The Story Behind Albert Pujols
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2022
- Few hitters in the history of baseball have ever inspired fear like him, a generational talent whose prowess at the plate made him a threat from the moment he arrived in the big leagues, and fueled one of the most indelible careers - and jaw-dropping peaks - the game has ever seen.
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Growing up a 3rd generation Cardinals fan in the 2000's was a ton of fun. And a lot of that was because of Albert Pujols.
same here, Pujols got me back into baseball as a lifetime Cardinals fan myself
Puljos is one of those athletes who, if as a fan you don’t admire and respect him, know professional sports probably aren’t for you.
There must be something in the Dodger Stadium water that agrees with Albert. He looked completely revitalized last year after joining them, in particular with his body language and energy. He looked like he enjoyed playing baseball again for the first time in years.
Then after the All Star game this year at Dodger Stadium, he goes on an absolutely unbelievable tear. I’m am so happy for him and the Cards fans. That he and those fans are sharing this in the final games of his career is one of those rare, real life happy endings.
I don’t know if I could ever fully explain just how amazing Albert was at the plate to someone who never saw it. Prime Pujols was on another planet
in my house everyone stopped what they were doing to watch Pujols when he came to the plate.
@@dominoaxelrod Same with my family growing up. I have so many memories of someone saying, "Pujols is up!" And running to the living room to watch. He was on a level we may never see again in baseball.
Dude I was six when he was a rookie. I literally grew up. Had a kid got married. Had another kid and my kids started school and this dude is still banging home runs. I love this man
Every plate appearance was a possible game changer, true Superstar. Then Matt Holliday would come up after him..
Everyone w/in a 2 hr radius around stl froze for 5 min ever time he stepped to the plate for that decade
As a Pujols myself, hearing about him from my family is pretty cool
Cool
We Cardinal fans loved the guy, but it took a while to figure out how to say his name it turn out to be a very short while never to FORGET it!
Dominican Republic is so proud of the amazing person Albert Pujols is, not only by his baseball career but his human quality.
My favorite part is that he left his wife when she had cancer and lied about his age!
@@christopherleelewis21 Uffff. You were there when all that happened👏
lol He's ours now! only joking. Pujols is all class. I honestly cannot think of a better role model in sports.
@@christopherleelewis21 If you did an ounce of research into the situation you'd know that's just not what happened. And who cares if he's 44 instead, like what?
@@andyo4317 How does one do an ounce of research?
I’m old enough to have witnessed Pujols entire career and all of Mike Trouts career. Pujols is one of the best to ever play the game. If I was going to build a franchise I’d build it around No. 5. Pujols belongs on the short list of players mentioned such as Ruth, Mays, Aaron, Williams, Musial, and Mantle.
Bro, growing up in St. Louis watching all of that with him and Edmonds and Roland and Wainwright and Chris Carpenter and Jason isringhausen and just all of it. It always frustrated me growing up that the other sports I liked sucked, but the reality was I was spoiled by constant success by this organization and specifically this player in Albert. And you're absolutely right having the honor to constantly go to a Cardinal game and know we have the best player we're going to win in nine times out of 10. That happened was unbelievable and I truly didn't appreciate what I was watching while I was watching it and it took me until a couple of years ago to realize that.
life long cars fan here got to watch since 02 and besides hank aaron id take pujols over anyone else
Through the first 8 years of Pujols and Trout. Pujols notched 237 more hits than Trout, 241 more RBIs, and 39 more HRs
About the only thing Trout had better numbers in was Triples and Steal.
It blows me away to think how good Trouts first 10 seasons were but even he didn’t put up better numbers than Pujols.
@@jordanford9320 I feel the same exact way! I was lucky to get some tickets given to me for yesterdays game. 4/15/22
To see him in person for the first time since 2011 with the birds on his chest was special especially considering I had my two little ones.
