ESPN Top 100

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Who's living in the past, I believe that would be you. You seemed to forget 2020 & 2021. Can you post those?

Like I said he had a very nice run, like Koufax did.

I personally would put him in the 40's, but if you want to put him in the 30's I'd reluctantly be ok with that. But Top 20 at this point is a complete joke.

2020 was a 60 game season and he missed most of last year with an injury, but you knew that. At 30 I would doubt his run is "over." His injury is nothing like Sandy's. Stay tuned!!

[drcy]

My vote is the top 100 is a decent enough list.

[insidethewrapper]

What are Mike Trout's best stats ? I see he has never lead the league in hits, home runs or batting ave. Once in SB and once in RBI's. Good On Base Pct ( so he must be good at walking ). Watching Centerfielders his defense seems to be about the same ( they are all good ).

[John1941]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

What are Mike Trout's best stats ? I see he has never lead the league in hits, home runs or batting ave. Once in SB and once in RBI's. Good On Base Pct ( so he must be good at walking ). Watching Centerfielders his defense seems to be about the same ( they are all good ).

Mike Trout's value is best shown by OPS+. OPS+ is on base percentage and slugging percentage together, and adjusted for era and park effects. For example, 100 is average and 150 is 50% better than average.

Mike Trout has led the AL in OPS+ six times, and for his career is 76% better than the average hitter. That's historic. As with all rate stats, he won't be able to keep it up, but it's still amazing.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by John1941

Mike Trout's value is best shown by OPS+. OPS+ is on base percentage and slugging percentage together, and adjusted for era and park effects. For example, 100 is average and 150 is 50% better than average.

Mike Trout has led the AL in OPS+ six times, and for his career is 76% better than the average hitter. That's historic. As with all rate stats, he won't be able to keep it up, but it's still amazing.

I also like his MVP stats -- 3 awards and 4 second place finishes and IMO he easily could have won two or three of those.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I also like his MVP stats -- 3 awards and 4 second place finishes and IMO he easily could have won two or three of those.

Put another way:

Mike Trout has played in 120+ games in a season 7 times. He finished 1st or 2nd in the MVP voting in all 7 of them. If he didn't get hurt in 2017, he absolutely would have won the MVP that year as well.