Matt Holliday has monumented his name in St. Louis

The idea was to form the greatest three-four batting combo in the history of Major League Baseball. To be one of the best, if not considered the best, three-four teammates to ever play behind one another and on the same team in history.

Well…Albert Pujols wavied good-bye to any chance that there was to that situation during this past off-season following the Cardinals miraculous run towards there eleventh World Series championship—and now, it’s time for Matt Holliday himself to take the matters into his own hands.

Holliday was acquired by the Cardinals in the middle of the 2009 season from the Oakland Athletics for three prospects. He started paying dividends in his first game with the team, going 4-for-4 with a stolen base—and from that second on he was and has been a fan favorite heavily among Cardinal Nation.

Holliday has originally remembered from the 2009 National League Division Series game four in which for dropping the ball that would've won the Cardinals a game in the NLDS—but following the loss, they were eventually swept in three games at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In Holliday's first full season in 2010, he hit .312 with 28 homers and 103 RBI. In their World Championship season of 2011, he hit .296 with 22 homers and 75 RBI. Pretty impressive, huh? The man has certainly made me a believe in him being a true star that’s already been born in this league.

Thus far in 2012, Holliday has produced mightily, hitting a modest team-leading .325 with 18 homers and 68 runs batted in. He helped the Cardinals set a historic mark with 5 home runs in consecutive innings against the Cubs this past Friday afternoon at Wrigley in Chicago against lefty Travis Wood in a 9-6, slugfest vitcory.

Also hit the longest home run to date at Busch Stadium on July 20th against Ryan Dempster, hitting it into the 2nd deck past Big Mac Land. Holliday will be another threat to deal with as an opposing team for which many, including myself, hopes is for the remaining time on his current contract—and possibly even longer than that. Matt Holliday is a monster.