We didn’t get the W and Pujols didn’t get a hit, didn’t even matter too me. I was just happy to see it
@@chriscampbell3417 yeah June 1st I got to take my son to his first ever game and I think it was Nolan that hit a home run and it was just surreal. Pujols didn't even play but we were close enough to see him and that was cool. So I think I might actually take both of my kids Saturday because there's a good chance he gets 700 and even if not just to be there
I have been to Cardinals games since I was 6 in 1958 and was privileged to watch Stan The Man's last 4 seasons and now I get to watch Pujols the Machines last season and most of his Cardinals games. I am a very lucky 70-year-old.
His 10 straight seasons of 30 home runs 100 RBIs and 300 batting average will never be toped again. And what pisses me off is he had in 2011 like legitimately a .299 batting average in like 98 or 99 RBIs so he basically did it 11 straight years as a kid. I absolutely hated that he left St. Louis. But I guess since they didn't have to play them for so long, it really did give the city time to heal. And when he finally did come back I was at the first Angels game and it was incredible. It felt like a playoff game. And the fact that he's retiring this year is makes me feel so old
Us Angel fans would have GLADLY given him back to you!
@@kendallevans4079 not at the time. No I remember when you guys got him and Hamilton and that pitcher every Angels fan was saying how dumb we were and then there were Marlins fans that were mad because they thought they were getting Albert and us Cardinal fans were salty and laughing because the year after he left we made the NLCS and the next year we made the world series and y'all weren't doing anything.
@@jordanford9320 We haven't done anything since Moreno bought the team. He's selling now so we're all relieved.
Bro, I I hope things turn around for you guys just so you can stop wasting generational talents lol in all seriousness though, it must be infuriating as a fan to see what is obviously playoff and world series potential wasted by horrible front office. Trust me as a raiders fan I know
i remember pujols will be back not convinced i was right lol he he is
This is beautiful to watch after he hit number 700.
Growing up idolizing him, one of the greatest ever. Period.
I will always remember a game against the cubs where pujols walked it off. The manager said if he could do it again he would do things differently. The next day they had the same situation. And pujols walked it off again. He was a machine and those that didn’t respect him got burned
I'm an Yankees, and Mets man but the damm Albert's playing on the field is GOATED, and impressive af. 💯 🐐 👑
I’ve never watched a day of baseball in my life, but I’ll always watch whatever content is uploaded on this channel.
The things about Albert's recent homeruns, is that they've all been pretty clutch
Congratulations Albert Pujols and thank you for shining up the sport of baseball, and for bringing all fans of any team together in one voice. Happy 700!
Lot of hate in these comments and I’m not for sure why. Dude was quit literally a machine who was an all time great on AND off the field. A true legend I was lucky to witness
As a hard core STL fan who was privileged enough to get to be in the stands at Bush stadium in those prime years (Including the game where Pujols destroyed the “I” in Big Mac land where I was also sitting!!!) was unbelievable to see.
I had only been able to attend one game so far in 2022. It was unfortunate Pujols didn’t play that game.
But today 9/15/22 I was able to take my two little ones and was so excited that Pujols was in the DH spot.
Yes we lost, and Pujols wasn’t able to notch a hit (although he got a big sac fly RBI in a late rally)
Just seeing him in person with the Birds on his chest for probably my last time is something incredibly special!
back when Pujols got into the league my cousin and I were in St. Charles for a national tournament. One day there wasn't a game my aunt took us to STL to Busch Stadium. Being from Texoma we were Ranger fans so I don't remember if it was because yaw were having a year or just because that's how Busch Stadium usually is, but there were NO seats!
We wanted to see Pujols so bad. He was on fire. Luckily, the folks in the ticket booth told us they sold "standing seats" for 9$. We had no clue what the Hell that was, but were thrilled to get in the Busch. LOL the only thing we could see was Pujols in left field!...it was awesome
I am truly lucky to have grown up living in STL and getting to see him his entire career start to finish. The Machine❤️
I spent so much time as a kid trying to copy his stances and swing. One of my favorite players growing up and of all times.
For his role, it's amazing he still hasn't had a 100 strikeout season in his career and in some years almost had more home runs than strikeouts. I think he's the closest to a Tony Gwynn-type power hitter in my lifetime.
