As the years have gone on, I think baseball has gotten more greedier and greedier. We're starting to see a handful of players getting paid more than 30 million a year to play 162 games. In the wake of this week's signing, I have no clue what the LA Angels are doing.
The teams main attraction is Mike Trout. He is one of the big faces for California baseball, California sports, and the MLB. Now, he possesses one of the biggest deals ever. It is a 12 year contract extension that is worth 430 million all together. That means Trout is with the Angels until 2030. Similar to Bryce Harper, he is set to play some of his prime years. It makes a lot of sense because he is one of the very few examples of a five tool player. An example of a good average, power, speed, arm strength, and fielding.
That being said, the Angels may not be learning from their mistake in 2012 when they signed Albert Pujols. But even with that, they got Pujols around the end of his prime and fresh off playing 11 years with St. Louis. Who knows what could happen to Trout. For all we know, he could keep putting up monster numbers. But that's all a guess. And a guess I'll have is how do they handle the contract and try and get players to Los Angeles to turn them into contenders. It makes sense to keep him around until his career ends. But can the Angels change their losing ways?
The big teams in California baseball have been the LA Dodgers and San Francisco. Oakland has slowly the last five years surprised the league with their success. If the Angels can look at the blueprints of those teams, then they can be smart with their decisions and piece together a team for Trout. If not, this will be a huge waste of talent with great stats but on a garbage team.
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