Alex Rodriguez vs. Albert Pujols

[chuckywang]

Who do you think will be the greater player when all is said and done?

 

[ThePresence]

Pujols is a great player, but he has alot of catching up to do.

 

[raystorm]

Alex Rodriguez will be in my opinion. A-Rod can pretty much do it all offensively and defensively...well...at shortstop anyways. He's an adequate third baseman but he's great at shortstop.


Pujols is a monstrous hitter but his defense is ok at the very best and is not an all around great player.. he's a great hitter.

 

[m2kewl]

Arod - he already has 400+ home runs, and proven gold gloves. pujols is a great hitter, but his 1B defense needs some work. i love watching them both play.

 

[chuckywang]

I don't know....Pujols has been extremely consistent in his first four years. I would like to see a side by side stat sheet of the totals of Pujols's first four seasons vs. Arod's first four full seasons.

 

[Lounatik]

Ask and ye shall receive.


Alex Rodriguez stats:


Batting
CAREER BATTING STATS
Year TM G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS AVG
1994 Sea 17 54 4 11 0 0 0 2 3 20 3 0 .241 .204 .445 .204
1995 Sea 48 142 15 33 6 2 5 19 6 42 4 2 .264 .408 .672 .232
1996 Sea 146 601 141 215 54 1 36 123 59 104 15 4 .414 .631 1.045 .358
1997 Sea 141 587 100 176 40 3 23 84 41 99 29 6 .350 .496 .846 .300
1998 Sea 161 686 123 213 35 5 42 124 45 121 46 13 .360 .560 .920 .310
1999 Sea 129 502 110 143 25 0 42 111 56 109 21 7 .357 .586 .943 .285
2000 Sea 148 554 134 175 34 2 41 132 100 121 15 4 .420 .606 1.026 .316
2001 Tex 162 632 133 201 34 1 52 135 75 131 18 3 .399 .622 1.021 .318
2002 Tex 162 624 125 187 27 2 57 142 87 122 9 4 .392 .623 1.015 .300
2003 Tex 161 607 124 181 30 6 47 118 87 126 17 3 .396 .600 .996 .298
2004 NYY 155 601 112 172 24 2 36 106 80 131 28 4 .375 .512 .887 .286
2005 NYY 67 249 51 81 13 0 19 59 41 47 6 3 .432 .606 1.038 .325
Career 1497 5839 1172 1788 322 24 400 1155 680 1173 211 53 .383 .575 .958 .306


Albert Pujols stats:


Batting | Fielding
CAREER BATTING STATS
Year TM G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS AVG
2001 StL 161 590 112 194 47 4 37 130 69 93 1 3 .403 .610 1.013 .329
2002 StL 157 590 118 185 40 2 34 127 72 69 2 4 .394 .561 .955 .314
2003 StL 157 591 137 212 51 1 43 124 79 65 5 1 .439 .667 1.106 .359
2004 StL 154 592 133 196 51 2 46 123 84 52 5 5 .415 .657 1.072 .331
2005 StL 67 261 52 85 17 0 17 54 33 29 4 0 .410 .586 .996 .326
Career 696 2624 552 872 206 9 177 558 337 308 17 13 .413 .620 1.033 .332


As for hitting, I think Pujols is the only player to have at least 30 hrs his first four seasons. Statistically speaking, through the end of 2004 Pujols has played 631 games with 160 hrs, while in that same relative timespan Arod hit about 148.

Fielding wise though, you would probably go with Arod. He has played the two toughest positions practically flawless.


Edit: This looked a whole lot cleaner in the preview window. Sorry for the crappy layout.
I gues cut and paste is not the savior of the free world.

Peace

Lounatik

 

[raystorm]

Yea.. offensively Pujols has been stronger his first 4 season. mmm...Pujols was born on 1980 so that means he's 25... he looks older than that. I wonder if thats his dominican age. Well..whatever his age is he'll be a force for a long time as long as he stays injury free.

 

[RabidMongoose]

It would easily be Alex Rodriguez if he stayed at SS...

 

[sciencewhiz]

Note that Rodriguez started at 18 and was playing full time at 20. Pujols started full time at 21. So, Rodriguez will have an extra year or two worth of stats, assuming they retire at the same age.

At 25, Pujols leads in slugging %, OPS, adjusted OPS, while Rodriguez leads in Runs, hits, total bases, doubles, HR, and RBI.