{"id":702510,"date":"2026-05-18T20:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/702510\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:45:18","slug":"mlb-insider-jon-heyman-reveals-angels-chances-of-trading-mike-trout-are-very-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/702510\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Insider Jon Heyman Reveals Angels’ Chances Of Trading Mike Trout Are Very Low"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Angels<\/a> have now lost 31 games after being swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Angels<\/a> weren’t expected to win many games this season, and first-year manager Kurt Suzuki<\/a> has not had much success early on.<\/p>\n

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Some positive developments in Anaheim are Jose Soriano and Mike Trout<\/a> playing well, and Trout’s offensive bounceback is something fans were hoping to see from the future Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n

The Angels’ poor play has sparked questions about Trout possibly being traded. However, Robert Murray of Fansided pushed back on that at the start of May<\/a>, and MLB insider Jon Heyman added that the chances of the Angels moving Trout are very low.<\/p>\n

Heyman said that Trout “hasn’t been anxious to leave Anaheim” and added that the fact he is playing center field makes him happy.<\/p>\n

Heyman asked whether or not Trout would waive his no-trade clause and accept a move elsewhere, which is the same thing Murray said previously.<\/p>\n

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In the end, Heyman said there is a “5%” chance of Trout being traded this season.<\/p>\n

Heyman said the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> are one team that Trout could possibly accept a trade too, and the Phillies would undoubtedly have interest in the star outfielder if the Angels made him available.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, there are plenty of obstacles for any such Trout deal, including his contract and the fact that the Angels would likely command a massive package in return for the superstar.<\/p>\n

At the start of the season, Ken Rosenthal also pushed back on the idea of Trout being traded, so it has been a common response.<\/p>\n

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Rosenthal said that Trout doesn’t want to go, and even though they are losing games, he wants to remain with the Angels.<\/p>\n

At some point, Trout might have a burning desire to make a playoff push, and to be frank, the Angels are far from a playoff team right now.<\/p>\n

And, with the future of the franchise in question, nobody knows when things will turn around for the Angels, so it might only be a matter of time before Trout decides he wants to begin a new chapter in his MLB career.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Heyman is the latest MLB insider to push back on the idea of a Trout deal this summer, and giving him a 5% chance of being moved shows how unlikely that scenario is for both sides, even with the losing record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels have now lost 31 games after being swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,8611,4748,44345,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,603,4,25,22488,5317,1791],"class_list":["post-702510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-jon-heyman","tag-ken-rosenthal","tag-kurt-suzuki","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-robert-murray","tag-the-angels","tag-the-los-angeles-dodgers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116597537057736573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}