The wife of Albert Pujols announced on Instagram that the Angels slugger will retire after the 2021 season, but after neither the team nor the agency representing Pujols would confirm the post was true, Deidre Pujols amended it by adding “based on his contract” in parentheses to her sentence about Monday being the “first day of the last season” of his career.
A short while later, she again amended her post by prefacing it with this in all capital letters: “THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF PUJOLS RETIREMENT. I’M JUST TRYING TO SEND MY HUSBAND WITH BLESSINGS INTO 2021 SEASON!