We have more choices than we used to.
Baseball might be the national pastime in name only.
It's hotter outside, the games take too long, the ball is hardly in play, there are too many strikeouts, not enough rallies, too much specialization among pitchers, the mound is too high, it is too far back, the shifts ought to be outlawed, the players make too much money, it's the game you used to go to with your dad but your kid doesn't want to go to with you because he likes something else.
We've heard it all. We also hear how stats can ruin the game because unless you have a math degree from MIT you cannot begin to comprehend the wealth of data that teams have at their disposal.
All interesting points. And yet, amidst all of this noise is Mike Trout.
The Angels' centerfielder, even with some recent slumps, is on target to have the second-best single season for an offensive player ever.
Ever.
Babe Ruth once put up numbers that yielded a 14.1 WAR stat; Trout is on pace for a 13.7 number.
That is ever. Ty Cobb never did that. Ditto Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Henry Aaron, Jackie Robinson, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, Rod Carew, Wade Boggs, Rogers Hornsby, Joe Morgan, Tris Speaker, Ted Williams. Name all hitters of all time and none of them -- not Gehrig, not Lazzeri, not Cepeda, Banks, Billy Williams, Frank Robinson, the list goes on -- ever put up a season like the one Trout is putting up.
I read somewhere that were Trout to have retired before last season, he would have rated as one of the six best offensive players of all time. That was before last season, where he missed six weeks but still had a top finish in AL MVP voting.
There is an absolutely awesome, special player out there.
Watch him as much as you can.
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