Fangraphs: Mike Trout, When All Is Said and Done (Some Troutporn to Brighten Your Day)

[Angelsjunky]

This is from the scout, Tony Blengino, who (amazingly enough) accurately comped Trout to Mantle years ago.

 

Read all about it here.

 

Here's an exciting quote:

 

Where might Trout go from here? Obviously, the absolute floor is a Conigliaro situation, a sudden, career-ending impact, which really could happen to anyone. Barring that fairly remote possibility, Trout’s floor is about as high as they come. If he performs as Ken Griffey, Jr., did from age 22 through the end of his career – and Griffey is by far his weakest comp – he’ll rack up 21.79 standard deviations between 22 and 28, and then another 23.7% of total career value afterward, for a total career score of 41.07 – good for 36th on the all-time list. That’s his “floor”. If he hits his ceiling, and posts a Cobb-like 40.42 score from 22 to 28, and then ages like Speaker, accumulating 50.8% of his career value from age 29 onward, that would put him in the mix with the top three of Barry Bonds, Ted Williams and Babe Ruth for best hitter of all time honors. If he hits the midpoint of those two tracks, he would rank seventh on the all-time list, behind those three plus Cobb, Stan Musial and Rogers Hornsby. Pretty heady stuff.

 

In other words, Ken Griffey is the floor, Bonds/Williams/Ruth (the three greatest hitters of all time) is the ceiling, and the midpoint is Cobb/Musial/Hornsby.

 

Dude.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Angelsjunky

[YouthofToday]

His ceiling is Mike Trout. Nobody in the history of the known universe has yet to reach his ceiling.

[fan_since79]

There's an idea in cosmology called the multiverse (multiple universes). 

 

There's our universe, and then there's Mike Trout's universe. Right now they're on parallel planes.

[Angelsjunky]

This thread, the first and original of its kind.

[Brent Maguire]

Whoops didn't see AJ post this. Feel free to delete my other thread mods. 

[Docwaukee]

My Wife walking by me on the computer a while back and seeing a thread with Trout Porn in the title:

 

"What the #$%^ are you looking at?"

 

Me:  Explanation of Trout porn

 

Her:  'Oh good.  I thought I was gonna have to start wearing a fish costume or something'

 

Me: 'I wouldn't rule that out just yet'

[Angelsjunky]

Doc, the other day I mentioned getting a "naughty nurse" outfit for my wife and she replied, "Who, for you?"

[Blarg]

Your immediate answer should be yes and let her figure it out as she changes.

[ten ocho recon scout]

I think trouts best comp is gonna end up being ted williams.

And not because of stats. Its gonna be because 50 years from now people will point out he never got a ring

[nate]

[summit21]

Trout vs. God...Trout definitely Trout!

[Tyler]

My Wife walking by me on the computer a while back and seeing a thread with Trout Porn in the title:

 

"What the #$%^ are you looking at?"

 

Me:  Explanation of Trout porn

 

Her:  'Oh good.  I thought I was gonna have to start wearing a fish costume or something'

 

Me: 'I wouldn't rule that out just yet'

 

LOL Thats awesome

[QuinlansMinion]

That guy just said Barry Bonds is one of the greatest hitters of all time.  In before AW collectively explodes.  

[ItzTacosYerrp]

Hey dochalo

Pics of wife????

[Angelsjunky]

nate....why?!

[nate]

nate....why?!

 

It is tdawg's dog, tdog.

[Docwaukee]

Doc, the other day I mentioned getting a "naughty nurse" outfit for my wife and she replied, "Who, for you?"

Ha!! 

[Docwaukee]

Hey dochalo

Pics of wife????

I'm sure she'd be thrilled if I did that. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

I'm sure she'd be thrilled if I did that.

we're all family on here, doc.

Watch this......

'Mike Napoli'

Boom. Instant cohesion.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

How is Cobb a midpoint?

How can a 367 lifetime average or whatever it is be anything but greatness?

[YouthofToday]

So when is baseball gone to man up and call the MVP award the Mike Trout Award.