Albert Pujols has announced that he will retire from baseball at the end of the 2021 season from MLB after 21 years as a professional player. The Dominican has played for organizations such as St. Louis Cardinals and Anaheim Angels and, at the moment, he is the oldest active player, because at the age of 41 he is about to play his 21st season.
On Monday, February 22, it was announced that Albert Pujols had stated that he would retire as a professional baseball player at the end of the next MLB campaign. Deidre Pujols, the player’s wife, was tasked with reporting this through a post on social networks.
Mrs. de Pujols shared a photo of her husband on her official Instagram account (deidrepujolsadventures), and the description read the words “Today is the first day of the last season of one of the most remarkable careers in sports, I speak from husband @albertpujols ( …) “.
Albert Pujols will “close the peaks” after 21 active seasons in MLB since his debut with St. Louis Cardinals in 2001. He is currently part of the Anaheim Angels, which seems to be the last team in his career.