Mike Trout: Top Angels Prospect #1
by rghan on Jan 17, 2012 11:23 AM PST
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1) Mike Trout, 8/07/91 - CF, AA & MLB
.326/.414/.544 with 11 HR and 33 SB. +32 run bat, +5 run glove, ~5 WAR in 2011
He's our guy, so I'm going to say it: Trout's the top prospect in the game. With his skills and raw athletic ability, he could be baseball's best leadoff hitter for the next decade. Who else would you rather have hitting in front of Albert Pujols? The single season runs scored record is 198, set by Billy Hamilton in 1894. While the game's changed some over the past 108 years, putting that number out of reach, Jeff Bagwell scored 152 runs in 2000. How close do you think Trout can come to challenging that milestone?
To test his era's possibilities, Trout's going to have to cut the small ball crap that he was dabbling with in the Arizona Fall League. Slapping the ball on the ground and to right field is for mere mortals. He need to rest up, have faith in his patience and trust his growing inclination to turn on the ball. If he does that, the batting average will take care of itself.
Thanks to the Vernon Wells deal, Mike Trout will likely head to Salt Lake purgatory for a month or so to open the season (barring some kind of injury to any of the outfield vets). That may cost the Angels a very dear win or two. When Trout does finally arrive this season - I imagine that it will be soon- he may very well take over top of the order duties from the get-go.
OK, I have to admit something: I am sick to death of thinking of new things to say about Mike Trout, and I don't want to regurgitate old stuff. If you want more verbiage on the dude, you can go here, here, or here.
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"Granderson" and "Trout" are spelled alike. Are you sure you did not mean Granderson?
"When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had adsorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby."
by mustard_man on Jan 17, 2012 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
a butter, rosemary and brown sugar glaze
sauteed and batting .340
by Rev Halofan on Jan 17, 2012 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
I'll see what I can do.
RIP Nick Adenhart
by miketrout on Jan 17, 2012 3:01 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Makes you wonder even more, what were they thinking when they signed Wells
with cheap Trout waiting in the wings. Why didn’t they just go with some FA veteran outfielder for a year and then start Trout? Hopefully this type of thinking is a thing of the past.
"One time, when we got back to the locker room, all of our clothes were gone," Trout recalled. "They left me a Lady Gaga costume and I had to wear it."
You're giving Reagins an awful lot of credit with the Wells move.
Assuming he was thinking when he made it.
Ya'll are nuts.
BBQ’d to slightly blackened with a honey mustard glaze, peppered to taste.
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
On August 3rd 2010 Torii Hunter approached Mike Scoscia .....
He said that he had been in the league a long time without winning a world series. He said he knew the best team the Angels could produce to would be to have Bourjos in center field. Vernon Wells could take some notes from his friend.
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
A lot of that had to do with Torii's lingering injuries from crashing into walls.
"One time, when we got back to the locker room, all of our clothes were gone," Trout recalled. "They left me a Lady Gaga costume and I had to wear it."
True, but the CF wall in AT&T never recovered.
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
After JeDi finishes the Aybar section, he'll have just one task left
Clearing the way for this sumbitch. He’s a better player than Vernon Wells right now, and the only thing like a natural leadoff hitter on the 40-man. Imagine a flyball staff with an OF of Trout-Bourjos-Wells? Kee-rist!
Wells over Hunter?
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 17, 2012 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
no worries lol
I was waiting for you to pull out some assortment of vowels and consonants jumbled together in an abbreviation expressing Well’s superior fielding over Hunter. Somethinglike BSIvRA (Big Splash Inverted Regression Analysis)
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 17, 2012 6:07 PM PST up reply actions
Jeff Bagwell
pfft, he only got to 152 runs that year because he looked like he was on steroids.
This is a sig.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jan 17, 2012 3:01 PM PST reply actions
I hope he doesn't TRY to live up to these expectations.
I hope he just plays the game as well as he can – that should be plenty good enough
Imagine...
Trout and Bourjos at the top of the order followed by Pujols for the next five years. wow. wow wow wow.
Or, Trout and Kendrick. Either way, wow!
by joberooni on Jan 19, 2012 12:51 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
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