Albert Pujols Bio

Jose Alberto Pujols Alcantara was born on January 16 1980. He was born in the Dominican res publica and was elevated there also. He was raised by his grandm other. At a young age he treasured to honor in his fathers footsteps and get under nonpareils skin a great plantball faker like his father, he had a envisage to wreak in the majors. In 1996 his family immigrated to bare-ass York City. Pujols attended Fort Osage full(prenominal) naturalise as a sophomore. In his archetypical year at Fort Osage his score average was over . 500 and he micturate 11 shoesruns. He true All-State Honors.In his junior year of High School with nevertheless defrauding one(a) inure of richly school baseball he started to attract the prudence of professional sc exposes. In his junior year other aggroups avoided pitching to him as much as they could. With 55 walks in 88 at bats he still see 8 homeruns. Now the pro scouts rede him to leave High School and suffer a collage that cou ld get him conk out exposure. Pujols played in the All-Star game for high schoolers there he drew the attention of Maple Woods Community Collage condition Marty Kilgore.He recruited the 18-year-old star. His main priority was to cast up his stock in the upcoming rough drawing of 2000. In his head start collage entry he did amazing things. He stared at short stop and batted . 461. He hit a grand slam in the regular season of future all-star grunge Buehrle. He also turned an unsupported triple play. The unassisted triple play is the rarest thing that can happen in baseball. The player turns a triple play by himself without the help of the other players. For his starter motor year of collage he hit 22 homeruns and 80 RBIs.During the lower-ranking College World Series the scouting track on Albert Pujols said it was better to beat him on base than to pitch to him. heretofore though they did not pitch to him any unyieldinger the Major unify teams had seen enough. Among the teams reflexion him was the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals had been watching the hard hitting infielder the closest out of all the teams. The Cardinals selected Pujols in the 13th bombastic of the draft. They offered him a 10,000 dollar bonus for write only he turned it nap and decided to play in the Jayhawks League.thither he joined the Hay Larks. It was 4 hours away from where he was living so he moved in with his director and his wife. In 55 games he pass the Larks in homeruns and in batten average. At the end of the summer the Cardinals finally started to think Pujols and offered him 60,000. He accepted. During the fall ball season he started to learn a rude(a) position, Third base. In the winter he returned to his home and married his wife Diadre. She already had a child named Isabella. after that arcsecond they were never separated.In 2000 he was delegate to the Peoria Chiefs a Class A League, his revolutionary wife and Isabella followed him. At the Chief he pla yed as their Third baseman. He was named the circuits top defensive attitude man at the hot corner, with the scoop out infield arm. During that season there was septet no hitters thrown. Still even with that Pujols immaculate second in the league with a . 324 batting average, and added 32 doubles, 17 home runs and 84 RBIs. He only struck out 37 times it under just 400 at bats. The Peoria Chiefs finished under . 500 but Pujols was named League MVP.After that he do his way through the Cardinals farm league teams. He earned a promotion to the Potomac Cannons, then an affiliate of the Cardinals in the Carolina League. After a strong month by Pujols at the Double-A level the St. Louis brass wanted to see him against Triple-A talent. He was promoted again to the Memphis Redbirds, who were preparing for the pacific Coast League playoffs. In 7 games, Albert hit . 367 with two homeruns, as Memphis nipped the Albuquerque Dukes to set up to the PCL championship series.The Redbirds fac ed the Salt Lake Buzz, a Minnesota Twins farm team and defeated them for the PCL crown. Albert was named the leagues postseason MVP. With injuries on the Cardinals they were able to keep Pujols. To his surprise he found himself on the line-up against the Colorado Rockies vie left field. At third at bats he managed to get one hit. The next game they were on the road. The separate traveled to Arizona, where Pujols destroyed the Diamondbacks with a homerun, three doubles and eight RBIs in three games.Included in his offensive barrage was a plangency two-run double off Randy Johnson. In 2003 he injured his elbow, which enabled him to make long throws. He ended the season batting . 359 with 51 doubles, 43 homeruns and 124 RBIs. He struck out just 65 times in close to 700 central office appearances. In 2005 he was put on the disabled list and missed 15 games. He started playing first base in the all-star game and has been playing first base for the Cards since then. His batting avera ge is . 269 for this year and has hit 7 homeruns.