Tony LaRussa May Be Cardinals Secret Weapon In Bid To Keep Albert Pujols

Some folks around baseball saw irony in Cardinals manager Tony La Russa claiming without evidence that the baseball players union was influencing Albert Pujols not to take the team's offer (which according to people familiar with the talks was for more than $200 million over nine years). That's because those people see La Russa as potentially having the exact opposite effect on Pujols.

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