Los Angeles Angels' offer was bigger for Albert Pujols: Tony La Russa – MLB News
The former St. Louis Cardinals’ manager Tony La Russa said on Friday that the gap between the offers made by the Cardinals and the Los Angeles Angels was too big for the former to cover.
This comes after the reports that the three time division Most Valuable Player winner, Albert Pujols was disgruntled with the offers made by his former club to him, which was until the last time, around $120 million between the 2009 season.
Offering around $250 million to the former St. Louis Cardinals’ slugger, the Los Angeles Angels have now signed a 10-year contract with the player.
Tony La Russa, however, laid emphasis on the fact that in the negotiations on the contract, both the club and Albert Pujols gave each other enough edge; only that it could not eventually have any result.
“'Well, no loyalty just for a couple million dollars' -- that's not true," La Russa said. "He was ready to give a significant edge to the Cardinals, but the difference to where the Cardinals could go -- and I don't blame the Cardinals at all -- was just
too great."
Tony La Russa was, understandably, all praise for the player. Albert Pujols, it is important to recall, spent no less than 11 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, remaining part of the club, winning multiple National League Division Series and recently
winning the World Series title.
La Russa stressed the fact that Pujols kept the business and professional lives quite separate, underscoring the importance the player attaches both simultaneously.
"Albert does a terrific job of separating his business life and his professional athletic life," La Russa said. "You could never tell form his work, the way he went about his business, the way he was a teammate, a winner and everything else.”
With joining the new team, Albert Pujols brings new strength to the Los Angeles Angels and leaves a lot behind in terms of his legacy and the power he would inculcate into the Cardinals offence. What remains to be seen is how the Cardinals deal with this
new challenge.
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