Los Angeles Angels interim general manager John Mozeliak invited long-time superstar outfielder Mike Trout into the team’s war room to observe discussions before Monday’s trade deadline, per Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n
Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com also relayed more information.<\/p>\n
Trout has played all 16 of his seasons with the Angels. He’s a 12-time All-Star, three-time American League MVP and nine-time Silver Slugger who will walk into Cooperstown as a first ballot member of the Baseball Hall of Fame someday.<\/p>\n
Trout, who turns 35 on Friday, is also having a good offensive season this year with an .845 OPS (141 OPS+) and 18 home runs in 93 games.<\/p>\n
If there’s any player in professional sports who should be allowed to at least observe trade discussions, it’s Trout, who has long been a franchise legend and could very well finish out his career with the Angels too.<\/p>\n
As far as this trade deadline is concerned, the 43-69 Angels, who sit last in the American League East, conducted a fire sale. <\/p>\n
Of note, they dealy outfielder Jo Adell, catcher Logan O’Hoppe, right-handed relievers Chase Silseth, Kirby Yates and Ryan Zeferjahn, left-handed reliever Brent Suter and right-handed starter Jos\u00e9 Soriano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels interim general manager John Mozeliak invited long-time superstar outfielder Mike Trout into the team’s war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4],"class_list":["post-769828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117037699148140117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769828","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=769828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}