Albert Pujols

CTL-E-5982 · Person · other · 2001–2022

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Combined Graph record U-07218 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5982.

José Alberto Pujols, born 16 January 1980 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is a retired first baseman widely ranked among the greatest right-handed hitters in baseball history. Drafted by St. Louis in the 13th round in 1999, he won the 2001 National League Rookie of the Year Award and built an eleven-year Cardinals prime: three MVP Awards, two World Series championships (2006, 2011) and a batting title. After a decade with the Los Angeles Angels and a final 2022 season back in St. Louis, he retired with 3,384 hits, 703 home runs, 2,218 RBI and a .296 average — fourth all-time in home runs, second in RBI. His second career is managing: he led Leones del Escogido to the 2024–25 Dominican Winter League and 2025 Caribbean Series titles, managed the Dominican Republic at the 2026 World Baseball Classic, and serves as a special assistant with the Angels while seeking a major league manager's job.

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• Also known as: José Alberto Pujols Alcántara, The Machine

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 10; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Albert Pujols entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5982 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1114 (Baseball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Afro-Dominican (PROVISIONAL) — Dominican-born (Santo Domingo) player documented as the defining Dominican and Latino slugger of his era (NPR; Latino Sports, nine-time LatinoMVP). GAP: sources retrieved in this pass document his Dominican/Latino identity, not his African descent individually, and no self-identification on that point was found; tier held at Provisional until one is filed. Vital status: LIVING — photographed at his St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame plaque ceremony on 12 September 2026 (Sports Illustrated); active in October 2026 as an Angels special assistant and a discussed candidate for MLB managerial openings. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Career (WBC/Latino Sports): .296 average, 3,384 hits, 703 HR (4th all-time), 2,218 RBI (2nd all-time), 686 doubles; 3× NL MVP; World Series champion 2006 and 2011; retired 2022. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons portrait of Pujols in a Cardinals uniform; no file page read at file-page level — CTL-PHOTO-001; CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5982-albert-pujols.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked — no matching CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). Coordinator verification pass (2026-10-16): one additional targeted search for individual-level Afro-Latino / African-descent documentation was run at assembly for this record; no citable individual-level source was found, so the Provisional cap and the named gap stand, pending a sourced document or a founder scope ruling (precedent: Romeo Santos, Census Intake Wave 3). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• World Baseball Classic / worldbaseball.com, February 2025 — Pujols named manager of the Dominican Republic for the 2026 WBC; career: .296 average, 3,384 hits, 703 home runs, 2,218 RBI; 11-time All-Star, two-time World Series champion, three-time NL MVP, 2001 NL Rookie of the Year; Angels special assistant under a personal services contract; managed Leones del Escogido to the LIDOM Serie Final — https://worldbaseball.com/news/albert-pujols-to-manage-dominican-republic-at-2026-world-baseball-classic (primary source · build store)
• Sports Illustrated, October 2026 — photograph dated 12 September 2026 shows Pujols standing beside his St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame plaque at a Busch Stadium ceremony; Pujols working as an Angels special assistant and a candidate for MLB managerial openings — https://www.si.com/mlb/cardinals/onsi/astros-joe-espada-dismissal-could-open-door-for-cardinals-legends-to-manage-curt9 (build store)
• Latino Sports — Pujols career table: 3,384 hits (9th all-time), 703 HR (4th), 2,218 RBI (2nd), 686 doubles (5th); record nine-time LatinoMVP Award winner; born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — http://latinosports.com/albert-pujols-the-unappreciated-superstar/ (build store)
• NPR / WUOT, 27 September 2022 — Pujols the first Latino major leaguer to hit 700 home runs, joining Ruth, Aaron and Bonds in the 700 club — https://www.wuot.org/2022-09-27/albert-pujols-is-the-first-latino-major-leaguer-to-hit-700-homeruns (build store)

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