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Albert Pujols is one of the greatest players of all time. He's the type of all-around talent I'll take pride in declaring incomparable when describing his career to my future children. He makes an ample amount of contact, knocks the ball out of the yard at least 30 times a year, drives plenty of his teammates in, plays Gold Glove-caliber defense and makes up for a lack of raw baserunning speed with intelligence. This confluence of characteristics makes Pujols virtually a unanimous choice to be the Triple Crown heir apparent to Carl Yastrzemski, who accomplished the rare feat in 1967 for the Boston Red Sox. Sticking solely to the senior circuit, nobody has simultaneously topped the leaderboards in batting average, home runs and RBIs in the same season since Joe Medwick did it with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1937.

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