Albert Pujols Career Implosion Accelerates During 2013 Season - 7 Years Too Soon For Pujols ad The Angels $240 Million

The ugly downfall and implosion of Albert Pujols's career is in full swing in 2013!

Albert hit an embarrassing .115 in the past 7 days, with only 3 hits and no homeruns, and hasn't even been playing in the field most of the year. He blames his early move to DH on a case of bad plantar fasciitis, but we think that Albert's advanced age and declining skills have forced the Angels to make the decision to make Pujols the most overpaid Designated Hitter in the history of the game, in only his second year of a 10 year $240 million contract.

Pujols definitely regrets his decision to leave St Louis, and says that he is still "bitter" about the way the front office handled Albert leaving (stabbing the Cardinals team and fans in the back), saying that the Cardinals front office made him look like the bad guy, when in reality, it was Albert's greed that made him look like the bad guy. He told St Louis that "it wasn't about the money" then called the Cardinals' (more than generous) $200 million offer an "insult", before taking the huge contract in LA.

If Pujols would have just told St Louis the truth, that it actually WAS ALL about the money, then Cardinals fans would not have been as angry with him, but he lied to us, so if anyone has the right to be bitter, it is St Louis Cardinals fans.

Albert may say that he is still bitter, but I bet if Albert actually could take it all back, and still be playing for the Cardinals, he would do it in a second.

I think the only thing I'm bitter about is the way the front office handled it a little bit. I think they should have handled it a little better. I'm bitter about that. They tried to make me look like I was a bad guy. But that's OK. I'm a big boy. Besides that, I also understand there's nothing I can do. Even if I could take it back, I'm happy where I am right now. My goal is to focus and concentrate on what I need to do to help this ballclub win.

Albert has even been trying to get the LA Angels to Wear a Stan Musial No. 6 Patch on their jerseys, probably to try and regain some of the mojo he had while playing in St Louis, which has disintegrated into thin air since leaving the Cardinals.

As a Cardinals fan, we loved Pujols while he was here, but we knew hat his skills were on the decline the last couple ears he played in St Louis.

If Pujols would have stayed in St Louis, Cardinals fans would have stuck by him during his decline - only because of what Albert had already given to St Louis baseball fans. We would have kept him on a pedestal, despite a large contract with not much return, and he would have retired as Cardinals royalty, and a legend in St Louis - and definitely would have even had a statue outside Bush Stadium.

Ever since Albert spit in the face of St Louis and Cardinals fans everywhere, and signed a huge contract with the Angles, that even Albert himself knew he wouldn't be able to fulfill in his wildest dreams, he insulted St Louis and will soon be forgotten by the best fans in Baseball, with no statue, no retired jersey, not even a plaque on the wall to remember him by.

All of the great players that the Cardinals continue to develop and bring to the Major League every year will soon overshadow the memory of Albert Pujols, and the accomplishments he had while here. Albert Pujols legacy will be that of an overpaid, under producing, greedy baby who played for the Angels - and not very well at that.

Pujols: Over Rated - Over Paid - Has-been

POO-holes' inevitable slide into baseball's cellar of has-beens has already started, far sooner than even we thought.

As of 4/29, with 88 at bats under his belt, Albert is batting a stinky .216, with 13 strikeouts, no home runs, and only 4 RBI's!

In the last 7 days, Albert Pujols has enjoyed an incredibly lousy .130 batting average, going 3 for 23, which means at the rate the Angels pay Pujols, which works out to be about $631,578 per hit and around $133,333 per at-bat, the Angels paid Pujols $1,894,734 for 3 hits! OUCH!!!

It's pretty sad when someone getting paid $12,000,000 this year plays worse than someone making the league minimum, but then again, Albert Pujols didn't go to the Angels to play baseball.. Albert only jumped the Cardinal's ship and joined the Angels because he is a money-grubbing loser, who wanted to be able to say that he is the highest paid first baseman in the history of the game.

At Bats - 90 - Cost per at bat = $133,333
Hits - 19 - Cost per hit = $631,578
Runs - 7 - Cost per run = $1,714,285
Home Runs - 0 - Cost per home run = A LOT!

And things will only get worse for the Angels fan when they realize Albert Pujols' skills are going downhill fast, while his salary keeps going up every year.

Season  Salary
2010  $16,000,000
2011  $16,000,000
2012  $12,000,000
2013  $16,000,000
2014  $23,000,000
2015  $24,000,000
2016  $25,000,000
2017  $26,000,000
2018  $27,000,000
2019  $28,000,000
2020  $29,000,000
2021  $30,000,000

ALBERT PUJOLS SALARY FUN FACTS!

