The Mike Trout number that should scare every last one of them back to the negotiating table isn’t $37.7 million, the man’s contracted 2020 salary. Or $5.7 million, which is what the Major League Baseball owners’ economic proposal would shave that bad boy down to.
It’s 44.
As in percent.
As in the percentage of Americans, according to the polling site YouGov.com, who say that they’ve actually heard of Mike Trout.
LeBron James? 92 percent.
Peyton Manning? 88 percent.
Tim Tebow? 83 percent.