Eight Milestones to Watch for in 2018

Source: thesportsdaily.com --- Wednesday, March 28, 2018
For the first time ever (yes…ever!), all 30 Major League teams will be playing Baseball on Opening Day. Sure, sure…the Washington-Cincinnati game has already been postponed, but it’s the thought that counts, right? Anyway, with a new season comes a lot of new questions. Questions like…how many home runs will Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge hit? Will Ichiro find the Fountain of Youth in Seattle? And, naturally, will somebody ever buy Don Mattingly’s car ? Out of that uncertainty blooms a myriad of things that might (and might not) happen, so with that…here are eight milestones to watch for in 2018. ALBERT PUJOLS A season ago, Albert Pujols was on everyone’s watchlist as he was approaching 600 career home runs. This season, with 2968 hits, it’s all about dude’s quest to become just the fourth player (Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Alex Rodriguez are the other three) with 600 home runs and 3000 hits. But, sadly, we might be waiting a while. It almost took Pujols until Mother’s Day to get his 32 nd base knock last season. By comparison, in 2008, Pujols’ second MVP season, he had more than 32 hits by the last week in April. After Pujols gets to 3000 hits, he can focus on joining Aaron and Rodriguez as the only players with 3000 hits, 600 home runs and 2000 RBI. The Los Angeles Angels slugger enters 2018 82 shy of the milestone. Fun fact. Did you know that Albert Pujols has grounded into more double plays (362) that anyone else? It’s t ...

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