Mike Trout is determined to erase the confounding, long-running second-division trend for his simultaneously star-studded and star-crossed team.
TEMPE, Ariz. — Angels superstar Mike Trout comes into spring every year fit and happy and hopefully healthy . He also comes in determined to erase the confounding, long-running second-division trend for his simultaneously star-studded and star-crossed team.“This is the year, for sure,” Trout told The Post Monday.And then he adds one more pertinent thought, one that’s on everyone’s mind around here.
The Angels have signed some very big deals, most notably Trout but also Albert Pujols, Anthony Rendon, Josh Hamilton, Justin Upton and others. But folks around the game — including in this clubhouse — view Ohtani as having a foot out the door. “That’s how I’ve been since I was a kid,” he said. “My parents raised me that way, to always think of the positive. You can’t think of the negative.”
What needs to be over is the Angels’ amazing streak of missing the playoffs, a really incredible feat considering all the great and previously great players that came to Anaheim hoping for better.
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