Trout's August

[Angelsjunky]

.200/.327/.306 with 1 HR in 101 PA. Ouch. His worst month ever after his best month ever - tale of the season for the Angels, really.

[seenoevil]

shit month, his wrist has to be ****ed up

[Jason]

or his slump has gotten into his head.

[laagamer]

Or he's human after all lol

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

And if he's hurt, the Angels are assholes or he's an asshole, especially if he needs surgery after the season, and he could have had it done a month ago.

Don't ruin our best commodity, who will try to tweak his swing or swing less by accommodating a bad wrist.

[Jason]

By September 1st the Angels should be out of it so he will get plenty of time to rest the wrist if that is the problem. I honestly think his wrist is fine and is just playing crappy baseball (like the whole team). It happens from time to time.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

By September 1st the Angels should be out of it so he will get plenty of time to rest the wrist if that is the problem. I honestly think his wrist is fine and is just playing crappy baseball (like the whole team). It happens from time to time.[/quote

They've been out. And if he's been struggling because they've held off to try to salvage making the playoffs with a weak team, screw them.

[laagamer]

And if he's hurt, the Angels are assholes or he's an asshole, especially if he needs surgery after the season, and he could have had it done a month ago.

Don't ruin our best commodity, who will try to tweak his swing or swing less by accommodating a bad wrist.

We were in the lead, albeit slumping, and we're still in contention for the WC. You have to expect our best player, especially a gamer like Trout, to try and play through the pain for us. That doesn't happen unless we're already 10 games back.

That's if he's even injured.

Edited August 27, 2015 by laagamer

[Angel Oracle]

And Trout should not get a free pass when the gigantic slump has lasted a whole month.

Then again, he has company, virtually the entire team.

[Chuck]

Remember when Trout and Pujols were on pace to hit 50 bombs a piece?

 

Good times! 

 

Feels like Trout has been sitting at 33 home runs for months. 

[Hollyw00d]

And if he's hurt, the Angels are assholes or he's an asshole, especially if he needs surgery after the season, and he could have had it done a month ago.

Don't ruin our best commodity, who will try to tweak his swing or swing less by accommodating a bad wrist.

That would be a very angels thing to do

[Blarg]

Remember when Trout and Pujols were on pace to hit 50 bombs a piece?

 

Good times! 

 

Feels like Trout has been sitting at 33 home runs for months. 

 

He has been sitting on first called strike all damn year. He did it again today where he never moved the bat until he had a strike called on him. In fact every at bat against the Tigers this series he has stared at strike 1.

 

I am not even bothering to go back further because he has only swung at first pitch 17 times in 451 at bats. His 2-2 counts net a whopping .163 average. 0-2 he is hitting .222. If I'm the opposing teams pitching coach I am fining my starters $50 for every non strike they pitch to Trout.

[Angel Oracle]

Does Trout really think pitchers will ever throw that first pitch out of the zone?

This is year 4. WTF are you even thinking, Trout?

And what's with the crappy SB% in 2015?

[Jason]

It's just part of Trout's game. Outside of August it's worked fairly well. I doubt that it ever changes. Kind of like Pujols pulling every pitch that he swings at.

[mulwin444]

After beginning a count 0-1 this season:

 

 

.300 .353 .558 .911

 

17 HR's

 

Not saying I wouldn't mind him swinging at a first pitch strike as I think it will cut down on his K's and allow him to pound some mistakes but it isn't a disaster either considering he's been doing it pretty much his entire career and he's on a hall of fame trajectory.  As for his 0-2 and 2-2 counts, I imagine most player's numbers look pretty crappy in those counts. 

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

He can say he is healthy, but I don't believe it. 

[70runner]

Not a coincidence that, after hurting his wrist, the best player in MLB/MVP candidate suddenly turns into an Iannetta look alike at the plate.  Gotta be bothering him.  He's playing through it to stay in WC contention. 

[ettin]

I feel like Trout should just swing at about 10%-20% of those first pitch strikes just to keep all opposing pitchers honest and aware that he won't just take it.

Beyond that he is so confident in his hitting ability that he'd rather make the pitcher throw a 1st pitch strike. Puts pressure on the pitcher to perform. However just giving them a free pitch lets them groove a fastball so, like I said above, Mike needs to swing a little.

[19HALO71]

I'll take a horrible August if he gives us his best September.

 

Go Halos!!

[NJHalo]

I think it's from carrying around all that extra weight.

It was bound to catch up with him, like CC Sabathia.

He needs to train with Scioscia this off season

[Puget Sound Angel]

Bye-Bye MVP

[Angelsjunky]

Yeah, he's no longer the favorite. But if Donaldson falls off and Mike has a hot September, he could get it back.

[Jason]

I don't see Trout getting that hot. They may not have that much to play for anyways.

[jimbo]

I don't see him as one of those "were out of it, I'm shutting it down" types.

[HaloNArizona]

Why you all throwing Trout under the bus for August....this whole team sucks in August, except CJ and Murphy:

 

 

  NAME GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS OWAR C.J. Cron 22 66 9 21 4 0 4 10 37 4 14 1 .318 .366 .561 .927 0.0 David Murphy^† 18 64 8 19 4 0 2 8 29 1 10 0 .297 .308 .453 .761 0.0 Johnny Giavotella 19 75 6 20 5 0 0 3 25 2 10 1 .267 .295 .333 .628 0.0 Erick Aybar 22 85 7 21 3 0 0 1 24 1 7 3 .247 .264 .282 .547 0.0 Albert Pujols 23 88 9 21 1 0 4 11 34 6 12 2 .239 .284 .386 .671 0.0 Carlos Perez 16 46 4 10 3 0 1 3 16 5 6 1 .217 .288 .348 .636 0.0 Kole Calhoun 25 94 14 20 4 1 6 10 44 10 20 0 .213 .308 .468 .776 0.0 Shane Victorino^† 18 39 5 8 0 2 0 2 12 1 10 0 .205 .256 .308 .564 0.0 Mike Trout 25 88 5 18 4 1 1 6 27 17 29 0 .205 .333 .307 .640 0.0 Grant Green 4 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 .182 .182 .182 .364 0.0 Conor Gillaspie^† 12 44 1 7 2 0 1 5 12 3 10 0 .159 .213 .273 .485 0.0 Chris Iannetta 13 40 1 6 4 0 0 4 10 1 14 0 .150 .171 .250 .421 0.0 David DeJesus^† 18 42 3 6 1 0 0 3 7 2 10 0 .143 .217 .167 .384 0.0 Kaleb Cowart 9 26 1 3 1 0 1 2 7 3 12 0 .115 .207 .269 .476 0.0 Taylor Featherston 12 20 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 1 .100 .250 .100 .350 0.0 Ryan Jackson 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 .000 .100 .000 .100 0.0

 

Kole has falling in love with the long ball, but is freaking 2nd in the team to K's...

Nobody can hit.....this whole team needs a slump buster.