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MLB Rumors: Angels ‘Favor’ Mike Trout DH on ‘Restricted Foundation’ Regardless of Harm Historical past

Timothy Rapp @@TRappaRT Featured Columnist IV November 6, 2024 John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Mike Trout has struggled to stay healthy in recent seasons, leading to some speculation that the Los Angeles Angels could perhaps move him to a designated hitter role to limit his wear and tear. If they do, it won’t be

MLB Rumors: Angels ‘Favor’ Mike Trout DH on ‘Restricted Foundation’ Regardless of Harm Historical past

Timothy Rapp@@TRappaRTX.com LogoFeatured Columnist IVNovember 6, 2024

ANAHEIM, CA - SEPTEMBER 28: Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout (27) in the dugout before the start of an MLB baseball game against the Texas Rangers played on September 28, 2024 at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA. (Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Mike Trout has struggled to remain wholesome in latest seasons, resulting in some hypothesis that the Los Angeles Angels might maybe transfer him to a chosen hitter function to restrict his put on and tear.

In the event that they do, it will not be on a full-time foundation. Based on The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, the staff “would like to make use of him as a DH solely on a restricted foundation, in line with sources conversant in the membership’s pondering.”

Rosenthal continued: “Whereas making Trout a DH would possibly sound like a step towards holding him wholesome, the Angels aren’t so positive. Trout’s three most up-to-date accidents had been left ribcage irritation in 2022, a left hamate fracture in ’23 and a torn meniscus in his left knee in ’24. Every of these points stemmed, no less than partially, from the act of swinging, membership officers imagine. Most DHs use their down time to take further observe swings. Trout, a perfectionist, virtually definitely would, too.”

As a substitute, Trout will stay a daily nook outfielder with occasional stints at designated hitter. That might additional clarify the staff buying Jorge Soler for pitcher Griffin Canning final week.

Soler, 32, has hit 20 or extra residence runs in a season 4 instances courting again to 2019, together with 36 dingers in 2023 and 48 in 2019. However he is primarily a chosen hitter at this level, so if the Angels had plans to maneuver Trout to DH, the Soler acquisition would have been a head-scratcher. As a substitute, Trout will stay within the outfield.

However will he stay wholesome?

The three-time AL MVP and 11-time All-Star solely performed in 29 video games this previous season, 82 in 2023, 119 in 2022 and 36 in 2021. When wholesome he is remained efficient, however staying on the sector has turn into a rarity for the 33-year-old Trout.

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In flip, the Angels have not had a profitable report since 2015, and the staff’s incapability to achieve the postseason played at least a part in Shohei Ohtani departing for the Los Angeles Dodgers in free company final winter.

The Angels and Trout have to provide you with some kind of plan for holding him on the sector. Apparently, a daily dose of being the DH will not be part of that technique.

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