DALLAS: Three-time NL MVP Albert Pujols has agreed to a 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels, a person familiar with the deal told the Associated Press Thursday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced.

The 31-year-old Pujols led the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series title this autumn – his second with the team. He had been pursued by the Miami Marlins, but they dropped out Wednesday after agreeing to a deal with Mark Buehrle.

The Cardinals exercised a $16 million option on Pujols’ contract after last season. The slugger rejected a multiyear extension that included a small percentage of the franchise over the winter and cut off negotiations on the first day of spring training.

Pujols’ numbers in nearly every major scoring category are on a three-year decline, but he remains among the game’s elite players. He hit 37 home runs last season, running his 30-homer streak to 11 years, and batted .299 with 99 RBIs. He led the Cardinals’ improbable late-season surge and became only the third player to hit three home runs in a World Series game.

Jose Reyes, a free agent shortstop who was an all-star with the cash-strapped New York Mets, signed a six-year Major League Baseball deal worth $106 million with the Miami Marlins.

The National League batting champion from the Dominican Republic will be paid $10 million in each of the next two seasons, $16 million in 2014 and $22 million in each of the last three years of the contract.

The Marlins, who move into a new $515 million ballpark next March, have a $22 million option on Reyes for 2018 with a buyout of that clause for $4 million.

“It’s a perfect situation in Miami,” Reyes said. “We have a lot of talent there and the new stadium, the weather, close to Dominican, a lot of Spanish people there, so I think I’m going to like it and enjoy it as much as I can.”

The Mets never made a big move to keep the batting champion.