ha, he sonned Ryan THE CLEAN SLUGGER Howard!
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 16 May 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
2007 & 2008 are his lowest IsoPs of his career.
I thought power was supposed to increase through *ahem* age 26-28?
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 16 May 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
IsoP is negatively correlated with hair loss, if that's what you're implying.
― mattbot, Friday, 16 May 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Guy has plantar fasciitis! It's amazing he can hit at all. That shit is painful.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 16 May 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
OBP is only important in regards to Barry Bonds...
― bnw, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
hi dere:
Bonds IsoP: 2006 SF .275 2007 SF .288
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Plantier fascistus?
― Andy K, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― bnw, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
how much of the waning is due to the elbow tear?
― chicago kevin, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
hi steve! if his power was rising into his "thirties" would you be on here insinuating something else about him? I am guessing YES.
― bnw, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
"how much of the waning is due to the elbow tear?"
NONE! IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF HIS FAKE AGE!
― Alex in SF, Friday, 16 May 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― polyphonic, Friday, 16 May 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
SHUT UP SHUT UP FAKE AGE SHUT UP!
― Alex in SF, Friday, 16 May 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Alex, how many healthy seasons has Pujols had?
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 16 May 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
;-)
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/8168/apriltemp2sr4.png
― bnw, Friday, 16 May 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
According to the Will Carroll, none.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 16 May 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Is Shasta calling all the surge-in-NL-offense articles dumb, I wonder?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 May 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Well obviously that's because he's been on the juice all along, right.
― Leee, Friday, 16 May 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i really want him to reach base in all 162
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 May 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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lol
my finest post of all time
― cankles, Friday, 16 May 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
"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."
― bnw, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 May 2008 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
ALBERT POOLHALLS
― jhøshea, Thursday, 22 May 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
IsoP career: .288 2008: .283
HANG EM UP YR DUNN
― bnw, Sunday, 1 June 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, almost as good as Bonds in 2007.
― Steve Shasta, Sunday, 1 June 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 21 August 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
He's not even the best player on his team.
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 21 August 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 21 August 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Skip Schumacher, come on down!
― David R., Thursday, 21 August 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm more of a Ryan Ludwick guy.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 21 August 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
3 points from Larry Jones ;)
― bnw, Saturday, 23 August 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to ask, Steve, then who is?
― Alex in SF, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i might care about this guy if he was the best player on his own team
― deeznuts, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
lol wtf are you talking about deeznuts
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 August 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
do you mean chris carpenter???
I think there must be a joke here that I am missing.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
not a good week to pick this fight :/
Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals has been named Bank of America Presents the National League Player of the Week for August 18-24, 2008. Bank of America, the Official Bank of Major League Baseball, is the presenting sponsor of the National League and American League Player of the Week Awards, which reflect Bank of America's long-standing tradition of promoting and recognizing higher standards of accomplishment.
Pujols led the N.L. with a .579 (11-for-19) batting average, a 1.105 slugging percentage, a .652 on-base percentage and 10 RBI, and was tied for the league-lead with four doubles. In addition, the seven-time All-Star was second in the N.L. with 21 total bases and tied for third with 11 hits and two home runs.
The 28-year-old first baseman posted four straight multi-hit and multi-RBI performances from August 20-24, including consecutive three-hit and three-RBI games on August 22nd and 23rd vs. Atlanta. The 2005 N.L. MVP homered in back-to-back games on August 23rd and 24th vs. Atlanta. Pujols currently has an eight-game hitting streak and is batting .359 (151-for-421) on the season, tied with Atlanta's Chipper Jones for the N.L. lead, with 28 home runs and 87 RBI. This marks the seventh time that Albert has earned N.L weekly honors. He has been named N.L. Player of the Week in each season since 2001 except for 2004.
― bnw, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I just don't even get who else is in this argument. Is there another first ballot HoFer (who is still playing like a first ballot HoFer!) that I'm missing on the Cardinal's roster?
― Alex in SF, Monday, 25 August 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
ok i could hear an argument for brian barton
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 August 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
bnw i believe that is what is called a small sample size especially in relation to ryan ludwick's season (note that ludwick has more homers and more rbi than pujols, and rbi is the best indicator of an MVP player as we all know)
― omar little, Monday, 25 August 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
you rite. another aberration: those two weeks when Albert was injured and Ludwick ~.180.
― bnw, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The 28-year-old first baseman
Stop right there.
― Leee, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Proof that Gary Cohen of the Mets crew, admittedly a very good play-by-play man, is overpraised: He too said last night that Ludwick is having a better year than Pujols.
The War Against Counting Stats will take another generation to win.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Justin (Chicago): So we really do believe that Pujols was actually born in 1980 still?
Rob Neyer: (12:51 PM ET ) Given that he's showed no real aging pattern at all, I'm beginning to wonder if he's not an immortal, like Thor or Hercules.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
so is he the best player on his team yet
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
jeez, even SUTCLIFFE said last night Pujols shd be MVP. (and cited OBP & SLUG; millennium arrives)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 18 September 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Motherfuckers that give Howard 1st place votes should be banned from life.
THAT'S RIGHT I SAID MOTHERFUCKERS -- THIS TIME IT COUNTS
― David R., Thursday, 18 September 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link