[Talkin’Baseball] Mike Trout hit a bomb in his first AB of the year to give the Angels a 1-0 lead…No other Angels starter had a hit and they lost 11-3

49 comments

1. Tungsten Arm who?

2. And then there was one.

3. Corbin Burnes is almost as good as Chris Tillman and it’s wonderful

4. Story of his career

5. If I am Trout I am demanding trade immediately

6. I feel bad for him, the fans and the organization. Nothing seems to workout for them. Super unlucky

7. Trout is the kid from Two and a Half men getting left in the rain meme

8. Free Trout

9. Managing a team with a generational talent owned by Arte Moreno isn’t hard. Tell ‘em, Wash.

10. They buried this guy man

11. Usually you can’t extrapolate how a season will go by Opening Day but in this case I believe you can

12. Sorry Wash. Apparently, the Angels are too hard.

13. Imagine they trade Trout halfway through the season, get lucky enough to snag a WC spot, and go on a tear to win the WS. If that happens, I’ll be 100% convinced I didn’t wake up from that near-drowning 15 years ago.

14. Free my man Fish

15. Somebody save him!

16. Tungsten just isn’t the same without Ohtani.

17. He’s the Calvin Johnson of MLB.

    Hall of Fame generational talent on a dreadful team his entire career.

18. the answer to all your problems is like 30 minutes away

    we’re all waiting for you

19. Can my flair be faded right now?

20. I like how consistent the Angels are

21. FREE MIKE TROUT

22. Guys get it? because trout good but angels bad!

23. Most Angels stat ever

24. Trout is going to remind everyone he’s the best player in the league this year and the Angles will go 75-87.

25. Angel fans thought they could escape the meme’s after Ohtani left.

26. This feels depressing. At least Griffey got to get his revenge and help the Mariners beat the Yankees in 1995.

27. It sucks, but he did willingly sign an extension with them so can’t feel too bad. I’m sure he’s still happy where he is

28. Maybe they can trade fish man before tomorrow’s game so he doesn’t take Grayson deep.

29. Shohei had the same hits as the entire Angels team.

30. This is a quote from Perry Minasian on The Athletic earlier today:

    Do you feel like there’s a playoff team in this roster somewhere?

    To me, I don’t like to predict. What are we doing every day? I have the utmost confidence in our manager. Our coaching staff, and the group of players we have to take every day really seriously. Put everything they have into that particular day and go play. And see what happens. There’s some guys, there’s some really interesting players on this roster, from a youth standpoint that we took a look at.

    It’s like, ‘OK, do we go get somebody? Or do we allow this person to play? Do we go get a starter? Or do we want to see Chase Silseth? Do we want to see Reid Detmers pitch in the rotation?’ Those were the debates we had. Where we felt we needed the most was bullpen. And that’s where we attacked, and tried to do it with some impact, and numbers. And we’ll see how it all plays out. You don’t know until you start playing. We’ll see where it goes.

31. They need to build a team around this guy, imagine if he had a teammate like Shohei Ohtani.

32. If you are loyal to mediocrity, you will be rewarded with mediocrity.

33. Just request a trade Mike…. It’s time

34. The athletic tweet was just mean.

    “Mike trout hit the first home run of 2024, and it just went downhill from there with the angels losing 11-3. Baseball is back!”

35. That should go on his HoF plaque

36. I actually hate baseball now, I’m converting to a Rockies fan until Nashville gets a team

37. At this point it’s clear winning isn’t a priority for Trout.

38. The memes always win out, but the title isn’t even accurate. The Angel’s other generational player, *checks notes*, Luis Renfigo, had a double.

    But yeah otherwise it all checks out

39. when trout wasn’t able to bring back that home run he showed anger and smacked the ground before he got back up. i can count on one hand the amount of times i’ve seen visible anger from him in a game. i have loved watching him in an angels uniform but i cannot shake the feeling this may be it, i don’t know how he can stick around as the organization continues to be driven into the ground by arte. this shit fucking stinks

40. If it wasn’t for 02 the Angels would just literally be the Mariners.

41. Good to see Trout back as the focus of these headlines now that Ohtani is gone…

42. Mike Trout wasting away the end of his career on the Angels, but it sounds like that’s exactly what he wants.

43. That’s a wrap, see you all next season!

44. Love how everyone just assumes this young and hungry Angels team is trash because they got ambushed in ONE GAME

45. Trout is the last dairy cow on the farm and Arte is the farmer….

46. Man I really hoped we were done with these posts :/

47. We would have sucked with Ohtani, Trout should have left when he had the chance, and I say this as a life long fan. Arte is one of the worst owners in sports, how the fuck can you not even make the playoffs once with Trout AND Ohtani????

48. Trout deserves better!

49. Are we supposed to pity him or pity the Angels? He chose to stay there toiling away on a garbage team