Albert Pujols is staging one of the greatest goodbyes in the history of sports.
He is sitting at 698 career home runs, on the doorstep of becoming the fourth player to hit 700. He has gotten there with a throwback tear that calls to mind the regular mashing of his early career, but he has done it as a 42-year-old back with the Cardinals and playing what he has said will be his last season. Watching Pujols hit has become a matter of both baseball and civic pride in the closing weeks of his Hall of Fame career.
He was the game’s definitive hitter for a decade, from not long after his debut in 2001 until his departure from St. Louis after 2011. He won three MVP awards in that period . He left the Cardinals with 445 homers at age 31. When he signed his 10-year deal with the Angels, he looked like a good bet to get here much sooner than now, even if he suffered the expected late-career decline. A rate of 25.5 homers per year would have done the job over the next 10 years.
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