How To Prepare For The Return of Mike Trout: A Manager’s Guide

Mike Trout will be back in as soon as two weeks. Should we still consider the “Bonds Treatment”?We are nearly at the one-month anniversary of Mike Trout’s first career trip to the disabled list, and thankfully we all survived and baseball is still fun. Trout’s thumb injury on May 28th put a halt to what had been his most promising season to date, but his Los Angeles Angels teammates have rallied in his absence to jump above .500 and make some Wild Card noise.

The scorching Angels should only benefit from the return of the best player on Earth, who stated that he may be back as soon as the All-Star break. How could they not? Trout was posting career bests in batting average (.337), on-base…