Angels' Albert Pujols named American League Player of Month
Albert Pujols is coming off one of the best months in his Major League Baseball career, and he's being rewarded for it, in the form of the American League Player of the Month award for June.
Pujols absolutely destroyed the baseball in the past month, registering 13 home runs in 112 trips to the plate, passing Mickey Mantle and Jimmie Foxx on the all-time home run list. Pujols currently is 16th all time, four behind Mike Schmidt.
He didn't just hit for power, either, as the future Hall-of-Fame first baseman carried a .303 batting average, a .395 on-base percentage and a .737 slugging percentage.
This win marks Pujols' first player of the month award since joining the Angels last season, and it's his seventh win overall.
Congratulations to @PujolsFive on being named the American League Player of the Month for June! pic.twitter.com/8rGuW4fYFo
— Angels (@Angels) July 2, 2015
Pujols, by all accounts, is back to being one of the most dangerous hitters in all of baseball -- a sigh of relief for an Angels team that has struggled to muster any sort of consistency at the plate.
With reigning MVP Mike Trout batting third and what looks to be a 2006 model Pujols batting cleanup, the Angels' offense certainly packs enough punch to score some runs. Now, manager Mike Scioscia only needs guys around Trout and Pujols to get on base.
Congrats, Albert.
