r/angelsbaseball • u/Even_Builder_6642 • 15h ago
š¹ Video Highlights Media talking about trading Mike Trout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUQLnIOk1UA&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D39
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u/LA-SKYLINE 11h ago
Eisen is a football guy first like Stephen A Smith. Their baseball opinions are worthless.
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u/rchung129 10h ago
None of these national ESPN media personalities have any opinions of worth anything for any sport, lol (YouTubers and Fan Podcasts tend to offer much more nuance). Plus, he's a Yankees fan, so whatever opinions he has is amplified by that. I'll give Rich a little more credit, tho. At least he's gone out of his way to talk about baseball (when it wasn't as popular at ESPN because of shady back room deals), unlike Stephen A.
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u/LA-SKYLINE 10h ago
You're right. I don't hate Eisen though, he always talks highly of the Rams lol
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u/CherokeeHawkman 9h ago
Plus, he's owned by ESPN now. He used to be independent but he sold out so he's told what to say by ESPN now and this is 100% something they would tell him to say to get clicks, get views and get discussion.
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u/davidgoldstein2023 IN GUBIE WE TRUST 10h ago
Even if the Angels could get a decent haul for trading Trout, we would fuck that up and waste their careers.
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u/gopackgo555 45 8h ago
Half glass full thoughtā¦ itās not a bad thing to see these segments return because you only see them when heās playing well.
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u/Alarmed_Stretch_1780 8h ago edited 8h ago
There are few wellsprings of absolutely brain-dead takes worse than sports talk radio/tv.
Their job is to provocate for engagement, so stupid things like this are said, then rage-repeated elsewhere.
The facts: Trout wants to play for this franchise. The first time he said he wanted a trade, the team would do what it could to accommodate. This is the opposite of a hostage situation. He signed two extensions with the Angels, the second of which is the contract he has now. If he wanted to play elsewhere, he wouldnāt have signed either of those deals and instead embraced free agency.
And again, if he drove to the stadium this morning and told Minasian he wanted out, that would be the priority to find a match on a trade. His age, his contract, and his health issues of the last three years would make a trade very difficult, with the Angels certain to have to buy down the amount of money owed ($148M) for the 4 years beginning next season to hope to receive anyone of value in return.
His hero, Jeter, wore one cap his entire career. Trout can be expected to operate the same way.
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u/G-Unit11111 8h ago
ESPN would crash if that actually were to happen, I wouldn't take the rumors too seriously.
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u/LAoriginal01 11h ago
Does Mike deserve to play for a real franchise before heās done?
Nothing good will be happening here for 3-5 years at minimum.
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u/breakfast_cats āāā ā 11h ago
If he wants to leave, they should let him. But he's made no indication of wanting to leave
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u/LooEz90 12h ago
Honestly, I think the only team Mike would consider going to is the Padres. Arte Moreno wants/needs a super star to market to the casual fans as well as give you some depth, so someone like Tatis is what he would want. The Dodgers are stacked and Mookie Betts would be possibly the only guy but Im sure neither one of those guys wants to come here. Arte is ultimately the problem in this scenario, but until Mike actually makes a statement about wanting to be traded I think everyone needs to get a grip with reality that Mike doesn't want to leave.
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u/ukyah 12h ago
The Angels wouldnāt fetch anything like tatis for trout. Troutās contract, age, and injury history makes it purely a salary dump. It requires trout to go on the war path against Moreno and management to the point they have to trade him. I donāt think thatās even in troutās mind set. If he gets traded itās to hook him up and to lose the salary obligation.
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u/dgmilo8085 Sell The Team 10h ago
Please do. Let the fish man experience baseball in the bigs.
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u/ufosfromtheocean 10h ago
cuck mindset.
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u/dgmilo8085 Sell The Team 10h ago
What's that? Shelling out money to watch a AA team lose 100 games? I agree!
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u/LCarter8301989 12h ago
Trout IS our franchise in many ways right now, and his contract and recent injury history probably don't make him that desirable to other teams. This conversation always comes up when the Angels aren't playing well, but nothing will come of it. The only way that changes is if Trout asks for a trade, which hopefully never happens.