They did. I completely understand that. It is the date they chose that has led to rampant speculation which persists to this day. Albert was a prodigy on the baseball field. A man among boys, likely in both the literal and figurative sense.
Despite putting up video game like numbers, scouts were concerned enough about his actual age to let him fall to the nd pick. But a couple of years fudged by marking 19 down to 17 still meant Albert was entering his physical prime when he was drafted.
You know, where we are right now. Albert had a Hall of Fame career with the Cardinals, who took him with that nd pick.
His numbers placing him among the best right handed hitters of all time. He had the career. He had the money in hand. If there was ever a time to come clean, it was then. But he remained silent. In interviews, Albert has actually tripped up on several occasions. Dotel turns 45 on November 15th. That math leads right back to Albert being 41, maybe a tad older. Why does that matter now? Arte Moreno and the Angels signed Albert Pujols to a 10 contract under the expectation they were paying him through his age 41 season.
Countless career arcs show players decline quickly once they hit their late 30s. A few bad years at the end of a contract would be one thing, but if the man they signed was due to decline at the beginning of the deal, an entirely different matter. Right now it's just the meaningless, accidental amplification of a rumor.
This isn't a case where we've gotten more evidence about this question over the years, it's just a case in which the people who believe it, after shutting up for a few years, have gotten louder again. In the absence of some insider or hanger-on willing to leak the actual reasons they believe what they believe, columns like Le Batard's and thought exercises like ours are basically irrelevant. I know we're inured, by now, to the unnamed source, but what's being done here isn't at all what Joe Strauss does.
Joe Strauss might tell us, after suggesting we check in at the P-D round midnight, that anonymous Cardinals sources confirm that a statue of Joe Strauss really delivering the zinger he's always wanted to deliver to Tony La Russa while everybody cheers and loves him, finally, will be unveiled outside Busch Stadium tomorrow. If he had information about Albert Pujols's age he'd probably tell us that unnamed sources confirm that Albert Pujols is 33 years old, and give us some idea of how they know that.
That's all right—sources can't always be named, for various legitimate reasons. If you can't tell us who your source is, and you can't tell us what your source knows, or how, you haven't told us anything.
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Stories Schedule Roster Stats. Filed under:. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Jackson Thompson. Albert Pujols is listed as 41 years old, but that could be false, according to a former MLB exec. The ex-Miami Marlins president said "not one person in baseball believes" Pujols' listed age.
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