#MIKE TROUT AGE FULL#

Still, though, Trout moves up the career WAR leaderboard, and he passed two more Hall of Famers this month. He hasn't changed, so much as the world this year is too chaotic to make proper use of him. He's unlikely to finish near the top of MVP voting. But, in one of the many, many downstream examples of this year's weirdness, Mike Trout is unlikely to challenge for the league's WAR lead. That could be caused by any number of small-sample flukes, and the Angels have dismissed the metrics. But WAR combines offensive, baserunning and defensive value, and the early defensive metrics have dinged him. 277/.369/.622, an OPS that exactly matches his 20 seasons. That would put him third, all time, though age 28.Īlas, thus far he hasn't quite played like his normal self - or, at least, WAR hasn't reflected it. Mickey Mantle and Hornsby have also passed him, for now he's unlikely to catch Hornsby, but if he plays like his normal self he'll pass Mantle still.

#MIKE TROUT AGE FULL#

To match Cobb through 28, then, Trout would have had to produce 5.6 WAR this year - easy in a full season but unthinkable in 60 games, requiring a pace better than the greatest season of all time. Ty Cobb, second behind Trout after age 27, had 9.5 WAR at age 28. The 10 players after him on the all-time WAR leaderboard through age 27 averaged about 8.0 WAR - an MVP-caliber full season - at age 28. By the time this season actually began in late July, Trout's run as WAR Champ Through Age _ was essentially over. Mike Trout tracker, Derek Jeter edition: He's now better than The Captain.More WAR through age 20 than any player in history Editor's Picks.More WAR through age 21 than any player in history.More WAR through age 22 than any player in history.More WAR through age 23 than any player in history.More WAR through age 24 than any player in history.

More WAR through age 26 than any player in history.

More WAR through age 27 than any player in history.

And if nothing else, Trout would have entered 2020 looking to defend and extend the record he first claimed in his rookie season: Trout is already squarely in the passing-Hall-of-Famers-in-career-WAR-every-few-days period of his career, and another Trout-like season could topple as many as 17 Hall of Famers. It is very easy to anticipate that, in 10 years, he'll be chasing down round-number milestones and career records, and the main work is happening in these seasons, while he's at his peak.

Trout, more than any other active player, is baseball history (and legendary) happening in front of us. Other inner-circle stars - Joe Morgan and Albert Pujols among them - set new career highs at 28 and then continued to improve. So did Rogers Hornsby and Ernie Banks, and until his PED-fueled third act, Barry Bonds' best season had come at 28. When Mike Trout reported to spring training in mid-February 2020, he was 28 years old and had more career WAR through the age of 27 than any player in Major League Baseball history.Īlthough 27 has long been mythologized (not entirely accurately) as the peak of Major League Baseball players' performance, it's not as though year 28 automatically triggers some inexorable decline.

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