Greatness Interrupted: The Decline (or not?) of Mike Trout

[full circle]

He has never been this bad before.  I’d be interested to know the percentage of high fastballs he’s now seeing.  It seems to me in years past as he went around the league he could count on more teams to pitch him differently.  Now it’s like up to 75% seemingly.  He can’t hit them, and he’s not even close to them.  He has as big of a hole in his swing as I’ve ever seen. It’s not going to stop.  Not enough stupid teams, although the Chicago teams demonstrated some.  He either learns to flatten out for a high pitch or he’ll struggle to hit .250.  How come he’s not being asked about it? 

[Inside Pitch]

1 hour ago, full circle said:

He has never been this bad before.  I’d be interested to know the percentage of high fastballs he’s now seeing.  It seems to me in years past as he went around the league he could count on more teams to pitch him differently.  Now it’s like up to 75% seemingly.  He can’t hit them, and he’s not even close to them.  He has as big of a hole in his swing as I’ve ever seen. It’s not going to stop.  Not enough stupid teams, although the Chicago teams demonstrated some.  He either learns to flatten out for a high pitch or he’ll struggle to hit .250.  How come he’s not being asked about it? 

This or Brooks baseball may be the closest you can get to getting your question answered.

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/mike-trout-545361?stats=statcast-r-zones-mlb

[Blarg]

Wow. Guess we're the 2 strike pitch needs to go.

[tdawg87]

1 hour ago, Inside Pitch said:

This or Brooks baseball may be the closest you can get to getting your question answered.

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/mike-trout-545361?stats=statcast-r-zones-mlb

So he's basically unlucky as holy shitting duckfuck. I know he's striking out more and walking less, which is...a slight concern. But that shit is basically elite. 

I'm sure we'll all be laughing about this when he hits 5 dongs in the Texas series.

[Taylor]

53 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Wow. Guess we're the 2 strike pitch needs to go.

We are?

[oldguy]

He had this strikeout problem in 2014.  He used to ALWAYS take the first pitch and found himself down in the count.  He fixed it by swinging at more first pitches, thus avoiding the 2-strike situations where he would get the heater high and inside.  

[Angel Oracle]

2 hours ago, oldguy said:

He had this strikeout problem in 2014.  He used to ALWAYS take the first pitch and found himself down in the count.  He fixed it by swinging at more first pitches, thus avoiding the 2-strike situations where he would get the heater high and inside.  

How many first pitches have been taken compared to the past few years?

[REDneck]

3 hours ago, Blarg said:

Wow. Guess we're the 2 strike pitch needs to go.

Can someone extrapolate this chart out for his career for a comparison to this year?

[Angel Oracle]

16 hours ago, IheartLA said:

Hitting under .100 and K’ing almost half his at bats so far in June

Generational Trout may be no more.   

[Lazorko Saves]

Call up Fletch and name him How to Hit The High Fastball Instructor, and have him in the cage with Mikey every day.

[REDneck]

Last two games, 4 walks, 2 hits, 2 RBI, 3 runs, 0 Ks and a well hit SAC fly.

Anyone encouraged?

[fan_since79]

Just some perspective:

In the 15 games preceding the beginning of his historic streak in 1941, Joe DiMaggio was mired in a nice little slump, hitting .135.

 

 

[Swordsman78]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

Just some perspective:

In the 15 games preceding the beginning of his historic streak in 1941, Joe DiMaggio was mired in a nice little slump, hitting .135.

 

 

Joltin Joe Dimaggio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evB-nXLElZs