Mike Trout is good at baseball. Mike Trout went 4-5 with a HR and 4 RBIs last night. Mike Trout is the MVP of Yesterday.
Because Mike Trout is awesome.
Standings, as usual, after the jump:
MVP of Yesterday (7-10-2014): Mike Trout
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Somebody is selling a trading card of Mike Trout in Little League
In yet another case of eBay providing mankind access to anything possible, we now see the ultimate souvenir for the discerning Mike Trout aficionado (which is, to say, everyone): a card of the Millville Meteor back when he was a Cub.
“When was Mike Trout a Cub?”, you ask? I can understand, after all, as likely as it is that the Cubs would be able to squander away Mike Trout, it feels like that’s something you’d remember, right?
Well, that’s because it’s not the Chicago Cubs, but rather the Steelman Photo Cubs of the Millville American Cal Ripken League. Yes, it’s a baseball card of 11-year-old Mike Trout:
And it’s all available for the low, low, price of $8,927.27! It’s signed too! Yes, somebody not only went through the trouble to somehow track down a little league trading card from 2003, but they got Mike Trout to sign it. As far as I know, there are only a few types of people who would have been able to do that:
A) Mike Trout himself.
B) Mike Trout’s immediate family.
C) Mike Trout’s Little League teammates and coaches.
D) The guy who was hired to make and print these cards in the first place, who keeps copies of them just in case any of the kids become the greatest player on the planet.
E) A local bully who beat up Mike Trout and then took his lunch money and baseball card, which Trout had signed because he believed that if he became a big-leaguer one day, he’d better have had practiced his signature.
F) Somebody who Mike Trout should really consider putting a restraining order on.
Logically, one of them is who put this up on eBay.
Sadly, whoever acquired this didn’t find the true holy grail, as something that needs to be noted here is that this card lacks Trout’s Little League statistics. This is very important. I remember when I was growing up (and I’m, alas, older than Trout), I got my statistics on the back of my card. But, nope, all we get for Trout is this:
All that we can learn from this is that Mike Trout, when he was 11, was 5’1” and weighed 102 lbs. So, guess what, folks? Young Mike Trout was not fat! In fact, he was a little slim! That’s nice and all, but I wanted to see what his stats were. Was he a Pablo Sanchez-level secret weapon? We may never know…
MVP of Yesterday (6-17-2014): Mike Trout
MVP of Yesterday (May 21, 2013): Mike Trout
Mike Trout hit for the cycle last night, becoming the youngest American Leaguer in history to do so. Which is cool.
MVP standings after the jump:
Images of 2012: Year of the Trout
Headlines from Across the Continuum: November 16, 2012
The Newseum puts up the front pages of major newspapers from around the world every day. In this new semi-regular feature, I look at some of that news.
Story: Miguel Cabrera wins AL MVP
El Nacional (Caracas, Venezuela): Miguel Cabrera es el mejor de su liga (Translation from Google: Miguel Cabrera is the best of his league)
El Universal (Caracas, Venezuela): Cabrera Jugador Más Valioso (Translation from Google: Cabrera Most Valuable Player)
Ultimas Noticias (Caracas, Venezuela): ¡Cabrera, el papá de los helados! (Translation from Google: Cabrera, the father of ice cream! Note that from some research it might be better translated as “Cabrera, the pop of pop!” or something like that)
Detroit Free Press: MVP Miggy
Detroit News: Cabrera wins MVP
Daily Journal (Vineland, New Jersey): Trout Takes 2nd in MVP Race
Story: Buster Posey wins NL MVP
San Francisco Chronicle: Remarkable season makes Posey an MVP
The Daily News (Palo Alto): BUSTER MVP
Story: Panama bracket of World Baseball Classic Begins
La Prensa (Managua, Nicaragua): Selección hoy ante Colombia (Google translation: Selection today against Colombia. Selección is a synonym of National Team in Spanish)
La Estrella De Panama (Panama City): ARRANCA LA FIESTA DE BÉISBOL (Google translation: BASEBALL PARTY STARTS)
La Prensa (Panama City): BRASIL SORPRENDE A PANAMÁ (Translation: Brazil surprises Panama- a reference to the result of the game)
Somebody get Harper and Trout into the All-Star Game
The two great young stars of baseball right now, I mean the really young stars, are the Angels’ Mike Trout (20) and Washington’s Bryce Harper (19). They are in opposite leagues, hit from opposite sides of the plate, play on opposite coasts and have received the opposite amounts of hype (Harper was hailed as the second coming, Trout’s emergence in the bigs has been far more subdued), but they both have been playing like they’ve been in the Majors for years, instead of months.
To pick which one is “better” is a fool’s errand, it is too early to really project the (hopefully long) careers of the two, and although Trout is having the better season (.354 BA/.412 OBP/.565 SLG compared to Harper’s .295/.381/.527), who knows what the future may hold for them?
I personally hope the future involves the 2012 All-Star Game in Kansas City.
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