Will this year be Trout’s best as a big leaguer? In what is sure to be a highly non-controversial piece, I’ve taken my best stab at ranking the eight seasons of his career from worst to best. Join me on a voyage of discovery and awe.
It’s a question best suited for philosophers, or perhaps the realm of theoretical physics: Can the best player in baseball get even better? Over nine years, Mike Trout has put up the kind of seasons that mark him as baseball royalty, as the elite of the elite. In all of them—save his abbreviated 2011 stay—he has produced absurd numbers. The worst Trout year would still rank among the best for any player in league history: His lowest full-season Wins Above…