The use of “was” in this video towards the end should be changed to “is”, he is still putting up amazing numbers and doing amazing things
Yeah idk why they would write the present as past tense
This was a VERY GOOD video sir!! Being in St. Louis, you can kinda take things like this for granted at times because there have been a lot of great players and teams here but seeing this man do his thing for as long as he has done is remarkable. I wasn't one of those fans who was mad when he left because i understood that it was a business decision on BOTH sides. His foot issues started the last couple of years her in STL and it's almost like baseballs version of football turf toe and it's hard to shake.. I knew it was going to be a problem and I'm sure the organization and Pujols did as well. He could go to LA, get the bag and eventually be a DH there, couldn't do that in the NL at the time. The organization wouldn't be on the hook for a ridiculous contract for a player who was no longer himself and would hamstring the roster for years to come. It worked out perfectly and hey, he came back in the long run to finish what he started. hopefully they can go out w/ a bang with him, yadi and waino! Woud be the perfect ending. Kudos
I am 41 and a lifetime Beisbol fan. Pujols is the Man.
As a diehard Astros fan I hated, feared and LOVED this man! I absolutely love that he’s back with the cardinals and achieving these milestones. Now I just hope he comes back to keep hacking away at more records. Would be great if he broke it all to become the REAL HR king!
Being a Stl Cardinals fan my entire life and an Albert Pujols fan since his career began with Stl Cardinals in 2001 and a diehard Cardinal Nation member, all I can say is Stl and Cardinal Nation are just as happy as Albert to have him come Home 🏡 to us for this truly extraordinary 2022 season and while he is retiring after this seaon, he Is held in the highest esteem by all of us...not only bc of his baseball career but more importantly bc of his Christian faith and his servants heart honouring God with his Pujols 5 Foundation and his giving back to his birthplace , The Dominican Republic. Albert is a great blessing to so many and blessed by God with great athletic gifts. ❤
I was 10 when Pujols started MLB in '01. By 2003 I completely understood that there would likely be only a couple of players during a lifetime as good as he was. Been amazing to watch him finish his career up. Hope he gets to 700 but even if he already hit his last at 698, you know he is just out there having fun.
As a kid in the ST. Louis area whose young formative years started in the 90's, I have been spoiled with generational talents and moments regularly that I know will eventually come to an end. Maybe Arenado and Goldy will be our last at that level. Though Albert is on his own level even with recent hometown legends like Ozzie Smith, Mcgee, Edmonds, Rolen, Holiday, and so manny more. Even in the Bash era with Mcguire, Pujols quickly stood out and could easily be in the conversation of the greatest of all time. Time will tell if names like Trout, Judge, or Otani will be able to have a similar consistency, but in a cardinal uniform, this may be the start to the end of the franchise's greatest era. Though maybe that devil magic can pull another trick in the coming years.
697 homeruns as of 9/11 2022 hoping for 700
Would love to see a story behind his Rookie of the Year counterpart: Ichiro Suzuki
I'd be curious to know what NL/AL ROY duo could match up with those two's careers.
2 first ballot hall of famers?! With a possible % 💯 voting??? Not one class will surpass this!
@@civilwarwasaninsidejob7405 Seaver and Carew!!!
@@civilwarwasaninsidejob7405 Yeah, no kidding. I had both of them on my fantasy league that year, along with Roy Oswalt. I cleaned up. It was a magical fantasy season, let me tell you.
If anyone doesn't vote him into Cooperstown first ballot,they dont deserve to have a vote.
I saw Pujols' entire career. His 2nd half of the 2022 season was astounding. Even the opposing players - many of whom had never seen him in his prime - could not believe how a 42-year-old could be so dominant. Watch their reactions on videos. Players and managers just shaking their heads...
