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Ukraine Says Its Forces Are Holding On in Bakhmut
"The fact in a group is urging Ukraine to get out of back mud. Chevy Pujols, the owner of the Wagner group military company, has released a video urging Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky to withdraw the remaining forces from back mud to save their lives, clad in military fatigues, progesterone, charged that backward has been effectively encircled, leaving just one road that Ukrainian troops can use. The Vatican chief claims that the forces left him backwards consist of elderly people and teenagers, urging zelensky to pull them back to prevent them from being slaughtered, following the statement an elderly man and two young men purportedly captured Ukrainian soldiers were shown to make the plea to zelensky. I'm Charles
The Dan Patrick Show
"pujols" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"I have a few signed baseballs, which I gave to my son Keith, who now works for the baseball network and was a real baseball fan, even as a little kid. So I've got signed baseballs from all the guys I just mentioned that a few others. But I didn't really go out of my way to get anything else. And I never really looked at it as having any other value except sentimental on never any commercial value. Yes, I talked to Doc emmerich and Doc would keep all of his boards when he would do a play by play. All of his notes. And I was curious, do you keep all of your scorecards or boards that you have for the games that you've done? Yeah, I keep them for a while. If it's still relevant two years, three years later, if there are notes on players that are still involved and then after that, I get rid of them except I keep the ones that are most significant. I keep the ones from like the 7th game of the World Series. So I kept the one from Stephen Strasburg's debut when he struck out 14 for the nationals and he was briefly sensation around baseball moments like that, Derek Jeter's last game at Yankee Stadium. Moments like that, I've kept the scorecards. Could the Dodgers be historically great? If they win Yeah, they want a 111 games this year. They're run differential with something like plus three 40. The Yankees led the American League and it was way behind that differential that the Dodgers had. And they've been such a good team, even though they only won the one world championship in 2020. They've been a world championship caliber team for so long. So if you take kind of this whole better part of a decade under Dave Roberts, if you look at it that way, they deserve consideration as an all time great team. I brought this up to a couple of guys who covered the game, see what your thought is. If you can have the career of Ken griffey junior or Albert Pujols. I'm kind of dodging it. You wouldn't want a baseball world without either one of them. Ken griffey junior became what he should have become. He was the one and only Ken griffey junior and Pujols was the one and only el ombre or the machine. Griffey was the greater all around player because he was a spectacular center Fielder. Pujols has the greater statistics as a hitter. They're both obvious first ballot Hall of Famers, griffey was near unanimous. That barrier has been broken now by Rivera getting all the votes and missing by only one. So Pujols might be unanimous in 5 years when he comes up. I guess if you are just talking about a kid's dreams, I think a kid would dream of playing center field like Willie Mays or like Ken griffey junior, more than he would dream of being a first baseman or a designated hitter, which is not a knock on pools.
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Bryce Harper solo home run gives Phillies the 1-0 lead
"Bryce Harper homered in Aaron nola pitch 6 and two thirds innings as the Philadelphia Phillies shut out the Saint Louis Cardinals two to nothing to win their first playoff series in 12 years Harper homered in the second inning and said he was not going to let this game slip away We're not losing this game No chance we're not losing this game I'll be the heart and soul that we have in this team So we have this organization We're going to keep going Albert Pujols went to for four and Yadier Molina added a hit in their final game of their careers for the central division champion Cardinals The Phillies will face the
WTOP
"pujols" Discussed on WTOP
"5 or 6 stars. You feel the ball well for us. And I'm working all year long to get back to what we felt like making compete and give us a chance to win the games and he did that. I'm a little past his day and know that he's back felt good, which is a good sign and we'll move on from there. The Orioles win the series in New York with a three one win over the Yankees, successfully keeping Aaron judge from hitting historic home run number 62 with their expense and Albert Pujols as he plays out the final days of his illustrious career, got a 46 minute pre game ceremony in St. Louis before hitting career home run number 702 and tide Babe Ruth for second on the all time RBI list. Rob woodfork WTO sports. The top stories we're following for you today on WTO P, rescuers in Florida evacuated stunned survivors on a large barrier island cut off by hurricane Ian, as the state's death toll climbs sharply to at least 80. Police in prince George's county in D.C. are investigating a shooting that injured a toddler in southeast early Saturday Sunday morning. Fairfax county police are looking for a silver Nissan maxima with Maryland tags in connection with a deadly shooting this morning outside of an apartment complex in the Mount Vernon area. Stay with WTO for more on these stories in just minutes. It's two 47 midterm elections are just around the corner and with it new security concerns for the voting process and the people Manning the polls. Chris krebs, a former director of cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency said on face the nation more needs to be done to hold bad actors accountable. Unfortunately, I don't think that there are a lot of tools right now available to counter
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"pujols" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"And of course, all of this is relevant again, we're still relevant, as are so many of these past blasts, because a few years ago, MLB signed a deal with MGM and subsequently mandated that managers had to transmit their daily lineups to the league office and from there to the gambling partners before they were released to the press or the public, so the league gets to get those lineups at least 15 minutes before everyone else and then relay them to MGM and others and MLB said that this was done to reduce integrity risks associated with the expansion of sports betting, specifically to reduce the risk of confidential information being tipped. Make of that what you will, but as I often say, all of this has happened before, and it will all happen again, including me quoting that line. All right, one recommendation I will make to you relevant to our pool holes discussion, the MLB vault, Twitter account at MLB vault, published a video, it's called 700 swings for 700 Albert Pujols homers, and it is exactly what it sounds like. It's just a still image of Albert Pujols set up at the plate or in mid swing on every home run he's ever hit in the regular season at least, and it's just a ticker counting up with hundreds and hundreds of still images and some breaks for actual videos for the milestone dingers. I just wanted to shout this out and link to it in the show notes because of whatever editor or editors had to compile all of these still photos of Albert Pujols standing in the batter's box as he hid his home runs. I can't imagine how long this took to put together. I'm almost envious because a lot of these games are not accessible to the public. I mean, games that were played in 2001 or 2002 might as well have been the past blast from 1908. A lot of those things are not accessible, at least not in full, but somewhere in the MLB vault they exist. However, unless they are tagged in some way and unless there's a way to identify every time that Albert pools was swinging and hitting a home run at the plate in a programmatic method, this might have taken forever. We'd take a pretty long time even if you could cut right to the home run swing with 700 homers, so I imagine that one way or another, a lot of work went into that Montage and I applaud it. It's pretty cool. Also, happy 97th birthday this week to effectively wild legend and former guest Bobby shantz, hope he's doing well and two very brief follow-ups from our email show last time we talked about the pitch clock versus pitch timer terminology. Someone suggested that maybe MLB is trying to push pitch timer on us because focus groups or fans in general recoiled at the idea of a clock in baseball. And so they're trying to distance the pitch clock from the concept of a clock by calling it a pitch timer. Could be, again, I don't hate pitch timer, arguably