• With his 2012 $12,000,000 salary, Albert Pujols makes $1,369 per hour
• It would take 787 years for someone on unemployment to make the $12,000,000 Albert Pujols will make this year. 
• With his new contract, Albert Pujols will surpass the annual salary of a school teacher in 0.33 of one at bat.
• With his 2012 $12,000,000 salary, Albert Pujols will surpass the annual salary of a doctor in 4.26 days.

Angels - Pujols Hex: Pujols Stinks So Angels Release Bobby Abreu?

That makes a lot of sense.. Release the player who is not the problem.. The Angels released Bobby Abreu to make up for how bad they (mainly Albert Pujols) are playing. At the time of his release by the Angels, Bobby Abreu had a better batting average, more RBI's, and less strikeouts than Pujols, all while playing in around half the games that Albert had played in up to that point. The LA Angels would be fer better off getting rid of Albert Pujols, especially with all of the negative energy that will continue coming from the midwest, and the hundreds of thousands of the people hoping that Pujols fails - badly. We have seen people around St Louis burn their Pujols jerseys, and completely turn on the money-grubbing Pujols. We have even spoken with one convinced former Pujols fan who says that he put a strong hex on Albert Pujols and his entire new ball club, as the former Pujols fan tuned in to catch the Angels play in the first game of their season against Kansas City. Each game the hex on Pujols and the Angels is renewed with a wild pre-game ritual, and we would have to agree that the Pujols hex seems to be working very well! Albert Pujols is playing so terribly that the Angels already have him batting DH, or maybe Albert just wants to get used to the role he will play for the next 3 years. (We all know Albert Pujols will not last another 9 years, and will most likely be out of the game in 3 years)

When a team with a $151 million payroll and World Series aspirations starts the season eight games under .500 after 20 games, it's only a matter of time before something like this happens. Yeah, you can preach patience for a while, trust in your players' track records, but at some point you're obligated to step in. Friday, it was general manager Jerry Dipoto who had seen enough. In conjunction with manager Mike Scioscia, Dipoto made two bold moves, acting more quickly -- but no less decisively -- than you would have expected after a start this absurdly bad. The bombshell came after Friday's 3-2 loss in Cleveland, the team's second walk-off defeat in a row, when the Angels promoted speedy outfield prospect Mike Trout and bid goodbye to veteran Bobby Abreu, swallowing more than $8 million in the process. Before that, the Angels shuffled a couple of key roles in the bullpen, swapping youngster Jordan Walden for veteran lefty Scott Downs at closer. We still don't know how that will work out, because other members of the Angels' bullpen blew yet another game before their roles arose. We'll begin to learn Saturday how the bolder move plays out. Last year, the Angels waited until June to swallow a bitter, multi-million-dollar pill, releasing pitcher Scott Kazmir after getting virtually nothing for the $12 million it paid him. The fact they waited only three weeks to part with Abreu tells you a little something about expectation levels around this team. You rarely see shake-ups of this magnitude in April, but you rarely see teams with this kind of talent play this poorly for this long. Was Abreu the reason the Angels couldn't get on base or move a runner to save their lives? After just 24 at-bats, he had virtually nothing to do with it. Angels fans have long since turned on Abreu, but let's not forget, he was a good -- borderline great -- player and was one of the few Angels willing to take a walk for years. Will Trout resurrect this team's hopes all by himself? This team had better hope the 20-year-old doesn't think that's his role. The Angels were so upset at Albert Pujols' slump, they released one player and demoted another. But sometimes the journey from 1,000 games back -- or, at least, it feels like it -- begins with a single step. Add up the Kazmir and Abreu moves and former general manager Tony Reagins effectively burned more than $20 million of Arte Moreno's money in less than a year, but Moreno has no one but himself to blame. It was his decision four years ago to go with a two-party system in which he and manager Mike Scioscia shared power while the GM, Reagins, served largely as a figurehead. Dipoto didn't create this situation, but he's charged with cleaning it up. The task might prove more difficult than he originally thought.

Overpriced & Overrated: Pujols Batting Just .268 With NO Homeruns

It really must suck for the Los Angeles Angels fans who expected to see the same productive Albert Pujols that played in St Louis for the last 11 years, only to realize that the Angels are paying an old and washed-up Pujols $254 million only to trick their fans into buying season tickets.

The Angels would have been far better off spending that $254 million given to Pujols on a few good players who would have helped make the team better, instead of paying all $254 million to one player who's best baseball days are behind him in St Louis.

So far this season, Pujols is only hitting at .268, going 11 for 41, with no homeruns, which is actually less production than the Cardinals are getting out of some of their least paid players.

