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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