Mike Trout needs his own thread

i'm only posting this because i'm superstitious and every time i express concern he breaks out, so: he hasn't had a good game in over 2 weeks

triple high off the wall; good work

first walk off game winner tonight (3 run shot)

stiff back (no wonder, supporting that neck)

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/6/3/5777770/mike-trout-injury-angels-back-discomfort

12-game hitting streak (slugging over .600 now):

.388/.475/.816, 4 HR, 13 R, 16 RBI.

yeah the guy doesn't really hit singles anymore

he hates resl baseball

*real*

his isolated power is .299 now

can't even hit .300 send him down

I threw those stats together in a hurry last night--think I shortchanged him one HR (didn't realize he hit two last night). His slugging average is probably closer to .850 through the streak.

Kevin was onto something earlier in the year: the strikeouts were clearly hurting him. He's only struck out six times in 49 AB the past 12 games. Maybe that's tautological, I don't know.

.387/.467/.747 in his last 20 games

that second HR was mighty impressive last night. i'm surprised he made contact at all.

http://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Screen-Shot-2014-06-16-at-1.01.24-PM.png

trout is actually hitless this year on balls in the upper third of the zone

If it were him against me, I'd definitely bring the high heat. Wouldn't touch me.

love that this is off jason vargas

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/0/v34086831/laakc-trout-blasts-solo-home-run-in-the-1st-inning

Mike Trout's home run tonight was calculated at 489 (!!) feet. That's the longest HR hit in MLB this season. (via @ESPNStatsInfo)
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Mike Trout's 489-foot HR is the longest by an AL player since ESPN began tracking home runs (2006).
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Mike Trout hits 489 foot HR, longest by an AL player in 8 years
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Angels' Mike Trout hit HR measured at 489 feet - longest ever at KC's Kauffman Stadium - in 1st inning (ESPN) http://ift.tt/1mnYyyM
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holy shit

@msimonespn
Mike Trout has 5 HR on pitches thrown below the knees in 2014. No one else has more than 2. pic.twitter.com/TmxzXYv0Wq

was disappointed he DH'd last night... then he got thrown out at third to end the inning, down 1-0!

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/7/21/5922537/mike-trout-albert-pujols-mock-fernando-rodney-arrow-celebration

Just scored from first on a single.

lol it was a foot away from being a homer, only a single because pujols is as slow as pujols and markakis's arm has a reputation

Oh.

in July:

.270 /.336 /.540

man, he sucks

Can't say I expected to see Jack Perconte in the top ten here:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/stolen_base_perc_career.shtml

Twenty-three facts on his 23rd birthday:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/for-mike-trouts-23rd-birthday-23-superstar-facts?ymd=20140806&content_id=88237504&vkey=news_mlb

22. Trout is one of just four players to hit at least .320 with 50-plus home runs and 200-plus runs scored over his first two big league seasons. Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and teammate Albert Pujols round out that group.

god 23 already? he's totally boring now

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=cf&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=200&type=8&season=2014&month=0&season1=2014&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=20%2cd

weird how his defensive stats just keep getting worse and worse. FG has him as almost the worst regular center fielder, non-kemp division

was not expecting that. kinda feel its a sort of aberration, no?

in straight-up CF counting UZR he's 116 out of 123. Cutch is second to last.

skeptical as always of advanced defensive stats, particularly for one season, but both systems had him crashing hard back down to earth last year too. plus his base running has definitely regressed, so maybe there is an issue

although you wonder how much his stolen bases in particular have taken a hit due to the confidence he has in the hitters behind him. still, if he steals at 90% he should be going a lot more

he's huge, he's like an elephant crammed into a human body, i think he's just destined to be one of those great hitters who had nice defensive and baserunning stats early on and then stopped

yeah i mean i figured that would happen in 5-7 years because of his body type, but he just turned 23 and he's always been huge

mega-slumping right now. .223/.305/.420 since the ASB

by fWAR he's been worth -0.5WAR over the past couple of weeks

rumors swirling they're gonna DFA him

the angels are still doing very well, which is the important thing I guess.

If I had to vote for MVP today, I'd go with Trout. Felix looked like a possibility two or three weeks ago, but his last two starts have been somewhat shaky. Donaldson and Gordon...that's my limitation; I'm much more confident evaluating players offensively than defensively, and the case for Donaldson or Gordon is very defense-dependent. That's today--obviously, Trout has it within him to run away with the award in September.

Having said that, this Posnanski piece gets at something I've been thinking about recently as Trout bounces between first and second on Baseball Reference's WAR list: if Donaldson or someone else ends up first, what kind of debate might come out of that?

http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/talking-about-the-v-in-mvp-again/#more-2294

if you only care about hitting (as has been proven in recent years), abreu has a strong case

like that joe pos post

there was a post on fangraphs today looking deeper into Gordon's defensive numbers and the conclusion was basically that he's the exact same defensive player he's always been, but the crop of left fielders is so bad this year that the UZR baseline has shifted way down, making him look elite by comparison, when he's merely very good. i feel pretty ok not considering a legit MVP case

If he didn't have MVP clinched already, he does now. He's trailing Trout Mask Replica in ILX threads 13-2, however.

In case you missed it from last night:

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/27/video-mike-trout-makes-insane-no-look-leaping-catch/

@keithlaw
Let's get him fewer at bats! #smrtbaseball “@Alden_Gonzalez: Mike Scioscia looking at the possibility of Trout batting third next year..."

kinda interesting article here: http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/balls-in-play-expected-homers-leaderboard/

it calculates expected home runs in 2014, based on batted ball distance/angles, and then compares them to actual home runs.

it finds that mike trout was the unluckiest in baseball, with only 36 HRs in 2014 as compared to the 43 that would be expected based on his contact %, outfield flyball %, etc.

Mike Trout. he's just so unlucky

more of the same to start the new season: a dinger and a golden sombrero in his first game

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2015_04_06_anamlb_seamlb_1&mode=video

semi-robbed one, too

I thought the golden sombrero was 0-4 4K?

whoops i thought it was 3Ks, it's 4