Albert Pujols to handle in ’24-25 winter league, sources say

Future Corridor of Fame first baseman Albert Pujols has agreed to handle the Dominican Republic’s Leones del Escogido throughout the 2024-25 winter league, sources instructed ESPN on Wednesday.

The Leones play in Santo Domingo, the place Pujols grew up. He later performed for Escogido within the lead-up to a 2022 season that grew to become his final as a serious league participant. Pujols — one in every of solely two males, together with Hank Aaron, to succeed in 700 residence runs, 3,000 hits and a pair of,000 RBIs — aspires to sometime be a serious league supervisor. His stint with Escogido can be a primary step in his hopes of carrying out that purpose.

Since retiring after the 2022 season, Pujols, 44, has accomplished on-air work for MLB Community and has been employed by Main League Baseball as a particular assistant focusing totally on the game’s outreach within the Dominican Republic.

Pujols’ longtime St. Louis Cardinals teammate, Yadier Molina, managed the Puerto Rican Criollos de Caguas workforce that reached this 12 months’s Caribbean Collection.