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Posted on 03/19/2019 7:48:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce
The Angels and Mike Trout have agreed to a record-setting 12-year deal worth more than $430 million, according to a report Tuesday by ESPN's Jeff Passan. The Angels have not confirmed the report.
Trout, 27, was eligible to become a free agent after the 2020 season upon the completion of his current six-year, $144.5 million deal. This new contract reportedly would add 10 years to his existing deal, making it 12 years total.
Trout’s would be the first $400 million contract in Major League history, surpassing the total value of the 13-year, $330 million contract Bryce Harper signed with the Phillies earlier this month.
Trout was the 2012 American League Rookie of the Year and has finished either first or second in AL Most Valuable Player Award voting in all but one of his seven full big league seasons. He won the MVP Award in 2014 and '16.
The 25th overall pick in the 2009 Draft by the Angels and a seven-time All-Star, he has won the All-Star Game MVP Award twice and accumulated six Silver Slugger Awards.
Trout enters the season with 64.3 career WAR, already 99th all-time among position players and more than numerous Hall of Famers.
There’s gotta come a time when this kind of money just isn’t there any more.....
39 is the new 29.
Mike Trout is the best player in baseball. And by all acounts an all around good guy. Good for him.
Now hopefully the Angels can build a team around him.
The state of California has millions of new money to spend.
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LOL! Why not? They paid for the stadium, now they can pay for the talent.
Paid for stadium? I heard the Angels might move out of Anaheim.
“Mike Trout is the best player in baseball. And by all acounts an all around good guy.”
He is indeed both a great player and a good guy. I know his family pretty well; nice people.
Where did you hear that?
If Harper is worth 330 then this is a steal for the Angels, since they obviously can afford it. When small market teams throw insane money like this around it generally ruins them for a decade. The Padres will rue the day they signed Machado.
This guy got too big for his britches and became a free agent. Nobody picked him up, because they were aware of his (well deserved) reputation for being difficult to deal with.
Kickass batting average, but still, nobody wanted to touch him. Now he trains bird dogs, and he's a lot better at that than he was at baseball.
Mike will be fine.
A few months ago, it was in the news, that the Angels had opted out of their stadium lease in Anaheim, and are committed only for the 2019 and 2020 season to remain in Anaheim. They are looking at a stadium site in Long Beach, the last I heard. Go into Google or other search engines and you will find a number of reports on this subject.
Football careers are too short (as well as the players being too many and their visages too covered during play) to draw the most relative fan interest.
Baseball players hang on for too long (as well as being one of more than a few on their team).
Basketball players are at about the happy medium in terms of length of careers for their stars, whereby fans get to know them but also still keep having new blood coming up. Have relatively few members on their teams, and are seen most up close throughout their games.
All that I think helps them overcome some other relative disadvantages the sport has to make it faster-growing internationally than the others.
12 years?
He’ll only be be a DH and Pinch hitter for the last four. Maybe the lastsix.
Who are you talking about? Who got too big for his britches?
A family going to a baseball game is reduced to a once-a-year extravagant event. Oh for the good old days when they were just journeymen being paid a journeyman’s wage. The USA is off the rails in so many ways.
Interesting insight there, about distance from the action, faces being covered, and longevity.
Using that approach, what’s your take on hockey and NASCAR?
I thought this thread would be about fishing, bummer.
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