Albert Pujols News

The Mariners already set up camp over the weekend. This week, everyone else joins them, with their tent stakes, sleeping bags and World Series dreams in tow.

He is a freak-of-nature hitter, one of about two of his kind at the moment in the major leagues.

The best Texas Rangers' starter the past two seasons is gone. And C.J. Wilson joined a rival at that.

Rob Biertempfel is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Pirates beat writer. He can be reached at 412-320-7811, via e-mail or on Twitter .

Reporting from St. Louis -- There are certain numbers related to Albert Pujols that should concern the Angels .

There are plenty of reasons to be excited for the 2012 season. The Cardinals ' Front Office led by John Mozeliak has assembled an interesting set of players despite the void left by Albert Pujols .

The St. Louis Cardinals will have a new look when they arrive in Jupiter this week, right down to the 2011 world championship logos at Roger Dean Stadium.

Tim Lincecum thought about the seismic shifts of baseball's offseason, the ones that saw Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder migrate to the American League.

The baseball season is just around the corner. Teams have made big changes and everyone is getting set to try and win the World Series.

Do you remember the days when trading card companies employed the "paint job" to update a player's team following a trade? OK, I suppose that I showed my age with that one in the age of digital photography.

There are always a couple superstars who get off to slow starts and frustrate fantasy baseball owners who utilized an early draft pick to select them.

Albert Pujols has made a quiet trip back to the St. Louis area to pay respects to a friend.

Catchers are difficult to value because they accumulate fewer wins above replacement than everybody else and they're scarier to lock in on long-term at the ages when most stars and near-stars become free agents.

The St. Louis Cardinals lost superstar first baseman Albert Pujols this offseason, but they will gain an ace for their rotation.

Jon Paul Morosi is a national MLB writer for FOXSports.com. He previously covered baseball for the Detroit Free Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer . He began his journalism career at the Bay City Times in his native Michigan.

When baseball players tap into their "untapped energy sources" and begin to launch home runs at a very high rate, it raises expectations to levels that are often unreachable.

My season ticket check has cleared and the hard part is over. So, despite the unpleasantness that was Albert Pujols' defection from the Cardinals, I am finally looking forward to the upcoming season with or without the big guy.

That wasn't a Super Bowl, that was a three-hour "legacy" break. Legacy this, legacy that.

The emotions, as strong as they once were, have since given way to the sobering reality that the upcoming season will begin and then end without the presence of first baseman Albert Pujols.

They've had to replace the winningest manager in franchise history, Tony La Russa , as well as one of the greatest players to ever wear a Cardinals uniform, Albert Pujols .