How Albert Pujols is using his final season to mentor a budding St. Louis Cardinals slugger

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How Albert Pujols is using his final season to mentor a budding St. Louis Cardinals slugger

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CHICAGO -- Stepping into a major league clubhouse for the first time can be an intimidating experience for any rookie. For Juan Yepez, who joined the St. Louis Cardinals on May 3 after spending the first month of the season in Triple-A Memphis, he was about to join a locker room full of some of the biggest stars in the game. Fortunately, he had a friendly face waiting to greet him as he walked through the visitor's side of Kauffman Stadium ahead of his major league debut a day later -- Albert Pujols.

"You look around, there's all these future Hall of Famers we have," Yepez said earlier this week. "But when I got called up in Kansas City, the first guy who saw me was Albert. He gave me a huge hug, said it was good to have me here.

"That meant the world to me."
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I think next years Cardinals HOF they need to waive the 3 year wait for Albert and just let him in right away.

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JoeMcKim wrote:
June 28 22, 7:30 am
I think next years Cardinals HOF they need to waive the 3 year wait for Albert and just let him in right away.
Hell, induct him and Yadi before the final home game this year. They are at the Hornsby/Musial/Gibson all-time-baseball-greats territory. Why wait?

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Joe Shlabotnik wrote:
June 28 22, 7:45 am
JoeMcKim wrote:
June 28 22, 7:30 am
I think next years Cardinals HOF they need to waive the 3 year wait for Albert and just let him in right away.
Hell, induct him and Yadi before the final home game this year. They are at the Hornsby/Musial/Gibson all-time-baseball-greats territory. Why wait?
I would try to spread out Albert, Molina, Yadi to all be inducted in separate years. No point in shooting your load with 3 headliner inductees in the same year then the years before and after induct some only okay players.

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Joe Shlabotnik wrote:
June 28 22, 7:45 am
Why wait?
Delicious ticket sale money.

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