kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
PHILADELPHIA | Phillies’ All-Star closer Brad Lidge forgot about Albert Pujols’ mammoth playoff homer a long time ago. Maybe now that he’s had a perfect season, people will stop reminding him of it.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Brad Lidge forgot about Albert Pujols' mammoth playoff homer a long time ago. Maybe now that he has had a perfect season, people will stop reminding him of it.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Brad Lidge forgot about Albert Pujols’ mammoth playoff homer a long time ago. Maybe now that he’s had a perfect season, people will stop reminding him of it.
FIRE JOE MORGAN (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... blog for that opinion. We’re prepared to face the firing squad on this one, having passed over Albert Pujols. Klapisch is talking about a literal firing squad. He has written his farewell notes to his wife and kids. But he's doing this because he's a man. A man taking a stand. A man choosing another man who is ranked 30th in his league in VORP for MVP. These are the kinds of causes...
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Take it away, Intern Bill! NL MVP: Albert Pujols, 1B St. Louis. He wins this one in a walk, and it’s not even close. The finest season of an already outstanding career, Pujols got on base a startling 46% of the time, second only to fellow MVP candidate Chipper Jones. Two neat facts to consider: * [...]
AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a 2005 winter and 2006 spring's worth of questions about the home run he gave up to Albert Pujols in Game 5 of the 2005 NLCS, Lidge converted his first seven save opportunities of 2006. Then on April 24 at Minute Maid Park, he gave up four runs and lasted only two-thirds of an inning against the Dodgers to suffer his first loss and first blown save of the season. A day later, he...
MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The Cardinals are next in our Offseason Outlook series. Their likely commitments for 2009: C - Yadier Molina - $3.25MM C - Bryan Anderson - $400K 1B - Albert Pujols - $16MM 2B - Adam Kennedy - $4MM SS - Brendan Ryan - $400K 3B - Troy Glaus - $11.25MM IF - Aaron Miles - $1.4MM+ IF/OF - Chris Duncan - $439K LF - Skip Schumaker - $400K CF - Rick Ankiel - $900K+ RF - Ryan Ludwick - $411K+...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
PHILADELPHIA - Brad Lidge forgot about Albert Pujols' mammoth playoff homer a long time ago. Maybe now that he's had a perfect season, people will stop reminding him of it. Lidge didn't wake up in the middle of the night in cold sweats thinking...
Larry Brown Sports (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... once he was traded to the Angels and Braves in the last two years. For that matter, only Albert Pujols is capable of producing at that rate over the course of 162 games — Teixeira is one of the few players capable of producing that well over a 50-game span. Numbers aside, the Angels figure to make a big push to retain Teixeira, and the Yankees, Red Sox and Orioles all figure to get...
Was Watching (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... of the “Top 15″ right-handed batters in the big leagues. He’s far from the elite class…guys like Albert Pujols and Manny Ramirez. But, he’s just as good a hitter as guys like Aramis Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis. Burrell is a Free Agent this off-season - and, reportedly, the San Francisco Giants are very interested. Yet, I wonder, would the Yankees consider Pat Burrell to be their next...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... out in Game 5 to secure their first World Series berth, Lidge allowed a mammoth three-run homer to Albert Pujols of the . He hung his head on the mound as the ballpark went silent. “Most people looked at that as a devastating, insurmountable situation,” said Morgan Ensberg, the Astros’ third baseman that fall. “But all of the guys on the field were thinking, Oh, well, that stinks,...
Redbirds Fun (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Kyle McClellan was named as the organization's rookie of the year and very much deserved on his part. SI reports on another amazing season by Albert Pujols. Yet again, Russ Springer is pondering his eventual retirement .
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Brad Lidge forgot about Albert Pujols' mammoth playoff homer a long time ago. Maybe now that he's had a perfect season, people will stop reminding him of it. Lidge didn't wake up in the middle of the night in cold sweats thinking about Pujols. Didn't have constant flashbacks, either. No matter how often others mention Pujols' go-ahead shot in the 2005 NL...
Was Watching (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... know) that if the pitcher doesn’t make a mistake, they are much more likely to get him out than Albert Pujols and the others on this list. Let’s compare Rodriguez to Barry Bonds and Pujols and see if we can figure out what’s going on. Rodriguez does something that the other two don’t (or potentially in the case of Bonds “didn’t”) — and the result is that he has a larger margin...
The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
While the playoffs finally got interesting yesterday (i.e. there won't be a four DS sweeps), HLP and I began to ponder who is deserving of the title of Most Valuable Player for the National League. Discussions we've heard recently primarily center around Albert Pujols or Lance Berkman, so I'm going to limit the discussion of MVP to those two players. In the end, you'll see that it doesn't...
