re: How close was Albert Pujols to becoming the GOAT

Pujols was everything that is wrong with modern baseball...to an extent.

Used to be - who was the GOAT?

Mantle - centerfield, Mays? Centerfield...Griffey Centerfield...

Williams left field

Bonds left field (although he was probably one of the worst great hitting left fielders in history) - Bonds played centerfield - but then the Pirates found a guy who didn't suck and switched Bonds to left field. Andy Van Slyke - replaced Bonds...Andy Van Slyke...demoted Barry Bonds...the supposed GOAT.

Point is...

You can't be the Goat of anything if you sit your fat arse on first base.

frick Pujols and frick McGuire.

Yeah Babe Ruth played first base when he was an old man...but he also fricking pitched, played center field and then was switched to left field and was switched to right field and then first base.

Anybody who makes their mark sitting their fat arse on 1st base is no GOAT.

There's more to baseball than just being jack it up...it's about jack of all-trades. All-around. Pujols was a one dimensional freak in one discipline. He wasn't a true baseball player.

No one would ever mistake him for the athleticism plus power of Mays and Mantle and Bonds and Ruth. He was a lumbering stick at the plate.