it's more accurate than pitch clock and that it's counting down not counting up, but I'm used to calling it a pitch clock. We all know what a pitch clock is. I'm satisfied with that one term. But maybe, maybe that is MLB's ulterior motive for tried to rebrand the pitch clock as the pitch timer. Second point is that we answered a question about what would happen if hitters had their own personal strike zones if they could decide what would be a strike and what their strike zone would be shaped like. We talked through a lot of the ramifications about that that would probably make things interesting but unworkable. One thing I wanted to mention is that I imagine that many hitters actually would just stick with the off the rack strike zone because if you think about it, the strike zone as currently constituted is designed to make strikes be fairly hittable pitches, right? Most hitters are going to be hot, middle, middle, and on pitches that are in the zone. So I'm not sure it would actually vary that much from hitter to hitter. I mean, yeah, you have high ball hitters and you have low ball hitters, and you have hitters who like a ball inside or outside. But I think most of the personal strike zones would map on fairly well to the regulation zone. There would be some interesting deviations, and I guess everyone, or many players would have at least some small shift, but you'd have a lot of overlap between the personal preferred strike zone and the one size fits all. Meant to mention that last time. So I figured I'd follow up. For now,
WTOP
"pujols" Discussed on WTOP
"Sports at 15 and 45 powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red. Everybody, September 24th, two 15 indeed sports time, mister Frank Henry had once again this early hour. There is a new member of the 700 club in Homer's Albert Pujols. It's number 6 99 and 700 in the same game joins Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in the 700 club. Nationals lacked offense yet again, they lose 5 to two at the Miami Marlins. Lane Thomas actually let off the game with a solo Homer, but then they didn't get anything until the 8th Y M and S's with an RBI double, but that was it offensively just I agree. Striking out three over 6 innings of work. He gave up 400 runs. That's following their opener at the Marlins 5 to two. Birds were winners, knocking off Houston 6 zip Friday night at oriole park at Camden yards. On Saturday, college football, Virginia. Doug is 16 zip hole fought back but losing the end late field goal by Syracuse 22 20 orange off to a four and O start. Back to college football big day Saturday for Maryland football is a visit Michigan. 17 point underdogs are the terps who are trying to go to fort as well. Again, Albert Pujols, career Homer number 700 Nats fall to the Marlins of Frank hanran WTO sports. As always, two 16 Saturday morning September 24th on WTO, welcome to the weekend, everybody. Among the top stories we're following for you this 2 a.m. hours Saturday morning on TOP, a Maryland judge has ruled this week that elections officials can start counting mail in ballots soon as October 1st. However, no results we're told will be revealed until polls officially close on election night, the governor is said to support this decision. At autopsy shows a black man from Colorado died after he was injected with too much sedative and restrained by police outside of Denver, 23 year olds, Eli, Elijah, that is Elijah mcclain died back in 2019, three police officers and two paramedics are facing charges in his death. This morning, the original autopsy said the cause of death could not be determined. Florida is in the state of emergency as tropical depression is marching towards the gulf this morning, a 1901 abortion ban law once again law in Arizona this morning stay with WTO for more on these developing stories in just minutes where the time now is two 17. You know a local chef is making a name for himself on social media and he says he's just getting started. Since southern favorites out of Mississippi to specialty dishes out of Seattle, chef Boyd Brown the third grew up in the kitchen. Those Saturday mornings smelling the sausage cooking, the pots and pans rattling around. His drive to learn kicked in during college, 16 years and 200,000 TikTok followers later, his takes on traditional food favorites have been a hit. My recipe ebook that's dropping next week has one of my favorite dishes. It's an oxtail and Gruyere sandwich. So what's next? Well, he hopes to eventually open a restaurant here in the DMV, and is encouraging others to take a chance on themselves. You have to put in the work. Melissa how WTO penis. It's Saturday, September 24th, weekend everybody. We made it good morning. It's two 18. I think it was one of the 8. Good morning to Ian Crawford with this, and the double DTO P traffic
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Albert Pujols becomes just fourth player to hit 700 home runs
"Albert Pujols has reached the 700 home run mark while leading the cardinals to an 11 nothing route of the Dodgers Pool holes did it by homering twice once in the third inning and another in the fourth It was his 14th home run since the start of August as the 42 year old Pujols appears ready to retire with a bang He's the fourth player in major league history to hit 700 home runs Joining Barry Bonds Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth Pujols finished with 5 RBIs while Lars newt Bart added a two run Homer in three RBIs Jose can Tana scattered 5 hits over 6 and two thirds innings I'm Dave ferry
WTOP
"pujols" Discussed on WTOP
"45 powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red. It's not an ornament it's the weekend, everybody we've made is zipper 24th, 1215 in the morning, Frankie's first mid light hit with a Saturday. There is a new member of the 700 club in Homer's Albert Pujols. It's number 6 99 and 700 in the same game joins Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in the 700 club. Nationals lacked offense yet again, they lose 5 to two at the Miami Marlins. Lane Thomas actually let off the game with a solo Homer, but then they didn't get anything until the 8th you aim in essence with an RBI double, but that was it offensively Josiah gray striking out three over 6 innings of work. He gave up 400 runs. That's following their opener at the Marlins 5 to two. Birds were winners, knocking off Houston 6 zip Friday night at oriole park at Camden yard same two on Saturday. College football, Virginia. Doug is 16 zip hole fought back but losing the end late field goal by Syracuse 22 20 orange off to a four and O start. Back to college football big day Saturday for Maryland football is a visit Michigan 17 point underdogs are the terps who are trying to go to as well. Again, Albert Pujols, career Homer number 700 Nats fall to the Marlins of Frank Han WTO sports. 1216 Saturday morning on WDC. Along the top stories we're following for you on TLP this midnight hour Maryland judge ruling this week that elections officials can start counting mail in ballots as soon as October 1st, however, no results will be revealed until polls are closed on election night, the governor supports the decision. At autopsy shows a black man from Colorado died after he was injected with too much sedative and restrained by police outside of Denver 23 year old Elijah mcclain died in 2019, three police officers in the case and two paramedics are facing charges in his death. The original autopsy said the cause of death could not be determined. State with WTO for more on these developing stories than just minutes where the time now Saturday morning is 1217. A local chef is making a name for himself on social media and he's just getting started. In southern favorites out of Mississippi to specialty dishes out of Seattle, chef Boyd Brown the third grew up in the kitchen. Those Saturday mornings smelling the sauce it's cooking, the pots and pans rattling around. His drive to learn kicked in during college, 16 years and 200,000 TikTok followers later, his takes on traditional food favorites have been a hit. My recipe ebook that's dropping next week has one of my favorite dishes. It's an oxtail and Gruyere sandwich. So what's next? Well, he hopes to eventually open a restaurant here in the DMV, and is encouraging others to take a chance on themselves. You have to put in the work. Melissa Howell WTO news. And if you love them, you know what's paw policies in around here. People often ask, how come I don't see this in the grocery store and how come I've never heard of it before? Elise Elaine, the owner of two boots farm in Carroll county. Growing commercially is very labor intensive. If the pawpaw comes off the tree too soon and may never ripen. We go out during pawpaw season every single day and we touch every single pop to see if it's ripe. Once it's picked, there's only a few days before it's ready to be eaten. It would wait for it to be pretty squishy, just like an avocado would be. She says, that's why you see paw paws at farmers markets, but not supermarkets. Neil law can stay in double TLP news