We think that the Angels may be happy for the time being, while all of the Angels fans are still buying Pujols jersey, and tickets to the game, but we feel that the Los Angeles Angels and especially the Los Angeles Angels fans will regret signing Albert Pujols to such a large 10 year deal. Especially when most people think that Pujols has been lying about his age for years, and will only last another year or two at the most.

Eat Shit Albert, You Can Go To Hell!

Eat shit Albert! You are not worth the $254 million, and I hope your career goes straight into the toilet, as it has already started to do!

What is Albert going to be able to do with $254 million that he wouldn't be able to do with $200 million??

Now that we don't have to wonder about ass-face, I hope the Cardinals go get some real team players with that money, and forget about the money-grubbing dick-head, Albert Pujols.

Three-time NL MVP Albert Pujols agreed Thursday to a $254 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels.

Pujols' contract, which is subject to a physical, is the second-highest in baseball history and only the third to break the $200 million barrier, following Alex Rodriguez's $252 million, 10-year deal with Texas before the 2001 season and A-Rod's $275 million, 10-year contract with the Yankees before the 2008 season.

"This is a monumental day for Angel fans and I could not be more excited," owner Arte Moreno said in a statement.

Los Angeles also agreed to a five-year, $77.5 million contract with C.J. Wilson, who was considered the top starting pitcher on the free-agent market.

Pujols had turned down an offer from the Cardinals, the only team he has ever played for, about a year ago, but St. Louis was still in the bidding as of Wednesday.

The Cardinals had planned to talk with Pujols' agent one more time Thursday before heading home. But sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney that the Cardinals' latest offer was for nine years and a little less than $200 million. That would have made him the fourth-highest paid first baseman. With the Angels deal, he is tops.

One source who spoke with Pujols' camp Wednesday came away with the impression the two sides were farther apart than had been widely portrayed earlier in the day.

"We are disappointed that we were unable to reach an agreement to keep Albert Pujols in St. Louis," Cardinals chairman and CEO Bill DeWitt Jr. said in a statement. "Albert is a great champion and we will always be thankful for his many achievements in a Cardinals uniform, as well as his contributions to the St. Louis community. I have the highest regard for Albert both personally and professionally, and appreciate his direct involvement in this process. I would like our fans to know that we tried our best to make Albert a lifetime Cardinal but unfortunately we were unable to make it happen."

Pujols' deal includes a full no-trade clause, which Pujols had been seeking and may have been a sticking point in his negotiations with the Miami Marlins.

"Albert's career performance clearly speaks for itself," general manager Jerry Dipoto said in the statement. "He has proven to be the best player of his generation."

Pujols is a three-time MVP who batted .299 with 37 homers and 99 RBIs in 2011, the only season in his 11-year career that he didn't have 100 RBIs or hit better than .300. But the 31-year-old did battle an arm injury.

Pujols won the Rookie of the Year award in 2001. He has a lifetime .328 batting average and has hit 445 home runs.

To add perspective to the Pujols signing, Arte Moreno paid only $184 million for the Angels franchise in 2003. He will pay Pujols much more than that over the next 10 years.

Pujols has spent all 11 of his major league seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, becoming a franchise icon second only to Stan Musial. He is fourth in career slugging percentage at .617, trailing only Hall of Famers Babe Ruth (.690), Ted Williams (.634) and Lou Gehrig (.632). But he had his poorest season in 2011 and at 31 is likely to spend the majority of his career with the Angels at designated hitter rather than first base.

Pujols led the Cardinals to a World Series title this fall -- his second with the team in the last six seasons. He also had been pursued by the Miami Marlins, but they dropped out Wednesday after agreeing to a deal with left-hander Mark Buehrle that raised their free agent-spending to $191 million for three players following deals with closer Heath Bell and shortstop Jose Reyes.

Some have questioned whether it's smart to give a 10-year deal to a 31-year-old.

"I will say that Albert Pujols' age to me is not a concern," DiPoto said. "He's an honorable man and a very respectful man. I'm not a scientist, but I can tell you he hits like he's 27. ... I will say this, that in regard to the evolution of a hitter, as hitters begin to age, into their 30s and to whatever point you can project, there is a certain quality and a trait in a hitter, the patience they exhibit. Albert has had an extraordinary career with regard to maintaining control of the strike zone. Albert is still as big an impact guy after 11 years as there is in this game."

The Angels jumped into the bidding for Pujols relatively late, after the Marlins' serious run and the Cardinals last-ditch attempt to keep their icon.

"This ramped up the last couple of days, certainly since we've been here in Dallas," DiPoto said. "Prior to that, we were spreading that net wide. We contacted a variety of agents and had discussions with a variety of teams about ways our club could improve."