Perhaps a homecoming was all Albert Pujols needed. Read more, via FiveThirtyEight:
during his best five seasons, roughly a decade earlier. All of that makes Pujols’s resurgence this season just as unthinkable: Compared with the previous five seasons, his OPS+ is up a staggering 59 points in 2022.
That makes Pujols just one of 33 batters in history to ever improve by so much in a season, among players with at least 200 plate appearances that year and 2,000 in the previous five years. And his list of comparable seasons gets a lot shorter when we account for the fact that Pujols was: a) below-average in his previous five years , and b) quite old at the time of his turnaround.
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