Should Mike Trout think about a future outside Los Angeles?

When approaching the fifteenth season of who was considered the best major league player, nothing seems to indicate that Trout has a direct course to a championship if he remains with Los Angels.

Mike Trout It will remain forever as a banner of what talent and hard work can achieve in Major Leagues. The three times Most valuable player of the American League was considered by many as the best player he had MLB For most of a decade, but under the shadow of one of the most dysfunctional teams of professional baseball, Los Angeles Angels.

With so much talent and so much desire to win a World Seriesfor many it was a surprise when Mike Trout He decided that he wanted to tie his full career to the Angelssigning a contractual extension for 12 years and 426.5 million dollars. However, for others, the fact of wanting to stay in a single team, in an era where that does not happen so frequently, was something like the player.

Unfortunately, the reality is that the stay of Trout with the Angels He has produced absolutely anything. The team achieved a trip to the postseason in 2014, being swept in the Division series And at the moment they hold the longest campaign streak without going to the postseason.

In fact, in the stay of Mike Troutonly in two seasons the Angels They have ended with winning record, being the last of these 2015, where they concluded the year with a mark of 85 cattle and 77 lost, having, from that year, a chain of nine campaigns with a negative brand.

To place an even more black cloud on the situation, 2024 was the worst season in the era of Mike Trout in the Angelswith the team culminating with a record of 63-99. It is important to highlight here that all this happened also having six years of service who is considered the best player today, Shohei Ohtani.

To all this, it should be added that, in recent years, the health factor has negatively impacted Trout. True, the team still retains a positive record when Mike Trout It is at stake (764-754), but in the last four campaigns, the Stellar gardener has only been able to play 266 of 648 possible matches for the Angelsas a consequence of injuries.

Trout He is under contract until 2030, when he will play his 20th season with 38 years, but right now, the gardener is in a race not only against time, but against his own body.

From 2021 to date, Trout Time has passed in the list of injured due to problems in his elbow, his calf, a hand that required surgery, problems in groin, chronic back problems that made him lose practically a whole campaign, problems on one foot, new problems in the surgically repaired hand and the most recent, a meniscus injury that required two medical interventions.

Given the history of injury, Trout He has been forced to have to change position and is now projected to play as a right gardener, abandoned the central garden, its primary position.

With all these elements together, Trout You have to wonder, if you have a real interest in winning a championship of World Seriesif the time has come to think about the future outside Los Angeles.

To give such a movement, several circumstances have to be given.

The first is that Mike Trout Accept to be changed. The gardener has a no change clause in his contract, so he is the only one who can authorize being sent to another franchise. The second is to demonstrate that it has sufficient health to generate interest and that other team decides to risk taking your contract, which they subtract, telling the 2025.7 million dollars season.

On the economic side, the Angels They would have to eat a huge portion of the contract and send prospects of interest to soften the load of any team that decided to make an offer for Trout.

The idea is not crazy, taking into account that just last year, these change conversations were afloat and Trout He referred to them saying that: “The easy thing at this moment of my career would be to request that they change me. There may be a moment, maybe. I have not really thought about it. When I signed the contract, I was loyal and I want to win a championship here. I think that the general image of winning a championship or reaching the postseason here would give me more satisfaction than to give up and take the easy way out“, said Trout to the press during the past spring training.

However, circumstances have changed significantly in a year and although it could be seen as “The easy way”, Leaving behind everything that has been known since the age of 19, is a fairly high sacrifice, especially for someone who has thrown roots and has become an icon for the city.

Only time can say it, but the reality is that Trout You must meditate seriously if the moment of new airs has reached your career.