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62 and 700: Judge, Pujols closing in on home run milestones
"Aaron judge belted his 58th and 59th home runs as the Yankees avoided a three game sweep beating the brewers 12 8 judges two solo shots leaving two homers off Roger Maris single season AL record Numbers Yeah that's just there is numbers you know I'm focused on doing what I can to be a good teammate helped the team win With that means hitting a Homer and then it means in the Homer Judge leads the majors in homers and RBIs and is one point off the AL batting lead Anthony Rizzo homered in his return from the injured list Aaron hicks and rookie as Waldo Cabrera also went deep as New York overcame three zero and four one deficits
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Albert Pujols hits 698th homer, helps Cards beat Reds 6-5
"Albert Pujols his career home run number 698 is the Cardinals defeat the reds 6 to 5 the red birds DH says the chase for 700 career homers is not his motivation I'm never a guy that take a lot of pride I think getting every opportunity I've been getting especially as lately and just try to help this ball club to wine and my main goal you know it's one 8 championship my last year that'd be awesome Nolan Arenado drives in a pair of runs including the go ahead tally in the 7th inning Ryan helsley records the save with an immaculate 9th inning Mike Reeves St. Louis
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Reds snap six-game losing streak, beat Cardinals 3-2
"Or Cincinnati pictures combined to limit the Cardinals to three hits in a three to two win chase Anderson pitches 5 innings to record the victory That's a really good team over there I mean they're in first place to reason and potential future Hall of Famers in that lineup And there is one with the two of them in the Arctic Pujols and yachty So it's fun to compete against the best They're just kind of tells you where you stand Nixon zell and aristides Aquino hit solo home runs for the reds Paul Goldschmidt and Albert Pujols driving the rydberg runs The cards lead over the second place brewers in the NL central is now 7 and a half games Mike Reeves St. Louis
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Wainwright, Molina make history, then lead Cards over Brews
"Signal was pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina start their 325th game as battery mates to set the MLB mark in the cardinals four to one win over the brewers Wainwright pitches 5 inches to pick up the win and says setting the record in St. Louis is meaningful I would have felt weird going somewhere else I'd look at myself in the mirror and just ask myself what am I doing You know like I belong here and this is where I belong and this is where I should have been and this is where Yadier should have been and has been and this is just home for us Know that Ariana and Lars newt bar hit home runs while Molina and Albert Pujols deliver run scoring hits for the NL central division leading Cardinals I'm Mike Reeves
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Albert Pujols slams career homer No. 697 in Cardinals' victory vs. Pirates
"Albert Pujols at career home run 6 96 as the Cardinals rallied to beat the pirates 7 5 pul host's long ball moves him into fourth place on baseball's all time home run list tying him with Alex Rodriguez He continues to inch closer to 700 homers in his final season 21 years ago weighing on make the book club that wasn't something I always chasing him 22 years later I don't think I'm gonna change my approach I think I'm gonna let things happen
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Pujols reaches 695 HRs, Mikolas goes 8 in Cards' win vs Cubs
"The Cardinals down the cubs two to nothing without Pujols hitting a two run pinch hit home run in the 8th inning off of cubs relief pitcher Brandon Hughes It was his second pinch hit long ball of the season As a matter how you do it whether you start a pinch it or it just doesn't matter I think at the end of the day it's to be able to contribute for this ball club However I can That's 16 homers this year and 695 in his career miles Michael is now 11 and ten after giving up two hits over 8 innings The cards have won four straight and sit atop the NL set your division might Reeves St. Louis
ESPN Daily
"pujols" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"He's a man of his word. He's true to what he says, and he told me late last year, even though everybody was basically saying that he should retire. He told me that he was taking his time in making a decision because he wanted to be sure that this was it. And what he told me was when I say I'm done, I'm done. And so I think he will be done after this season. And I think we should all just enjoy it. But if this is the end, if this is goodbye, if we're all waving goodbye to Albert Pujols, what exactly are we waving goodbye to? Would you say? One of the best baseball players who has ever lived, one of the top right handed hitters ever probably the second greatest first baseman ever behind Lou Gehrig. Somebody who's done things that basically only Hank Aaron is done, maybe Alex Rodriguez, somebody who has had an immeasurable impact on the sport because of the amount of players that he influenced along the way, but I think the perception of Albert Pujols is career as being a two act play. Is now misplaced. What we're living now is a third act and it's been stirring, it's been electrifying and the best thing about it is the fun part is what's coming and September and a pennant race
ESPN Daily
"pujols" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Think that's a coincidence. Not just because of tangibly he is providing a power source for that team and he's making a meaningful contribution, but I think Albert pool is very much sets the tone on that team. I think it says a lot about just the admiration that he has for the players in there. I mean, I remember every game that I would cover with Albert pools at the start of every series. You would have players from the other team who would flock to where he was because they wanted to talk to him. Almost at the start of every series, there would be at least one veteran player, usually a Latin player. Who would bring a younger Latin player with him to be like, hey, look, come come with me. I will introduce you to Albert Pujols. This happened at the start of basically every series. Now we saw it at the All-Star Game at the home run Derby, right? We saw it on camera on national TV. Everybody realized, wait a minute, this guy is this pied piper of young players right now. Yeah, in Pablo that moment, right? When he takes sort of a timeout from his home run Derby round. And then everybody from both sides of the dugout just sort of surrounds him and tries to sort of motivate him and you have this sort of magical kind of encircling around Albert Pujols. And everybody all the players making their way towards Albert. Check this scene out in his last home run Derby. This is respect. The players are here to see Albert Pujols. It's important to note who was there, right by him. It's Juan Soto. It's Vladimir Guerrero junior, it's framber Valdez, Luis Castillo. For Dominican players of that generation, Albert pools is dear Michael Jordan. They came up playing baseball, admiring him the way kids of the 90s admired Michael Jordan. And Albert Pujols throughout his career has always made it a point to take care of Latin players. He saw it as a responsibility. And a lot of them look up to him not just as a role model, but they see him as somebody they could talk to. Somebody they could confide in. Somebody who will do anything for them to help them on their career path. And I think that's become a very big part of the legacy of Albert Pujols. That maybe is not as well known as some of the other stuff, but I think it's been just as impactful. But the idea that Albert Pujols means this much to all of these players across baseball outside of his own Clubhouse, it does raise questions for me now Alden about how it feels to be a supporting cast member inside of the Cardinals clubhouses. They are obviously trying to win a World Series and have a realistic shot at trying to do it as this whole circus now is emerging. I honestly think he's been a very welcomed distraction. I think what he's doing, his pursuit of 700 and just a resurgence he's had this month, has taken a lot of pressure off the rest of that group. Consider this Pablo, Paul coach Schmidt is chasing a Triple Crown. Yes. We're not talking about Paul Goldschmidt. Right. Might be the actual MVP. Might be the MVP is the FrontRunner for it, and we're talking only about Albert Pujols and what he's doing and the chase for 700. This 42 year old guy at the end of a very long career still very much sets the tone for a team and I think it's very much the case in that city, where even though he left for about a decade, he is still basically a God there. And so at the very end here Alden, we are standing here as the Cardinals have, I'm doing the math here. 31 games left in this regular season. And 700 home runs, this very, very magical round number that only three major leaguers have ever reached. That's Barry Bonds that's Hank Aaron, that's Babe Ruth. If Albert Pujols does not hit number 700 by the end of this year, do you think he comes back next season? I don't. I think
