Click bait and you all just fell for it. No not this
article, this is the farthest thing from click bait, but the real click bait
came from reputable news sources claiming the Yankees are the front runners for
Mike Trout. First and foremost when was Mike Trout even made available and
where was I when it was announced that he was made available?
See this is what major news articles do to get you to click
their posts, buy their papers and generally just give them attention. The difference
between what they do and what I have personally set out to do is they have to
do this, and I don’t blame them for needing to feed their families, and I don’t
I will tell you like it is. Mike Trout isn’t coming to New York. Trout isn’t
leaving Los Angeles, California, San Diego, Anaheim, or anywhere else for that
matter unless Mike Trout wants to. It doesn’t make sense for any parties
involved to move him, struggling and losing or not.
Mike Trout is just 24-years old and is under team control
for four more years after the 2016 season. If the Angels are truly concerned
with rebuilding this is someone you rebuild around, not use to begin a rebuild.
Now if Trout had a season or two left on his deal after this season then you
absolutely make the trade 100 times out of 100 but four years plus of team
control is simply too much to trade away. It doesn’t make sense. Plus, if we’re
being honest, no one is going to want to meet that prospect and salary demand.
No one is going to want to gut five or six of their top ten prospects and pay a
guy over $34 million a season for the next four seasons. There’s money in
baseball right now but that just doesn’t make sense and it’s unlikely to
happen.
So Trout isn’t getting traded but for the sake of this blog
post let’s assume the Angels made him fully available today. Would the Yankees
have enough and would they give up the same five or six top prospects for
four-plus years of Trout? If history is any indicator the answer is no. History
shows us a reluctance for Brian Cashman to trade his top prospects, even for
what is widely considered to be a sure thing and a huge draw in Trout. The
Yankees logic is they would rather wait on Bryce Harper and throw just money at
the problem than their top prospects and top money to Trout.
I’m not say I would or wouldn’t trade for Trout, depending
on the package I absolutely would because he is a once in a generation type
talent, but I am saying I just can’t see the Angels trading him right now. I
also can’t see the Yankees being involved, today as it stands anyway, if the
Angels were to make him available. Leave the whole Billy Eppler and Brian
Cashman link alone because all that goes out the window. This is Mike Trout and
this is once in a lifetime.