One thing that does stand out about Trout’s numbers, and that harkens back to his slumps, is that he’s walking 10.9% of the time and swinging at 26.3% of pitches outside of the zone respectively those are his lowest and highest marks since 2012. In that light, what we’ve seen out of Trout since his return may simply be regression rather than a sign of impending doom. This year’s exit velocity is in the 90th percentile, while Trout’s barrel rate is in the 99th percentile (third behind only Judge and Kyle Schwarber) and his hard-hit rate in the 96th percentile those last two are both career highs in terms of the raw numbers if not the rankings. Trout’s average exit velocity and hard-hit rate aren’t up to what he did in the 2020-21 stretch, but they’re ahead of just about everything else he’s done in the Statcast era save for his 2015 EV of 92.9 mph. Since returning, he’s averaged just an 89.6 mph exit velocity, with a 17.2% barrel rate and 39.7% hard-hit rate, and his rolling hard-hit rate on his last 50 batted balls has been mostly falling since July 10, just before he went on the IL: If there’s a concern, it’s that Trout has not been hitting the ball all that hard lately.
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Trout said he began to feel his injury during the team’s series with the Marlins (July 5-6), which coincided with the extra swings he had been taking.
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In that one, unlike the full 0-fer, he did hit the ball hard when he made contact, averaging 99.7 mph on his nine batted ball events, with seven of them 95 mph or better, though just two of them were barreled. In the first week of July, he fell into another slump, this time going 2-for-22 with one walk and 13 strikeouts. On June 7, the same day that Maddon was fired and Nevin took over, Trout began a binge in which he homered nine times in 13 games, not that it helped the Angels turn things around they went 5-8 in that span. 500 for good after losing to the Phillies on June 5, at 27-28, and two days later, manager Joe Maddon was fired. Worse, this year’s 0-fer coincided with losses five through 11 in the Angels’ franchise record-setting 14-game losing streak. 302/.402/.636 for a 190 wRC+ through the end of May, from May 29 through June 5, he went 0-for-26 with two walks, a hit-by-pitch, and nine strikeouts - a career-worst hitless streak that surpassed an 0-for-21 skid in May 2018. His 412 PA leaves him 22 short of the threshold for qualifying, but among American League hitters with at least 400 PA, only Aaron Judge has a higher slugging percentage or wRC+.Īll of which is rather reassuring given the ups and downs of Trout’s season. 280/.369/.629 for a 177 wRC+, five points above his career mark.
It took nearly another three weeks for Trout to return to the lineup, but since then, he’s hit. Robert Watkins, a spine specialist, told him that the injury had essentially healed and cleared him to begin rotational work. Trout was forced to clarify the dire-sounding description, saying, “I think meant I have to stay on top of my routine that I do on a daily basis to prevent it from coming back… It’s rare for a baseball player… I appreciate all the prayer requests, but my career isn’t over.”Ī few days later, Trout said that Dr. The injury knocked him out of the All-Star Game, and just before he returned in late July, Angels head athletic trainer Mike Frostad told reporters that Trout’s injury, described as costovertebral dysfunction at T5 and likely caused by the extra work he had been putting in to fix his swing amid a slump, would probably be something he’ll have to monitor for the rest of his career. After playing just 36 games last year due to a right calf strain, he went on the IL just before the All-Star break following a bout of upper back spasms and then a diagnosis of left rib cage inflammation. Understandably, they’re being mindful of Trout’s recent history. While the move to sit Trout on Sunday was not a popular one with fans given how hot he’s been, the 31-year-old slugger had already had his off-day pushed back from the Detroit series, and so his day off was overdue, at least in the eyes of the Angels.
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