It’s early, but pitchers aren’t pitching around Mike Trout like in years past. This year he is seeing the fifth *most* pitches in the zone of all players despite ranking below league average most of his career.

Walk rate down from 18% to 6% but slugging and ISO way up pic.twitter.com/5Mk7WqruCg

— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) August 12, 2020