OC Register: Angels officially end Mike Trout’s season with roster move

[AngelsWin.com]

MINNEAPOLIS — Mike Trout’s disappointing season finally came to an end on Sunday.

Although it had been increasingly apparent that Trout was unlikely to make it back as the season melted away and he progressed so slowly, it became official when the Angels moved him to the 60-day injured list on Sunday.

The Angels were creating a spot on the 40-man roster for right-hander Carson Fulmer, who was called up from Triple-A to replace injured left-hander Tyler Anderson.

Manager Phil Nevin said that Trout is going to continue to work out and try to swing, but it will be for the goal of doing normal workouts in the off-season.

“I know it’s disappointing for him,” Nevin said. “It’s frustrating for him. I’m not frustrated at him. Everybody wants to see Mike Trout play, nobody more than us. He helps us. He’s one of the greatest players in the game. He was missed.”

Trout, 32, finishes his season having played 82 games. He played 36 games before suffering a season-ending calf injury in May 2021. Last year he played 119 games, missing five weeks with a back injury.

Trout fractured the hamate bone in his left hand on a swing on July 3. He had surgery to remove the bone a couple days later. The normal rehab time for that procedure is six to eight weeks, so the Angels hoped to get Trout back in early to mid August.

One of the reasons the Angels were willing to push for the playoffs with three trades in late July was that they expected to have Trout back.

He finally came back on Aug. 22 for one game, didn’t feel right and went back on the injured list.

Trout ends the season with a .263 average, 18 homers and an .858 OPS. The average and OPS were both career worsts.

ANOTHER CHANCE

Fulmer is back in the big leagues for the first time in two years. A 29-year-old who had been in the big leagues for parts of six seasons, Fulmer was in Triple-A with the Dodgers last year. The Seattle Mariners signed him to a minor league deal but he was released in spring training.

Fulmer then spent the first two months of this season looking for a job in baseball. Fulmer, who has a business degree from Vanderbilt said he even began considering his “options” for a job out of baseball.

Asked what those options included, he said with a smile: “I honestly didn’t have any.”

Fulmer eventually signed with the Angels and posted 5.27 ERA in 41 innings with Salt Lake. The Angels gave him another big league opportunity because Anderson has a knee injury.

“It was hard to get even a job this year,” he said. “To be be back is amazing. Any opportunity is something that I’m thankful for. I’m just ready to get a taste of it again.”

NOTES

The Angels activated Mike Moustakas (bruised wrist) from the injured list and put him in the lineup at DH on Sunday. They placed C.J. Cron (lower back inflammation) on the injured list. Cron had been out for about a month before he was activated last week. He played one game on Thursday in Tampa, but apparently his back remained an issue. …

Fulmer would be the 65th player to appear for the Angels this season, one shy of the franchise record they set last year.

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[yamsi12]

Shocking.

[thebloob]

Is this trout or the medical teams the Angels are using.  On trouts end we have heard that he can’t damage this if he is willing to play through some discomfort.  It seems he is not. 
 

or, is it the Angels using bad medical teams giving either wrong diagnoses or not rehabbing properly 

 

with this injury there seemed to be a fairly standard recovery period he did not meet. 

[Blarg]

Hey, bloob, what is the value of bringing Trout back for the last handful of games?

Do you think he needs the at bats to prepare for next year?

Do the Angels need his bat in the lineup to avoid the 6th round pick and slip to 7th or 8th.

What is your endgame by putting Trout in the lineup? 

[79CAAman]

It seems the more of artie’s money that you have to go deposit, the more injury prone you are. 
Just in time to catch the eagles games. All the talent in the world, can’t win. 

[thebloob]

The point is the amount of time it took for him to come back, not that he needs to come back now.  It seems that all his injuries are predicted to be out for a certain time but it always seems longer.  Just another example of that.  Is he a “slow” healer? Is he unwilling to play with any discomfort at all?  Is the medical Staff of the Angels messing these guys up with incorrect rehab timelines or trying to do too much too soon?

[halonatic13]

This is how Trout feels. 

 

[Blarg]

3 hours ago, thebloob said:

The point is the amount of time it took for him to come back, not that he needs to come back now.  It seems that all his injuries are predicted to be out for a certain time but it always seems longer.  Just another example of that.  Is he a “slow” healer? Is he unwilling to play with any discomfort at all?  Is the medical Staff of the Angels messing these guys up with incorrect rehab timelines or trying to do too much too soon?

Were the medical staff incompetent when O'Hoppe should up four weeks early for his rehab starts? 

Every single injury is different than what Web MD says the recovery time is. Some guys jump back in too soon like Neto and go right back to the IL. Some guys hit the ground running. Some dudes strain an Oblique and try to stay in the lineup and want to be day by day until they realize that day isn't coming. Is Ohtani refusing to play with any sort of pain?

Trout is a gamer, he came back too soon to try and push the team forward into a playoff picture and may have done some internal damage to his hand that just isn't worth trying to make a go of it when the Angels fell completely off the ledge. It isn't malingering or being a pussy, it's more risk management for your returning franchise player that he doesn't make himself unavailable to start it back up in March because of some freak reinjury getting whacked with a wild pitch. You know, like Neto just took today.