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Pujols is an offensive machine, with numbers that approach the sublime. He entered last night’s game with 43 home runs, 124 RBI, a .363 batting average and 133 runs scored...
Though he has to make up a 13-RBI deficit with five games to play, Pujols is one tear from becoming baseball’s first Triple Crown since Yaz won it in 1967 and the first in the NL since Ducky Medwick in 1937. He has proven he is capable of such a run —witness his 30-game hit streak this year, during which he hit .389. Simply put, Pujols is having one of the best offensive seasons in baseball history...
...first in the NL in batting average and runs scored, third in home runs (Bonds and Jim Thome are tied for first with 44), and fourth in RBI. Of the nine offensive categories, Pujols is in the top four of seven of them (everything but triples and stolen bases), including an NL-best 207 hits...
...winning games is the currency of baseball, Pujols has the biggest wallet. He leads the NL with 21 game-winning RBI and 34 go-ahead RBI...
Since 1995, when the wild card was instituted, Colorado’s Larry Walker is the only MVP winner who didn’t see postseason play (in 1997). He hit .366 with 49 home runs, 130 RBI and 208 hits. Pujols is right there, without playing 81 games in the hitter-friendly confines of Coors field...