Mike Trout


Looking forward to some MLB including Mike Trout. Hopefully he can stay healthy after missing most of the last four years. He's looking pretty good hitting his first HR in spring training!
He says he feels great. I don't like the fact that he'll be in right field. Something management met with him about, and he's agreed to try it.
I just hope he can stay healthy and play a full season. At least 152 games.
 
Carolina Speed said:

Looking forward to some MLB including Mike Trout. Hopefully he can stay healthy after missing most of the last four years. He's looking pretty good hitting his first HR in spring training!
He says he feels great. I don't like the fact that he'll be in right field. Something management met with him about, and he's agreed to try it.
I just hope he can stay healthy and play a full season. At least 152 games.
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Mike Trout hits his first homerun of the season. 379 for his career. Hopefully he stays healthy and races past 400 career homeruns and possibly to 500 before he retires.
Hard to believe Trout will be 34 years old in August.
Trout was the best baseball player I have ever seen; when he was healthy. Too bad he's lost 4-5 years of his prime due to so many injuries.
 
Carolina Speed said:
Mike Trout hits his first homerun of the season. 379 for his career. Hopefully he stays healthy and races past 400 career homeruns and possibly to 500 before he retires.
Hard to believe Trout will be 34 years old in August.
Trout was the best baseball player I have ever seen; when he was healthy. Too bad he's lost 4-5 years of his prime due to so many injuries.
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Trout opening night HR in LA in his first AB/first pitch! Number 2 in as many games. Well on his way to 400 this year!
 
Watch this defensive play by Trout. Unbelievable.

 
Carolina Speed said:
The GOAT for a short time in his career. He WAS on a trajectory to pass Ruth and Cobb.
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Mike Trout Despite missing the better part of 4 MLB seasons of his prime, moved into 50th place in all time WAR. Passing Robin Roberts.
48. George Brett 88.6
49. Tim Keefe 86.9
50. Mike Trout 86.3
Would've been very close if not already passed the "MICK", 21st. 110.2 if not for all the injuries!
Hopefully he passes Brett and Bob Gibson at 47 by the end of the season.
 
Mike Trout went 2 for 5 tonight against the Mariners. He finally hit his 21st homerun of the season. He was stuck on 20 for about a month or longer. He may be heating up in this last month of the season. Between his injuries and slumps I feel that Aaron Judge might catch him for career homeruns within a a few years. So sad. Just hope that Trout can play better along with staying healthy.
 
This has been a very disappointing year for Trout. The positive thing is that he's been relatively healthy, logging his 1st 400+ at bat season since 2022 and only his 2nd since 2019 (2020 is the Covid short season). Looking at his numbers in those seasons, we can see that he was elite in 2019 with a 8.3(!!!) WAR (wins above replacement). In 2022, he was still at an excellent 6.3 total. However, this year he drops to 1.3 which is creeping closer to replacement. He's no longer playing center field, and I believe he's even being used as a DH more than a RFer. As a DH, he really needs to rake to have value and he simply isn't anymore. I'm hoping that he can bounce back next year if he enters fully health coming off of this basically full season. However, at age 35 and with declining numbers from all the injuries, we might have to accept that we've seen the last of the Great Mike Trout and will have to settle for the Slightly Above Average Trout. Sad to see as a huge fan myself.

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Freethinker said:
This has been a very disappointing year for Trout. The positive thing is that he's been relatively healthy, logging his 1st 400+ at bat season since 2022 and only his 2nd since 2019 (2020 is the Covid short season). Looking at his numbers in those seasons, we can see that he was elite in 2019 with a 8.3(!!!) WAR (wins above replacement). In 2022, he was still at an excellent 6.3 total. However, this year he drops to 1.3 which is creeping closer to replacement. He's no longer playing center field, and I believe he's even being used as a DH more than a RFer. As a DH, he really needs to rake to have value and he simply isn't anymore. I'm hoping that he can bounce back next year if he enters fully health coming off of this basically full season. However, at age 35 and with declining numbers from all the injuries, we might have to accept that we've seen the last of the Great Mike Trout and will have to settle for the Slightly Above Average Trout. Sad to see as a huge fan myself.

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Right Freethinker/WL. Although Trout has been healthy most of the year, he has struck out ALOT/156 times, and is just not the same player he was. Not even close. It's very sad. I've watched alot of MLB and I've never ever seen a 5 year run from any other player in my lifetime like Mike Trout's. No one, with the exception of Ruth and Cobb, had a WAR as high as Trout's over that 5 year span. Sadly, it looks like we'll never see this again in my lifetime. I wish he could've maintained his historic play for 15 years plus. Could've been the GOAT.
He still has 5 more years on his current contract. The best we can hope for is that he gets to 500 plus homeruns and can cement his place in the HOF!
 
MIke Trout is sitting at 399 home runs. Hoping when he finally hits the next one that the pressure will be off. He is trying to hard to swing for the long ball. It shows in his batting average and his increased number of strikeouts. He just needs to hit normal. Mike Trout has a natural swing with incredible strength & athletecism. He doesn't have to try that hard to hit the ball out of the park. The hitting coach should remind this living legend of this. He is overswinging most of the time. I remember when I played baseball. Most of my longest homeruns were when I didn't think I swung that hard but I hit the ball perfectly without even realizing it. Hope he breaks out of his slump before the season ends.
 
White Lightning said:
MIke Trout is sitting at 399 home runs. Hoping when he finally hits the next one that the pressure will be off. He is trying to hard to swing for the long ball. It shows in his batting average and his increased number of strikeouts. He just needs to hit normal. Mike Trout has a natural swing with incredible strength & athletecism. He doesn't have to try that hard to hit the ball out of the park. The hitting coach should remind this living legend of this. He is overswinging most of the time. I remember when I played baseball. Most of my longest homeruns were when I didn't think I swung that hard but I hit the ball perfectly without even realizing it. Hope he breaks out of his slump before the season ends.
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You could be right WL, but I think it may have to do with late season fatigue. The man hasn't played a complete season in almost 6 years. He has averaged playing only 60 games per season the last 5 years. He has played in 119 games this season. Hopefully he comes back in 2026 well rested and can play the last 5 years of his contract relatively healthy. He still has time to add to his HOF numbers.
The MLB season is 162 games and if you've only played roughly a third of those games for six years and are heading to your mid-thirties, you're probably not going to perform as well as normal, especially later in the season. Most stats decline in the course of the season for all players.
 
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