Maybe it's appropriate that Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina took their final bows in baseball's last season without a clock. Across 41 combined seasons that began, ended and will be remembered in St. Louis Cardinals uniforms, the duo sped up, slowed down and outright defied the sport's ticking timer, subliminal but usually ruthless.
St. Louis Cardinals' Yadier Molina, left, and Albert Pujols sit together in the dugout during the ninth inning in Game 1 of a National League wild card baseball playoff series against the Philadelphia Phillies, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, in St. Louis. Maybe it’s appropriate that Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina took their final bows in baseball’s last season without a clock. Across 41 combined seasons that began, ended and will be remembered in St.
In short order, his move juxtaposed the Cardinals’ constant October appearances with the cruel reality that many players and teams never get even a second in the sun. Pujols watched a similarly prodigious player, Mike Trout, rack up similar excellence and accolades without the postseason shine. Soon enough, another megastar named Bryce Harper rocked the game by moving on from his original team, only to see it immediately romp to World Series glory behind his even more precocious replacement.
The changes go deeper. We don’t know exactly how many fastballs Pujols faced in his rookie season, or how fast they were going. By the time he laced that last single Saturday, we had precise measurements of how fast the sinker he hit was spinning, and in what direction. We knew how hard it came off Pujols’ bat, and the top speed he reached on his way to first base for the very last time.
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