I'm going with wow. I'm guessing it was a mutual thing between a 50 year old and a team trying to develop some young guys.

Angels thinking they can win is wow too.

LaRussa's probably already talking to Jerry about what an amazing addition he would be.

Lol. Would you have picked the ****ing closer to spend the half inning on the basepaths, over a guy who runs the bases every single day?

lol ok.

Giancarlo is hotter than ****, btw.

Just saying, it's not the same level of mistake as say Girardi not challenging the HPB in the playoffs. Heck, it's a minuscule difference and I would venture most AL managers would have made the same mistake.

Where is the GIDP stat? I watched Pujols hit into a million of those.
I can't believe it was 10 ****ing years.

Not sure why now. Not like he was that much worse than the last ?? years

You fan find it on Bref. He's long been the all time leader in that stat.

Surprised they didn't allow him to have a farewell game. He's almost certainly done.

**** Ortiz getting a year long circle jerk and Pujols gets nothing.

Ortiz was the best hitter in baseball going out, Pujols has been a negative player for 5 years. He got a 280 million dollar or whatever his contract was 10 year jerkoff.

Supposedly there's teams that might sign him.

What did Pujols do for the Angels, other than **** them with that contract? I'm seeing 1 AS game and 2 MVP-17.

12.9 bwar over 10 years.

Watching Gleyber score from 1st on an infield single was a thing of beauty.

Fantastic catch by Gallo to win the ballgame and continue the Twins atrocious start. Yum yum yum!

Let's not leave out GOAT right-hand hitter in the Pujols comments. He can't help it if someone wants to pay him millions till he's 45 and he gets to chase Aaron (RBIs) and Bonds a little in the process, can he? One of my favorites. I always wanted him to land on exact same HRs and doubles for his career, been running so close for so long ... sitting on 667 and 669 ... was wishing for 702 and 702 or something. Seemed like a cool thing. Still say shortened season last year cost him a good shot at being the all-time RBI king.

A few years ago someone was knocking his production, legitimately of course, and I said 12 years as Ruth and 10 as Killebrew isn't so bad. He still has a Kingman type thing at the plate ... if sent to a hitter's park he can still hit dingers. The other day someone wrote an article saying he was on pace for 38 homers this year. LOL I said he'd more likely end up on 5 than on 38+. It may come to pass. The three guys I tracked most in my life all had incredibly long runs: Aaron, Murray, and Pujols. A great ride. Cash me out of the stat chronicling game.

So who are the GOAT right-hand hitters?

No particular order: Pujols, Frank Thomas, Manny, Belle, DiMaggio, Aaron, Mays, A-Rod, Cabrera ... ??

Did Pujols have an incredibly long run? I just posted he had 12 bwar over the past 10 years with the Angels.

Obviously he was scariest dude around for a while after Bonds got blackballed and more scary than Miggy and Trout peaks.

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Arod is the best of that group for careers. 3/5/7 year peaks is harder to sort. It's great how more than half have had major on/off the field problems.

He had 10 years basically averaging .300 / 35 / 110 or something.

Edit: His 11 year run at the beginning of his career is basically unmatched.

Averaged:
155 games
117 runs
188 hits
41 2B
40 HR
121 RBI
.328 BA
.420 OB
.617 SLG
1.037 OPS
Just shy of 8.0 WAR / year

2000+ hits in 11 years.

Trout is in his 11th year, and obviously had more injury issues and the 2020 shortened season so his counting stats can't compare, but
.306
.419
.585
1.005

So basically a better hitter than Trout over his first 11 seasons, minus the defense and baserunning advantage Trout has obviously.

Obviously #2 is that Pujols came up in the height of the steroid era, but Trout is in the middle of the fun happy baseball era.

In Frank Thomas' rookie year of 1991, he lead the league in OPS and racked up 7 WAR, and finished 3rd in MVP voting.

He did not win ROTY. Knoblauch and his sub 100 OPS+ did, while garnering zero MVP votes. Wtf?

He should really try to go to a place like Baltimore where right handed hitters can feast, or a losing team where he can just sit on fastballs down 8-1 in the 9th. Stat padding season.

He wouldn't have been eligible in 1991 for ROTY. He had over 130 plate appearances in 1990.

Ah ok. For some reason I've always had in my head he was rookie eligible that season.

That's a pretty big fail for someone using the Bighurt username and racking up 23k posts thinking he'd been screwed out of ROY voting for the last 30 years.