Mike Trout
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
Mike Trout: Angels Top Prospect Performances #2
by rghan on Dec 29, 2011 1:33 PM PST
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Let's put this feature series to bed, shall we?
First, by way of explanation, I went AWOL these past few weeks for the best of reasons: I now have two healthy, precocious little daughters, both of whom are doing great. They were born two months early, but after a long stay in the hospital they're finally home.
Another cause for delay - and all-around-annoyance - is that some kid broke into my classroom and stole my laptop, which not only had a month's worth of otherwise un-backed-up baby pictures saved to it, but all of my baseball-related databases. That means that my WAR calculations and batted ball data from July onward are gone, so I'm going to have to go off memory below.
Four years of teaching in an inner city school in Boston, and the only thing that ever disappeared from my classroom were a few snickers bars. Three months in Portland, and this.
The obvious lesson here? Skaters can bite me.
2) 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
Mike Trout PingPong: Hot Air or Hula Dula?
by Rev Halofan on Dec 22, 2011 11:28 PM PST
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Hardcore Angels fans all know that Torii Hunter is the undisputed Clubhouse Dominoes champ, with the title Hula Dula Domino Rulah. Torii talks the talk but walks the walk, defeating all comers in the international baseball locker room favorite pastime. Are any other Angels out there so great at a game besides baseball that they brag about it like Dula himself? Well it just so happens that earlier tonight on twitter, in between tweets about hunting and rooting for Michael Vick and the Eagles, Angels über-Prospect Mike Trout boasted about his prowess at another game: Ping Pong
Mike Trout: I don't think anyone could give me a good run in beating me in ping pong #unstoppable
Recent rule-5 draftee Gabe Jacobo took issue:
: cmon kid. Let's get real
In very UN-HulaDula style, Trout backed down immediately from Jacobo:
TROUT: Ok besides Jacobo!
Emboldened by the unsteady boasts, Angels 1B Mark Trumbo pipes in, reminding the rookie of the pingpong skill of Peter Bourjos:
Mark Trumbo: Think we saw you lose quite a few times to P Bo.
TROUT: Haha yeah and Pete hes nice lol you are pretty good ! Haha
Is there a pattern to Trout's bold boasts followed by pleasant backpedallings? His Arizona Fall league teammate on the Scottsdale Scorpions, Boston Red Sox prospect Will Middlebrooks, appears to allude to Trout's October triumphs off the field in making a miracle (aka "non-skill/pure luck") shots in a Madden Football video game.
Will Middlebrooks: Just like madden huh? Secret shot?
To which Trout can only reply:
TROUT: haha yeah
To sum up the psychology of Mike Trout as evidenced by this exchanged: He'd rather be lucky than good, and is both until beaten and then just laughs it off anyway.
Mike Trout Nipple Exposed in Rookie Hazing
by Rev Halofan on Sep 12, 2011 12:51 AM PDT
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Thanks to exclusive photos from Halos Heaven poster Pattimelt, we have acquired a few choice pics of the Angels rookies being hazed by parading out to fans for autographs in shocking costumes. Mike Trout as Deborah Harry of the band Blondie, Tyler Chatwood as a thigh-revealing nurse and Garett Richards as Scarlett O'Hara on LSD.
But just like the time those infamous Mike Napoli 2010 New Years mom pictures posted on FB, a nipple got exposed in the melee. Click the jump if you dare...
Mike Trout Angels Top Prospect #1
by Rev Halofan on Sep 7, 2011 1:52 AM PDT
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We continue our countdown of the Angels Top 20 Minor League Prospects as discussed live on the March 29, 2011 episode of our LunchTime HaloTalk internet radio show with minor league analyst Ryan Ghan.
Rev Halofan: Okay, we'll this leads us to -- oh, man I wonder who is this going to be, who is the Angels' number one in your opinion, in your opinion alone? I don't want you to be trendy or have to conform to anybody else's theories here, but who is the Angels number one prospect?
Rghan: Well, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Mike Trout.
Mike Trout Debut Weekend in Pictures
by Rev Halofan on Jul 20, 2011 2:06 AM PDT
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Special Thanks to MidwayCityLiveStock who took some cool photos of Mike Trout on the night he made his debut...
Mike Trout Called Up by Angels
by Rev Halofan on Jul 8, 2011 12:58 PM PDT
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When Peter Bourjos decided against stretching a double on Thursday night into a triple, he inadvertently began the Mike Trout era in Anaheim. Bourjos pulled something in his upper left thigh and was replaced in CF by Vernon Wells. But Vernon won't be in roaming CF tonight at Angels Stadium.
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