I love numbers, especially baseball numbers. WAR, OPS, wRC+, we discuss numbers all day on this board. Learning those numbers and what they mean were two of the biggest draws to me when I joined Halos Heaven.
I love that we have so many ways to define, measure, and compare Mike Trout’s greatness. More than we had with Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, or any other baseball legend. It is like having statistical 4K compared to a set of rabbit ears.
But as much as we can look at Trout’s WAR, his OBP, all his measures of greatness, the extension he signed and his true meaning to Angels fans is in no way fully measured by those or any other number.