Albert Pujols of the St.Louis Cardinals won the NL MVP today beating out the Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard. Pujols hit .357 with 37 home runs for the season. “I wasn’t surprised at all” Pujols said. “You have to consider everything. You have to put all the numbers together.” This is Albert’s second second NL MVP award of his career. He beat Howard by a fairly large amount of votes.