I know most of us are rooting are asses off against the Cardinals....but hopefully us baseball fans can appreciate one of THE very best players we will likely see in our lifetime.....barring major injury or HGH findings he is the one.

400 HR and over 1200 RBI at age 30 and he didn't come up in his teens like Griffey and Arod.

To do what he has done in the time that he has done it.....and with the consistency.....3 or 4 more Albert years and then a typical winding down of a career and you'll have a player who has

775 HR
2200 RBI
2200 Runs
3500 Hits
650 Doubles


.......and so much more

Keep rooting against the Cards....and keep rooting for Votto to outlast Pujols.....but don't forget to appreciate being able to watch one of the best players of your lifetime.

He's nasty. No way around it.

Hard to believe that for how good he is, he's only like the 4th youngest player to hit 400. FOURTH. I mean Pujols has been just unbelievable for almost a decade and he's only the FOURTH youngest ever.

I love baseball.

Edit: check that.....3rd youngest.

Just as an aside......4 players actually reached 400 HRs in fewer at-bats than Pujols:

Mark McGwire ... 400 in 4,726 ABs
Babe Ruth ... 400 in 4,853 ABs
Harmon Killebrew ... 400 in 5,300 ABs
Jim Thome ... 400 in 5,416 ABs
Albert Pujols ... 399 in 5,613 ABs
Manny Ramirez ... 400 in 5,695 ABs
Jimmie Foxx ... 400 in 5,711 ABs
Willie McCovey ... 400 in 5,751 ABs
Willie Mays ... 400 in 5,761 ABs

Mooney44Cards;463276 wrote:Just as an aside......4 players actually reached 400 HRs in fewer at-bats than Pujols:

Mark McGwire ... 400 in 4,726 ABs
Babe Ruth ... 400 in 4,853 ABs
Harmon Killebrew ... 400 in 5,300 ABs
Jim Thome ... 400 in 5,416 ABs
Albert Pujols ... 399 in 5,613 ABs
Manny Ramirez ... 400 in 5,695 ABs
Jimmie Foxx ... 400 in 5,711 ABs
Willie McCovey ... 400 in 5,751 ABs
Willie Mays ... 400 in 5,761 ABs

That matters more to me than the age in which it's done.

Incredible talent, he's been my favorite player for 9 years.

I hate Albert Pujols, but yeah, he's good.

The only two younger were barely younger and came up when they were teenagers.

Just looking back, is there any hitter in the history of baseball more overlooked and forgotten than Jimmie Foxx? Dude's lifetime numbers are pretty sick. 3-time MVP......hit 58 HRs in 1932. Lifetime OPS over 1.

Mooney44Cards;464409 wrote:Just looking back, is there any hitter in the history of baseball more overlooked and forgotten than Jimmie Foxx? Dude's lifetime numbers are pretty sick. 3-time MVP......hit 58 HRs in 1932. Lifetime OPS over 1.

He was sick (not that I was alive to see it). But the numbers say so. You do rarely hear about him, He falls just short on the "magic" numbers of hits, RBIs, and doubles. Has the 500 HR and .300 Avg. But the others might be the reason we dont hear him mentioned on the "lists" announcers give.