By Valerie Hernandez
May 7, 2021
The Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim announced yesterday that they will be releasing two-time World Series champion and 10-time All Star Albert Pujols after nearly a decade with the team. Team owner Arte Moreno said in a statement, The Angels Organization proudly signed Albert Pujols in 2011, and are honored that he has worn an Angels jersey for nearly half of his Hall-of-Fame Career.
Pujols didn t immediately comment on his release, which came in the final year of his 10-year contract with the team. Last month, Pujols told MLB.com he felt the best he s felt in a while,
By Valerie Hernandez
May 7, 2021
The Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim announced yesterday that they will be releasing two-time World Series champion and 10-time All Star Albert Pujols after nearly a decade with the team. Team owner Arte Moreno said in a statement, The Angels Organization proudly signed Albert Pujols in 2011, and are honored that he has worn an Angels jersey for nearly half of his Hall-of-Fame Career.
Pujols didn t immediately comment on his release, which came in the final year of his 10-year contract with the team. Last month, Pujols told MLB.com he felt the best he s felt in a while,
By Valerie Hernandez
May 7, 2021
The Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim announced yesterday that they will be releasing two-time World Series champion and 10-time All Star Albert Pujols after nearly a decade with the team. Team owner Arte Moreno said in a statement, The Angels Organization proudly signed Albert Pujols in 2011, and are honored that he has worn an Angels jersey for nearly half of his Hall-of-Fame Career.
Pujols didn t immediately comment on his release, which came in the final year of his 10-year contract with the team. Last month, Pujols told MLB.com he felt the best he s felt in a while,
By Valerie Hernandez
May 7, 2021
The Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim announced yesterday that they will be releasing two-time World Series champion and 10-time All Star Albert Pujols after nearly a decade with the team. Team owner Arte Moreno said in a statement, The Angels Organization proudly signed Albert Pujols in 2011, and are honored that he has worn an Angels jersey for nearly half of his Hall-of-Fame Career.
Pujols didn t immediately comment on his release, which came in the final year of his 10-year contract with the team. Last month, Pujols told MLB.com he felt the best he s felt in a while,
May 7, 2021
The news was as abrupt as a mid-afternoon tweet, and yet long overdue: On Thursday, the Angels designated Albert Pujols for assignment. The 41-year-old Pujols is a no-doubt Hall of Famer, one of four players to attain the dual milestones of 3,000 hits and 600 home runs. But he’s now a month into his fifth season of sub-replacement level production, an impediment to improving a team that needs all the help it can get to overcome a league-worst defense as it scrambles to return to the playoffs for the first time since 2014.
Mired in a 7-for-43 slump on a 13–17 team, Pujols is hitting just .198/.250/.372 with five homers and a 75 wRC+ in 92 plate appearances and making $30 million in the final season of the 10-year, $240 million deal that he signed following a remarkable 11-year run with the Cardinals. With his body unable to withstand a litany of leg and foot injuries hamstrings, knees, plantar fasciitis his megadeal provided little bang for the buck. Where he ma