Cards concerned about Pujols' age?

The annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is in its second and final day on Saturday in Boston. The first session is a Baseball Analytics Panel that includes Rob Neyer, Joe Bohringer, Greg Moore, Jonah Keri, Tom Tippett and Sloan graduate and former St. Louis Cardinals Assistant General Manager John Abbomondi. A number of individuals in attendance at the sold-out conference have been Tweeting some of the talking points being made. One that caught my eye was from a past acquaintance, Andy Andres, a sabermetrics instructor at Tufts University. “Rob Neyer suggests Cardinals are worried about Pujols’ age in negotiations…,” reported Andres. I would have loved to been able to study Abbamondi’s reaction when Neyer said that. While Abbamondi has since moved on to San Diego, he was certainly in the inner circle of planning for the last few years as the Cardinals developed their Pujols contract strategy. Neyer has highlighted concerns about Pujols...