An off year for Trout looming ??

[Adam]

Nice bump

[Blarg]

Jeebus Junkky, Trout is not entering any decline phase. He is evolving every year into a better player than previous seasons. His current strikeout totals encompasses a whole 20 games. In what crazyland has the first 20 games reflected an entire season?

Put down the celestial charts and watch the games without feeling like every at bat or series means something.

[mtangelsfan]

Blarg, did you notice the date of the thread up until the bump?

[Brent Maguire]

Great bump. I didn't even look at the date until someone mentioned the year 2012. 

[Guest]

LOL. I wondered when the "Trout is struggling" threads would pop up. Calm down, son. 

[Blarg]

Blarg, did you notice the date of the thread up until the bump?

Nope, on a mobile.

[Reveille1984]

Leading the league in WAR already, and that's with his crazy high K%.  GO TROUT

[Taylor]

We may have jumped the gun signing Trout to that extension. 

[Guest]

Leading the league in WAR already, and that's with his crazy high K%.  GO TROUT

 

I'd gladly tradeoff a decrease in Trout's WAR (best in AL in 2013) for an increase in his clutchness (worst in AL in 2013)

[Homebrewer]

Speed never slumps.

[Troll Daddy]

Leading the league in WAR already, and that's with his crazy high K%. GO TROUT

Amazing

[Halos of Anaheim]

Holy crap, I thought all the posts in this thread were from 3 days ago, not 368 days ago.

[dimitrig]

He looks fine so far to me, maybe expected more HRs but this whole team is a little power starved.  He picked up the SBs so I think he will be just fine.

 

Doesn't this power-starved team lead the league in HRs?

[Jay]

Leading the league in WAR already, and that's with his crazy high K%.  GO TROUT

Apparently they left SO out of the WAR equation.

[Willy J.]

Great bump!

 

I expected to see a few more 'Trout is fat' comments tho. . 

[nate]

Doesn't this power-starved team lead the league in HRs?

 

Look at the date on that post.

[dimitrig]

Look at the date on that post.

 

I get it, but the personnel is mostly unchanged from last year. In fact, we've lost a power hitter in Trumbo.

[disarcina]

amazing, the guy has some of the greatest 'start of career' stats of almost any player in the history of MLB and folks are talking about an 'off year'

 

don't think so.

 

Trout is pretty amazing.

 

If he doesn't get hurt, he'll put up some huge numbers and in today's MLB -- numbers that probably won't be matched by his contemporaries.......

[Docwaukee]

Apparently they left SO out of the WAR equation.

what does a K mean really?  Granted it's an out, but when is it worse than any other out?  So I guess it depends on how valuable a productive out is.  If you ask Trout to decrease his K rate, does it also decrease his BB rate and his BABIP?  Resulting in a lower OBP and SLG %?  Maybe.  It's hard to know what would happen if Trout put the ball in play more. 

 

The scary part of this?  Trout could be slumping. 

[arch stanton]

It's always been hard for me to grasp the importance put on pitcher Ks but not on batter Ks. That said, his Ks are usually swinging and his average and obp don't seem to suffer much.

[nate]

I get it, but the personnel is mostly unchanged from last year. In fact, we've lost a power hitter in Trumbo.

 

And at that point in the year they were way under performing in the power department.

[fan_since79]

So I just checked and saw that Trout has a .977 OPS.

 

Yep, off year looming. Definitely.

[Guest]

And at that point in the year they were way under performing in the power department.

Yep. IIRC for the first month of the season Peter Bourjos was actually leading the team in slugging percentage (mostly due to stretching lots of long singles into doubles).

[YouthofToday]

Trade Trout for a closer while he still has value...

[seenoevil]

The opportunity needs to get banned. Never doubt trout,EVER