Albert Pujols was born in the year 1980 and his real name is Jose Alberto Pujols alcantara. He is a professional baseball player as a first baseman. He plays for Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in MLB. He is Dominican-American. He is tall with 6 feet and 3 inches, he weighs 240 pounds and he also played for St Louis Cardinals where he got MLB All-Star, National League and MVP awards. He became the All-Star with Angels in the year 2015. Pujols had been born in Dominican Republic and he moved to live in United States in the year 1996.
Within one season of the college baseball, he got selected by Cardinals at 13th round for 1999 MLB Draft. He was a rookie in Cardinal in the year 2001. He got voted to be NL Rookie of the year unanimously. He played in Cardinals for 11 seasons and he contributed in two World Series in Championship of 2006 and in 2011. In 2011, he became the free agent and he later signed a contract of 10 years with Angels.
Albert Pujols is considered to be the best hitter and has the combination of raw power, patience and contact hitting ability. He has been a sixtime silver slugger and had led the MLB twice in the home runs and he led MLB in the batting average, RBI and average doubles. He has above average stats in his career, in walk rate, regular season batting average and in Isolated Power. He is considered to be a strong candidate of Hall of Fame in the future.
From his biography, Albert Pujols was born in the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. He was raised mostly with Pujols with 10 of his aunts and uncles. He was born as an only child. His father is Beinvenido Pujols and he played like a softball pitcher but he suffered alcoholism. Albert Pujols was taking his father home after getting drunk after a game. When he was growing up, he was using milk carton and balls to play baseball. Together with his father and the grandmother, they immigrated to live in New York in the year 1996 and he witnessed the shooting in a grocery. Because of this shooting, the family decided to move to live in Missouri.
Albert Pujols is married and his wife’s name is Deidre Pujols. The wedding took place in 2000. They have five children, Grace, Esther, Ezra, Sophia and Albert Jr. Isabella was born in an old relationship of Albert Pujols Together with his wife, they support people with Down Syndrome during the off-season. Isabella was born with Down syndrome. Albert Pujols became US citizen in 2007 and scored 100 percent in the citizenship test. His net worth is 90 million dollars and his salary in 2016 was 25 million dollars. He is available on twitter and baseball fangraphs.
| Birth Date: | 16 Jan, 1980 |
| Age: | 40 yrs |
| Occupations: | Baseball player |
| Citizenship: | Dominican Republic United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Santo Domingo |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | Dominican-American baseball player |
| Net Worth 2021: | 170 million |
