Prince Albert Pujols, he reigneth

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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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!

I'm more of a Ryan Ludwick guy.

3 points from Larry Jones ;)

I have to ask, Steve, then who is?

i might care about this guy if he was the best player on his own team

lol wtf are you talking about deeznuts

do you mean chris carpenter???

I think there must be a joke here that I am missing.

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.

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?

ok i could hear an argument for brian barton

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)

you rite. another aberration: those two weeks when Albert was injured and Ludwick ~.180.

The 28-year-old first baseman

Stop right there.

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.

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.

so is he the best player on his team yet

jeez, even SUTCLIFFE said last night Pujols shd be MVP. (and cited OBP & SLUG; millennium arrives)

Motherfuckers that give Howard 1st place votes should be banned from life.

THAT'S RIGHT I SAID MOTHERFUCKERS -- THIS TIME IT COUNTS

they need to enact a sportswriter pogrom if pujols gets anything less than 100% of the 1st place votes

Walking across the clubhouse to his locker, Manny Ramirez literally went out of his way to say that he didn't deserve to be the NL most valuable player and that Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals did. "I voted for Pujols," Ramirez said.