's Career Stats:

23 seasons

3298 games

12364 at bats

2174 runs

3771 hits

624 doubles

98 triples

755 homeruns

2297 rbi's

1402 walks

1383 strikeouts

.305 batting average

Ted Williams' Career Stats:

19 seasons

2292 games

7706 at bats

1798 runs

2654 hits

525 doubles

71 triples

521 homeruns

1839 rbi's

2021 walks

739 strikeouts

.344 batting average

Joe Dimaggio's Career Stats:

13 seasons

1739 games 

6821 at bats

1390 runs

2214 hits

389 doubles

131 triples

361 homeruns

1537 rbi's

790 walks

369 strikeouts

.325 batting average

Albert Pujols Career Stats(year 2019):

19 seasons

3038 games

11042 at bats

2360 runs

3668 hits

819 doubles

38 triples

796 homeruns

2396 rbi's

1559 walks

1252 strikeouts

.332 batting average

Now, we understand Albert could get hurt. His numbers could go down. His numbers could go up(scary thought). But we are just using his averages through his first 6 years. If these were the case:

Albert would play in more games, and have more at bats then all of them, except Hank Aaron. He would be ahead of all of them in runs, hits, and doubles. His triples would of course be lower than all of them, but we all know Albert is not a triples guy, if he is at third base, chances are his great baserunning instincts will take him all the way home. He would smoke all of them in homeruns(almost 800), and have more rbi's than all of them.

Bottom line: Albert Pujols has been, and has a chance to be one of the, if not THE best baseball player to ever play the game.

Stay tuned

- APCman

We here at www.albertpujolsclub.com are getting excited about Albert and the Cardinals 2007 season. The defending World Series St. Louis Cardinals behind their 2005 MVP Albert Pujols will tip off the season against the National East Champion New York Mets on Sunday April 1st, 2007 on ESPN.

Pujols, the first basemen on one of the best professional sports franchises in all of sports history, the St. Louis Cardinals will look to re-load during the 2007 season. There will be plenty of changes in the Cardinals lineup, and pitching rotation but behind manager Tony LaRussa, and pitching coach Dave Duncan, Pujols and the Cardinals will be up top the National League Central standings once again.

Albert Pujols during the 2006 season hit for a .331batting average, hit 49 homeruns, and drove in 137 rbi's. With 50 homeruns during the 2007 season, Albert will reach the 300 homerun mark at the age of 27. 142 rbi's during the 2007 season will put Albert at 900 for his career, while only playing in 933 career games(coming into the 2007 season).

Make sure you continue to check out www.albertpujolsclub.com for all the latest on the guy that COULD go down in history as the GREATEST baseball player to ever play the game- Jose Alberto Pujols. Tell your friends, and family about the site, and don't be late in joining the club, as the member base is growing by the day!

-APCman

70 days until OPENING NIGHT!!

Happy Belated Birthday to our man Jose Alberto Pujols, who turned 27 on Tuesday! We wish you a great 27 year of your life Albert!

Good to see AP supporting MJ (Michael Jordan)!!! 

Albert Pujols will miss the 2006 World Series Champions St. Louis Cardinals trip to the White House to meet the President on Tuesday. Instead, Albert will make a trip to his home land- the Dominican Republic on a humanitarian mission. His foundation, the Pujols Family Foundation is sponsoring the trip.

Albert, along with six doctors and two assistants are going to three villages in six days to work with over 1,000 Dominican kids.

The purpose of the trip will involve health education, cleaning teeth, and seeing if anyone needs surgery. Also, clothes will be given to those who are in need.

 Is there any more this man can do?

Well the Cardinals re-signed a pitcher. The one that most Cardinal fans did NOT want to re-sign out of all the starting pitchers the Cardinals had in their 06 World Series run, the Cardinals DID sign on Wednesday.

Mark Mulder signed with the Cardinals for a 2 year, 13 million dollar contract. This deal was also loaded with incentives that say if Mulder gets 30 starts in both 07 and 08 the deal could be worth as much as 45 million dollars.

This deal now makes it official. Albert Pujols will NOT have to be the 4th starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Is it Baseball season yet?