Wow great video 👏 , usually I skip these kind of videos , but this had me really intrigued, it was simple and informative. A1
THAT WAS VERY VERY WELL DONE, LOOK I'M FROM STL, RETIRED NAVY, I USE TO WORK AT BUSCH FROM 82-87, BUT I TELL EVERYBODY, NOBODY AND I MEAN, NOBODY WAS BETTER THAN ALBERT PUJOLS FOR HIS 10 YR PERIOD IN STL, AND HE EVEN SAID IT, HE WAS GUARANTEED HALL IN 10 YEARS, DIDN'T NEED TO DO ANOTHER THING.TROUT, NOBODY WAS BETTER THAN THE MACHINE, HE IS THE BEST I'VE SEEN, I'M A DIEHARD CARD FAN SINCE 72, WHEN I FIRST FELLIN LOVE WITH BB INSTL, THE BEST BB TOWN IN THE WORLD, PERIOD. ANYWAY EVEN MORE THAN ALL THAT, HE LOVES GOD AND IS A MAN OF FAITH I BELIEVE, HIS CHARITY WORK WITH DOWNS, HE CONTINUED TODO WORK IN STL AFTER HE LEFT. GREAT, GREAT PLAYER FOR US, I DON'T THINK OF HIM IN THAT ANGEL UNIFORM, WELCOME BACK ALBERT IS THE BEST, I ENVY NO MAN, NOT STAR STRUCK BY NOBODY ON THI PLANET, THAT IS THE ONLY FAMOUS PERSON IN MY LIFE I'D LIKE TO MEET, THANKS ALBERT FOR SOME GREAT MEMORIES
Hoping he retires with another ring
He is the epitome of a human specimen inside and out. What a blessing!
As an unfortunate Cincinnati Reds fan that absolutely despises the Cardinals...I have been rooting for Albert to hit 700 all season. It would just be such a cool cap to a hall of fame career, and would be awesome to see another player hit 700 home runs.
7:00 MAN that’s some old footage. Hearing St. Louis native now legendary broadcaster Joe Buck on local Fox Sports Midwest. That brings back some memories!
13th round pick. 402nd overall per a Google search. You hear stories like this more often in baseball, but odds are we probably haven't even heard if more than half of the players selected before him. I'm a Cubs fan. Pujols could crush an entire team's morale with one swing. 1st ballot legend.
I remember getting to see him when I was a child going on field trips to Redbirds games
Great compilation thanks 👍👍💯
Imagine what his career stats would look like if he never left STL.
I just loved it in game 7 of 2011 when Poo-holes squeezed out number two according to Joe Buck.
Albert Pujols is a LEGEND 🔥🔥🔥
Easily one of the 5 greatest players all time.
Incorrect
Great stuff 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
He left St Louis with a World Series ring and wants to leave the game with a ring that will mark the 12th World Championship for the Cardinals. Stan told him, "Stay in St Louis and break all my records." He left but NOW he is HOME! and it's 2011 again!
Amazing video man!
10:27 that is commonly referred to as the homerun that broke Lidge. He was never the same pitcher after that.
love the baseball content
Fantástic video !
Imagine what he could've done if he didn't have the nearly debilitating foot problems that actually started before he left St. Louis. Like Mickey Mantle if he didn't have the knee problems....mind boggling!
Injuries hurt Pujols hard, if he did not have those injuries he easily would have passed Bonds in HRs.
The dude could still hit and make contact but his speed was sadly a huge downfall.
Awesome Albert Pujols Documentary Video 📸.
It's weird that the ending was written in the past tense as if the season's over
he just a beast of baseball glad see him in 700 club
Nicely done!
Albert and yadi played minors in my hometown Peoria illinois so as a kid I got to witness them play before they were huge stars
AP5 a legend watch him as a baseball fan
Albert is a great hitter.
THE MACHINE…LA MÁQUINA !! 🦾🦿
GOAT IN THE MAKING 🇩🇴🔥🇩🇴
The Greatest of His generation!!!
17:30 his overall numbers declined, but not his homers, he still was in the 20-40 mark for many of those seasons.
3:01 Pujols being older than what he was is something I do think is a very strong possibility but that's something that's never really moved me. I don't really have an issue with a kid lying about their age to escape a horrible situation hoping to find a better life. If it turns out he's actually around 45-48 that makes his career even more impressive imo.
Because if he was 22 instead of 19 mlb scouts would've looked at him the same.
