Posted on 06/19/2018 10:42:48 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
On 9 Jun Mike Trout went 0-5 against Minnesota and was batting .299. Eight days and eight games later he’s batting .335. This is unbelievable. If he keeps this hitting up we might see the first .400 hitter since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941.
He could be the 1st 50/50 Player, 50 HR's 50 Steals
Great player no doubt.
Let's go for .600!
As an Angels fan I see him play nearly every game on TV. He truly is one of the best I have ever seen.
Sadly, it seem his incredible season is going waste because of the worst bullpen in the game. The bullpen has blown late inning leads in 13 of the last 19. Blake Parker and Cam Bedrosian should never be on the mound with any lead, no matter how big.
Brett, Gwynn, and Ichiro were the last guys who had a shot.
meh...
When Ted Williams hit .406, he had just 27 SO in 606 PA. When Tony Gwynn hit .394 in 1994, he had just 19 SO in 475 PA.
Trout is at 60 SO before the season is half over. That in itself makes .400 next to impossible.
Yeah, the bullpen sucks, and injuries have taken their toll again, but it is hard to lay the blame there when two innings is considered a long start for their starting rotation.
It’s a long way from .335 to .400
Just like Tim Salmon in the past, Trout knows how to spawn a rally.
The whole thing sounds fishy to me
MT is the best all around player in the game. Just ask any other player.
Agreed. It was Ichiro or nobody in the recent past. (Gwynn had a shot but that damn strike ruined his chances). Gotta have the fast legs now. Now with the shift going big time it makes it impossible imho. (The shift for Ted Williams did not really start until 1946, 5 years after his great .406 year.) These kids now are absolutely incredible athletes. I’m an older fan but I would love to see Trout, Altuve or any other of these younger kids hit .400. I believe The 3 greatest hitters in big league history for average AND power are Ruth/Gehrig/Willams in that order. Nobody, (these days), can compare. The ‘Baseball Reference’ MLB internet site backs that up. If you are not on that site, check it out!
Dittos to that! Just check out his career, (brief I will grant, but compare his current stats vrs. Willie, Mickey or anybody for that matter), WAR numbers! AND he seems like a wonderful young man on top of all the rest! Baseball is doing fine now. It will never be like the ‘40’s and ‘50’s but it is doing okay...........except for this ‘pride/faggot loving crap I’m hearing about that clubs are buying into. Make’s me want to puke. Later Bull.
Too much media attention will take him off of his game but they’d never admit that they have a serious problem that affects people in a bad way.
You may find this current article interesting.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23800260/how-mike-trout-stacks-mlb-greats-closes-1000-games
In 7 years he’s never gone more than 2 games without getting on base. No one else has ever done that.
Speaking of bullpens, they are the main reason we haven’t seen anybody dubplicate Ted Williams’ feat since 1941. Relief pitchers change-up the game. Now more than ever with the heavy reliance on pitch-counts, middle-relief, and set-up specialists. It’s really difficult when you have 5 plate appearances in a game and face 3 different pitchers. Williams would feast on an opposing pitcher. If you can take what today would have been a 2 for 5 outing and turn that into a 4-5 instead...
23 teams passed on him in the 2009 draft and he wasn’t even the Angel’s first pick.
Stan Musial is a close 4th...
Hitting .400 is an upstream battle.
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