5/2/25 9:38 Tigers @ Angels

[Tigeraholic1]

Angel Stadium - Anaheim, CA

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

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Game Time Forecast: 60 Cloudy

Starters:

LHP Tarik Skubal

RHP Jose Soriano

[IdahoBert]

Even though I missed most of it in real time, last night’s game was like falling from the 9th story building and landing on an awning and then walking away unharmed. A nice uncomplicated win would be welcome tonight.

[chasfh]

Same ****, different year ...

Mike Trout is still a slam-dunk inner-crcle first-ballot Hall of Famer even if he walks off the field Moonlight Graham style right now. But he will also be the saddest what-might-have-been slam-dunk inner-crcle first-ballot Hall of Famer ever.

[IdahoBert]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Same ****, different year ...

Mike Trout is still a slam-dunk inner-crcle first-ballot Hall of Famer even if he walks off the field Moonlight Graham style right now. But he will also be the saddest what-might-have-been slam-dunk inner-crcle first-ballot Hall of Famer ever.

That really is sad. He really is the picture perfect example of the greatness and frailty of human flesh. 20 years old and coming up with a season like that and then that streak of great years and then the heartbreak…

[gehringer_2]

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Same ****, different year ...

Mike Trout is still a slam-dunk inner-crcle first-ballot Hall of Famer even if he walks off the field Moonlight Graham style right now. But he will also be the saddest what-might-have-been slam-dunk inner-crcle first-ballot Hall of Famer ever.

LOL - we used to talk about Trout/Cabrera performance comparisons, who knew they'd end up with similar injury futility comparisons? Miguel at least got into his thirties before breaking down.

[chasfh]

9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

LOL - we used to talk about Trout/Cabrera performance comparisons, who knew they'd end up with similar injury futility comparisons? Miguel at least got into his thirties before breaking down.

At least Trout got to 85 WAR.

On a certain level, you could say about Miggy that he was also a what-could-have-been Hall of Famer, given how big his talents were and how much he skated by on that and only that, but practically no one would ever say that about a Triple Crown-winning, 500-homer-hitting, 3,000-hit-having, big-personality alpha dog.

[Tigeraholic1]

Oof can someone fix the title…

[oblong]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

At least Trout got to 85 WAR.

On a certain level, you could say about Miggy that he was also a what-could-have-been Hall of Famer, given how big his talents were and how much he skated by on that and only that, but practically no one would ever say that about a Triple Crown-winning, 500-homer-hitting, 3,000-hit-having, big-personality alpha dog.

From the start of his career until July 3 2015, at age 32, Cabrera had 405 HR.  

From that point on he had 106 HR, 38 of them coming in 2016.   He missed a month in 2015 and most of 2018 with a torn bicep.  That was when he fell apart.

At a similar point, age 32, Hank Aaron had 442 HR.  I started tracking his progress at it related to Aaron's similar timeline.

 

 

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

LOL - we used to talk about Trout/Cabrera performance comparisons, who knew they'd end up with similar injury futility comparisons? Miguel at least got into his thirties before breaking down.

At least Miggy won a World Series and played in another one. The Angels never built a team around Trout. That's a shame, he was a great talent.

[oblong]

From 2012-2019, in MVP Voting, Trout finished first 3 times, second 4 times.... and in my opinion should have won it the year they gave it to Josh Donaldson.

 

 

[monkeytargets39]

Miggy finished with a career .300+ BA too.  Trout has work to do on that

[Sports_Freak]

Happy SkubDay!

[Tiger337]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

At least Trout got to 85 WAR.

On a certain level, you could say about Miggy that he was also a what-could-have-been Hall of Famer, given how big his talents were and how much he skated by on that and only that, but practically no one would ever say that about a Triple Crown-winning, 500-homer-hitting, 3,000-hit-having, big-personality alpha dog.

yeah, I was pretty disappointed wth how is career ended and I don't think it was entirely unavoidable.  

Edited yesterday at 04:55 PM by Tiger337

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Miggy finished with a career .300+ BA too.  Trout has work to do on that

Miggy had the good fortune to hit in the pre-crazy strikeout era. 

[Tenacious D]

Miggy was on a top-10 trajectory in many career offensive categories until Prince Fielder’s wife demonstrated poor judgment.

[papalawrence]

7 hours ago, chasfh said:

At least Trout got to 85 WAR.

On a certain level, you could say about Miggy that he was also a what-could-have-been Hall of Famer, given how big his talents were and how much he skated by on that and only that, but practically no one would ever say that about a Triple Crown-winning, 500-homer-hitting, 3,000-hit-having, big-personality alpha dog.

I remember talking with my father before Miggy's core injury and predicting he'd hit 600 HR, 3500 hits and 2000 RBI. It really was sad how early he fell off s cliff

[monkeytargets39]

I honestly thought Miggy could’ve been the all time RBI leader with how he was tracking before injuries got him

[1984Echoes]

9 hours ago, chasfh said:

At least Trout got to 85 WAR....

I think Miggy was on the Chipper Jones/ Adrian Beltre path. Not hitting or defensive ability... just career total WAR.

Trout was on the Alex Rodriguez/ Honus Wagner path.

Until injuries. For both of them.

Just my 2 cents.

[Motor City Sonics]

I don't even care about the Trout/Miggy comparisons.  I just find it incredibly sad that a guy who was destined to be one of the top 3 or 4 players of all time has broken down so young.     Heck, is there something with the ground they're playing on in Anaheim?   Is it like playing on the Silverdome astroturf, ,which was a shag rug on a slap of concrete?   Seems like a lot of Angel players have a lot of leg injuries.    It sucks.  There doesn't seem to be anything unlikable about Mike Trout, other than he is the hitter that burned your pitcher -- back in the day. 

[IdahoBert]

Carpenter, K RF

McKinstry LF

Torkelson 1B

Greene, R DH

Keith, C 2B

Dingler C

Jung 3B

Sweeney SS

Báez, J CF

[Sports_Freak]

Pretty amazing stat from last night's game;

 

[VegasTiger]

You guys all in bed already?

[Dan Gilmore]

Still another couple hours of daylight here. 

[Tigermojo]

Is that their quickest first inning? Normally they make the starter throw 30 pitches.

[holygoat]

Well then....