Mike Trout: Five Things You need to know about the Star

Posted on by Jim Smarts

When it comes to Major League Baseball, there have been a number of new players who have graced the game in recent years. One of them is Mike Trout, who is currently plying his trade for the Los Angeles Angels. The 29-year-old center fielder started his career out of high school playing for the Arizona Angels in 2009 and is currently one of the highest-rated players in MLB. He has won a number of prestigious awards so far in his career, which include winning the American League Most Valuable Player thrice, respectively in 2014, 2016, and 2019. He also won the American League Player of the Month a whopping five times in his illustrated career as one of the top players in MLB. He also won the American League Rookie of the Year award in 2012, which has been one of the high points of his career so far.

Apart from these accolades, there are a number of facts about Trout that are unknown to most of the followers of Major League Baseball. We will have a look at a few of this information in the following lines.

1.Mike Trout was born Michael Nelson Trout on August 7, 1991, in Vineland, New Jersey, His parents are Jeff Trout and Debbie Busonik. He has two siblings, a sister named Teal and a brother named Tyler. His father, Jeff, was a baseball player who played for the University of Delaware. He was picked as a second baseman for the fifth-round draft by the Minnesota Twins in 1983.

2. Mike was born in New Jersey but was brought up in Millville. He started playing baseball in Millville as well while attending the Millville Senior High School and earned three letters in baseball while playing for his school.

3. Besides playing baseball, Trout also played basketball at the Millville Senior High School, in which he was also quite good. Besides showing his class playing baseball, he also showed that he was no mug at basketball and won two letters in the game as well. While he was a junior at Millville High School, he pitched a no-hitter on the way to the state playoffs, which showed how good a player he was at a very young age. Though he started off as a pitcher and shortstop, he was later shifted to the outfield, which came as a welcome move that enhanced him as a player and paved his way to greatness.

4.Mike was the youngest player ever to hit 20 home runs and steal 40 bases in 2012 and went onto win the Rookie of the Year award in the same year for his outstanding performance as an outfield player. He also came up 2nd in the MVP voting in 2012 and hasn’t had to not look back ever since. He also became the youngest player in MLB history to hit 100 home runs and have 100 stolen bases.

5.Trout is known by a number of nicknames. Some of the most famous ones are “Millville miracle”, “Prince fish”, “King fish 2.0”, which was kept by the fans of the Los Angeles Angels after their former great Tim Salmon, who was also known as the “King fish”. He is also a diehard fan of Philadelphia 76ers, Phillies and Eagles, and has a huge place for Philadelphia in his heart.