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"pujols" Discussed on ESPN Daily
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So Albert Pujols winds up in St. Louis, where they have playoff aspirations, real playoff aspirations with or without him, but the whole thing Alden as tio Albert as old uncle Albert is concerned is that all uncle Albert is also still old, right? He's 42 at this point. It's may. I want to take us there. It's may. He's not playing all that great. And as the cardinals are just wrecking the Giants on Sunday Night baseball and it's 15 to two in the 9th inning. Something happens that just gives all of this officially the feel of a real farewell tour ceremonial kind of thing, right? Because Albert Pujols, one of the greatest hitters we have ever seen gets brought in to do what. His part in the pitch and I think secretly it's something that he had always wanted to do. History here and bush stadium Albert Pujols. Is on the mound. The greatest right handed hitters of all time making his first ever pitching appearance. And everyone is loving this. It brought the crowd as large as it still is to its feet, a standing ovation. Even the Giants. The Giants are cheering, the crowd is giving him a standing ovation. Yeah, usually when position players pitch in a game, it is a blowout and everybody has left the stadium and nobody cares, especially now, because it's sort of run its course, but everybody at Bush stadium that night is standing. You see the people behind home plate, they have their smart folds out and they want to record every moment of this. Every 64 mile an hour fastball. So I thought it was hilarious though that the leadoff batter reached on a walk, and it was a pitch that was just slightly on the outside corner that veered off the plate, and you hear this collective moan throughout the stadium because they wanted the strike call for Albert Pujols. And he walked the first guy that he saw Darren ruff. Fred Gibson squeezing him right there with that last one. They were treating it like it was like gauge 7 of the World Series and Adam Wainwright was pitching. How's the form, Connie? Better now. He's settling in. Now it's got some drop. But it really did emphasize what the perception was of this signing from the outset, which was that this is something of a farewell tour. It was a nice story, a convenient bookend to his career. I mean, I feel like just covering him with the angels, I always felt as if he thought that a piece of him was still in St. Louis. So for him to go back there, really meant something. And you know, especially like to retire with January or Molina, they're brothers. And at that moment, that's how it felt from the outside. It's like they're bringing him home. They're bringing Albert home. They're bringing the king home to lay him to rest. Yeah, he was, it looked as if he was just going to fade for the rest of this year and it would be this heartwarming story about Albert pools playing his final season in St. Louis, but not really being a contributor. And I gotta be honest, Pablo, there was there were moments around that time and shortly thereafter where I was worried that the Cardinals might eventually have to ceremoniously, I guess, release him because Albert pools has one job on that team. He's gonna start against left handed pitchers as the designated hitter, and he needs to do well. And if not, he's taking up a very valuable roster spot for a team that's trying to win the national league central. And he simply wasn't performing. One down the O2 to Albert. He swings and misses strike threes fan three times and Underwood strikes him out looking. He knew it. He had a one 74 batting average in May and June. By the all star break his OPS is 81 points below the league average. But, you know, in true Albert four, he just seems to surprise you when you least expect it. And something just something started to happen when the calendar flipped to July. And it happened very subtly. You had a couple of hits on July 10th. It was his first multi hit game in about 6 weeks. You have a three hit game and a home run. About a week after that. You have another home run. Two days later, and two more hits about a week after that and three more hits shortly thereafter, and then all of a sudden we get to August and he starts going crazy. It did feel like someone had taken out the cartridge and blew on it and put it back in and suddenly the machine was just sort of humming again. Do we know why August how August has been going this kind of way for Albert Pujols? Nobody really knows Pablo because nobody can imagine any sort of mechanical tweak or any reinvigoration of health, leading to a surge, this powerful, I know he changed something with his hands. He put his hands out in front of him, a little bit more to just sort of get the barrel of the ball a little bit quicker. Shorten up his swing path and maybe get around on velocity a little better. Some people will say that that's helped, but to surge in the manner that Albert pools has, I don't think anybody has a rational explanation for it. But I think what's what's instructive about this is the fact that Albert Pujols is rise has run parallel to how the Cardinals have basically overtaken that division.
ESPN Daily
"pujols" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"And it did really feel like this was the end, right? I mean, at this point in his life, Alden, what was Albert Pujols thinking in terms of the options in front of him after he gets cut by the angels. He wanted to play. He wanted to keep playing, and those close to him said as much. And if you know Albert, you know not to bet against him. And I think there was an extra chip on his shoulder. To make sure that his career would not end that way. But at this point, in his story Alden, Albert Pujols is 41 years old, he is unemployed. And so what are the options available in front of him if he's going to try and feel like something like his previous self? Well, Pablo, the perception was not much. I mean, you looked around the league at that time and you tried to think of which team is going to try to squeeze in a right handed hitter who can't play the field very often. At a time, I'll remind you when the national league did not have a designated hitter. And there were very few natural fits. And I think the last team that anybody thought was going to do it was the Dodgers. But for them, it was very simple. They were a team obviously with championship aspirations, and they had a lot of young players on their bench. And they were looking for a veteran guy who could give you a professional at bat, and they felt as if Albert pool still had some life in his bat. And to be honest, Pablo, that time with the Dodgers, is very much what set him on a course to be where he's at right now. If he doesn't sign with the Dodgers, I don't think he's still playing. Being on that team, being in that environment, sold out Dodger Stadium, playing games that really mattered. I think really resonated with him. It's something that just, it didn't exist in Anaheim, and something happened about the narrative around Albert pools. It changed dramatically. He clicked immediately in that Clubhouse. I mean, he became known as Theo Albert, kind of like this fatherly figure on this team. There were t-shirts of Theo Albert that were printed that everybody used to wear during batting practice. And it's fascinating to me Pablo that. So the distance between Dodger Stadium and angel stadium is 30 miles. And yet, the narratives around Albert Pujols couldn't be any more different. In Anaheim, he was this aging star on a bloated contract. And in LA, he was this charming role model type guy who would give advice in the dugout and he would look after the young players and whoever once in a while would come up to bat against the lefty and mash a home run. One two is hit well down the left field side and it's gone a home run. Career home run 6 70 three for the machine. He found the role that weren't for him, that he could thrive in, playing on a semi regular basis and matching up only against left handed pitchers or guys who didn't throw very hard and he began to thrive. So Albert boo holes is finding out now that he is a really useful specialized weapon and elder statesman also for the Dodgers. But by the end of that year, because this is just a one year deal, Alden. He still has a pivotal career decision to make. So the 2021 season is winding down. And Albert Pujols is not announced his retirement yet. And the thought throughout the sport was that 2021 would be his final season. It was the last season on a ten year contract. He had clearly been lumbering through the latter years of that deal, but he hasn't said anything. And I had a conversation with him toward the end of September. And he tells me that he's still uncertain that he still truly doesn't know what he's going to do. He gave me this story about how just a few days before that, he put it to a vote with his family, all of his kids, his then wife, and everybody except one of his daughters voted that he should keep playing. I think largely because they felt as if he was having fun again, they also saw how close he was to 700, they thought maybe that would be a cool way to go out, and also that he was doing well. And he still enjoyed this. And I think ultimately that played a big part in it. If his family wouldn't have wanted him to keep playing, I don't know that he would have. But I think the other part of it was he was having fun again. He loved that environment and he wanted to keep playing. I think he would have only kept playing for a team that was chasing a playoff spot that looked like a championship contender, but that time in LA, honestly, I don't think I'm overstating it when I say it's saved the narrative
