Impact of Mike Trout's Injury on Angels' Season Strategy
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00:00Let me ask you this question.
00:05Let's play a little devil's advocate here.
00:06Mike Trout gets injured earlier in the season.
00:08He was actually having a fantastic start to the season, by the way.
00:11We never thought the Angels were going to do much here after losing Shohei Otani for
00:14basically nothing.
00:16So when you have a true generational superstar and lose him for nothing on the open market,
00:20you don't want to make that mistake twice.
00:21And the reason I bring this up is, what do you think was going to happen?
00:25Trout comes back into the lineup a week before the trade deadline.
00:29Let's just say his rehab, Joe, did go well.
00:32Let's just say he was back in Major League Baseball.
00:34Do you believe that the Angels were going to try to move him at the trade deadline if
00:38he was healthy?
00:40And also, do you think other takers out there would have taken Mike Trout on if, again,
00:44he was healthy?
00:45That's a whole lot of big ifs there.
00:48First of all, I have no idea why they were attempting to bring him back in any way, shape
00:54or form in a rehab situation with this team in this season.
00:58I have no idea.
00:59It kind of made no sense.
01:01When I first heard, oh, Trout's rehabbing, and I'm like, why?
01:04Why is he rehabbing?
01:05It makes absolutely no sense.
01:07Listen, he is a guy that has proven to be, hey, let's make sure he's 100% when we can
01:13actually start over here.
01:16And that's exactly where we're at.
01:17To roll him back out at the end of the year and hope he doesn't get hurt, which, P.S.,
01:21he did, was just ludicrous.
01:24Because now, a second torn meniscus in a already surgically repaired left knee makes
01:31him almost untouchable with that contract.
01:33Who in the hell is going to take on Mike Trout now, here, Donnie?
01:37Makes no sense.
01:38By the way, you know what also has to come into the equation?
01:42I'm not second-guessing Mike Trout here.
01:44That dude looks like he's been a linebacker his entire life since he was 10 years old
01:48from Millville, New Jersey.
01:49And by the way, he was a great high school football player until they realized, hey,
01:52look, can't beat you up here.
01:53You are going to be a star in Major League Baseball.
01:55Having said that, like, last year, around the all-star break, he was rehabbing to come
01:59back.
02:00We never even heard from him again.
02:01Like, I don't know what happened in his rehab.
02:03He goes to rehab this time, goes out on the baseball field, basically plays one inning,
02:08is like, yeah, my knee really hurts here.
02:10Time for another MRI.
02:11What are they doing in rehab to Mike Trout here?
02:13Is he, like, pushing trucks up a hill at this point?
02:16I have no idea.
02:17But he keeps re-injuring himself, which is crazy, though.
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