A team of 26 Mike Trouts

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your team had a Mike Trout? What about two? How about TWENTY-SIX?

Chris Cwik from Yahoo created a full 26-man roster on MLB The Show 20 that consisted of 26 Trout’s. You can read more about how that went here, but here’s something that you should know. That team lost 50 games in a row. Yeah, I’m shocked as well.

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• MLB players, team employees will be participating in coronavirus study. Here’s what Jeff Passan included in his article.

Employees of Major League Baseball teams are participating in a massive study that will test up to 10,000 people for coronavirus antibodies and should offer researchers a better sense of how widespread the disease is in major metropolitan areas across the United States, although doctors caution that the data gathered is not expected to hasten the game’s return.

According to The Athletic, 27 of 30 teams will be participating. The Angels will be one of of the teams participating, according to Fabian Ardaya.

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• Angels reliever Ty Buttrey is representing the organization in the MLB The Show Players League and said he’s having fun with it, but also trying to take it seriously as a competitor. Take a look back at how he did last night.