Angels and Trout Agree - 6 yrs/140 Mil

[Troll Daddy]

Great news for Trout, team, and the fans. Mike Trout didn't get ripped off by any stretch of the imagination.

With only two years under his belt ... there is some risk for the Angels.

Great deal for both sides.

[Docwaukee]

I don't know.  That's seems like an awful lot of money for a guy that's only given us two years.  I'd have probably waited a couple more years to make sure he's legit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

haha!!!!!  Awesome stuff!!!. 

[Kenny]

Press conference at the Big A @ 1:30 tomorrow.

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

I have a 6 year, $144.5 million dollar boner right now.

Will the conference be on tv ?

[Spencer]

Trout signs a contract and the gods decide to stomp the yard

[disarcina]

Halos tickets sales down.

 

This move will sell tickets this year, next year, the year after that all the way to 2020.

[TooCool]

Way to go Trout! Thanks for staying at a discount!

[Lhalo]

This is the greatest baseball news I've ever received in my life.

[mancini79]

The Press Conference will conveniently be held in front of the ticket booths.

[Angels Never Die]

Awesome, nice job by the FO.

[ten ocho recon scout]

I wonder if that quake was trout accidentally dropping his check

[Spirit]

Dear Arte and Jerry,

Thank you!!!

Sincerely, 

Angels Fans

[fan_since79]

Great news for Trout, team, and the fans. Mike Trout didn't get ripped off by any stretch of the imagination.

With only two years under his belt ... there is some risk for the Angels.

Great deal for both sides.

This is a fabulous deal for Trout. If he performs up to expectations the next seven years, he'll be able to name his price for another extension, either with us or another team. The bidding for his services will be unbelievable.

 

He'll be at the prime of his playing career when this contract is up. A fabulous deal for anyone.

[gotbeer]

FYI.  Interesting thing about Trouts contract.  

 

The AAV for Pujols is $24 million.  For Trout it's $24.08 million.  At least from my calcs.  

[Glen]

How I felt when I got home from dinner and heard the news:

 

[ScottT]

I like this move.  

[Ray McKigney]

Greatest news I've heard in a decade. And that includes my wife being pregnant with my first son. Thank you!

[Kenny]

Edit: As soon as I posted this, an earthquake happened.

I was referencing the smaller quake.  An hour later, the (not really) big one hit.

[brianvargo]

I think it comes down to this: Mike Trout wants to be an Angel, and he wants to win with the Angels so much that he's wagering his prime years on the team's chances.

 

It feels so good to have a player of Trout's caliber want to be here for reasons that transcend making the greatest amount of money possible.  That's no slight on players who maneuver for the best deals they can get - who can blame them?  But this is refreshing.

 

I'm proud to be a fan of the Angels and of Mike Trout.

[Don]

This seems like a pretty fair deal all around. The Angels buy out 3 or 4 years of free agency, Trout gets a huge insurance policy, and the Angels get a $35m/year player for roughly $24m/year. Good job by all involved.

[GregAlso]

This is an awesome extension. My only question is about luxury tax. If they are ever willing to pay the tax it'd been good to do it this year. They could've signed him to 7/$145.5 million. This would've made his AAV for each year just over $20 million, this would've opened up $5 million each year for tax purposes. Just interesting to me. I guess no questions now, just enjoy it.

[Brent Maguire]

Incredible news! This is a huge discount for the best player in baseball. 

[ELEVEN]

Relax, what you felt was the Magnatude of Trout's deal reverberating throughout baseball registering One Billion on the Chuck Richter Scale.

[Jeff Fletcher]

This is an awesome extension. My only question is about luxury tax. If they are ever willing to pay the tax it'd been good to do it this year. They could've signed him to 7/$145.5 million. This would've made his AAV for each year just over $20 million, this would've opened up $5 million each year for tax purposes. Just interesting to me. I guess no questions now, just enjoy it.

But it would have cost them $20M against the luxury tax this year for no reason since he was still a 0-3 and you don't have to pay him.

As it is, they have a chance of not being over by much (if at all) next year, if they trade Howie.

[Guest]

I'm just glad he's staying on the team; as a fan that's all I should care about.