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The Los Angeles Angels selected Mike Trout 25th overall. Trout is an 11x All-Star, 3x American League MVP, and 9x Silver Slugger as outfielder. The Washington Nationals selected Stephen Strasburg first overall. The 3x All-Star lead the Nationals to a 2019 World Series win. The San Francisco Giants selected Zack Wheeler 6th overall.
The team has made 13 selections in the supplemental round of the draft and 21 compensatory picks since the institution of the First-Year Player Draft in 1965. [4] These additional picks are provided when a team loses a particularly valuable free agent in the prior off-season, [ 3 ] [ 9 ] [V] or, more recently, if a team fails to sign a draft ...
Michael Nelson Trout (born August 7, 1991) is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). Trout is an 11-time MLB All-Star, three-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) (winning the award in 2014, 2016, and 2019, while finishing second in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2018), and nine-time winner of the Silver Slugger Award.
Trout is a career .214 hitter in 81 games as a designated hitter. Mike Trout on choosing knee surgery over DH-only role: 'It would have been a tough road for the rest of the year' [Video] Skip to ...
Mike Trout never had a significant injury in his charmed baseball career until May 2017, when he tore a thumb ligament sliding headfirst into second base. “I'm not changing the way I play,” a ...
Trout performing well and then missing a significant amount of time is sadly nothing new. He has hit a robust .276/.376/.575 while on the field since 2020 — but in only 266 of a possible 515 games.
Going into the 2009 Major League Baseball draft, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim had two first-round draft picks, as well as three supplemental first-round picks. With these five selections, they drafted two outfielders, Randal Grichuk and Mike Trout; and three pitchers: Skaggs, Garrett Richards, and Tyler Kehrer. [11]
Trout fouled off a 0-1 pitch from Nick Martinez leading off the eighth inning Monday night and immediately shook his left arm. Nevin and a trainer came out to check on the slugger and he left the ...