ESPN Daily
"pujols" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Pools goes on a 27 game homerless street. And I want to, I want to emphasize that because here's the guy who signed a $240 million contract who is the face of baseball. Yes. Everybody's talking about this deal. And he goes 27 games without hitting his first home run. It was remarkable, and when you take that and you just sort of zoom out a little bit. And you look at a ten year deal with the angels, he played 9 plus seasons there. The angels ultimately got three months of peak Albert pools throughout the entirety of that contract. 2013 starts. He's got plantar fasciitis on his foot. He tries to play through it for about four months. He does not look like himself, and he has season ending surgery toward the end of July. And what comes out of that surgery into now, 2014? Is all of a sudden somebody who's different? Somebody who's clearly a lesser version of the Albert pools we knew as recently as August of 2012. And he's just never the same again. Yeah, if he was a machine at this point, Alden, he was like an old smartphone, right? The kind where everything was just feeling slower and rusty and kind of like the battery was dying. Quicker and quicker every day. As somebody who sort of grew up in the right generation to have Albert pools ascendance, coincide with peak baseball fandom. Yes. It was honestly difficult to watch. To watch this man has seemed invincible now struggle to get out of the batter's box and ground into a comical number of double play, so many double
ESPN Daily
"pujols" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"No sport worships round numbers, like Major League Baseball. And Major League Baseball's holiest, roundest number. He's also its most exclusive one. 700. As in 700 home runs as in Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron and Barry bonds, the only three people who have ever hit that many. Until maybe. Right now. Yes, Albert Pujols has now hit 694 homers and counting. At age 42, but even that is only part of this story. So today, with his Saint Louis Cardinals, sitting atop their division again, and all of baseball marveling at the machine. Again. We try to understand the man. I'm Pablo Torre, it's Friday, September 2nd. This is ESPN daily. It's college football season, which means you need the unbeatable coverage of sling TV, starting at $35 a month. Sling is all the big games on the biggest channels like ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN three, SEC network, ACC network, Fox, and the Big Ten network, all for the best price. You can stream on any device, record up to 50 hours with included DVR space, and pause or change your service at any time. Check out sling dot com for special offers. Sling. The live TV love for a price you'll love. Try us today. So Alden, this is where I confess the other part of why I thought we'd never be doing an ESPN daily episode about Albert Pujols in the year 2022. And that is simply because I have considered him from afar at least to be kind of boring, right? I sort of believe that I understood his story from afar. I had never interviewed him, of course, but that's the other part of him being the machine. It's that he is both ridiculously metro nomic in his consistency and his abilities, but then he fell off and then he just sort of seemed robotic to me by the end. Yeah, I don't have a good descriptor like metronomic, but I would describe him as fiercely serious. And with no tolerance of anything that would ever sort of get in the way of his job. Machine bike, really. I think he's also fiercely dedicated and proud and competitive and I think he's the type of person though that if he likes you, if you're in his inner circle, he is incredibly loyal. He will do anything for you. And there are a lot of people in the sport, and it's why you've seen him become so revered as he plays out this last season, who deeply admire him, who credit him for so much of their success because he looked after them. He's also somebody who will say, comically, that he doesn't care about his numbers. And I could tell you for a fact that he cares a lot about not just his numbers, but where he resides in history. But all that I do want to be very clear about something too. Like I do care about his numbers because his numbers and this is something that I was reminded of when I was preparing to talk to you today. His numbers in St. Louis are unbelievable bad. Can we just look at his baseball reference page together here for a second? Can we both pull that up and just sort of marvel at what he did with the Cardinals? It's bookmarked on my page. Okay, great. It's right in front of me too. And what he did, I mean, ten of his 11 years. The first 11 years he had in St. Louis, he was a top 5 MVP finisher, right? He never fell out of the top ten. He won MVP three times. Yeah, Pablo, it wasn't just crazy. It wasn't just unprecedented. It was perfect. The way it ended, you look back, his 11th year in St. Louis, he fell one batting average point. And one RBI short of going 330 homers a hundred RBIs for the 11th consecutive year. And here goes one into left. How about three on the night? They end up winning the World Series. That year. That city is as baseball crazed as any city in America. And Albert Pujols was on top of the world, he was a God. A three run shot at two run home run. And now a solo blast. And Albert Pujols has tied. Reggie Jackson with three home runs against the rangers in game three. We were thinking at that point, this man is very clearly on a path to becoming the greatest baseball player who has ever lived. Yes, yes, he won two World Series in St. Louis. He was the best slugger in baseball. He was a guy who he was as a hitter Alden. I don't know if you went into a lab if you could produce a better specimen than what Albert Pujols had given us for over a decade. Yeah, think Mark Maguire power and Tony Gwynn bat control. That's what Albert Pujols was. He, he was the perfect hitter, but he was also a gold glove, first baseman. He was also somebody who stole a bunch of bases, he was also somebody who came up big in big moments. I mean, that home run that he hit off Brad legend Houston still hasn't landed. In the air left field and pools has given St. Louis. A drop at a towering three run home run. Stunned in disbelief here in Houston. Yeah, he basically broke Brad lidge, who was one of the best closers in the game, was never the same after that. It's become an iconic postseason moment throughout baseball history. There's a reason why they called him the machine. Tony La Russa used to call him. This is not a great nickname, but he would call him perfect pools. Because he seemed to do everything perfectly on a baseball field and he seemed untouchable. And so how is it Alden that he enters your world? How is it that he ends up with the angels in LA or outside of LA technically? So it's December of 2011. We are in the winter meetings in Texas and it is my first week covering a baseball beat. So that was perfect timing on my end and the angels shock all of baseball and they sign Albert Pujols and nobody saw this coming. Everybody, not unlike the Freddie Freeman situation in Atlanta. I would say to an even greater extent. The foregone conclusion always was Albert Pujols is going to stay in St. Louis. He is going to have a statue in front of Busch stadium, like Stan Musial does. They were going on the same path. And the Cardinals were never willing to commit enough money, specifically they were never willing to commit enough years. And ten years, $240 million, it blew the Cardinals offer out of the water and it became almost a simple decision for Albert pools and his camp during that time. So this right handed hitter, this bat, who is perfect and all of these ways, as you said, how is it that things fall off almost immediately? It's really amazing when you think about it and I was there for basically the entirety of that stint with the angels from start to finish. He gets there and I'll never forget the spring training that he had that first year in the spring of 2012, where he showed up in incredible shape and nobody could get him out. He looks like 2005 Albert Pujols that spring. For some reason, it's just embedded in my memory. Then this season starts. Albert
