Insanity on the Diamond

Albert Pujols is officially a machine- 10 PA's with the bases loaded, and five grand slams? Are you kidding me? I can't really comprehend how someone can do that against major league pitching, but, I suppose, a robot from the future can do whatever it wants.

On another Pujols note, he currently holds a wOBA of .454 (via StatCorner), and yet his regressed wOBA (wOBA*), is even higher! At .466! That's not right! He's been that good, and yet has been unlucky?! Thank Velociraptor Jesus that the Rays are in the AL, and don't have to pitch to him.

And as another aside, do you realize that Ted Williams had 6 consecutive seasons with a wOBA over .500! And that's with the war taking away three seasons in the middle of that run! All of us think Pujols is unstoppable, and yet the Splendid Splinter was sooo far above where even Prince Albert is, its simply ridiculous. To compare, Barry Bonds had only four +.500 wOBA seasons in a row, and all of those are most likely tainted by PEDs and the like. Anyway, these numbers just boggle my mind, and make me appreciate the sluggers of old, and honestly, they give me more reason to dismiss any "steroid inflation" argument garbage, since historically, the type of numbers Bonds put up were not unheard of.

P.S.

Babe Ruth's career wOBA is .510

I think we need to ban hot dogs and beer, because they're obviously quite performance enhancing