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During Fox’s broadcast of the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday night, Eric Karros interviewed Albert Pujols in the NL dugout. Karros started off the interview by matter-of-factly pointing out that Pujols is the best player in baseball. Pujols embarrassingly responded by saying, “I don’t think I’m the best player in the game.” In fairness to Phat Albert, I appreciate his attempt at humility. However, to quote The Rock, “it doesn’t matter what you think.” Albert, you are the best player in MLB and it’s not close. There’s even an outside chance that Pujols could end up being the greatest baseball player of all-time when various factors are taken into consideration (i.e. strength of era). We won’t know that for a while, though. What we do know is that no player in the history of MLB has had a better start to a career and, at 29, he has no peers in either league. Pujols is the active major league leader in both batting average and Slugging %. That means he is the best pure hitter and the bes...