ESPN Daily
"pujols" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Alton Gonzalez, I want to be very honest with you. I did not plan on doing an Albert Pujols episode. I guess during my tenure hosting this show at all, I thought we had missed the window on him being a person that we should be impressed by. But then stuff kept happening. Stuff like what happened on August 22nd at Wrigley Field. What exactly occurred? He homered again, Pablo. And Paul holes heads head out to deep brown. At the wire. 600 and 93 home runs. And historic home run. He didn't just Homer again. He homered on a fastball near his head. This is way up there. I mean, this is almost neck high to Albert. And he turns it around. It was the 693rd home run of his career, it was his 6th home run in a stretch of 20 at bats. It was the only run of the game. It was the reason why the Cardinals won that game, and if you go back to some of the comments that his teammates, his opponents were saying, I think I painted a good picture of where Albert pools is right now, Nolan Gorman, a rookie on the cardinal said it was insane, Paul deyoung, an infielder on that team said he couldn't believe it. Drew smiley, the man who gave up the home run said he's the machine for a reason. He's back. And I just used to go. He's one of the guys of all time. He finally got me. He's the machine for a reason. He's back. Yeah, I thought the machine was broken. I just want to say this with all of the bluntness required here. I thought this dude was done. And then the very next week this week, he crushes home run number 694 off of Ross detweiler. Albert lifts it in the arrow dig deep right at the wall gone 6 94. And its history. The 450th different pitcher that Albert is Homer against. Nobody in the game has ever done that. And yes, this is the 450th pitcher that Albert Pujols has hit a Homer off of, which happens to be more than anyone in history, including Barry Bonds. And you covered him Alden. You covered him when I thought he was cooked on the angels when he was there for like a decade. So what have you been thinking as you've been watching this? That Albert Pujols is navigating through the type of career renaissance, really, that I don't think anybody could have ever foreseen. And I mean, it's really interesting with him because Albert Pujols career had been very clearly defined as
AP News Radio
Pujols homers as Montgomery, Cardinals blank Cubs 1-0
"Jordan Montgomery went the distance on a one hitter is the cardinal shut off the cubs one nothing Montgomery has been brilliant since coming over in a trade from the Yankees I try and stay confident all the time It's hard in baseball as roller coaster so try and forget this after tomorrow Like I said just keep every bullpen I'm working on something and then when I get to take the ball and compete and just try and make pictures Offensively Albert Pujols hit yet another home run his 6th in the last 7 games and number 6 93 for his career He also went deep against the 449th different pitcher in his career that ties Barry Bonds for the top of that list David Schuster Chicago
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Pujols blasts two more HRs, Cardinals beat Diamondbacks 16-7
"Albert Pujols hit a pair of home runs to set the tone in the Cardinals 16 7 thumping of the Diamondbacks Pujols went deep in the second and fourth off Madison Bumgarner helping the Cardinals win their 6th in a row and 15th and 18 games He's HI of 700 home runs Paul the young launched a Grand Slam and Paul Goldschmidt collected three hits and four RBIs Goldschmidt's back to three run Homer while St. Louis scored 8 times in the 9th The Cardinals stretched their lead in the NL central to 5 games over Milwaukee I'm Dave ferry
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"pujols" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Nothing here cardinals and the pitch two cools has hit deep down the left field line. Towards the wall and it is gone. A Grand Slam for Albert Pujols. It's number 6 hundred. Okay, first off, didn't shitting with the bases loaded up 6 nothing in the third inning is a mood. I appreciate that, Ollie marvel. And listen, you have to take advantage of what Albert Pujols is these days and what he is is he's raking in his final season. Just crushing it. Let's acknowledge Albert Pujols as best used in a limited role in the role that Ali marl the manager in John mosaic, the Cardinals president, have drawn up for him, is awfully compelling. Listen to this, in Albert Pujols is 45 plate appearances since the all star break. He is slashing four 15 four 67 8 54. That is an OPS of 1320. Do you know who among all the players in baseball with at least 40 plate appearances have a better OPS than that? The answer is nobody. Aaron judge, second half OPS, 1301, Shohei Ohtani ten 20. He's been awesome in the second half. Not as good as pool holes in his limited sample, Paul Goldschmidt Nolan Arenado, same thing goes. Alex Bregman will talk actually I was going to say we'll talk more about him later, but we can talk about him now because the Houston Astros on the day that the Chicago White Sox came to an agreement with Elvis Andrews to try and stabilize their shorts opposition stabilize their season the Houston Astros went and played bully and they hung the White Sox by their underwear on a wedgie nail. The final score was 21 to 5 and Alex Bregman was in the middle of all of it. Pitched to Bregman.
AP News Radio
Pujols hits grand slam, leads Wainwright, Cards over Rockies
"The Cardinals cruise past the rockies 13 to nothing Albert Pujols pinch hit Grand Slam is the offensive highlight for St. Louis it's his 16th career Grand Slam and 690th career Homer Being part of a great organization great group of guys that want to win Jan players that watch alarming I'm blessed to be here and just help those guys out So for me it's great Adam Wainwright tosses 7 innings to improve his career record against Colorado to 12 in one rocky starting pitcher Antonio Sinatra and right Fielder Charlie Blackmon left the game with leg injuries Mike Reeves St. Louis
AP News Radio
Pujols homers twice to help Cardinals knock off Brewers 6-3
"Albert Pujols hits a pair of home runs and drives in four in the cardinal 6 to three win over the brewers as St. Louis moves a game and a half in front of Milwaukee atop the NL central We're just a great day to contribute you have to go gray organization you know playing for a title and a division title and I think this is what you're going to see against these two book clubs Tyler O'Neill and Dylan Carlson also go deep for St. Louis hunter Renfro and rowdy teles Homer for the brewers miles Michaelis allows two runs in 8 innings to pick up the win Mike Reeves St. Louis
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Pujols hits 3-run HR, Cards overcome absences, beat Jays 6-1
"Albert Pujols socked a three run home run as Adam Wainwright when 7 innings at St. Louis down the blue Jay 6 wanted roger center The Kurds first baseman hit a 7th hormone of the season giving him 686 for his storied career You know and then we come back in with score four so it's always good anytime you can give a little cushion like that especially when you have a line on those guys and the other side Wainwright was village giving up just a run scattering 5 hits and striking out 8 His record improves to 7 and 8 as St. Louis snapped a Blue Jays 7 game winning streak John leatherbee to run
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Goldschmidt, Pujols lift Cardinals to 11-3 win over Reds
"Paul Goldschmidt hit his 20th home run of the season and drove in three runs to help the Saint Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati reds 11 to three Saturday Miles Michael is allowed to lead off home run to Jonathan India but otherwise blank the reds on three hits in 7 innings Goldschmidt's second inning home run was the 300th of his career It was a good day You know I had a Homer help us win but it's not like it's a goal or anything like that so I'm glad I could help us win And try to play tomorrow The Cardinals have won two in a row and entered play two games behind Milwaukee in the national league central division David Solomon St. Louis
AP News Radio
HR Derby matchups set: Top-seeded Schwarber vs Pujols
"The matchups are set for Monday's home run Derby National league home run leader Kyle schwarber has drawn the top seed The Philly slugger will take on cardinals DH Albert Pujols in the quarterfinals and Metz first baseman Pete Alonso will go against braves outfielder Ronald Acuna junior Pujols is in his 5th Derby and Alonso hopes to become the first three peak champ Rangers star Corey Seager faces Mariners rookie phenom Julio Rodriguez and national slugger Juan Soto goes head to head with Cleveland's José Ramírez before the semifinals begin I'm Dave
