The latest Mike Trout injury underlines again that the angels fail again

In years, many of us will say that Mike Trout was the biggest ball player we have ever seen, but we have to offer a disclaimer for injuries. The outfield of Los Angeles Angels landed again yesterday on the injured list with a bone blue in his surgically repaired left knee.

The injury is not considered serious and there is no structural damage, but it is a familiar refrain for the future Hall of Fam. Trout played 29 games this season, which is the same amount he played last year. His season was stopped in both campaigns at the end of April and it was never resumed last year. He has not been in the line -up since 2022 in September. In the past six years he has achieved only 58 games per season and has not played more than 140 games in one season since 2016.

Trout, who turns 34 in August, switched from the middle to the right field this year to preserve his body, especially since his speed and defense are worn out with age. While his nine homes in the American League take third place, he only takes a percentage of 0.264 .179. His strong metrics against the back ball and its not sustainably low .159 Punch average in balls in the game (Babip) show that he is unlucky and deserves a higher impact average, but his plate discipline has also declined. Its strike quota of 29.8% is the highest of his career, and his 9.9% walk rate corresponds to the first time since his 40-game debut at the age of 19 in 2011.

It is proof of how big he was in his heyday that he is still one of the most marketable players in MLB. This season he will probably have the sieve highest income in baseball, including the notes outside the field.

Most of it is its salary of 37.1 million US dollars. It is located in the middle of a 12-year extension of $ 426.5 million with the angels that extend from 2019 to 2030. Together with the catastrophic, seven -year contract of seven years, Anthony Rendon, the team has two aging, chronically injured players who make up about a third of their entire salary statement.

The angels were unable to build a complete team for the entire career without the guilt of trout. Although the use of one of the greatest players of all time in 15 years – not to mention other MVPs such as Shohei Ohtani and Albert Pujols – the angels only made the playoffs in Trout's career once and shot in the 2014 division. If the 12-18 angels do not turn their season around, this will be their tenth year in a row with a loss of loss.

At its climax, Trout's size was unprecedented. He is a three-time MVP, and his 85.8 career climb (baseball reference version) is the fifthestian of a midfielder. He only leads Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Mickey Mantle, and he is on the ranking just before Ken Griffey Jr. and Joe Dimaggio.

It is almost unthinkable that such a legendary player would consistently play for the loss of teams after she had never won a playoff game in the era of extended after -season. There is no doubt that Mike Trouts Prime is over now, so that the angels have a much more difficult task to build a playoff team if they can only rely on their superstar every year.