April 29, 201214 yr It's still early, but this is quite a slow start for Pujols... By far his worst month in his entire career... Albert Pujols went 0-for-4 with a strikeout in Sunday's shutout loss to the Indians. Since ending an 0-for-21 skid on Thursday, Pujols is just 2-for-12 with a pair of singles. Meanwhile, his season-beginning homer-less streak is now at 22 games, putting the Angels' $250 million man in danger of the first bomb-free month of his 12-year career (not counting March and October, of course). "It's still early," of course, but a .216/.266/.295 month for the game's best player is troubling after he set career lows in average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage last season.
April 29, 201214 yr Well Stanton is no longer in the no homer boat. Maybe Albert will get out of it soon.
April 29, 201214 yr He'll be fine. But will he be worth $250MM over 10 years? Even a little regression would make that awfully tough.
April 30, 201214 yr Author Well Stanton is no longer in the no homer boat. Maybe Albert will get out of it soon.
April 30, 201214 yr He'll be fine. He will probably end up being a shadow of his former self and not close to being worth his new contract. "Fine" is relative. I think we'll see solid numbers, but not MVP caliber numbers.
April 30, 201214 yr Yeah, that's what I meant. He's not going to be the same player he was during his prime years, but he didn't just suddenly forget how to hit. His power will comeback at some point. Surprising he's not getting more hits considering he's hitting line drives 25% of the time so far this year.
April 30, 201214 yr Author Angels are currently second to last in the AL in runs scored... Pujols needs to wake up & spark the Angels offense.
April 30, 201214 yr Angels are currently second to last in the AL in runs scored... Pujols needs to wake up & spark the Angels offense. Damn if that don't sound like a certain National League team ...
April 30, 201214 yr Angels are currently second to last in the AL in runs scored... Pujols needs to wake up & spark the Angels offense. Damn if that don't sound like a certain National League team ... No kidding.
April 30, 201214 yr this might sound dickish but i'm kind of enjoying seeing him struggle me too.. :mischief takes away the pain of not signing him
April 30, 201214 yr I'm sooo happy we didn't sign him. And this is not hind-sight, I didn't want the fish to sign him when we were in the running for him!
April 30, 201214 yr Author this might sound dickish but i'm kind of enjoying seeing him struggle me too.. :mischief takes away the pain of not signing him Same here...Also because he basically used us just to get more money from the Angels.
May 1, 201214 yr Author He finished the month of April with 0 HR's--the first month of his career in which he has not hit a HR. Another surprising stat: 0 RBI's in last 14 games.
May 3, 201214 yr Author Beltran had better stats tonight (2 HR, 7 RBI) than Pujols does all year. Same goes for Ruiz (HR, 7 RBI's).
May 3, 201214 yr Beltran actually did that in 3 innings.. lol. Cards have to be feelin pretty good about their decision so far
May 3, 201214 yr Beltran actually did that in 3 innings.. lol. Cards have to be feelin pretty good about their decision so far Not quite as easy to say that he would still be homerless playing for the Cards this year
May 3, 201214 yr Obviously a bad baseball contract (but not necessarily a bad business contract) but its going to be funny when he gets back on track and all the naysayers start back pedaling.
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