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Hummel: Pujols closes in on 3,000th hit — not bad for a fat kid drafted in 13th round

At 618 home runs, he ranks seventh and easily should move past Ken Griffey Jr. (630) into sixth place. At 3,000 hits and 600 homers, he will be only the fourth to scale those dual peaks, joining Willie Mays, Henry Aaron and Alex Rodriguez.

With 70 more RBIs this year, he will join Aaron, Babe Ruth and Rodriguez with 2,000 or more and is within 370 of passing Aaron, whose total is 2,297.

Only Aaron and Bonds have more than 600 doubles and 600 home runs besides Pujols, who already has passed Bonds in doubles and has tied Aaron with 624.