......If the St. Louis Cardinals don't offer the moon for Albert Pujols, the greatest baseball player in today's game, they are absolutely insane and they want to lose for some unknown reason. No fan would be able to forgive them for decades.
The Cardinals and Pujols have until noon tomorrow to reach a new contract.
UPDATE (12:53 pm): No deal. Pujols is likely to become a free agent in 2012.
We ran the numbers on Pujols just yesterday against Howard and Fielder. There is not even a semblance of a comparison. Pujols' "worst" year was last year and he still batted .312 with 42HR, 118RBIs, OBP of .414, and OPS of 1.011. Pujols 2010 with 587 ABs, 183 hits and 103 bases on balls. 82 of those hits were extra bases. Only four errors, too, and Albert goes after everything.
ReplyDeleteAlbert's .312, his worst BA in his career is only ONE POINT lower than Howard's best ever. Howard also has 14 errors the last two years and before that 19.
The Cards HAVE to re-sign Pujols at around 25-30MM, but the ten year deal is simply too danged long. He is 31 and without 'roiding, 41 is not going to happen.
Plus, Pujols is a solid citizen, good dude. Gotta make him an all out great offer. With super incentive, too. Plus, Matt Holiday said he would take a pay deferment to help out, too.
Pujols ain't too shabby for a 13th round pick and starting out at 200k, huh?
Yes, I am a lifelong Cards fan. Why do you ask?
One hell of a Cards fan!
ReplyDeleteThe closest I can come to that is discussing Brian McCann, the greatest catcher in the NL today. I agree that ten years is just to damn long - look at Jayson Werth at Washington - but St. Louis without Pujols is like the 1927 Yanks without Ruth.
I have not run the numbers of Pujols against the Babe, but I would guess that his numbers are comparable. Pujols is more important to the Cards than A-Rod is to the Yankees.
ReplyDeleteOh, and McCann was a Mississippi Brave. I saw him play a couple of times with them, too. I had heard that he had some eye problems a couple of years back. Is that all cleared up?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, right after McCann played for the M-Braves and got called up, Jarrod Saltalamacchia became the M-Braves catcher. Dude, I missed seeing him play by one day. He got traded to the Rangers the day before I went to Montgomery to a game. He is a Red Sox now. I'll never see him play unless it is in the World Series.
McCann - the eye problems have been fixed. They really hindered him in 2009, but considering he led the Braves in RBI's last season and won the All-Star game for the NL - he's doing well. I'm more concerned with Chipper right now.
ReplyDeleteI loved Salty when he first came up. He pounded the piss out of a bunch of balls, and then was sent to Texas for Mark Teixiera, who lasted one year, if that! Andrew Jones was signed by the NY Yanks last week.....
The Yanks are overpaying Andruw at league minimum. He's done and he's only two years older than Pujols.
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