On the day the Angels’ position players assembled for the first time this spring, the wife of Albert Pujols started an Instagram post this way: “Today is the first day of the last season of one of the most remarkable careers in sports.”
What appeared to be the retirement announcement of a Hall of Famer went viral. Pujols himself said he had not decided to retire, and his wife, Deidre, amended the post to reflect what she said she had meant: that this was the first day of the last season of his contract with the Angels.