In their best season in recent times, the Los Angeles Angels suffered an enormous blow on Tuesday. All-Star Mike Trout is heading to the injured checklist with a fractured left hamate bone after fouling off a pitch towards the San Diego Padres on Monday evening.
The 31-year-old is predicted to be out for a handful of weeks as the everyday timeline for the wrist damage to heal is roughly six-to-eight weeks.
“Just took a swing and something felt uncomfortable,” Trout stated after Monday’s loss to the Padres. “Just waiting on getting some scans and hoping for the best. I’m praying for the results to come back clean. But it doesn’t feel great. Hopefully, it’s just a sprained wrist.”
“I can’t really describe the pain I felt,” Trout added. “I’ve never felt that pain ever. I’ve never had wrist problems or anything. Just a freak thing.”
Trout is within the midst of a down season — by his future Hall of Fame requirements (a profession .994 OPS) — because the outfielder is slashing .263/.369/.493 with 18 homers and 44 RBI, however stays one of many largest stars within the sport. He was named to his eleventh All-Star workforce on Sunday.
Injuries have began to pile up for the New Jersey native in latest seasons. He missed 43 video games in 2022 with a uncommon again dysfunction (a costovertebral dysfunction on the T5 vertebra) and was restricted to only 36 video games in 2021 because of a calf pressure.
Trout inked a 12-year, $426.5 million contract extension previous to the 2019 season. Despite his famous person resume — 3-time MVP, 9-time Silver Slugger — Trout has solely made one journey to the postseason in his 13-year profession (2014 ALDS loss to the Royals).
The Angels entered play Tuesday (45-42) simply three video games again of the ultimate American League Wild Card spot. The Halo’s personal a 29.8% likelihood of constructing the postseason based on Fangraphs, nevertheless, that quantity is prone to drop considerably with out their star heart fielder.
With the commerce deadline quickly approaching on Aug. 1, it’s truthful to surprise what this implies for the way forward for Shohei Ohtani in Anaheim. The two-way megastar is a free agent on the finish of this season and is placing collectively arguably the best particular person baseball season in MLB historical past.
The 28-year-old is slashing .303/.390/.664 with an MLB-leading 31 homers and 68 RBI whereas posting a 3.02 ERA in 16 begins this season. Ohtani leads the Angels in each single statistical class aside from saves (the one factor he doesn’t do for Phil Nevin’s squad is shut video games).
“I think it’s pretty self-explanatory with where we’re at [in the standings],” stated Angels’ GM Perry Manasian of a possible Ohtani commerce on June 20, hinting that they’d not deal their All-Star within the midst of a aggressive and potential playoff season.
With Trout anticipated to overlook an prolonged time frame, executives across the league will probably be retaining a detailed eye on the Angels to see how far they fall with Ohtani as a possible commerce candidate. The Japanese native is predicted to signal a historic free-agent contract on the conclusion of the 2023 season.
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