Now, you don’t earn a nickname as cool as the Machine without earning every essence of it, Albert “The Machine” Pujols was undoubtedly on track to become one of the best players in MLB history during the beginning of his career in St. Louis. He was truly a fantasy baseball player that everyone wish had the opportunity to draft with the damage he was doing at the plate. If you don’t quite remember how dominant he was, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and take a look at his stats he garnered as a Cardinal.

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