Mike Trout, initially hesitant about baseball's plans to stage a season amid a pandemic, expressed a little more optimism with the season opener approaching.
"I'm playing," Trout said in a video conference with the media on Wednesday, two days before his Los Angeles Angels open on the road against the Oakland Athletics.
Trout's wife, Jessica, is scheduled to give birth to the couple's first child, a boy, on Aug. 3. Details have yet to be worked out, but Trout expects to be present for the delivery.
The due date lands on an off day, right before a six-game road trip to Seattle and Arlington, Texas.