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AP Sports SummaryBrief at 11:55 p.m. EDT
"AP sports I'm Josh rower the Dodgers winning streak is over correspondent Mike Reeves has more from St. Louis Milton gorbon and Albert Pujols at solo home runs in the Cardinals 7 to 6 win over the Dodgers ending in Los Angeles 7 game winning streak St. Louis also gets three runs matted in by catcher Andrew kisner I go win against a good team who's hot right now so I mean great team win overall pitch good play good defense Got the timely hits RBIs so overall great win Pretty Freeman goes four for 5 with a home run and two RBIs while Trey Turner adds a two run blast for the Dodgers Mike Reeves St. Louis In a battle of the top two teams in the NL east the braves top the mets four to one Thanks in large part to a two run Homer by Matt Olson in the 6th inning The Yankees got a great start from Garrett Cole but blue a three nothing lead in the 9th losing to the reds four three Cincinnati's Jonathan India drove in a pair to give the reds the lead late Unbelievable win I think it's our best one of the year Shows a lot of fight and who we are What kind of team we are I'm just happy you can do it We did it with this group because it's doesn't stop finding ever And you guys see that So we'll keep going Until the break and we'll go after that Cold struck out 11 over 7 innings but clay Holmes allowed four runs in the 9th to take the loss On the verge of NHL free agencies opening the Pittsburgh penguins have re signed one of the organization's greatest players Center of Guinea malkin has agreed to a four year deal with the only NHL team he's ever played for The deal for the 35 year old is worth $6.1 million per season And Baker Mayfield said that he was quote shocked to learn that he was not in the Cleveland brown's future plans earlier this off season but the 2018 first overall NFL Draft pick has had a few months now to digest the brown's decision to replace him with deshaun Watson and says that he is eager to take advantage of a fresh start with his new team the Carolina Panthers I'm Josh rowntree AP sports
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Pujols, Gorman home runs power St. Louis past Dodgers 7-6
"Nolan gorbon and Albert Pujols at solo home runs in the cardinal 7 to 6 win over the Dodgers ending in Los Angeles 7 game winning streak St. Louis also gets three runs matted in by catcher Andrew kisner I go win against a good team who's hot right now so I mean great team win overall pitch good play good defense Got the timely hits RBIs so overall great win Pretty Freeman goes four for 5 with a home run and two RBIs while Trey Turner adds a two run blast for the Dodgers Mike Reeves St. Louis
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"pujols" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"While we're recording, we're soon after, or if not, any day now. And that is, I think, usually an opportunity to appreciate someone's career and we can do that, especially with someone like miggy, who these days, we kind of only talk about him when he reaches a milestone, you know? It's kind of the Pujols situation where when a counting stat increases or goes past a milestone, we talk about them and otherwise we don't so much, although both of them are off to pretty hot starts this season and of course Pujols has the storyline of returning to St. Louis. But Mickey, I think, is interesting for a few reasons. First, well, 3000 hits, it's impressive, even if it's an arbitrary number. It's more impressive, I think, that he is part of various even more exclusive groups. People who have done 3000 hits and also something else. So the 3000 hit 500 Homer club, of course he will be the 7th member of that club along with Aaron and maize and Pujols and Eddie Murray and Alex Rodriguez and Rafael palmero, of course, who could forget. So that's an exclusive group even more exclusive is the 3000 hits, 500 homers, 300 batting average club, which went Cabrera is in there, will just be Aaron Mays and Mickey. Wow. That's pretty cool. So Pujols, of course, was in that club, I guess. And it's no longer because his average fell below 300 in his age 40 season, I think, which is where Mickey will be next year. But I don't think Mickey will fall out of this. I mean, if he plays to Albert Pujols age, then I guess he would, but assuming that he does not play that one, he only has one guaranteed year left after this one on his contract. So if he were to call it a career after 2023 after his age 40 season, then I think he will still comfortably have that 300 average because he's at three ten now and even if he gets a 800 more at bats over the season the next season and hits two 50, which is about where he's been for the last couple of years. His average would only follow a few points to three O 6 lifetime. So he has a bit of a buffer there. So I think that he will retire as a member of that club and that's pretty impressive, especially in this era. I mean, much of McGee's career came during a higher batting average era than the one we are currently in, but still his averages are impressive. A lot of the players who have the highest career averages are from earlier eras where batting averages were higher. So he's kind of a throwback in that respect. And, you know, he's in some other exclusive groups like the 3000 hits, 500 homers, 600 doubles club, will be just Erin and Pujols and Cabrera. So it's a really impressive career. He and Pujols are among the best right handed hitters of all time and they are both winding down at the same time and so we should appreciate their prowess when it does pop up. We're getting at least occasional, feel good sentimental moments with each of them, whether it's because of a homecoming in pools case or because of this milestone in Mickey treated us to his 500th Homer last year and very soon he will get that 3000th hit. So congrats to Cabrera. Yeah, I feel this way I guess a bit more with pool holes than I do with Maggie because even though, you know, he hasn't been like the guy he was for a while. We've had recent good seasons from Cabrera. He put up 5 wins in 2016. We've seen the good version of him in relatively recent years, but I know that when pools has approached milestones or he returned to St. Louis, there's also just, it feels like an important opportunity for younger fans for us to be able to say like, hey, we have a moment to remember this guy who was incredible at the peak of his powers and we need you to understand what that looked like. I need the youth to get it. I need them to look on Albert Pujols as numbers as like a fan of a team that isn't the Cardinals in despair. I have need of that in my life. Ben, last night I watched, did you know that Netflix does a new documentary about the rise and fall of abercrombie and Fitch the clothing brand? And there is a moment in that documentary where a human man explains the concept of the mall. Like what Amal is? And first of all, I guess we could press the documentarians about how necessary that is 'cause like more still exist. They are just not as culturally central. I am given to understand to young people as they were like when we were young. Although I don't know, do you have a mall experience when you grow up in New York? I do, yeah, I mean, not in Manhattan, obviously, but I used to go upstate often with grandparents or family members. There was a house up there. And so that was a big mall area, spent a lot of happy hours and Spencer's gifts. Yeah, so you know, this guy takes a moment to describe what a mall is to, I guess the young people who are watching this and are somehow interested in abercrombie and Fitch as if it's going to be as culturally resonant with them as it was with our generation. And I just felt myself turning into dust. Becoming a pillar of salt. He's like, imagine a search engine you can walk through or like an online catalog that's an actual place, and I was like, is this necessary? Or is this elder abuse? And so sometimes I feel that way about, you know, guys like Pujols where they've managed to sustain themselves in the big leagues even though their glory days are behind them. And I sometimes think that very young fans look on us more seasoned fans as if we are fabricating the pleasure that you were able to derive from watching them. And it's like, no, they were really good. And so I need them to keep being really good temporarily so that we can look back on the times when they were really good for longer stretches so that I don't feel like dust and don't have to describe impactful World Series moments as an online catalog that's an actual place. Yeah. Yeah, I'm doing a weekly Better Call Saul recap part on the ringer's prestige TV pod feed with Joanna Robinson and that's another strong source of mall content better cost all..
