Albert Pujols and four of his teammates homered in a 9-2 Angels rout of the Reds Monday night. For Pujols, it was his 586th home run, tying him with Frank Robinson for ninth on the all-time home run list. With five seasons left on his contract, he would need to average 35 home runs a season to catch Barry Bonds for the all-time lead. That’s probably not going to happen. He should easily get to 600, however, and I can see him passing Wille Mays at some point.
If Pujols stays moderately healthy he should end his career with over 3000 hits, 2000 RBI, top ten in doubles. It is possible he ends his career the only player with 700 home runs and 700 doubles. Although he is a slugger who gets on base at a high rate, he may not reach 2000 runs, something the top five home run hitters did accomplish.
A low strikeout rate helped Pujols maintain a .300 career batting average. He only strikes out 70 times per 162 games played. He never struck out 100 times in a season, and the only year he came close was his rookie year of 2001, when he K’d 93 times. That why he was able to hit .337 over a seven year prime.
We’ll see home high Pujols can climb the charts over the next five seasons. He already cemented his Hall of Fame induction, now we’ll see where he ranks with the greatest of all time.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2bxon7X
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