Cardinals Concerned About Pujols…
Despite hitting .327 with 32 home runs and 103, Albert Pujols played hurt for much of last season, and Cardinal fans had every reason to be concerned.
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and the team’s medical staff will keep a closer eye this season on first baseman Albert Pujols’ balky right elbow.
Pujols, who opted not to have surgery to repair a strained ligament after meeting with specialists during the offseason, is less concerned. The slugging first baseman said he will not change his routine as he prepares for opening day.
“If it blows out it’s going to blow out,” Pujols said. “You can’t control that.”
The Cardinals, though, will try.
Pujols arrived in South Florida Friday and went through his first workout at the Cardinals facility later that afternoon. He was in the batting cage Saturday morning long before the pitchers and catchers took the field.
The injury has bothered Pujols since 2003 and it flared up last season.
“It didn’t make sense having the surgery and just clean it up, when cleaning it up it wasn’t going to make it good,” Pujols said. “I had to do something in the ligament.”
For one of the top sluggers to be out for his team, it would be curtains.
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