right money never sleeps, i would bet most of the star athletes made more money on endorsements than salary.

Multiple websites would tell you that Mike Trout is only making between 2.5 and 3 million dollars in endorsements against a 37 million dollar contract.

Post 74 specifies another contract. There won’t be another big contract for Trout at age 40. He can barely stay healthy and active at 30.

even more reason to perform and gives him incentive. proving my point.

Also endorsement deals go way beyond playing career and are the main income post career that can span 30 years..

Steph Curry and Lebron both make more in endorsements then salary..even if dont make as much in endorsements then salary...still making an extra millions of dollars is still incentive to perform as well..proving my point yet again...money never sleeps...

maybe we should start a Go Fund Me page for Trout.

rich always get richer

as always but boy has he been been on a hot streak since he came back from his most recent injury

He excels in garbage time.

He excels throughout the season. His lowest career OPS in any month is .961.

When the Angels lose a game, his OPS is .852.

When he has 2 strikes, his OPS is .728.

I don't think we need to limit when he excels, because he excels basically all the time.

Does he excel in the Playoffs?

You like posting his numbers, post those.

I want to see how he excels all the time.

How does he do head-to-head vs Verlander, Kershaw & Scherzer?...the only 3 pitchers from his era that will be HOFers one day.

Show me all the numbers you like to post.

He has a .600 OPS in his 15 playoff plate appearances

.539 against Verlander.

.704 against Kershaw.

.625 against Scherzer.


Do you have anything to suggest Trout is anything besides excellent? Or just trying to find a hot take? What is the objection to people posting numbers?

lifetime batting averages vs all 3 please

and where are the Playoff numbers?

I don't give a shit about OPS.........we all know he likes to walk. BA please

What does garbage time mean? He's won 3 MVP awards and Rookie of the Year. Those are awards given out for full season performance. If you're saying every regular season game is garbage time then how can you emphasize the playoffs. You need to win these games to get there.

here let me help

and some mighty fine playoff numbers

He's definitely a good player, just nothing extra special in my eyes. Of course 90% of the baseball I watch is Post Season, pretty much never miss a game, that's why I never see him play.

Definitely a me first player. He likes his money, nothing wrong with that.

He will never win a World Series. Prima Donna.

You don't want him on your team.

But I understand you New Jersey boys & East Coasters need a
Great White Hope.

And time has proven, he ain't it.

The playoff figure was, actually, in 91, if you read it.

Great white hope? I see we’ve chosen to go the batshit nuts route instead of any honest analysis. As always.

I'm wondering who is a special player in your mind if not Trout or Harper.

Sticking with just hitters off the top of my head from about 2000 on I'll go
Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, Vlad Guerrero, Manny Ramirez, Ichiro and probably Aaron Judge over your 2.

I might be missing a few too, can't think of everyone.

That's an interesting list. Barry has no championships. Aaron Judge has no championships. Ichiro has no championships. Miguel Cabrera hasn't appeared in the postseason since 2014.

....and you can add Altuve to players I'd rather have then Trout.



....and probably Arod & Jeter too.

i agree with you

Altuve and trash cans you mean...

Arod and medical assistance.

They also dont play the same position.....pretty sure if Jeter on the Angels with no Trout they are no better..

I actually don't mind steroids guys. May will shorten their lives if they overdid it like Ken Caminiti, Alzado & Matuszak and others, but hey it's their choice & price for fame. I'd say 90-95% of the NFL used them in the 1980's and 1990's and no one cares. Plenty of Roid users in the NFL HOF. No one cares, they all are celebrated.

Tatis, Judge, Trout, Ortiz, Clemens, Big Mac, Barry, they all use/used something.

This is ok, but this isn't. Here use this, it will go undetected. This is not a steroid, but will product the same results as a steroid.

Some just got away with it, others got caught.

Bagwell used steroids he's in the HOF, Palmeiro used them he's not in the HOF. Poppy used them he's in. ZERO consistency. So we should celebrate some and discount others? Doesn't make sense to me, so I choose to accept anything that was done on the baseball field. I could use all the steroids in the world and I ain't hitting 60-70 homers in a season. That's a skill that has ZERO to do with steroids. And if Clemens is using them and Sosa or Bonds hits a homer off him or he strikes them out, isn't that EVEN. I think Petite used them as well, so if pitchers were using and hitters were using it just cancels it out.

Baseball has been all about getting an advantage from spitballs in the early 1900's, Hal Chase, the Black Sox, possible Cobb & Speaker, the NY Giants in 1951 sign stealing, amphetamines of the 60's & 70's, Coke with Strawberry Hernandez Gooden and others, Vasoline with Gaylord Perry and others, Steroids, Corked Bats, Garbage Cans, shit they still check pitchers after every inning for cheating.

I can't block only Bonds, Arod and Clemens. If they got away with it so be it, many others did as well and you have no idea who.

