Albert Pujols has made a dramatic shift in the way he approaches baseball. Most visibly, he is walking less. That is not necessarily a bad thing and not necessarily a good thing; more neutral than anything. The decrease in walk rate has tanked his on-base percentage and, consequently, his “value,” but having an Albert Pujols running the base paths is like having a giant boulder on a 0.0001 degree decline ahead of you — it’s barely moving and you can’t really push it that much faster. So what’s a Machine to do, but turn to the hyper-aggressive approach?
Call me crazy: I was wrong about Albert Pujols, and you were too
