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BenFred: 700 home runs for Albert Pujols, thanks to a magic Cardinals season that isn’t over yet

Let the record show Albert Pujols never doubted Albert Pujols.

Seven hundred? He would need 21 in '22. At age 42.

Impossible. Too old and too late. No chance.

Maybe Pujols could manage to pass pariah Alex Rodriguez’s 696 home runs for fourth-place all-time during this sendoff season with the Cardinals. Maybe.

“That’s a big number,” said Pujols after he arrived at Cardinals spring training. “But so was 600. And so was 500. And so was 400.”

And so was 700, barreled off his bat Friday night in the fourth inning of another multi-homer game, the first (No.