Catch em and stop em at the time they are doing it. If you don't, too bad. Still have yet to see a bodybuilder hit home runs or strikeout 20 batters in a game. Steroids are just another advantage, like vasoline, amphetamines, spitballs, sign stealing, etc.

People always say those things during a conversation about HGH and steroids. Amphetamines are not the same as steroids or HGH. No one's body is altered by amphetamines. Your head is not going to grow. Your entire body is not going to create mass. You may be more alert and less susceptible to pain, but that's true of a thousand medications other than amphetamines. HGH and steroids are different and there is nothing else like them. You aren't going to take a greenie and have a bigger foot a month from now.

People always go to the his head grew argument.

Did Hogan's head grow from taking steroids?

How many Home Runs did he hit, brother?

What about yourself? When was the last time your feet grew?

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"Here endeth the lesson" (Sean Connery Untouchables)

I would love to read a coherent, non meme argument that it is more reasonable to think that Bonds did not use steroids than that he did.

Or that Trout’s performance is garbage, and he is a poor major league player.

I dont understand the HOF argument when take steroids or whatever, Trout will be the the HOF so who cares about all the other ones..thats not what we were arguing about.. HOF doesnt decide who is better when they are all in the HOF.... I guess Pete Rose is worse than every HOF player since he is not in the HOF....not sure what the point is about Bagwell being in the HOF..... when deciding whether Trout was better than his laundry list of 'better' players, some which took steroids or had trash can aid....

Because his original argument is just meme shitposting and impossible to defend on logical grounds, so random other topics have to be injected instead of defending the original absurdity that Trout is garbage.

How about this.....that meathead, Trout, is THEE DUMBEST player of all time!!!!

Can we at least all agree on this?

Playoff baseball is so exciting!!!!!

Does not matter what 2 teams are playing.
(NHL Playoffs is like this too, but that's another story)

How that MORON chooses the Angels and money over this is beyond me.

Most threads end up ruined by some troll or fanboy insistently posting their fan fiction fantasies as if they are objectively true. Usually those takes are somehow less of a shitpost than this one.

To anyone who watched Bonds in his 73 HR season, there is no question he was on SOMETHING. And yes, he was a great player otherwise, perhaps more plate discipline than anyone who ever played the game, and an array of superb skills. But even so, that was not natural.

That's my point ;).

So you agree?

Not even Slapnicker will agree with your troll posts.

let's put it this way.

if you were in the majors list the top 20 teams you sign with.

can guarantee you would not have the Angels in it, unless you were from there.

might be in the bottom 3-4.

it's like re-signing a long term deal with the Detroit Lions.

See how much more reasonable it sounds to say you think he shouldn't have signed with the Angels, than the 3rd grade all caps hyperbolic insults?

I notice the same poster who is upset the Yankees are good is also saying why would anyone want to sign with a bad team.

Well if i was in the majors, no offense to anyone here but i doubt i spend my time here arguing this point, i would be a young rich guy seeing the world and i would care less about that discussion...

I notice you like to post, but are afraid to list your name.

I notice some like to whine about names because it cuts off effective ad hominems and pushes them to engage with the actual statements instead of unrelated attacks on the person.

OR................they are internet warriors.

So, by that logic, being a New York Knick would be one of the 2-3 worst options for a basketball player. The Las Vegas Raiders would be a bottom 3-4 destination for an NFL player. The New York Mets would be waiting for the Angels scraps, since they are definitely below the Angels in accomplishments the past 20 years.

The Angels have nothing going for them except: (1) 2 of the 5 most talked about players in MLB; (2) the best weather in the country; (3) local media does not crucify players every time the team loses a couple of games; (4) an owner who historically has paid top of the market to bring in talent (though it has backfired on a few occasions, most recently Rendon); and (5) the option to live your life without being mobbed for being a celebrity. All of this while living in one of the two biggest best markets for food, culture and entertainment in the US.

All of the teams in your "Top 20 MLB teams" list have had a stretch like the Angels, yet the talented players on the Angels still have tremendous marketability and national exposure, which is not always the case for top players in other markets, like Cleveland, Minnesota and Tampa Bay.

You make excellent points......for someone who cares more about location & other fluff then winning.

He could have had pretty much all you mentioned if he just went across town and played for a winner.

So then a player should always go to the place that offers him the easiest path to championships? So Kawhi was an idiot for not joining the Lakers three years ago when they had just acquired AD. AD + Lebron + Kawhi would have virtually guaranteed a good 4-5 year run of titles, barring major injuries. He and Durant could have gone down 1-2 as the greatest NBA players of all time with all their rings on stacked teams.

I guess Aaron Judge should just go ahead and sign with the Dodgers this offseason, along with Correa and deGrom. Nobody cares about competition in sports, it is just about the one holding the trophy. I can just tune out the playoffs until Game 6 or 7 of the World Series. Can you let me know when a team is within an out or two of winning, so I can start caring about the season? Nevermind, I will just wait for Sportscenter to do it for me. Seven months of my life freed up!

Yah I don't follow Basketball, so I've lost interest.