The Decline of Mike Trout, A $450 Million Mistake?
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00:00I think it's terrible because he's such a great player, right?
00:06When he's healthy, he's super dangerous and he just hasn't been healthy these last couple
00:12of years.
00:13And it's amazing how badly this has turned into, right?
00:17Like I even read a story today about how they still are glad they made that deal.
00:25And I'm not.
00:26Like if I made that deal, I'd be like, oh man, is this costing me a ton of money?
00:32The reality is, it's what, $450 million?
00:36And he never plays.
00:38And it's all guaranteed, every penny.
00:41Since 2021, which is really when all this started, in 2021, he played 36 games.
00:49In 22, he played 119.
00:51In 23 last year, he played 82.
00:54And he's only going to get 29 in this year.
00:57So you got a 36 and a 29 and an 82, you know, three years in the last four.
01:03Well under 100 games, that just sucks.
01:08That's really the only way that you could describe it for him.
01:11And even the 100 season is not good enough.
01:15That's a lot of missed games.
01:17That's a month.
01:18$100, $128, $129.
01:20So he missed, you know, 30 plus games.
01:22He missed a month, a month plus of the season at that point.
01:25So he has not played a full season since.
01:29Do you think he'll ever be effective again?
01:32Like are they, like it sounds to me like his knees are shot and they keep operating on
01:37him.
01:38He played $140 in 2018.
01:40A $140 he played in 2018.
01:43That's the most games he's played since $159 in 2016.
01:48So that was, that's really the last full workload cover to cover that he's done.
01:53So what's your bet?
01:54Do you think he'll ever be Mike Trout again?
01:57It's hard to say yes at this point.
02:02You know what it is?
02:03It's, you know, that he played 29 games this year.
02:06Like in that month of April, like he was, he was crutching the ball.
02:10Like he had, like he was hitting taters.
02:12He was like, he was hot in April.
02:15So I guess he still has it.
02:17If he could ever play five months, like if he could ever play, like just, I think you
02:23could still get something out of him, but you just, you can't rely on it.