Mientras que el dominicano Albert Pujols en su campaña de retiro llego a los 700 jonrones, cabe destacar que nadie esperaba que los alcanzara, ya que firmo un contrato con los Cardenales de San Luis en donde quedaba claro que no sería titular y que solo en ocasiones abriría como titular en el line up de ese equipo, pero a punta de batazos después del juego de las estrellas se ganó un lugar a diario en la alineación de los pájaros rojos, fue hace apenas una semana que llego a cifra, pero igual no ha parado de batear y actualmente tiene 703 cuadrangulares, más de 2000 carreras empujadas y supera los 3300 hits, esto nos hace pensar si será el segundo jugador en entrar de manera unánime al salón de la fama.

Si de veteranos hablamos, no podemos dejar por fuera al lanzador derecho de los Astros de Houston, Justin Verlander, un jugador que viene de perder más de un año por lesión y que a eso le podemos sumar que tiene una operación en su codo derecho, pero todo eso parece que no hizo efecto en su brillante carrera, sus números actuales hacen que sea el virtual ganador del premio Cy Young de la liga Americana, tiene 18 juegos ganados, por solo 4 derrotas, 185 ponchados y una asombrosa efectividad de 1.75, definitivamente él es mejor lanzador de su liga en este 2022.

The year 2022 has been a year of great achievements in Major League Baseball, players who have reached numbers that guarantee them a place in the Hall of Fame, examples of this are Miguel Cabrera and Albert Pujols, the first of these two players reached 3,000 hits in April against the Colorado team in the stadium of the Detroit Tigers, who is his current team, in the previous season the Venezuelan-born had reached 500 homers, who is his current team, in the previous season the Venezuelan-born had reached 500 homers, with this combination of hits and complete round-trippers he guarantees to enter Cooperstown in his first presence in the voting ballots. 

While the Dominican Albert Pujols in his retirement campaign reached 700 home runs, it should be noted that no one expected him to reach them, since he signed a contract with the St. Louis Cardinals where it was clear that he would not be a starter and that he would only occasionally open as a starter in the line up of that team, But after the All-Star game he earned a daily place in the lineup of the Redbirds, it was only a week ago that he reached the number, but he has not stopped hitting and currently has 703 home runs, more than 2000 runs pushed and over 3300 hits, this makes us think if he will be the second player to enter unanimously to the Hall of Fame.

If we talk about veterans, we can not leave out the right-handed pitcher of the Houston Astros, Justin Verlander, a player who comes from losing more than a year due to injury and that we can add that he has an operation on his right elbow, but all that seems to have no effect on his brilliant career, his current numbers make him the virtual winner of the Cy Young award in the American league, he has 18 games won, for only 4 defeats, 185 strikeouts and an amazing effectiveness of 1.75, he is definitely the best pitcher in his league in this 2022.

The icing on the cake was placed yesterday by the giant of the New York Yankees Aaron Judge, when he implanted a new record of home runs for a season for his team and for the American League, remember that the record of home runs in the MLB, is held by Barry Bonds with 73, but the former player made his career in the National League, Judge broke a mark that was in force since 1961, and in the hands of the right-hander and now deceased Rogers Maris, with 61 home runs, he had finished with the record that was held by Babe Ruth.

The Judge, as the right-handed batter is known, had equaled the 61 home runs last week, but after that he fell into an offensive drought, which resulted in frustration in the player, that was reflected in the first game of the day yesterday between the Yankees and Texas, that first game of the doubleheader was won by New York with a score of 5 runs by 4, after the game he took the statutory rest time to start the second game.

The second game of the day began exactly at 8:05 pm: 05 at night and Judge appeared as first in the order at bat, the starting pitcher for Texas was the Venezuelan Jesús Tinoco, and at the third pitching of the game the slugger hit the long-awaited hit through left field, falling barely in the first steps of the stands, or to be more specific, caught by a fan, after the celebration by his teammates, the game continued and in his second turn he struck out and left the game to rest, leaving behind the possibility of winning the triple crown.

When I say that Aaron Judge left behind the possibility of winning the triple crown, it is because he practically lost any option to win the batting championship, today is the last day of the regular round and the new owner of more home runs in a campaign in the National League is batting for 311 points, while Luis Arráez is the batting leader with an average of 315, four points are difficult to reach in one game, not counting that the Twins will surely give the Venezuelan a rest.

With this title, Arráez becomes the sixth Venezuelan-born player to win the batting title, the first to do so was Andrés Galarraga with the Colorado team, the second on the list is Magglio Ordóñez who did it with the Chicago White Sox, the third Carlos González, also with the Chicago White Sox, and the third Carlos González, also with the Colorado team, Jose Altuve was the fourth batting champion, the fifth in this list is Miguel Cabrera, who besides being the leader in batting average in the American League, is so far the last player who has managed to be a triple champion, that is to say, leader in bat, home runs and runs batted in.

Luis Arráez is the sixth, two other Venezuelans have achieved in this 2022 batting average over 300 points, they are, Andrés Giménez and Jose Altuve who achieved that average yesterday, of the 6 batting champions, 4 of them have achieved it in the American League and the other two in the National League, curiously in the same Colorado team, surely this list will grow in future seasons.