Will Albert Pujols Get to 700 Home Runs?

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🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Albert Pujols was the most dangerous hitter in baseball for more than a decade, putting up monumental statistics with such precision he earned the nickname, “The Machine.” But after signing a massive free agent deal with the Angels, injuries and age caught up with him. Today, Pujols is back in a St. Louis Cardinals uniform and just might be looking like his old self again. With 700 home runs in sight as his career comes winding down, Alden Gonzalez joins the show to help us understand the man and the machine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alton Gonzalez, I want to be very honest with you.
0:01.7	I did not plan on doing an Albert Poole's episode.
0:04.4	I guess during my tenure hosting this show at all,
0:08.7	I thought we had missed the window on him being a person
0:13.0	that we should be impressed by.
0:14.8	But then stuff kept happening.
0:17.2	Stuff like what happened on August 22nd at Rigglyfield.
0:21.5	What exactly occurred?
0:25.7	He homeworked again, Pablo.
0:27.2	And Poole said, out to deep left.
0:32.2	Let go of God!
0:34.2	693 home runs and historic home run.
0:40.2	He didn't just homework again.
0:42.2	He homeworked on a fastball near his head.
0:45.2	This is way up there.
0:46.2	I mean, this is almost neck high to Albert.
0:49.2	And he turns it around.
0:51.2	It was the 693rd home run of his career.
0:54.2	It was his sixth home run in a stretch of 20 at bats.
1:00.2	It was the only run of the game.
1:02.2	It was the reason why the Cardinals won that game.
1:05.2	And if you go back to some of the comments that his teammates,
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