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Believe me to you it’s much more about shitting on Albert than anything else.  You can say it’s about winning games but that rings hollow when you post an hour smear campaign that has zero proof of anything but a ton of speculation. And what’s worse is you posted it as some sort of “this will show them”.  

The dude recovered from a fractured/broken wrist in two weeks, able to swing a bat against 90+ mph fastballs in '11. Now he literally can't walk, he's got like 5 different injuries. It's not uncommon for guys to break down in their thirties, but he was literally a GG first baseman who turned into an old man in like three years.

The dude recovered from a fractured/broken wrist in two weeks, able to swing a bat against 90+ mph fastballs in '11. Now he literally can't walk, he's got like 5 different injuries. It's not uncommon for guys to break down in their thirties, but he was literally a GG first baseman who turned into an old man in like three years.

The dude recovered from a fractured/broken wrist in two weeks, able to swing a bat against 90+ mph fastballs in '11. Now he literally can't walk, he's got like 5 different injuries. It's not uncommon for guys to break down in their thirties, but he was literally a GG first baseman who turned into an old man in like three years.

Another sign of his body breaking down from PED use

Or the body is still benefiting from PEDs for a while after stopping taking them.  The next year he produced a .6 fWAR

For me the proof should be that as soon as he signed his final contract he started to suck.

I'm not sure how many people have seen this, it starts to get very interesting around the 37th minute mark. I encourage anyone to watch at least the PED/Dan Lozano/Wil Pujols stuff. It's definitely not boring the way the video was, I found it easy to watch from middle to ending.
I think the Cardinals definitely knew some background/dirt on him, his agents, entourage, etc. It would be like if Mike Trout was a FA and we offered him a 5 year deal, kinda just going through the motions/not very serious. In 2011, Pujols was still considered the best player in the game. I honestly agree with Wil Pujols that the culture in Latin America is so strong that it's take this stuff or live in poverty forever. Ozzie Guillen has been very vocal as well that so many latin players are taking PEDS from a young age, using false birth certificates. Miguel Tejada, Vlad, Feliz all lied about their age, all Dominicans.
If someone has an agent with that kind of track record and still stands by him I'm pretty sure they're in too deep, they both have blood on their hands so to speak. 
Players from latin america seem to be super human compared to normal suburbanized mexican-americans. There's like 5 times the population of hispanics in the US that love baseball but all the best players seem to come directly from the caribbean/LA.
Cliffs: Pujols was on minimum, HGH, he's probably not even 37.

I'm on ABH at the moment.  That's Angels Baseball High.  Eppler gave me a batch, don't destroy my little trip or I'm going to be real pissed.  I hope Pujols is on it too.

I strongly endorse Albert Pujols use of PEDs, HGH, testosterone treatments, horse steroids, etc, all of the above.
Do it mang. 

Did you even watch any of it? What you think of Dan Lozano/Pujols, even if you think he's his stated age the evidence for HGH/PED's is unquestionably high.

Did you even watch any of it? What you think of Dan Lozano/Pujols, even if you think he's his stated age the evidence for HGH/PED's is unquestionably high.

We sure needed another Albert hater.  Dude is to Albert as AnaheimBob is to Scioscia.  I’ll put my Albert is his age logic and put it against what other people think about his age any day.  

Doesn't he always kill on ST?  And then demoted to AAA by June?

Cron has zero trade value.  Guys getting dfa are better than cron.  

Yeah I mean, that'd be ideal, right? That'd truthfully be a perfect fit, but zero percent chance it's happening.

I would cut Pujols, let Cron split DH time with Ohtani, and still bring in an upgrade for first base.  I think Cron is already better than Pujols, and should continue to improve over time.

Frees up 2019 payroll space for them, also gives them a pretty decent starter this year (McCarthy) and a good utility infielder (Culberson) in exchange for a guy who had no utility for them (Kemp) and was eating up payroll.  The salary exchange was neutral, so this was a slam dunk move for them.
It is also a slam dunk move for the Dodgers, as they all but guarantees they are below the luxury tax level this offseason.  I am betting they will trade Kemp to an AL team too.  They'll probably eat a good chunk of that salary, but if they can find a team even willing to take on 5mil/year of Kemp, that's another 5mil/year of savings to them.  
Great move that tremendously helps both teams achieve different goals.

