“I used it back when I played with him, but he was my teammate, maybe three at-bats,” he said of when he and Pujols were teammates with the Angels in 2017 and part of the 2018 season. It wasn't the first time Maldonado had used the bat. “He was the first player to give me a bat to replicate,” Marucci texted to The Associated Press. Pujols finished his 22-year career this season with 703 home runs, fourth on the all-time list.īat maker Jack Marucci said the AP5 was “one of the original models I worked with Albert to design.” MLB didn't find Maldonado had any competitive advantage using the Pujols model, and it appeared the mix-up was an honest mistake. It was a model he obtained from Albert Pujols. He found out from MLB today that the bat he used last night was not a legal bat. It’s a rule, and I follow the rule, so I didn’t use it.” Oh 'Martin Maldonado is using a different bat today here in Game 2. 'I use the same model, but it is modified because of my service time. Maldonado made his big league debut in 2011 and therefore couldn't use any of the bats that had been grandfathered in. As part of the move, players already in the majors and using bigger bats could continue to swing them. The move to slightly slimmed-down bats was designed to reduce the risk of them breaking into multiple pieces.

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