I think the age thing is garbage. The controversy started when he was in high school, largely because of the facial hair. Had he been pretending to be younger than he was, he would have had to be a complete moron to allow such prominent facial hair to remain on his face. Albert Pujols was never a moron.
But do you have a problem with a grown man in his 30's defrauding a professional sports team out of hundreds of millions of dollars? Because that's exactly what Pujols would be guilty of in a court of law if he knowingly deceived the Angels about his age when he signed that contract...
@@LoowheezeBreeze Pujols wouldn't be guilty of anything in the court of law. Something like that would be a civil matter and the Angels would probably lose out. They offered him that contract which means they should have done their due diligence when offering him one of the worst contracts in MLB history.
I'm not going to cry for billionaires trying to obtain shiny objects.
love Pujols!
703….I’m calling it now
He just hit 703 with 2 games left:)
Everyone had a pujols shirt back in the day. It was like paisley in the 60’s. If you lived in Arkansas and didn’t know who Albert Pujols was in 2004, boy would they tease you lol
I always liked the guy. Just has something about him that u like. Dam good ball player.
Best right hand swing ever!
If he had never signed with the Angels,. we might be seriously talking about him chasing Bonds right now, instead of clawing for 700. I don't think his stint in Anaheim cost him 100 HR. But it could very well have cost him 50ish. It's not just the toxic environment of Anaheim itself, it's also atmospheric - the marine layer in SoCal turns a lot of home runs in Anaheim (and also Los Angeles) into long fly outs.
Probably so.
That's an interesting point. Thanks for sharing.
2001 had 2 awesome rookies. Albert in the NL, and Ichiro , the AL MVP. Ichiro only hit slightly higher for his average in 2001 than Pujols did, but Albert's power was on another level. I'd say Pujols was the better of the 2 players.
Pujols and ichiro are my two favorite players I have ever watched in my 27 years of life and I don't care about stats or anything else just the joy you get watching people like that play is unreal! I'm from stl and diehard cardinal fan but ichiro is my favorite of all time and again nothing to do with stats!
@@jessegarris7030 I still believe that Ichiro beating out infield choppers to 1st base , then stealing 2nd base 1 minute later is the epitome of baseball spirit. Hustle your ass off baby! It translates to any era of baseball.
This man will play til he's 50
A true film career. If the Cards manage to win it all this year...bruh...
God I wonder If he had stayed if he would've smacked 800 all for the Cardinals...Hit 469 out of 703. So for his career he did it mainly all in stl and basically had a hall of fame career but man if he came back next year I bet he smacks 31 to get to 500 for the Cardinals for sure...He is only 7 homers away from most ever as a Cardinals player...I just wonder if he never left if he is even playing right now? I dont think he would, I think he wouldve hit 600-700 way sooner, and perhaps this season would've been chase for 800 if he had still been playing in an alternative universe where he never left STL...He basically never had 1 bad season in STL
7:53 let’s put this into perspective. The next 3 guys on that list are all HOF material, and been retired for 5-10 years at this point..
Also, he’d be chasing 800 right now if he went anywhere but the Los Angeles Angels, where Careers go to die. Trout would have 110 WAR, Shohei would have 3 Cy youngs and Rendon would still exist. Just saying
His peak was unraveled? You gotta be kidding
🔥🔥🔥🔥 Angels did not believe in him……
GOD DID!!
@@nosexinviolence.3358 he still there?? Sorry ass angels
2:40 dude is in highschool as a 21 yr old
Let do the math !! 😂 in high school, Pujols was walked 55 times out of 88 at bats…that’s a 63%…plus He hit 0.660 in his 33 at bats…that means, He was on base 87% of his at bats. 🤣
Marmot should have been playing Pujols a lot more than he has, or had been. He darn sure would have finished closer to Ruth.
