Prince Albert Pujols, he reigneth

* baseless speculation, much like the non-Gatlin drug rumours on this thread

But for the rest of you, I hope you take a sharp grounder to the gonads.

Pujols 30.4 VORP, .325 EqAvg

Fielder 29.6 VORP, .316 EqAvg

Prince Semien Fielder, he unworthieth.

your vendetta against Prince is just precious, Morbs.
keep up the good hatin'!

uh-oh, don't wake the shasta bias!

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The St. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols has agreed to participate in tonight’s Home Run Derby in San Francisco, even though he is mired in a career-worst power slump. Pujols, who has 16 home runs, and Alex Rios of the Toronto Blue Jays were the final participants added.

Pujols’s homerless streak reached 22 games and a career-worst 74 at-bats in the Cardinals’ 7-0 victory over the Giants yesterday.

Rios, Minnesota’s Justin Morneau, Vladimir Guerrero of the Angels and Magglio Ordóñez of the Tigers are the American League’s representatives for the Derby. Pujols, Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard and Prince Fielder of the Brewers are the National League contestants.

Oh, for a career-worst power drought to mean 16 HRs at the All-Star Break.

ha, he sonned Ryan THE CLEAN SLUGGER Howard!

Albert Pujols
SEASON TEAM IsoP
2001 StL 0.281
2002 StL 0.247
2003 StL 0.308
2004 StL 0.326
2005 StL 0.279
2006 StL 0.340
2007 StL 0.241
2008 StL 0.238

2007 & 2008 are his lowest IsoPs of his career.

I thought power was supposed to increase through *ahem* age 26-28?

IsoP is negatively correlated with hair loss, if that's what you're implying.

Guy has plantar fasciitis! It's amazing he can hit at all. That shit is painful.

OBP is only important in regards to Barry Bonds...

hi dere:

Bonds IsoP:
2006 SF .275
2007 SF .288

Plantier fascistus?

are those 'roid adjusted stats on Bonds?

Prince Albert:
Ranks 4th in NL in BA (.357)
Ranks 15th in NL in HR (8)
Ranks 1st in NL in BB (41)
Ranks 1st in NL in OBP (.503)
Ranks 8th in NL in SLG (.594)
Ranks 3rd in NL in OPS (1.097)

hi bnw, i'm talking about POWER. not walks, not batting average, not on-base percentiles.

i am talking about POWER.

And how Albert's POWER seems to be waning as he enters the eversofaint twilight of his mid-twenties.

how much of the waning is due to the elbow tear?

hi steve! if his power was rising into his "thirties" would you be on here insinuating something else about him? I am guessing YES.

"how much of the waning is due to the elbow tear?"

NONE! IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF HIS FAKE AGE!

The dude is playing through some pretty significant injuries and still hitting very well. I don't think it's very hard to understand how those injuries could reduce his power. I mean, the Cardinals were planning on having him miss the entirety of this season if they fell out of contention early. He's only still playing because they're in the mix for the division.

SHUT UP SHUT UP FAKE AGE SHUT UP!

Alex, how many healthy seasons has Pujols had?

;-)

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/8168/apriltemp2sr4.png

According to the Will Carroll, none.

Is Shasta calling all the surge-in-NL-offense articles dumb, I wonder?

According to the Will Carroll, none.

Well obviously that's because he's been on the juice all along, right.

i really want him to reach base in all 162

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-- INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Friday, May 26, 2006 5:52 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

lol

my finest post of all time

"Pujols’ first homer was massive. He led off the fifth inning by hitting reliever Justin Germano’s second pitch into the balcony on the fourth floor of the Western Metal Supply Co. building in Petco Park’s left-field corner, 405 feet from home plate."

"He hit another towering shot leading off the eighth, this one into the seats in left-center on a full-count pitch from left-hander Sean Henn."

;-)

wow, first Albert lines one off Chris Young's face, then knocks Bard out of the game by sliding into his ankle? DESTROYER OF PADS!

ALBERT POOLHALLS

IsoP
career: .288
2008: .283

HANG EM UP YR DUNN

wow, almost as good as Bonds in 2007.

Joe Sheehan:

The way in which Albert Pujols is taken for granted has become something of a joke. He is one of the two best players in baseball—it's him or it's Alex Rodriguez—and has been basically since he walked into the league, and is well on his way to being one of the 20 best players ever. He does everything: hits for average and power, runs the bases well, plays superior defense at his position, first base. He's rarely been at the center of any controversies. He is the second-best player in franchise history behind a guy who has a case for being the best player in the history of the National League. He would have at least three MVP awards had Barry Bonds retired after 1999, and he'd have a top-five finish in every one of his seven completed seasons if last year's vote hadn't been such a disaster. (Pujols was the best or second-best player in the league, but finished ninth in the voting because the Cardinals' pitching wasn't good. That makes sense.) Pujols should be considered the NL MVP at this point; there is simply no argument against him.

He's not even the best player on his team.

hahaha

He's not even the best player on his team.

Skip Schumacher, come on down!