Post#144 » by ImSlower » Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:14 pm
Baseball is a fascinating sport, in that almost every single action in the game can be isolated to the athlete doing it. The pitch, its velocity, spin and location, the batter's swing speed, angle, etc, on and on. Unlike basketball, which is enormously difficult to adequately attach statistics comparatively, we can evaluate almost everything an individual does at any moment vs what someone else does in the same situation. Mike Trout is simply the most talented position player, possibly since all-time greats like Stan Musial or Ted Williams. He's just a whole ton better than anyone else. You guys don't have to belittle the sport to see that.
It's a real bummer that Arte Moreno's deep pockets have never been able to pay a winning team while Trout is there. Even his absurd individual play simply cannot prop up the other 24 guys into a post-season the way that Lebron could. It's disingenuous to compare the two guys and their effects on a post-season when the sports are so fundamentally different. That said, it's too bad that he hit poorly in his only post-season appearance. The Astros are really good this year, so the Angels might miss the playoffs yet again.