While I agree with what you are saying, the "bright side" to the situation is at DH, Pujols' negative value is a bit more mitigated.  A DH has the least impact on the team, so if there's a spot to get less value from as compared to all the other positions, it would be DH.
That said, flexing Pujols out to 1B is somewhat concerning to me, especially if he ends up resembling a statue out there.  That's why though I am expecting him to be out there no more than 25-30 games, not the 50 games that others are guessing.  I also think you see Pujols on the bench more to "rest" as compared to previous seasons.  We are a deep team now, so giving Pujols 2 days off per week seems like a reasonable thing to do.

Would love to see what Eppler could’ve done this offseason if Pujols had retired. 
He’s holding this team back imo. Either I never read the article or had forgotten about it but the one posted on page 2 or 3 leads me to believe he’s for sure playing this thing out

Yep, last year the angels put milestones above winning.  No other team in baseball that is so close to making the playoffs would have started Pujols despite being the worst player in the league.   If Pujols sucks again they better bench his ass sooner rather than later.  I've said it before but the angels don't owe him anything.  Most of those milestones were with the cardinals and he hasn't earned a dollar of his contract with the angels.
If Pujols comes into spring training looking like he's 9 months pregnant again, the angels should just bench him.  There's no reason to keep pandering to this guy.  It's time to put winning above Pujols.  This shit would never happen in NY or Boston.

I know you guys are going to say water is wet, we know Pujols sucks, etc. But every playoff team midway through the season fixed all their holes to ensure they had 2-3 WAR players at every position. Carter/Holliday weren't doing it so the Yankees got Frazier, put Hicks full time. Brantley/Zimmer got hurt so the Indians got Bruce, moved Kipnis. Red Sox got Nunez when Lin/Sandoval continued sucking. Dodgers put Barnes full time, dropped Agone for Bellinger. Astros got rid of Aoki to put Gonzalez full time, acquired Maybin who played a key role for them.
Teams can no longer carry any average players as starters, let alone guys who are negative WAR. They would instantly be replaced like Carter, Aoki, Sandoval. Especially if they also offered no defensive versatility. Pujols didn't cost us just -2WAR, b/c a +2WAR player is just "an ok starter" and easy to find like Adams/Duda (teams are just giving them away) so it's actualy more like a 4 WAR swing. The Rays would have probably given Morrison away at the deadline too like Bruce/Frazier.
I know WAR isn't exactly added to the wins total but it's amazing, we finished behind the Twins and Pujols was still hitting 4th. Currently we ARE a top 5 AL team, I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect a resolution to this at latest midseason if he continues putting up even a 0/1 WAR DH. No other team would even carry that type of player, let alone treat him the way we did.

I know you guys are going to say water is wet, we know Pujols sucks, etc. But every playoff team midway through the season fixed all their holes to ensure they had 2-3 WAR players at every position. Carter/Holliday weren't doing it so the Yankees got Frazier, put Hicks full time. Brantley/Zimmer got hurt so the Indians got Bruce, moved Kipnis. Red Sox got Nunez when Lin/Sandoval continued sucking. Dodgers put Barnes full time, dropped Agone for Bellinger. Astros got rid of Aoki to put Gonzalez full time, acquired Maybin who played a key role for them.
Teams can no longer carry any average players as starters, let alone guys who are negative WAR. They would instantly be replaced like Carter, Aoki, Sandoval. Especially if they also offered no defensive versatility. Pujols didn't cost us just -2WAR, b/c a +2WAR player is just "an ok starter" and easy to find like Adams/Duda (teams are just giving them away) so it's actualy more like a 4 WAR swing. The Rays would have probably given Morrison away at the deadline too like Bruce/Frazier.
I know WAR isn't exactly added to the wins total but it's amazing, we finished behind the Twins and Pujols was still hitting 4th. Currently we ARE a top 5 AL team, I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect a resolution to this at latest midseason if he continues putting up even a 0/1 WAR DH. No other team would even carry that type of player, let alone treat him the way we did.

Thanks for the fresh take. It had been at least 3 hours since the last “Pujols sucks” post