{"id":48044,"date":"2021-05-16T01:17:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48044"},"modified":"2021-05-16T01:17:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:17:38","slug":"pujols-finds-a-new-team-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48044","title":{"rendered":"Pujols finds a new team … yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Albert Pujols will take his place in due course in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

But first the former three-time National League Most Valuable Player, two-time World Series champ (with the St. Louis Cardinals) and arguably the best right-handed hitter in the past 60 years will get to play one season for the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n

The LA Angels gave Pujols the boot in the final year of the huge contract he signed prior to the 2012 season. The all-timer didn’t perform up to the standards he set while playing for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Free agent Albert Pujols, Los Angeles Dodgers agree to major-league contract (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

He is now 41 years of age. He doesn’t have much time.<\/p>\n

The only downer I see in this signing is that Pujols won’t get to play the Cardinals in St. Louis <\/em>this year, as he did in 2019 when the Angels visited Busch Stadium for a three-game set against the Cards. The reception the St. Louis fans gave Pujols was remarkable in the extreme.<\/p>\n

I’ve shared this video already, but it’s worth seeing again.<\/p>\n

Enjoy …<\/p>\n

Cardinals fans give Albert Pujols a standing ovation in his return to Busch Stadium – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Albert Pujols will take his place in due course in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. But first the former three-time National League Most Valuable Player, two-time World Series champ (with the St. Louis Cardinals) and arguably the best right-handed hitter in the past 60 years will get to … Continue reading Pujols finds a new team … yes!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[238,9710,3105],"class_list":["post-48044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-albert-pujols","tag-baseball-hof","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48046,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48044\/revisions\/48046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}