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Wait, Mike Trout is only 22 years old?
June 9, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Holy shit.
He's off to a pretty amazing start. This year might, by one or two measures, be his worst full season, but he'll still be playing at an MVP-caliber level. I'm hoping he stays healthy (and with the Angels) out of sheer curiosity over what he might accomplish in the 'post-steroids' era (chuckle). Check the link for his age-21 comparables: that's an impressive list.
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RE: Wait, Mike Trout is only 22 years old?
June 9, 2014 at 2:15 pm
He's a great player. With Jeter retiring he is likely to become the face of the game.
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RE: Wait, Mike Trout is only 22 years old?
June 9, 2014 at 3:27 pm
Impressive comparison, but one name jumped out....Tony Conigliaro. I certainly hope that a similar fate doesn't befall Trout. He's a great player and fun to watch.
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RE: Wait, Mike Trout is only 22 years old?
June 9, 2014 at 6:48 pm
Yeah, injuries are always a worry, especially with guys like Trout who seems pretty intense and fearless.
It does serve as a reminder of just how good Mickey Mantle really was. One of his worst injuries was the knee that he hurt in the 1951 World Series, when he was just 19. Officially it was torn cartilage, but it's possible that he strained or even tore a ligament in the knee, something that wouldn't have been repaired at the time. And if you look at his
Baseball Reference page, you realize that he must have played in constant pain-- he missed fewer games than might be expected when you hear the stories about how bad his knees were.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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