100 rated Immortal Pujols card??
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@NCStateHokie_PSN said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
@brainfreeze442 said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
@Ericulous1_PSN said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
Top 5 hitter all time period. Please someone tell me I'm wrong.
And he deserves a killer 99 this year.
I still have to disagree with that: Babe, Mays, Mantle, Griffey Jr., Arod (yes, I know he past him, but only because they made an example out of him and he had to stop playing, Pujols got a pass). I’m not denying he is and was a great hitter, but Top 5 - if you weren’t a Cards fan you would see differently.
You are a stand up guy, so I respect your opinion. I am not trying to change your mind, just showing you were I am coming from.Lolol. AROD had to stop playing because he was 40 years old and hitting .200 during his last season.
That and the Yankees just didn't want to pay him any bonus money for breaking milestones. They also used that roster spot to call up Judge who hit a massive .178 or something (although I'm sure it was valuable MLB experience for him).
I guess the allure (and maybe value) of 700 hrs probably loses some value given his on-going steroid/legal/contract drama he had but I feel like people still would have shown up to a park to watch him go for it.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
@NCStateHokie_PSN said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
@brainfreeze442 said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
@Dolenz_PSN said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
@brainfreeze442 said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
@Ericulous1_PSN said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
Top 5 hitter all time period. Please someone tell me I'm wrong.
And he deserves a killer 99 this year.
I still have to disagree with that: Babe, Mays, Mantle, Griffey Jr., Arod (yes, I know he past him, but only because they made an example out of him and he had to stop playing, Pujols got a pass).
Serious questions here.
Why did he have to stop playing? He was suspended and missed a season. True. But he came back and played parts of two more seasons. He was released by the Yankees after batting .200 in 65 games in 2016 at the age of 40 and decided to retire.
Wasn't he free to do what Pujols did and find a new club in free agency. By the way, Alex played 22 seasons and this is Albert's 22nd season.
I am not taking anything away from Rodriguez or arguing about who is/was better but I just questioned the statement that he was somehow forced out.
Arod was paid millions of dollars to not play. He was still under contract with the Yankees when he was forced to retire. Yes, it was his own fault; but, one of those failed tests were failed by hundreds of players. They were tested for an anonymous test to see how bad PED use was. They never suspended anyone else from that list. They made an example out of Arod because he was the highest paid and highest performing player at the time. He was going to be “the first clean player to hit 700 HRs.” Once it was released he wasn’t clean (the second time) they blackballed him. MLB and the Yankees did him dirty. I admit, he did it to himself; but why does everyone else get a pass?
AROD was never going to be the first "clean" hitter to hit 700 for multiple reasons. 1.) He wasn't clean and 2.) Have you heard of Henry Aaron?
Or Babe Ruth
Or Sadaharu Oh.
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@NCStateHokie_PSN said in 100 rated Immortal Pujols card??:
AROD was never going to be the first "clean" hitter to hit 700
Sorry, I obviously made a typing error. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Many sports commentators on places similar and maybe including ESPN said AROD had a likely chance of being the first clean player to break Aaron’s home run record. Obviously he didn’t do it, and he was not clean. I was talking to a friend, I should have done it in a PM. Please let’s not bring this up on a DD board, he doesn’t have a card.
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