Friday, February 24, 2012

Background on the Best

Albert Pujols was born in the Dominican Republic, but immigrated with his family to the United States when he was in high school. In his very first college game he hit a grand slam and turned an unassisted triple play. The unassisted triple play has only been completed 14 times in the MLB and he completed one in his first college game. He made his debut in the MLB in 2001 for the Saint Louis Cardinals and would later win Rookie of the Year. Albert Pujols career achievements including three Most Valuable Player's awards, two Gold Gloves, and has been invited to play in the All Star Game nine out of his eleven years. Up until this year he played for the St. Louis Cardinals, but he is now playing for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In this blog I will lay before the readers some of his career stats and as the season goes on his season stats.

Friday, February 17, 2012