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Albert Pujols
Sign in to saveAlso known as José Alberto Pujols Alcántara, Jose Alberto Pujols Alcantara, Alberto Pujols Alcántara, Alberto Pujols Alcantara, Alberto Alcántara, Alberto Alcantara
Dominican-American baseball player (born 1980)
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Albert Pujols is a male baseball player from the Dominican Republic who holds citizenship in both the Dominican Republic and the United States. Born Alberto Pujols Alcántara in Santo Domingo on January 16, 1980, he competes in Major League Baseball. He plays as a right-handed first baseman and pitcher, standing 190 centimeters tall and weighing 108 kilograms.
Pujols has been a member of the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels, and Los Angeles Dodgers. His accolades include the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award, and the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award. He describes himself as a line drive hitter with power who tries to put his best swing on the ball every time.
Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 15
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
- G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 54,723x
- Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
· 1977 · cited 50,582x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,442x
- Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
· 1999 · cited 28,091x
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Quotes
- “I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Batting average
- .296
- Hits
- 3,384
- Runs batted in
- 2,218
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Baseball
- Team
- _Retired Baseball
- Position
- First Base
- Nationality
- Dominican Republic
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Santo Domingo
- Occupation
- baseball player
- Sport
- baseball
- Member of team
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Position played
- pitcher
- League
- Major League Baseball
- Country for sport
- Dominican Republic
- Mass
- 108
- Image
- Albert Pujols (DgfQQAAmaFs).png
- Height
- 190
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Albert Pujols
- date of birth
- 1980-01-16
- handedness
- right-handedness
- social media followers
- 273444
- name in native language
- José Alberto Pujols Alcántara
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
José Alberto Pujols Alcántara ( Spanish pronunciation: [puˈxols]; born January 16, 1980) is a Dominican-American professional baseball manager and former first baseman and designated hitter who is the manager of the Estrellas Orientales of the Dominican Professional Baseball League. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim / Los Angeles Angels, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Nicknamed "the Machine" (Spanish: La Máquina), Pujols is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
Pujols was a highly regarded hitter who possessed a "combination of contact hitting ability, patience and raw power." He was the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 2005, 2008, and 2009 and is an 11-time All-Star (2001, 2003–2010, 2015, 2022). He was a six-time Silver Slugger and won two Gold Glove awards at first base in his career. Pujols twice led the NL in home runs and once each in batting average, doubles, and runs batted in (RBIs). Pujols surpassed 3,000 career hits, becoming the 32nd MLB player to reach that milestone. During his final season, Pujols moved into second place all-time for career RBIs and total bases and became the fourth player with 700 career home runs.
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