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Article: Pujols forcing La Russa to sit up and take notice.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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Albert Pujols is trying his best to turn heads, and Tony La Russa is trying his best to resist temptation.

"Somebody asked me why he wasn't playing more," La Russa said. "I said, ``If I play him, he's going to make the team.'" Pujols, 21, playing in the first month of his second year as a professional baseball player, has been nothing short of spectacular in the St. Louis Cardinals' spring camp. He is hitting .345 with four doubles, two homers and five RBIs, has yet to make an error in the field, and doesn't look like the youngest guy in camp with a shot to make the team.

"A lot of people said the things I do, they don't think a 21-year-old can ...

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