Trout’s backstory as a prospect is fairly well-known among the fan base and hardcore baseball fans, but it’s worth reviewing anyway. The Angels drafted Trout 25th overall in 2009, which seems borderline impossible now, and he was actually considered raw at the time. There were actually questions about how his swing would play against elite pitching and what his power ceiling was, not to mention that he came out of a small, cold-weather school in Millville, NJ.
