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
they need to enact a sportswriter pogrom if pujols gets anything less than 100% of the 1st place votes
― cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― ilx: a miracle i helped create (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 September 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
But not before threatening to eat the heads of all his teammates' children.
― Andy K, Thursday, 18 September 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
so the man gets a night off and his team - best record in baseball - proceeds to lose to the Nationals - with the worst record in baseball.
jusayin.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Sunday, 3 May 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
^I started Pinero in vorppedminds. One earned run.
― bela fregosi (brownie), Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
just blew out 'lectric lights a la Redford
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 May 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Knocking out the "I" in "Big Mac" wasn't quite as cinematic as the Natural, but still impressive!
― ^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Friday, 22 May 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
MLB Network is not a movie
(The Natural isn't much of one, either)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 May 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/00/fullj.76e1df41fb17254ec099ed1406587afa/76e1df41fb17254ec099ed1406587afa-getty-85134110jm034_st_louis_card.jpg
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Saturday, 27 June 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
JESUS CHRIST
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Saturday, 27 June 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
dont understand why they pitch to him
― s1ocked up, they won't let me out (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 June 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Me neither, but I'm glad they do.
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Saturday, 27 June 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
After opening the third inning with a fly out, Pujols returned to the Cardinals clubhouse to review video. There he predicted to assistant hitting coach Mike Aldrete that his next at-bat would ricochet off the yet-to-open Royals Hall of Fame behind the visitors bullpen in left field. “He didn’t say he might hit the Hall of Fame. He said he would hit the Hall of Fame,” Aldrete recalled . . . When Meche finally threw the pitch, Pujols swatted it some 423 feet off a Hall of Fame window.
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 28 June 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/2367035793
CARDINALS ACQUIRE MARK DeROSA FROM INDIANS; REDBIRDS SEND CHRIS PEREZ & PLAYER-TO-BE-NAMED TO TRIBE...
― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Sunday, 28 June 2009 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
cubs fans will love that! would rather have lost Mott over Perez :/
― bnw, Sunday, 28 June 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
this fucking guy.
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
they can give him the mvp already
― rembrandt what (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
you could rearrange the seasons of this guy's career in any order you'd want and they'd all look the same, this flat pattern of awesome.
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Three singles--that's how close Pujols is to an N.L. Triple Crown this morning. I got really caught up in Delgado's bid in 2000, and in the end the only thing he led the league in was doubles. (He finished with a little more or a little less than 90% of the league-leading total in each of the TC categories.) I was six when McClain won 30--I know that won't happen again unless the game profoundly changes. Dimaggio's streak, all but impossible; .400, maybe. I've always believed there'll be another TC, though. How do people assess Pujols' chances?
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 July 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
sorta buy in 2 the argument from earlier in the season that theres not enough around him 4 giant RBI #s (tho i guess now w/ derosa [who is hurt?] & a non-pitcher batting 9th maybe im wrong)...idk it'd be interesting to see the stats of his # of ABs w/ RISP vs. say Prince Fielder
~also his IBB #s may start to take off...noticed SF walked him in the 1st inning yesterday
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
all depends on Wright. Wright is obv off the juice this year, his isoP is about 50% of his career average but he's still hitting for average.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
worst troll yet.
btw guys, it's Suggest Ban Shasta Day.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
D Wright, NYM 3BMiscellaneous BattingSEASON IsoP2004 NYM .2322005 NYM .2172006 NYM .2202007 NYM .2222008 NYM .2322009 NYM .153Total -- .217
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Albert PujolsSEASON TEAM IsoP2001 StL 0.2812002 StL 0.2472003 StL 0.3082004 StL 0.3262005 StL 0.2792006 StL 0.3402007 StL 0.2412008 StL 0.238
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― bnw, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
JUST LOOK AT HIS IhoP, PEOPLE! LOOK AT IT!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
bnw there was another post you must have missed that had pujols best isoP season <<< than bonds final season.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link