Pujols is nearly done with the hitting session in the St. Louis cage, during which he will have hit 85 balls off a tee or thrown to him by Silvestri. (After one swing, in a baseball reenactment of The Princess and the Pea, he tells Silvestri something isn’t right with the ball he just hit. Silvestri fetches it and finds that it’s the one ball in the bucket that’s not regulation MLB issue.)

– Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated.

If you’re near a newsstand and like to read about how awesome Albert Pujols is at hitting, you should probably pick up this week’s SI. That particular detail probably belongs on the list of true things about Albert Pujols that sound like Chuck Norris Facts.