Please Trout, not more steal attempts, ouch!!!

[Red_Planet]

I know our favorite son is only wishing to please.

But....

Please young great Trouty, you do not need to do more.

We cannot afford to have the franchise get seriously dinged in any shape or form.

Trouty, instead of extending thyself gassing for for the next unneeded base, instead please cut thee down on strikeouts.  That be all.

You are our everything.

How Trouty goes there goes the Halos.

[tdawg87]

Yes

[Chuck]

Yeah, why try to utilize your speed to get into scoring position which in the end could help win ball games. 

 

Mike Trout is NOT made of glass. 

[LooneyPlatoons]

I want to see a 40/40 season out of Trout.  It was looking promising his rookie year when he went 30/49

[Red_Planet]

I want to see a 40/40 season out of Trout.  It was looking promising his rookie year when he went 30/49

Trouty is a way bigger boy than when he was a rook.  Also we did not know fully just what we had in Trout of that early vintage.  He was a promising rook only at that early hour.  Now he is the franchise.  The head first slides he fashions are potential disasters in the making.  An infielder who jams his fingers or cuts them beneath his cleats?  A nightmare scenario.  Let little light fast dudes scoot to second or third?  Trout is built like a fast tight end.  All crying for his attempting to do more will just be crying should anything untoward occur regarding Trout?

[tdawg87]

A statement ends in a period, not a question mark?

[Wallerrrr]

Run Trout! Run!

[Angels#1Fan]

I would feel better about Trout stealing more this year if he went in feet first. Though I must admit it was fun watching him steal the first two seasons.

[HaloCory22]

I say we just put him in a glass case and never let him out. That's how we'll make sure he's always healthy!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

I would feel better about Trout stealing more this year if he went in feet first. Though I must admit it was fun watching him steal the first two seasons.

Sliding feet first coupled with the pop-up slide and instant replay can lead to a lot of outs.

[Red_Planet]

I say we just put him in a glass case and never let him out. That's how we'll make sure he's always healthy!

I will readily admit I put the whole shootin' match on der wunderkind.  And I cannot begin to express my jangled nerves at seeing Trout extending all out for Burns lead off shot.  That all out run right out of the gate in ST made my stomach knot.  I have seen many a hammy hurtie come about on runs just like that.  Especially the first between the lines hard shot right after the sleepy off season?  Oh well, go Trout.  Head forth 2016 Angels.

[laagamer]

...Well **** now I just think we should have a thread devoted to the religion of Mike Trout. Like, make up hymns and shit. 

[halomatt]

He was most valuable those first two years when he was stealing bases and taking singles to the right side.  Those singles turned into doubles pretty quickly when he was stealing bases. 

 

Can you just write simple sentences, please?  They're much easier to understand when trying to get your points across.

 

Thanks!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

He was most valuable those first two years when he was stealing bases and taking singles to the right side.  Those singles turned into doubles pretty quickly when he was stealing bases. 

 

When he was batting first he had more chances to steal, fewer runners jamming up the bases.

[Angel Oracle]

I'm happy with him trying 30 attempts a season, hopefully successful on about 23-24 of them. 

[ELEVEN]

Halo Thunder much?

[halosfan1970]

Why do you believe that stolen base attempts in any way correlates to changes in strikeout rate? They seem completely unrelated. Your implied concern about injury risk and the long-term effects on durability related to base running might have some merit.

 

Trout consistently hits for a .300 batting average, a .400 on-base percentage, and a .360 BABIP. It's pure speculation at this point that lowering Trout's strikeout rate will result in improving any of that. He might just end up with the same outs on balls in play which could be neutral or additional GIDP opportunities which would be negative.

 

Even though I had to read your post three times to understand it, surprisingly this is your most cogent post to date on AW.

Edited March 4, 2016 by halosfan1970

[Guest]

"Our favorite son is only wishing to please"?

Are we still talking about baseball or male strippers?

Edited March 4, 2016 by failos

[ettin]

I'm actually now leaning towards Red Planet being a wannabe knock off of Halo Thunder. Language isn't the same and he/she is trying to hard.

[zenmaster]

Did Op get a Shakespeare thesaurus for Christmas or something? Who talks like this?

Edited March 4, 2016 by zenmaster

[halosfan1970]

Did Op get a Shakespeare thesaurus for Christmas or something? Who talks like this?

 

It's reads like William Shakespeare possessed Jose Mota.

[IEAngelsfan]

Did Op get a Shakespeare thesaurus for Christmas or something? Who talks like this?

To run, or not to run: that is the question.

[Inside Pitch]

It's reads like William Shakespeare possessed Jose Mota.

 

Playeth good enough, until the the last outeth....  until....

[Homebrewer]

Methinks he doth protest too much

[Oz27]

It's nice to see HaloThunder back in action. CHICKENS!