FACTS/ FLUKES: Pujols, Gray, Chirinos, Scribner, Ventura

A new normal for Pujols? ... The streak of .300 averages for Albert Pujols (1B, LAA) is a distant memory, but the future Hall-of-Famer proved last year that 30 HRs and 100 RBIs was still attainable. A rough April will make those benchmarks harder to achieve, but how are the underlying skills holding up at age 35?

Year   AB   BA    xBA  bb%  ct%  h%   G/L/F     PX  HctX  hr/f  HR  vLHP
====  ===  ====  ====  ===  ===  ==  ========  ===  ====  ====  ==  ====
2012  607  .285  .303    8   87  29  41/19/40  140  128   14%   30  .290 
2013  391  .258  .270    9   86  26  38/20/42  109  128   12%   17  .213 
2014  633  .272  .299    7   89  27  46/19/35  122  139   14%   28  .263 
2015  184  .245  .288    6   88  23  43/18/40  120  122   17% ...

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