Mike Trout needs his own thread

with that 3.3 WAR in 35(!) games, he's on pace to pass another twenty guys in WAR before the All-Star break. not to mention being on pace for a WAR over 14(!!)

mike trout: just a fad?

Tim:
Mike Trout is 0 for his last 19. What’s going on? Is the world about to blow up?

Jeff Sullivan:
I like how he’s hitless over 22 plate appearances and his OBP is .318

welcome to the HOF (by rights)

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mike-trout-is-now-an-average-hall-of-famer/

So he will most likely pass Utley this year, and if Pujols retires this year or the next, he would stand atop the active WAR leaderboards.

don't forget Beltre!

or Cabrera and Cano...

goddamn 'active player' on fangraphs that take away the DL or suspensed when i want to look at whole careers.

He's already passed Cano on FG, Cabrera he might do it by the end of 2019. Beltre he is still relatively far from it.

what's crazy is that despite being ~ 25 WAR behind beltre, that's like about 3 seasons of trout away, maybe even less

The way Pujols is playing, if he sticks around he might meet Trout halfway between Mike’s current WAR and his own.

career-high four XBH tonight in the bronx

jumped up into the top 200 in rWAR last night

currently hitting .313/.461/.687

Mike Trout noted that defensive metrics didn't like him much over the last few years, decided he wanted to get better, and.. did. He got better. He's always getting better.

MORE -> https://t.co/Dm6RkCAHI9

— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) May 30, 2018

this guy

important to keep in mind how volatile these defensive numbers are in small samples tho

Predicting 11 new posts on this thread tomorrow.

oh god don’t scare me

Lindbergh on the latest Improved Trout

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/6/4/17423738/mike-trout-defensive-improvement-best-season-ever

a pair of two-HR games in a row

If you're wondering, a full season like Trout's past three games would apparently be a 37-WAR season

— Sam Miller (@SamMillerBB) June 14, 2018

this guy man

too bad the angels lost all three games

I’ve been watching him a lot lately. That swing of his, it’s so fast and compact and he just destroys everything.

projections on fangraphs officially have him at 11.0 or 11.1 for the season...and those are the 50th percentile numbers

Mishmash of 1000-game markers:

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23800260/how-mike-trout-stacks-mlb-greats-first-1000-games

can’t find a leaderboard of WAR through 100 career games anywhere, not sure if it exists for the older guys

read this in a deadspin comment, haven't verified but i believe it:

the difference in fWAR between the #1 player and #2 player from 2012-present (Mike Trout and Josh Donaldson) is the same as the difference between #2 and #118 (Carlos Ruiz)

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/mike-trout-shirt-night-prints-face-on-angels-fans/c-285275214

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manfred isn't exactly wrong, but what a dick. the angels had two off-days in may (both of which were probably spent traveling). when is he supposed to 'do marketing'? what exactly is in it for him?

and fwiw 'off-days' aren't always actual days off, depending on an owner's priorities

Rob Manfred: Mike Trout limits his popularity because he won't market himself

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24125053/mike-trout-bigger-marketed-rob-manfred-says

Mike Trout, consensus best baseball player on planet and incredibly wealthy man, should do more things to promote himself

i wonder what percentage of mike trout's plate appearances have taken place after midnight eastern

I've often mulled over a variation on the same thing (haven't read the piece): baseball needs to do a better job of marketing Mike Trout. When I mentioned to my class in the spring that I was going to see the Jays play the Angels that night, not one kid had heard of Trout. There are mitigating factors there, primarily that we're in Canada, but still--they all know LeBron James, they all know the most famous soccer players, and most of them know Tom Brady. For starters, they should turn the year-end awards into a big televised production like the NHL does. I was watching that a few weeks ago, wondering why baseball doesn't do that. (Baseball saves their big production for the HOF induction, which, much as I might enjoy that, doesn't help market the game today.)

the game just doesn't lend itself to that kind of thing. lebron's on the floor for 40 minutes a game; trout gets to bat once every 45 minutes

but yeah, it's baseball's responsibility, not his. and maybe if baseball hadn't spent the last 15 years promoting the yankees-red sox show, people would care about the angels*

*probably not, but still

Today, the #Angels released the following statement on OF Mike Trout: pic.twitter.com/xFLURtZ4bT

— Angels (@Angels) July 18, 2018

damn right imo, fuck being a workaholic esp for your bosses

update btw
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/betts-ramirez-trout-and-the-blistering-pace/

Love that Angels statement, that's a real fuck-you to Manfred.

Weather enthusiast!

that statement rules. manfred seems like a complete ass.

The heck Mike Trout can do more really? More commercials? More twitter beefs? He's everything baseball fans ever wanted from a player, dude is the Ty Cobb of this century, that can't be insufficient.

The majors could do with a less 'unwritten rules' and pitching clock, sure but the voices that wish baseball was more like basketball are infuriating, I want baseball to be baseball (and basketball to be basketball).

this guy

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dib6XDvWkAAXS8V.jpg:small

let normies be normies imo

should have ended it with #FlyEaglesFly

the game just doesn't lend itself to that kind of thing. lebron's on the floor for 40 minutes a game; trout gets to bat once every 45 minutes

otm. not only that but the difference between an average player and a superstar is what, 2 extra hits a week?

other thing is that the Angels have not yet made the postseason w/ Trout and aren't exactly an exciting team in any other aspect (the injured Ohtani aside). baseball's really the only sport where the best player in the league can fail to make the postseason year in and year out.

they lost a division series to KC in 2014

Trout went 1-for-12 with a homer

whoa I totally forgot about that

Most years the division series events are gone from my brain by December.