Pujols in free agency

As always  my boy J-Tunes (check out his blog contributions to Crimdelacrim : http://crimdelacrims.com/) is making outlandish and outrageous predictions. His imperialistic Yankee syndrome has gotten the best of him yet again. First he predicted that " on a cold, blustery winter day" he would call me up with the news that the Yanks had locked up Joe Mauer for some bloated salary. Mauer is now locked into Minnesota, probably for the remainder of his career. Then J-Tunes went Skip Bayless on me and guaranteed that Cliff Lee would be donning pinstripes and leading the Yankees to a 162-0 2011 season. Instead, Lee broke both our hearts and signed with those creatures from Philadelphia.

Now, with the news breaking that Albert Pujols will indeed enter free agency next season after failing to come to terms for a new contract with St. Louis, J-Tunes has guaranteed Pujols won't be able to turn down the extravagant amount of money that the Yankees will offer him next year. We have money on this so let me hit him with some truth: Albert Pujols will never be in pinstripes!

First off, as Cliff Lee has proven, just because the Yankees throw an absurd amount of money at someone, doesn't necessarily guarantee that they will be seduced to the dark side. But the reality is that making an offer to Pujols isn't rational on the Yankees part. The negotiations with Jeter have proven that they are more responsible than the George days.

Also, the Yankees have no needs for Pujols, even though he is most likely the best player in the game. Their infield is locked up for quite some time. Mark Texiera is firmly supplanted at first base. He is a far superior fielder than Albert and there will be no moving him. J-Tunes claims he will move to 3rd base but at his age that would make no sense and he would never acquiesce to such an idea. The two players that will move from their infield eventually are Jeter and A-Rod. Jeter's movement won't affect Pujol's and Rodriguez, who is still locked up for another 7 will inevitably become the DH. Sorry Yankees fans, even if Pujol's wanted to be a DH, which I'm sure he doesn't, the Yankees have theirs locked up for some time.

Finally, sorry J-Tunes, but the Yankees aren't the only team that can offer lucrative deals for someone of Albert Pujols' talent. The Angels, Nationals and Cubs come to mind. My gut tells me that St. Louis wont fuck this up and will do the right thing by re-signing him. The next few Summer's in New Yiddy will have to be without Pujols...unless the Mets get him...chea. No but seriously what the fuck Mets? We all know they can't afford him now.