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"pujols" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"When we did our NL central preview earlier this week, I just made an offhand comment about how much older Albert Pujols is than the new Cardinals manager, Ali marmo, because Albert Pujols is, as far as we know, he is listed at 42 years old now and Ali marma is what 35, I think. So this is a pretty big gap. And it's funny because when they showed a video the other day of Pujols walking in from the bullpen and getting congratulations before a spring training game. He looked like a manager. He kind of had the manager build more than Ali marvel does probably. But this is a big gap. And it got me wondering, is this one of the bigger gaps? Or is this the biggest gap in a long time? Because we have seen maybe a trend toward younger managers recently. I mean, I don't know, managers used to be very young in the early days of baseball when everyone was a player manager or a lot of people wear and then that went out of Vogue a little bit and now obviously we haven't had a player manager since the 80s. It's been decades and as we've discussed, I don't think that that will be coming back anytime soon. On the other hand, you also maybe have aging curves changing a little bit differently in players not lasting as long in many cases. So I asked Ryan Nelson frequent step last consultant to run the numbers here and he did retro sheet made this fairly simple for him and the difference between Pujols and marble is 2359 days so that's about 6 and a half years. But that is not unprecedented or even close to it in the grand sweep of baseball history. There have been 38 managers who have had players more than 2359 days older than they were, and I think Ryan was able to do this on a game log level and just look at the actual number of days different between them on any given game. But he notes most of those were in the age of the player manager in a long time ago. So if you only include duos where both manager and player were born in the 20th century, then only 5 managers have had a bigger gap and there were some player managers involved there. So the number one answer, perhaps unsurprising is Lou padre, who was the youngest manager ever, and he was a player manager at the time. So lupita became a player manager for Cleveland in 1942 when he was in his age 24 season. So as you would imagine, he had a bunch of older players and he was younger than a lot of his players, most of his players for many years, but the biggest gap was when he managed Joe heving in Cleveland, I don't know how you pronounce that from 1942 to 1944, and the difference there was 6162 days approximately 17 and a half years. So that is the upper limit. The other one, so lupita Jo was one of the 5 I mentioned, Marty Marion, with the browns in the 50s and satchel page, who was on the browns at that time, and that was more a function of satchel being an advanced age, the difference between them at the most was 3800 days, and that is about ten and a half years or so. And then we have next Kevin Kennedy with Nolan Ryan on the rangers in the 1990s. That was 2672 days, which is about 300 days more than the Pujols marble gap and then Rene leche with Gaylord Perry on the Mariners in 1980s. It was 2423 days. And Joe cronin with lefty grove on the Red Sox in the 30s and 40s and the max there was 2411 days. So Pujols marmol, not unprecedented, but it is the biggest gap since 1993, which was Kevin Kennedy and Nolan Ryan on the ranchers. So that satisfied my curiosity, it is indeed very unusual and hasn't happened for almost 30 years. So thank you to myself for the question this time. And thank you to Ryan for answering it. Good job. So if you're so smart and thank you very much for joining us today, Stephan, this was fun. I know that people can find you on Twitter at S L MN. I believe, and you also have a baseball plug where you have blocked about baseball times. Yeah, I started that as a sort of, I was feeling down and out of sorts about the dissertation, but I wanted to keep writing and researching. So yeah, if you want to read what I call the bittersweet baseball blog, it's mostly like perfect games that were ruined by a home run and the first bat for the case of retiring Brad radke's number for being the best pitcher in a series of really, really bad twins teams or even just what's the worst quality start you can find that sort of thing. But if you care to read that sort of thing, it's so low Homer that WordPress dot com. Cool. That's the other thing. Yeah, Brett ratke, I remember Sam doing a thing about how bread redkey was like the or twins pitcher and like there was a whole tree of pitchers descended from bread redkey and basically like all twins pitchers for a while other than like Johan Santana and Francis galliano were basically Brad ratke reincarnated. He was just the template for the twins for years and years. So yeah, he was very good too. Yeah, you guys got off that easy. I would have easily hijacked this entire show. But this became a minor. I shouldn't say a minor obsession. I basically gave up normal work for like a week ready to go up right, right? See, this is disconcerting because you're taking time away from graduate work to write about sports on the side as a distraction. So an 8 or 9 years you're going to be the co host of effectively wow, congratulations. Look forward to it. Okay, well, thanks again and again, good luck with the dissertation and maybe you can make it a baseball dissertation. They played baseball during the Civil War. Maybe you can sneak in a baseball reference somewhere in there. I'll do my best. There are a lot of footnotes and no one's going to read them all. That is also true for most of these podcasts. All right, thank you, Stefan. Thank you guys. All right, that will do it for today and for this week, thanks as always for listening, and thanks to Stefan for joining us today. He was telling us after we finished recording that his sister was questioning what qualified him to appear on this podcast. You know what qualified him? We can be bought. You can buy us off too, just like Stefan did or really, just like Emily did who actually financed this operation. Don't know if you do it at once, because we can't do this every episode, but we do enjoy talking to our listeners sometimes. We are podcasters of the people, our listeners play a huge part in the podcast, even when they aren't on it. But if you want to be sign up for the mic trapped here on Patreon, two final notes I mentioned on a recent episode after the Phillies signed Kyle schwarber in the Castellanos that Jason stark's article at the athletic about their defense had quoted the Phillies Charlie Manuel, former manager, current special adviser as saying, if we hit, we'll field better. So the suggestion was that, hey, this is a bad defensive team. Everyone say it, but Charlie Manuel is suggesting they'll hit so well that they will give themselves confidence and they will play better in the field. I noted that I had related requests to Russell carleton a baseball perspective to try to look into this, see if there's any truth to what manual said, and I don't know that Charlie Manuel actually believes this, maybe he just needed something to say that would not be negative about the Phillies defense, but Russell looked, he did the research, he adjusted for everything that you should adjust and control for, and I will read his conclusion here. I will also link to the article, quote, did success at bat lead to success in the field, not really, whether or not a better gun and base in the previous editing wasn't predictive at all of fielding outcomes. It didn't make players better or worse the next half inning they were their normal selves either way, maybe I need to look at this differently. What if one plate appearance isn't enough? I look to see whether a player's ob in their previous ten plate appearances had any predictive power. Nope. Okay, maybe it's not an individual level effect. The Phillies certainly will hit this year, maybe if the team scores a run or two or three in the previous half inning, there's a jolting effect on the whole defense in the next half inning, and they can ride that to better defensive outcomes. No, just know. It's the sort of thing that sounds like it could be true, and maybe even feels like it could be true, but it's eye wash. Just because someone says something doesn't make it true, there's no cloaking this one, the Phillies defense is going to be awful. I am not surprised, but thank you to Russell for running the numbers regardless..
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"J. He's the second fastest seven to reach 100 career home runs, reaching that milestone in Miami, But Peter Alonso not only went out once but twice against the fish. Wayne Randazzo, WCBS 21 Alonso drills one in the air deep to left field. This one's going a long way home. Ron Peter Alonso edit above the old Cleveland are down there on the left field side and Loan Depot Park. Well, Lonzo didn't wait long after hitting number. 100 earlier gets number 11. Number four at 41 years old Nelson Cruz is the oldest player ever to reach 30 home runs in a single season. Tuesday, he hit two out in a four for five game with four knocked in as the Rays Club, The Red Sox 6 20 w D. A. The pitches launched the left back on it is Verdugo. He's gonna have to play this one off the top. It's gone. It just kept it started to riot rose some more. It's out of here. Number three. How about the rarity of a double triple as in 23? Sacher is for Steve Duggar, helping baseball's best team, the Giants, but a dozen on the board of Mile High. John Miller KNBR. Swing. There's a line drive into the gap in right center field that will run all the way to the wall, waiting to score Longoria around third, he scores. Also coming in is just Rimsky. He scores. Here's this sort of third too late. It's another triple for Duggar, his third triples in three games. Number two Alex Bregman tied it with a two run shot in the ninth, while Carlos Correa wanted for the first place drove in the 10. Houston walks off Seattle K Bme 7 90 am Aerial dancing off second to one Correa lines, this one toward right center field, racing back his over his hand Gurriel on his way to third. He's around third and coming home, and that is the ballgame. Thank Houston Astros walk off the Seattle Mariners in the bottom of the 10th five to four. And the number one play of the day. He played his 1st 11 seasons in ST Louis, which is why Albert Pujols received a standing ovation prior to his first at bat against the cards. He then received another standing go after the Dodger connected for career home run number. 6 79 Spectrum SportsNet with the call. He hits this one to deep left field host He's ST Louis again, who can't get this stuff number 6 79 of Albert Pujols, his career machine for your back at Bush homers in his first at bat. 17 homers this.
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"The automated chris. Raby sean scoops today. Mac dot com. It is the ferai day. May the seventh two thousand twenty one edition of the program going to call an audible. We'll tell you about it in just a moment. Because albert pools has been delayed by the angels..