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M ike
Mike
27 TROUT

◆ Played 130 games; first season with at least 100 games played
since 2022 and his most since playing in 134 games in 2019... MICHAEL, THE ARCHANGEL
Appeared in 106 games as the designated hitter, and in 22
games in right field. Trout’s rankings in franchise history
◆ Ranked third in American League with 87 walks, tied for fourth Category Total Place
with 10 intentional walks and tied for seventh in OBP (.359) in 2025.
◆ Hit his 200th career home run at Angel Stadium on August 6 Hits 1,754 2nd
vs. Tampa Bay; First player in MLB history with at least 200 HR Runs 1,196 1st
and 100 SB at one Major League ballpark...Had a .894 OPS in 62 Home Runs 404 1st
games at The Big A in 2025. Doubles 325 3rd
◆ Recorded 1,017th career RBI on Sept. 26 vs. Houston; Passed
Tim Salmon for second all-time in franchise history (Garret Triples 55 2nd
Anderson with 1,292). RBI 1,018 2nd
◆ With a three-hit game on June 2 at Boston, reached 1,675 Walks 1,067 1st
career hits and passed Tim Salmon (1,674) for second-most in Stolen Bases 214 2nd
Angels history…Only Garret Anderson (2,368) has more.
◆ Was hit by a pitch for the 106th time in career on Sept. 5, Games 1,648 4th TROUT
setting a new franchise record (Brian Downing, 105 in 1978).
◆ Had four multi-homer games and extended franchise record to 30 multi-homer games in his career.
◆ Drew a walk in nine straight games from Aug. 10-19, which was his longest walk streak since a career-high 14-game
streak from Aug. 21 - Sept. 6, 2017.
◆ Recorded 1,000th walk of career on June 14 at Baltimore…Became sixth active player with 1,000 walks, joining: Carlos
Santana, Andrew McCutchen, Paul Goldschmidt, Bryce Harper & Freddie Freeman.
◆ Missed 26 games on the injured list with a left knee contusion from May 2 (retro to May 1) to May 30.
◆ Hit nine HR in April, which tied the Angels franchise record for the month.
◆ With his Opening Day start on March 27 at CWS, matched Garret
Anderson’s franchise record with 13 career Opening Day starts. REELING THEM IN
CAREER SUMMARY A GLANCE AT SOME OF TROUT’S NOTABLE AWARDS...
3X A.L. MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
◆ Three-time A.L. MVP (2019, 2016 & 2014), 11-time All-Star and 2012 A.L. ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
2012 A.L. Rookie of the Year owns a .294 average (1754/5967)
with 325 doubles, 55 triples, 404 home runs, 1018 RBI, and 214 11X ALL-STAR
stolen bases in 1,648 career games. 2X ALL-STAR GAME MVP
◆ Received third American League MVP honors in 2019 to 9X ANGELS TEAM MVP
become the 11th player in Major League history to capture 9X LOUISVILLE SILVER SLUGGER AWARD
MVP honors three times and sixth American Leaguer to do so...
Became the first three-time winner since Albert Pujols (2009,
2008 and 2005)...In 2016, at 25 years and 56 days old, became
the third-youngest player ever to win the award multiple
times, behind only Detroit’s Hal Newhouser (24 years, 133 A VALUABLE LESSON
days) and Cincinnati’s Johnny Bench (24 years, 302 days)...
Named unanimous winner of the 2014 American League Most TrouT’s A.L. MVP ToP-3 VoTING fINIshes
Valuable Player Award…Third Halo to win the award along with Year MVP Finish Year MVP Finish
Vladimir Guerrero (2004) and Don Baylor (1979).
◆ Selected as Team Captain for the United States in 2023 World 2012 2nd 2016 1st
Baseball Classic. 2013 3rd 2018 2nd
◆ Has finished second in A.L. MVP race in 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2014 1st 2019 1st
2018...From 2012-2016, became just the second player all-time 2015 2nd
to finish in the Top 2 of the MVP race in five consecutive seasons,
joining Barry Bonds...Is one of four players to finish second in
the MVP vote at least four times during their careers: Stan
Musial (4 times), Ted Williams (4), Albert Pujols (4)...Finished in the Top 10 of MVP voting in 10 of his 14 big league seasons.
◆ Unanimous winner of the 2012 American League Rookie of Year...First player in Major League history to steal 45
bases, score 125 runs and hit 30 home runs in a single season.
◆ Named Angels Team MVP nine of last 14 seasons...Is first Halo to win the award nine times at any point in career.
◆ Tabbed as a Louisville Silver Slugger eight times: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022...Is
the first Angel to win the award more than four times...First player to win the award nine times by their age-
30 season and passed Manny Ramirez for the most Silver Slugger Awards by an American League outfielder
(Ramirez won eight as an outfielder and one at DH)...Sixth player all-time to win at least nine career Silver
Sluggers, joining Barry Bonds (12), Mike Piazza (10), Alex Rodriguez (10), Barry Larkin (9) and Ramirez (9)...Tied
Ramirez for second-most A.L. Silver Slugger Awards, trailing only Rodriguez.

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