On Pujols and Gehrig

I don't blog here much anymore about baseball, and that is because I do my baseball writing over at seamheads.com these days.

But I did want to just mention the excellent column from my local sportswriter Bob Matthews, "Pujols Gains on Gehrig's Greatness". He compares Pujols first 8 seasons with Gehrig's first 8, and then reasonably projects Pujols' career numbers (or at least, 16-year career numbers). The conclusion is that so far, Pujols stacks up quite nicely with Gehrig. The point is, most people when asked who the greatest 1B of all time is will say Lou Gehrig -- perhaps no other position has such a clear-cut answer (Honus Wagner at shortstop might be just as obvious). But if Pujols continues to play at such a high level, and without any whiff of steroid controversy, then the discussion of MLB's all-time greatest first-baseman could one day get difficult.