Simply Put, Albert Pujols' career has gotten off to one of the greatest starts in Major League history. Pujols has hit 30+ home runs every year he has been in the majors, has hit over .300 every year, and has averaged 115 RBI every year. He is also an excellent defensive first baseman as he won the gold glove award in 2006. But he has been inconsistent in one area: stolen bases. In his first two years in the majors, Pujols swiped a combined 13 bases. But in 2004, Albert swiped 20 bases. That was his highest total stolen base tally of his career. IN 2008, Albert stole 10 bases, and in the first half of the 2009 season, he has only swiped 4 bases.
Pujol's weight at the start if his career was around 210 lbs. He is now around 230. It would be very hard to add twenty pounds of muscle to your frame over the course of nine years with the rigorous schedules of baseball players. Another suspicion is the size of his head. From 2007-209 his head has grown a circumference of almost 2 inches, which in this world, is not normal.
What often happens when a player takes steroids, his speed goes down, which is happening with Pujols. As happened with Bonds, his power went up, and his speed went down. This year, Pujols is on pace to hit 62 home runs, but is only on pace to steal 7 bases. Both of those totals are career highs and lows. A player does not steal 20 bases in one season, and then only 7 in the next. That kind of inconsistency does not exist in baseball, especially with speed.
In the minors, Pujols was never really considered a real prospect. He was never really given a fair chance in the majors. When he got to the majors in 2001, he put up numbers that he had never put up before: 37 home runs, a .332 batting average, and above all, 133 RBI. His career certainly got off to a great start, but how did a guy who was never considered a serious prospect in the minors have this breakthrough season in the majors. The answer is simple, he's taking “them 'roids.”
For some Cardinal fans this article might not affect you at all, but for some, it might be heartbreaking. All of the things said in this article are facts, not fiction. A person's head does not grow 2” in a normal world. Being a lowly minor league prospect and then skyrocketing to the title of “Baseball's best player.” That does not happen in the normal world, unless they do some serious training to somehow improve their talent. Whether it is proven that Pujol's took steroids, he is already guilty in much of the public's eye. It's a shame, because he had the potential to be one of the greatest players to ever play the game, without making controversy about steroids.
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