I wouldn't say he took that first MVP award with relative ease. Andruw Jones carried the Braves that year and had the most home runs and RBIs by a long shot. Just saying
Jaylen Brown next video theScore 🙏🙏🙏
I've never heard it explained how Pujols ended up in the Kansas City area. Why did his dad choose there?
his 11 year stretch is the greatest offense ever, try and tell me different
Drop off was due to him going to LA and that huge stadium
15:56 except it didn't, it decreased for the first time without being on the DL. He was on the DL in 2011, but not in 2012. It was 2012 his numbers for the first time waned, becuse he didn't get hurt and miss time like he did in 2011.
His career would of been even more insane goat level if he would of stayed in st. Louis, going to Los Angeles really screwed him up, he fell off in the American league for some reason
Id imagine without the angels he'd be well past the 700 mark
His numbers and championships would have been even better if he stayed in STL. 10 years of sucking wind.
I liked the documental but its not fair to say that his career in LA was a disaster, it was not. He put some solid numbers, is just that he was not the beast he was in St louis but he finished over 20 HRs 6 times during the contract, over 30HRs 3 times, at the time he was released in 2021 he was in the top 5 in AL in the HRs and although he had injuries he brought joy to LA fans. He did not conduct them to the postseason but, has Mike Trout been able to? A single player can't get a team to the WS.
MLB teams got it big time wrong in the draft the year Albert Pujols was in the draft.
First ballot hall of famer and imho should be a unanimous vote like Mariano Riviera.
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Whos here after his 700!!
I'm Here
And also he only gave himself one year in the minor leagues. He made it very clear that he didn't want to spend multiple years in the minors and if he didn't make the club out of spring training his second year he was going to retire
i as like pujols i played balll and had to hang it up after age15 gradeschool junior yeari lied at 15 i was 14 lol pujols at 42 different as i at 15 and i wasnt pro i just played and loved baseball before i could crawl lol i had to ditch highschool for work educated myself by listining to the ones with logic hints i made it from minimum wage $3.90 an hour first job to pretty good money with talent to do about anything except deadly catch lol girls was great like a differnt one often and love wasnt ther untill i was smarting up and love for 28 years and still same girl a woman now lol never married we just called it common law she will turn 52 at 10/03/2022 im seasond at 59 anyways baseball is still with linda and i i learned math watchig the scores stats records balls strikes homeruns and then pujols numbers was unbelievable stats was like fourth of july allmost everynight for our sir albert i got more education myself without highschool, working with common sence would take me a long way in life i did make allmost more $$$$$$ than most of us seven kids, disableld now but from everything i did learn wasnt allways easy to get i worked for my own education it was life in general common sence my spelling getting dusty oh well st louis cardinals was very educational i know the game pretty good history and my oldest brother was mr baseball him me my older brother tried to make it to baseball gamed 1 or 2 trips a year untill he passed him away before wegot to retire brother jerry mr baseball thats all we talked over many budweisers me and both brothers was close mostly of our lives i miss him and i dedicate this bull sh!t ive typed here lol thats what he would laugh but no its true if i had time and every detail of life to type it all i wouldnt get rich for it but im rich with everything i have and what family left AND THE ST LOUIS CARDINALS well my working hard is what im in the bad shape servived 3 times in life support each time lost things in me but if im still here alive then im still rich with everyone and baseball im happy besides bad health untill i pass on into st louis cardinals above nextdoor to god,we have 3 games for those young rookies to win and pujols and molina told them young ballplayers that has the powers and magic makes players get a little crazy this time of the year, GO GET THE PHILLIES those young rookies grow beards but they still make me feel old AMEN THE BASEBALL GODS
2:58 and the fact that first picture looked far more 70's than 1980, and he mentioned being 13 when Dotel was 17, so back in 1990.
And yesterday he join Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds in the 700 club!!!!
200 million dollars is just simply an insult. You can't live off that. This man has a family. This man could hurt his knee running. This man has bills to pay. How can you ask a man to live off almost a quarter of a billion dollars? I wouldn't even get out of bed for a salary like that. I totally agree with spitting in your fan bases face and the team that gave you so much and a city that worshiped you like a god. Leave those championships behind. Leave the chance to be the greatest Cardinal ever behind. Gas is over three dollars a gallon. Literally how is this man even going to get to work without that extra 50 million dollars?