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.
Pujols says that he is not worried about having such a crappy start to the 2012 baseball season, but people don't usually brag like he does below, unless they are very worried, and very defensive about their terrible season so far.
ReplyDelete"I know I have power. I know I can hit the ball from corner to corner, I know all that, but I'm not going to think about getting caught up and saying, `Man, I haven't hit a home run.' ... I have, what, 445 (career home runs) for a reason."
Albert, You have 445 home runs because you were younger and had some power, which you seem to have lost. You are now near the end of your career, and I seriously doubt that, for the rest of your career, you will ever hit 20 homeruns again in a single season.
Statistically, this is one of the most shocking power outages in baseball history. Since 1974, only five men began a season with 400 or more career home runs and then failed to homer in their first 80 at-bats. According to STATS LLC, they are: Willie McCovey (1974), Carl Yastrzemski (1981), Eddie Murray (1996), Ken Griffey Jr. (2010) and Pujols (2012).
Of that esteemed group, not one averaged more than 16 home runs per season for the remainder of their careers.