Cron reflects on Pujols' 3,000-hits milestone

Pujols' historic 3,000th hit ST. PETERSBURG -- Albert Pujols collected his 3,000th career hit Friday night. Rays first baseman C.J. Cron spoke with admiration of his former Angels teammate.

"I mean it's just a crazy milestone," Cron said. "If you just think about 3,000 hits. If a guy gets 180 in a year, that's really good. It's unbelievable.

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"Coming up through the Angels' system, he was the other first baseman. So we would always be taking ground balls, and he would help me all the time. It was pretty special to see how happy he was to get that knock."

Cron said Pujols was "an open book" to him.

"He helped me. Any questions I had he was there," Cron said. "I think being…