So who is Better?

[Seanie Mac]

Pujols or Mauer, given all the intangibles. Position, league, etc

[mrwho]

pujols without a doubt..

[Romanowski]

its a lot closer than people think

mauer plays a tougher defensive position and is pretty close every bit the hitter

heard on espn radio last night he took a heater from verlander around his ear...

pulled it...hard enough to get a double down the line.....dont know who else can do that

[Seanie Mac]

I'm a mauer guy

[upinya83]

mauer is great but pujols might end up top 5 all time

[Seanie Mac]

Mauer won't ups? worse comes to worse he could move to 1st or DH on another team

[Windy City Irish]

pujols.

especially when he is on the Redsox at the end of his current contract.

feel free to bump this

[TheLink]

Hard to argue with Pujols offensively but when you add in defense Mauer makes it a lot closer. If Mauer can grow on his power numbers this season think he can overtake him but until I see Mauer consistently stay off the DL and hit for power have to go with Pujols.

[Seanie Mac]

Pujols and mauer need to stay with their current teams, it's good fr baseball

[Windy City Irish]

a buddy of mine....sent me an article a couple of months ago, that said that the Redsox will spend any amount of money on Pujols. any!!!! broke it all down and stuff, but i highly doubt that the Cardinals would ever want him playing anywhere else

[Seanie Mac]

every team would unload for pujols, but him leaving STL is just bad for baseball. It's like Lebron leaving Cle, it's bad for basketball.

[Seanie Mac]

let me clarify

pujols is one of the best players ever, he is only 29, prob has more than a few MVPs left to win. he will go down as a top 3 player ever. for my money he is better than Arod.

But with Mauer he does what he does while catching. I just really like Mauer. More I'm jealous that Pujols outshines Howard maybe lol

both are so unique and good. baseball is back

[upinya83]

Originally Posted by Seanie Mac

Mauer won't ups? worse comes to worse he could move to 1st or DH on another team

Unfortunately he'll catch for the first 10 years tho

that wear on his body will keep him from performing at the same level later in his career, even if he moves to 1B or DH

just my opinion, would be same if pujols was a catcher, or ted williams, or anyone

[Seanie Mac]

Mauer is such a great athlete ups, he should be ok

[Dr. Jack]

Pujols - not that close really. Mauer great player though

WCI - Pujols will play entire career in St Louis. No chance him playing in Boston. In fact might be better odds of Mangini spending Thanksgiving at Belichick's house tomorrow.