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Albert Pujols must retire to join Hank Aaron and Willie Mays in 3,000-600-.300 club

If you love baseball milestones the way I do, then you don’t want Albert Pujols to play another game in the majors.

And it might be up to Los Angeles Angels general manager Billy Eppler to stop him!

Pujols has 3,202 hits, 656 home runs and a .300 career batting average.

He’s one of three guys — three — in the 150-year history of the sport in the 3,000-600-.300 club. The other two are Henry Aaron and Willie Mays.

Babe Ruth doesn’t have enough hits. (And if that isn’t one of the greatest sentences I’ve had the distinction to type, I don’t know what is.