Given.
But what he did at the All-Star Game last week, put him in the rarest of air.
When Trout led off the game with a home run, he completed an All-Star Game cycle – in other words, he has now hit a single, double, triple and home run in All-Star competition.
Only eight other players have done that in the 82-year history of the game. Six of them are in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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