mike trout Archives - Off The Bench

How the Angels Can Still Finish Below .500 in 2023

It is decreed in the ancient scrolls. Despite employing two of the greatest ballplayers in history, the Angels cannot finish higher than...

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Research

On Mike Trout and Megabucks Contracts

12 years. $430 million. Those are the terms of Mike Trout’s extension with the Los Angeles Angels. If honored in full, they...

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New York Yankees

Ronald Guzman Ruined the Yankees

Poor Stanley Hudson. Aficionados of The Office (US version) remember him as a humorless workaday grunt with too many ex-wives and a bad...

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AL West

How Many Mike Trouts get the Angels into the Playoffs?

The Angels have Mike Trout, undoubtedly the greatest player in generations. The Angels finished below .500 for the third consecutive year. These...

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Milwaukee Brewers

Podcast: The Biggest Story of the Season?

It’s been a season of small stories so, in this week’s episode of Ducksnort Baseball Podcast, we decided to figure out which...

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American League

Handicapping Mike Trout

The perfect measurement of a baseball player will never exist. WAR is pretty good – and it’s certainly light years ahead of...

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American League

The Official OTBB Offseason Awards

Well, the book is closed on the 2014 regular season. It seems like just yesterday we left work early to watch the...