Stepping into a major league clubhouse for the first time can be an intimidating experience for any rookie. For Juan Yepez, who joined the St. Louis Cardinals on May 3 after spending the first month of the season in Triple-A Memphis, he was about to join a locker room full of some of the biggest stars in the game. Fortunately, he had a friendly face waiting to greet him as he walked through the visitor's side of Kauffman Stadium ahead of his major league debut a day later -- Albert Pujols. "You look around, there's all these future Hall of Famers we have," Yepez said earlier this week. "But when I got called up in Kansas City, the first guy who saw me was Albert. He gave me a huge hug, said it was good to have me here. "That meant the world to me." read morehttps://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34031564/how-albert-pujols-using-final-season-mentor-budding-st-louis-cardinals-slugger
