JUPITER, Fla. — The potential fit had been there, sitting and waiting, wondering if both sides would come to see it the same way.
Now we know that answer is yes, and so begins the final chapter between Albert Pujols and the Cardinals.
The Reunion.
Pujols became one of the greatest righthanded hitters of all time as a drafted-and-developed Cardinal.
He shattered hearts when he left for the Angels after the 2011 World Series championship, chasing bigger money out west, where he never was the same, while the team he left behind tried but failed to prove it could reach baseball’s World Series mountaintop and win there without him.